Let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill gallston. Im a senior fellow in governance studies. Thank you so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past, the present and possible future of the u. S. Senate. The occasion of this discussion is the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this one entitled, broken can the senate save itself and the country . Those of oh you who read his first book on the senate will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an institution and will not be surprised to learn how distressed he is by what he describes as its precipitous decline. This topic could not be more timely. We are just days from the expiration of yet another shortterm continuing budget resolution and perhaps even more pertinently, from a promised open Senate Debate on u. S. Immigration policy. Will the promise be kept . And if it is, will todays se
[inaudible conversations] let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill galston, senior fellow here in governance stud ies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past and the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this one entitled broken, can the senate save itself and the country. Those of you who read his first book on the senate will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an an answers institution and will not know howdy how distress as decline this topic could not be more timely. We are just days from the expiration of yet another shortterm continuing budget re solution and perhaps even more pertinently from a promised open Senate Debate on u. S. Immigration policy. Will the promise be kept and if it is will todays senate be up to the job of an open deliberation on the most burning domestic question which is more than come itself
Four mr. Galston let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill galston, senior fellow in governance studies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past, the present, and possible future of the u. S. Senate. The occasion of this discussion is the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this one is titled, broken can the senate save itself and the country . Those of you that read his first book on the senate will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an institution and will not be surprised to learn how distressed he is by what he describes as its precipitous decline. This topic could not be more timely. We are just days from the expiration of another short term continuing budget resolution, and perhaps even more pertinently from a promised open Senate Debate on u. S. Immigration policy. Will the promise be kept . And if it is, will toda
Were joined by the coexecutive director of the indivisible project here to talk about the shutdown last week, resolution of that and the involvement of the immigration proposal, and whats ahead for andDemocratic Party in 2018 more near term whats ahead in the immigration discussions. About your us project, the indivisible project, what is that all about . Election in r the 2016, my wife and i were going through the stages of grief lake lot of progressives trying to figure out what we could do in this brave new world and we were former congressional staffers who worked on capitol hill. Thenrk as things were back we saw this bright light of coming around throughout the country. We can tell folks how congress works. Fy on their two senators and one representative in their on e communities and then suddenly these individual chapters forming. In every single district. Its an organization that we just to dly set up support those groups on the ground. How have you been active in weve seen tha
catherine an audit of the university of california system has resulted in a troubling accusation against its administrators that they hid lots of money from the public. Californias auditor says top administrators hid 175Million Dollars from thepublic and lawmakers in a secret reserve fund. And they did it, according to the report, even while raising tuition and asking thestate for more money. The scathing report was released today. Saying that uc president Janet Napolitanos office created the undisclosed budget over four years so the money could be spent with little or no oversight. Napolitano denies the claim. She argues the true amount of money in reserve is 38 million. And says thats a modest amount to stash away for unexpected expenses. Meantime, lt. Governor gavid newsom whos also a u. C. Regent is angry aboutthe revelation. He says its outrageous to force tuition hikes on students while hiding secret funds. He wants recent tuition hikes to be reconsidered. grant the director of a