Welcome to the Westminster Forum where 435 years we have engaged of the public and reflection dialogue from the ethical perspective. All forms are free and open to the public and information on Upcoming Events can be found online at westminster form. Org and you may follow us on twitter or like us on facebook. My name is tim anderson, senior minister at westminster president Presbyterian Church and moderator of the form. It is my pleasure to introduce todays speaker, doctor jennifer lawless is a professor at professor of government and American University in washington dc and the director of the women in politics and since you. Herself this way i am a 40year old self evolved political junkie. Election day is my super bowl. That sunday morning talk shows are my favorite reality tv and my computer Search History shows political wire. Com. Is my most visited website. This self evolved a political junkie graduated from Union College in schenectady, new york , with a ba in Political Science
The politicians, they are all working together for the good of the Democratic Party. This is the criticism you get from the conservative side. Right under that is the American People. This might come in second to my good friend on the house floor. If you did a word search, it might even come in first. You hear this from members of both sides of the aisle. The American People, one side wants tax cuts. The other side wants more spending. The American People want this, they want that. When it comes to house members, they represent about 700,000 people. They do not represent the American People. What is a real american . This is a variation of American People. It is when officials refer to their constituents to say, they are not of washington. They dont spend time watching the halls of congress. They have real jobs. Sometimes this could be a pejorative. You are suggesting somebodys ethnicity is not a real american. Usually, it is used as a positive. What is in the National Interest . It is
We are working very hard to make sure that my criminal investigators, my counterintelligence investigators, my counterterrorism operators and all of our International Operations are growing our ability to be good in cyberspace. To protect kids to fight fraud to fight everything we are responsible we have to operate there. Thats the people, training, technology and spark deployment. I will mention one thing that most smokes most folks dont understand. We also spend time building the worlds greatest library of improvised explosive devices. Another thing the American People dont realize the hard earned tax dollars has bought and shortly. We have the bill dudley device is detonated or found anywhere in the world to compare the forensics of that, the tool marks the hairs, the fingerprints the thousands of other samples with collected in an operation centered in alabama alabama. Work that is hidden from the taxpayers not intentionally just doesnt get a lot of headlines but makes a big differ
Who are trying to figure out how to include social and emotional into the multiple choice format. I think the behavioral tracking stuff is pretty valuable. Just making that an Upcoming Trip all by itself, you know sick days for students, fighting expulsion, there is be able to put things can be very very powerful as indicated of the Overall Health of the school as a system. The other thing is do you see a tendency to realize that objective testing is not always the way that we have to start trusting the subjective can you speak about that . This is a very core point of which are thing. We all make assessments every day and we all have to deal with other peoples assessments and judgments every day. Decouples towards data is a really, really strong in our culture right now and were all kind of living our lives by external metrics but we dont necessarily understand the quality of the data that goes into those metrics or the nature or the algorithms to produce the outcomes of the metrics.
Host you served formally as an abbasid or two switzerland inlet as an ambassador to switzerland in liechtenstein. In looking at this relationship between the u. S. And iran, where do things stand now . Guest i am optimistic. In 2009, the two big missions were of secrecy. To get the swiss government to agree to the enhanced sanctions. Switzerland was at risk of being the whole of the donut in europe, the place iran would go to trade oil. And we have and our argument was we have to find some way to bring it to the table. When we finally bring them to the table and we get a Framework Agreement, this is a great step forward. We are where ahead of where we were just two years ago. Host the issue of iran will land first and foremost next week with the senate. I want to play you some of the comments from senator bob corker, this set the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his concern over the deal expressed on Fox News Sunday yesterday. [video clip] one of the proposals bei