You can find more information in your program guide. Now, heres gordon chang. Good afternoon. If i could have your attention. We are going to get started. Im susanna sheltie president of defense Form Foundation is my great honor to welcome you to our congressional defense and Foreign Policy form. Please enjoy your lunch and help yourself to anything you might need during the program. I know you all are very busy so im especially appreciative of you taking the time to be here for this very timely program. For those of attending the form for the first time, the forms began in 1980s as a way to bring expert speakers to capitol hill to discuss critical topics and bipartisan collegial atmosphere and as we promised, we have an expert speaker to address a critical topic. And very bipartisan collegial atmosphere. One thing to note there are a lot of media here so i would ask during the question answer period if you would reserve that for the Congressional Staff because of their limited time co
Glad to have you here. She stewards of 40 billion state budget and makes sure the checks go to whom they need to go to. Treasurer yee has a number of firsts. The first asianamerican elected to statewide office in arizona. Will the first chineseamerican republican woman to win a major statewide office in the United States. She was Senate Majority leader in arizona, not the first, but notably followed Sandra Day Oconnor so that is worth mentioning. She chaired the Senate Education committee and helped create the nations First Education savings account into thousand 11. Interestingly, has a pattern i think that you worked on the executive team of the former Arizona State treasurer, dean martin, and now you hold the post. And you are an analyst for the Senate Committee of education that you would later chair. Some grassroots work and then heading. Thanks for being here. John deberry is a representative of the 90th district in tennessee general assembly. He represents memphis and he has bee
Partner manager at politics and prose. I just want to thank all of you for coming tonight. Love to see such a full house. I could not be more excited to introduce three powerhouse women that will speak tonight. We will have them come up in just a few minutes but first i want to show a short video. It was produced by two of our speakers tonight and it is narrated at the incomparable alexandria ocasiocortez. His very schematic to what we will be talking about tonight and its a really great introduction to our event. Well play that and then well come back together. I took the poetry and from new york to d. C. Always brings me back to when i first started. In 2019 i was a freshman in the most Diverse Congress in history up to that point. As a critical time. Ill never forget the children in our community. It would i was so inspired to meet this new class of politicians navigating the halls of power. Its often said you cant be what you cant see and for the first time they saw themselves. I t
Annual summer conference. It is my pleasure this afternoon to introduce earl hess. Earl is the stuart w. Mcclelland chair in history at Lincoln Memorial university in tennessee. He is the author of more than 20 books. I have a long list here. Actually, one of my favorite. Ooks of earls books i read in graduate school and is one of the finest and one of the very first books to explore soldier motivation and ideology. It is an outstanding book. But he has done any others that include pickets charge, a book on field fortifications. A book on Braxton Bragg as well. A lot of people dont love Braxton Bragg. Im not sure you will love him after you read earls book, but it is a fair and well researched, deeply analytical look. A number of awards, including the tom watson price for his books on civil war tactics, something he will be speaking about today. And i should note, this book fighting for atlanta, is published by the university of North Carolina press. That will be his topic. Let me welc
This is about one hour. Good morning. And i getnat malkus to take us through our panel with state decisionmakers and we have an excellent panel and im going to introduce them now and we are going to jump into a discussion of School Choice in the state and what education scholarships might mean there. I have three state policymakers here today. Kimberly yee is the 36th treasurer of arizona and we are glad to have you here. She stewards of 40 billion state budget and makes sure the checks go to whom they need to go to. Treasurer yee has a number of firsts. The first asianamerican elected to statewide office in arizona. The first chineseamerican republican woman to win a major statewide office in the United States. She was Senate Majority leader in arizona, not the first, but notably followed Sandra Day Oconnor so that is worth mentioning. She chaired the Senate Education committee and helped create the nations first edution savings account into thousand 11. Interestingly, has a pattern i