Im going to encourage everybody to sit down, grab their seats. Keep eating. Okay. Welcome, everybody. Im maya mcginnis, i run the committee for a responsible federal budget and it is not every day that you see an overflow crowd for a whole event on budget process, so were really excited to have you here. We have a cspan audience, were Live Streaming this, so wonderful to have everybody joining us for what i think is going to be an excellent conference. Im really excited about the people weve gathered here and the ideas we are going to be discussing. So welcome. The committee for responsible federal budget for those of you who do not know is a nonpartisan organization, the board of directors are people who many of whom are here with us today who have run all the big budget institutions in washington, so the federal reserve, the treasury department, omb, cbo, the Budget Committees. So they are the whose who of the budgeting world. One of the things that we like to do is work with folks o
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
Yet, some totally destroyed. Youll see some trailers in front of the homes where people are working on them, but youre not going to see the vibrant community it once was. More from the tenth anniversary programming on hurricane katrina, including this entire hearing, and more from people on the ground about the storm. Tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time on cspan. A group of reporters discuss their jobs covering the white house and the changing relationship between president ial administrations and the press corps. Correspondents peter baker of the New York Times, jim avila of abc news, ap Reporter Josh Lederman and Scott Horsley of npr, participate in this National Journal event. Everyone else is going back to work. I hope that doesnt make your competitive anxiety set in. This is a great group. Thank you all for coming and taking time out of your news day to be part of this conversation. This is, of course, our annual scholarship panel. We have our 17 scholarship winners sitting in the
Youre going to move record out of the way. Youre going to move music out of the way and let them do what they do. Unless its premised on something entirely different, which is cool, you wouldnt be looking for talent anyway. You let people do what they do, give them rope and let them connect in ways only a truly talented person can connect. John, the greatest commitment you could pay me and you paid me was that i asked you tough questions. I would hate to stand here or sit here in front of our peers and ask you softball questions. But i wouldnt ask any question that i didnt think you can answer, so my compliment back to you as you did a heck of a job answering some tough questions and im very grateful. Thank you john dickey. Thank you. Thursday between 1 00 p. M. And 8 00 p. M. On cspan3, a focus on issues related to aging. Well show you a Senate Hearing on effort to fight alzheimers disease followed by portions of white house conference on aging 67 6789. Next a group of reporters discu
Prof. Coombs all right. Good day gentlemen. We have talked about up to this point, the development of a regional basis of the different colonies of english america. What i want to do today is take a step back, more of an imperial approach and talk about the maturation of the english empire. You might be curious about the date. It doesnt say 16071713, and hopefully the reason for that will become clear over the course of this lecture. As a point of departure, most people may think about english mainlandparticularly north america, Something Like this image is what comes to mind. The whole coastline filled in with colonies from massachusetts and maine in the north to georgia and the south, large and expensive. About with respect to other empires in north america, maps are dispersive. Arguments, assertions of pretensions of claims to territory. Theeality, in the middle of 17th century, the english empire looks more like this. Clusters, you can barely see it. There is a dark patch around ch