The committee on rules and ministers will come to order grea good w morning to i want to think our colleagues for joining us today and i like to welcome our nominees to todays hearing and shauna broussard, sean cooksey and Alan Dickerson are the president s nominees to be member of the federal Elections Commission and as our witnesses are joining us remotely i also want to understand that their familyod and friends are watchig today and i welcome them as well. This is a big response ability and a significant president ial p nomination and significant to the work of this committee and i know you are proud of your Family Member as they have moved forward to this opportunity and let me say a little bit about a couple of the nominees and then i will turn to another Committee Member senator cruz to talk about the third nominee. Alan dickerson isom the nomineeo be a member of the federal Relations Commission for a term expiring on april 301, 2025. Mr. Dickerson has been practicing law for 20
Stevens. My name is ben feuer. Im also the chairman of the appellate section of the Bar Association of the San Francisco which organized this event. I would like to extend a welcome to members of a few groups who are cosponsoring tonights program, the ninth judicial Historical Society and the American Constitution Society bay area chapter. Id like to welcome cspan which is brother aadcasting the discu tonight. In ten years or so that ive been putting on programs like this, this is the first time cspan has come. So weve made it. But truthfully, i think cspan has some of the most interesting programming on all of television, at least when congress is out of session. And so i recommend you check it out, if you dont already. Before we begin, i would like to ask everyone to put their phones on vibrate. The next program that were going to be putting on, on january 28th, is on settling cases in the ninth circuit. If that interests you, be sure to sign up. Were also going to save time at the e
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Its been pretty clear that theyve been making some very Good Progress whats happened since then is that the afghan prison ashraf ghani has been informed about this by phone hes now come here to munich for a much more detailed meeting of whats going to happen next and the afghan president was briefed here by the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o y mark kasper the us secretary of defense what we understand is that at some point very soon theyll start a period of 7 days a reduction of violence now thats not a cease fire theyre not using the cease fire word and certainly Afghan Government had wanted it to be a cease fire after that though after that 7 days then were told within another 10 days or so talks should start then between the taliban and all of the rest of the afghan political system the Afghan Government and other afghan Political Parties Afghan Government has been wary about this process all along because theyve been left out of it this has been very much a deal between the