That. Ill keep it short because i know wevegot time constraints here but a quick description of what an enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security managers 240,000 people in the department. The responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Ill start with itthe federal Emergency Management agency that has to deal with do hurricanes and wildfires now covid amongst many other responsibilities , Border Security, a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem by a long stretch but this administration has done a good job of stopping the outofcontrol illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. Pe this department is concerned about cyber security, Election Security, security of our Critical Infrastructure and as we just witnessed with some of the protests that have sprung to right, also protecting our federal buildings and of course we have to thank David Underwood in open oakland california, a member of the federal Protection Services so the responsibilities are
Partners for yet another of what i know will be a compelling presentation. These guys are money. As many of you know. We are so fortunate and privileged to be associated with them. Tonight we welcome our two guests. They had me in grade school. I was a fourthgrader when hollywood released the great escape starring james Steve Mcqueen and james garner and charles bronson, among others. All of the guys in my class fell in love with it. All of us wanted to be mcqueen. He survives. The movie was based on a true story. The escape of 76 allied soldiers escape from germany in 1944. The film pretty much gave us the real life tragic ending to that story, only three of those men who escaped state escaped. Two norwegian pilots, and another pilot from the netherlands. No americans. The other 73 were killed or recaptured, more than two thirds of them were executed. The fact is, escaping was hard. And it wasnt often try during world war ii in particular. When it was, it often didnt succeed. When it
This full Committee Nomination will come to order. This morning the committee will consider four nominations to key transportation positions. The nominees before us today are eric soskin, nominee for Inspector General for dp of transportation. Robert pmbing rimus, nominated to be a member of the Surface Transportation Board. Sara feinberg, nominated to be a director of the amtrak board of directors. And chris coose, nominated to be a director on the amtrak board of directors. The Inspector General of transportation oversees audits of the d. O. T. s programs with the end goal of ensuring our national frppings system is safe, efficient and effective for the american people. Eric soskin has been nominated for this Important Role. Hes a senior trial counsel in the federal Programs Branch at the u. S. Department of justice where he has served since 2006. During his tenure at the justice department, he hasing mored complex litigation an was chose fn a detailed assignment as policy counsel in
Test. Test test test. Test. Test test. Test test test. Test. Test test. Test test test. So i am just going to talk about what my research us. The reteak that they serve on existing elite, or aristocratic, didnt really fit republican ideals, and because they were privately run they could not be changed enough. So they thought that the academies that the federalist created just credentialed people that had status. So create a public system that allowed people to rise that would often have a universalish for white man Public Schools and a nation nal man and finally the was those that thought all white men should get the same education and sufficient to prepare any citizen for public office. And this was the way to make sure you could have competent ones. In the end, i think this debate reminds us that decisions about who to educate and how our so ill leave it at that. And pass it down the line. Thank you all again for being here. I think if i looked at the program correctly, this is the o
What we can learn from that moment i how it connects our does not connect to what is happening in american political history at this moment. The way this is going to work, i will introduce the four panelists. Each person will talk for five minutes or so. Develop a few lines of inquiry. I will ask a few questions based upon what people have said. Folks will have a chance to have a conversation. We want to leave the last 35 or 40 minutes for questions. Please have in mind things that you want to say or ask about. I will introduce folks from my left to my right. First is katlyn carter. She is a visiting professor at the university of notre dame. Her phd is from princeton. She spent the last two years with a postdoctoral fellowship at the university of michigan. She is working on a book entitled houses of glass, secrecy, transparency, and the Representative Democracy and i have had the pleasure of reading the manuscript. It is about the french revolution in the 1790s and the american const