His father was instrumental in the election of president john f. Kennedy. Bill green served as a congressman in 1976, during which time he took on the Oil Companies and helped defeat the Oil Depletion allowance. He became the meir of philadelphia the mayor of philadelphia and i am pleased to say i was in his administration. He took on on a lot of special interests, and actually implemented the first deadly force policy in the united states. He also said a lot of interesting things i wont repeat here. About the worst legislative body in the free world. [laughter] we always had a debate i might also add that his son helped fight back the wholesale closers of the the library branches. Without further ado is made privilege to welcome bill green. [applause] we were great friends and worked together ohad workedtogether oni was the mayor and has done more for the city than you could imagine. He ran the schools from the park, he headed all of those institutions and more and was a Pulitzer Priz
The outstanding faculty award for the washington law reviews so he must be doing something right in the classroom and he also writes a weekly First Amendment news column for the concurring opinions blogger. Please welcome Ronald Collins [applause] jamie raskin, that is not a typo, that is how you spell his name. Egos by ginnie. I want to make sure theres no confusion about that. Graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and harvard law school. They couldnt get into the university of virginia law school. He was also editor of the harvard law review. Jamie is professor of constitutional law at Washington College of law and state senator in maryland where he is majority whip of the center. He lead successful efforts to pass the Marriage Equality repeal. Just Marriage Equality. Lets be careful about that. Let me try is that again. Led the successful effort to pass the marriage ecology built repeal the desk at wiki comment aunt and ban assault weapons in the state of maryland. [applaus
more effective means of meeting the work goals. the administration is not trying to waive the work requirement. they are trying to make it less bureaucratic and more effective. what the republican state governors have asked for. they defended the ad, but later on in this interview, speaker gingrich also makes a surprising admission. i spoke with the former candidate a short time ago. mr. speaker, this ad said and i quote, under obama s plan you wouldn t have to work or train for a job. they just send you your welfare check. according to every nonpartisan fact checking organization, that is not clue. president clinton signed a law that you worked on said it s not true. ron haskins served as george w. bush s welfare adviser said there is no plausible scenario in which it constitutes a serious attack on welfare reform. are they all wrong? the original developer of welfare reform worked with governor and president reagan. he was the first person to come out and say look, this
examination. it s what we do every night. as always, we are not taking sides, but trying to figure out what is true and what is not. we begin with the romney ad. in 1996, president clinton and a bipartisan congress helped end welfare for requiring work for welfare. president obama quietly announced a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements. under obama s plan you wouldn t have to work or train for a job. they just send you your chak. welfare to work goes back to being welfare. you will hear from newt gingrich who defends that ad and makes a stunning admission of whether it s true to the facts. i want to show you how mitt romney is campaigning on the claims made in that ad. with a very careful executive action, he removed the requirement of work from welfare. it is wrong to make any change that would make america more of a nation of government dependency. we must restore and will restore work into welfare. listening to that, the white house managed to