In recognition of the Antiwar Movement and the gandhi peace award from promoting and enduring peace. Shes the cofounder of the woman peace group code pink, thats why we all wear pink, in honor of her, that group began to fight against the war in iraq. With code pink she has found creative ways to continue to protest and bring awareness in a nonviolent way as our government has become more and more violent. She has been all over the world, but with code pink shes brought awareness to the drone issues. So shes been in pakistan and yemen to fight for those innocent people, children, women, men who have been killed by our drones. Thats how shes brought awareness to me first and several of us here in fresno. She has also spent time in afghanistan, libya, syria, iraq, when she interrupted president obamas speech while she was being carried out, he said, that voice, we all need to hear. He may opposed what she was saying but that voice we get to hear tonight. Sa with israel and palestine, she
Good afternoon. I am the director of the cato center for constitutional studies and your host for todays forum marking the publication of a new book by professor david bernstein, lawless the Obama Administrations unprecedented assault on the constitution and rule of law. This book and forum could not be more timely. Just yesterday we witnessed the president telling the nation that he was directing officials in his administration to expand the regulation of the Second Amendment rights in several ways including by expanding the definition of what it means to be in the business of selling firearms. The repeated usurpations from a long list of domestic and Foreign Policy disasters, but they have also served to direct our attention to the constitution. The separation of powers will be our focus today as we canvas the many constitutional assaults of the past seven years. Professor bernstein will speak for about 30 minutes and then we will here opposing commentaries the book and opened upopen
Fact is that i write these history books often, many of the characters in the history book are political wives. There is a political wife who starred this book festival, it was laura bush who went to the fabulous library of congress and said i did it taxes a book festival, can we do one in washington. It shows you what a fabulous legacy political lie wives have left here in washington. That makes it more delightful for me to be able to participate in it. Also, we should just say the volunteers of this festival are the heroes. [applause]. By and large the heroes because there is no way this could go on without these wonderful hundreds of volunteers. Thank you all very much for what you do. I have written history books about women in history and i never was going to write about the civil war. First of all all of my ancestors fought on the losing side. So i didnt really have any interest in its. Secondly, its an awful war. It is a horrible, horrible time in our history, we lost more than
I will work with Elijah Cummings and figure out the best course on what to do with these videos but just caution to members, that it is a bit of a stretch to say that i have done some conclusive investigation on all the actions of planned parenthood. Did i look at the finances and have a hearing specifically as to the revenue portion and how they spend . Yes. Was there any wrongdoing . I didnt find any. But i do think its a legitimate question for all of us, why do we send money to an organization where the revenues exceed their expenses by 127 million . Doesnt sound like an organization that needs to be supplemented by taxpayer dollars . That was my point. Happy to yield. I just want to ask the representative, whether or not you have any evidence whatsoever that planned parenthood has broken the law in any way . I think, i think some of the video that has been out there, the rumors that have been swirling, some of the testimony that weve heard causes a lot of people to legitimately as
Weekend. I think the book festival is wonderful thing that happens, thousands of people showing up to celebrate books and to buy them. [applause] what at. Concept. [laughter] and children and family, usuallily grandchildren go with me but im going to catch a plane and go see them in a minute, but it is a wonderful and the the fact is that i where these history books often many of the characters in history books are political wives and as a political wife started festival was laura bush who went to the fabulous library of congress and said, i did a texas book festival, can we do one in washington, and it shows you what a fabulous legacy political wives throughoutwh our history havend left here in washington. So that makes it even more delightful for me to be able to participate in it. Also, by the way, we should just say that the volunteers at this festival are the heros. [applause] because theres no way that this can go on with hundreds of volunteers, so thank you all very much for wha