[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] well, thank you all who have made it this long. You guys are the real lovers of the constitution here. This panel is supposed be a little bit more laidback and were talking about the term ahead which is slated to start in just a few weeks. And although they terms are usually filed by quite once at the court, according to the brilliant and fascinating article written by wen fa and are joined that may not be true this year. We might get another big term. Here to talk about our wen fa and cate stetson. Wen fa is director of Legal Affairs at the beacon institute. Prior to joining beacon he was a senior attorney at the Pacific Legal foundation what he litigated two Supreme Court cases. When asked him for a fun fact about himself, he reminded me that he wants beat our own tommy berry in a standup comedy competition. I wasnt there so i remember it. But what wen didnt mention is that wen was the judge, so here cate s
Ms. Mirrer good evening and welcome to the New York Historical society. Im louise mirrer, president and ceo, and i am thrilled to see you in our beautiful auditorium this evening. Tonights program, women in the white house, is part of our bernard and Irene Schwartz distinguished speaker series. I would like to thank mr. Schwartz for his support that has allowed us to bring many fine historians and writers to this stage. [applause] ms. Mirrer i would also like to thank and recognize members of the Chairmans Council in the audience and thank them for their generosity and all they do on our institutions behalf, and of course, my great and talented colleague, Vice President for Public Programs, dale gregory. [applause] ms. Mirrer tonights program is presented in collaboration with our brandnew center for womens history, and we are grateful to our partners at hogan lovells, who are the corporate sponsor for our womens history programming at New York Historical. Tonights program last about a
Ms. Mirrer good evening and welcome to the New York Historical society. Im louise mirrer, president and ceo, and i am thrilled to see you in our beautiful auditorium this evening. Tonights program, women in the white house, is part of our bernard and Irene Schwartz distinguished speaker series. I would like to thank mr. Schwartz for his support that has allowed us to bring many fine historians and writers to this stage. [applause] ms. Mirrer i would also like to thank and recognize members of the Chairmans Council in the audience and thank them for their generosity and all they do on our institutions behalf, and of course, my great and talented colleague, Vice President for Public Programs, dale gregory. [applause] ms. Mirrer tonights program is presented in collaboration with our brandnew center for womens history, and we are grateful to our partners at hogan lovells, who are the corporate sponsor for our womens history programming at New York Historical. Tonights program last about a
Ms. Mirrer i would also like to thank and recognize members of the Chairmans Council in the audience and thank them for their generosity and all they do on our institutions behalf, and of course, my great and talented colleague, Vice President for Public Programs, dale gregory. [applause] ms. Mirrer tonights program is presented in collaboration with our brandnew center for womens history, and we are grateful to our partners at hogan lovells, who are the corporate sponsor for our womens history programming at New York Historical. Tonights program last about an hour, and it will include a question and answer session. You should have a note card when you entered, but colleagues are still going up and down the aisles if you have not received one. You will have an opportunity to write a question on the note card. They will be collected later on and used for the q a session. Following the program, there will be a formal book signing, and copies of our speakers books are available in our ny
Justice sotomayor spoke to law students at stanford university. See her remarks tonight on cspan. Consumer of america later, experts on food policy priorities of the Trump Administrations. Good morning. Good morning. Welcome. My name is thomas today is the second day of the jewish pass over holiday. I would like to say happy pass over. Many of you know Consumer Federation of america is an association of 300 profit organizations. We expand our research and advocacies. We focus on a lot of Consumer Protection topics but particularly relevant to this conference, we do food safety and nutrition and agriculture policies. So this Conference Provides an opportunity to hear from some of the key policiymakers and playes and opportunity to explore policies from a diverse range of perspective. I hope that you will agree that we have a Great Program for this years conference and that program reflects the work of our Advisory Committee. I dont have the packet with me but if you look of our packet y