Afternoon. Thank you all for being here. This is two fold. Mary brown has been on local radio, i believe a few hours ago, saying that the congressman was a predator, saying that he took every opportunity to sexually harass and basically to assault her. I was on a couple of National Networks and that is not true. What she has forgotten or omitted in telling you all is that when she worked for the congressman, she had her sister working there as well strike that she had her daughter, she had her daughter working there and another family member. She says that she was 40 something years old, she needs a job, was a single mother, this, that, and the other. We understand that. But when you bring your daughter into a situation that you describe that is completely hell, again, it is fundamentally incongruous that resembles logic and truth. In addition, mr. Conyers asserts he has done nothing wrong and for some reason the tide has turned where some people are saying, not all, that he is bashing
Secretary, it finance committee receives his paperwork and will vote hon the nomination. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then former secretary and governor of utah whom we welcome today. Mike, good to see you and have you back. And senator young, whos a member of this committee, will introduce him after mr. Azars testimony, senators will each have five minutes of questions. We already have a good turnout so i anticipate a good vigorous questioning period. Confirmed to leave the department of health and Human Services, youll be leading a 1. 11 trillion budget. That almost equals the totals of the Appropriations Bills that Congress Passes each year to Fund Everything from National Defense to national laboratories. Medicare and medicaid. Our nations government run Insurance Programs for it poor and elderly. Mental hilth health and Substance Abuse. The National Institutes of health, where, with francish collins excellent leadership, the leading efforts to disco
Us. It is my pleasure today to introduce our speakers in order of their appearance. First up this morning is professor Tracy Campbell at the university of kentucky. Professor campbell received his ba from the university of kentucky and phd at duke university, has a remarkable record of teaching and scholarship in history in the United States of the 20th century. Before arriving at kentucky, he taught at mars hill and union colleges. Since he has been at kentucky, he has been recognized not only for his scholarship but especially for his skill as a classroom teacher. He is the author of numerous articles and five major books, including, most recently, his 2013 study of the gateway arch in st. Louis, which he tellingly calls a biography. This is directly related to our symposium today. His 2005 work, deliver the vote the history of Election Fraud in american political tradition. This is a book that we need to take up today, if not for the first time, even for the second time. Americas ye
As our 34th president , he was the most recent and probably the last general to become president of the United States. During world war ii, he served as supreme allied commander, the brilliant military military strategist who defeated the nazis. Later, he treated new strategies to fight against communism. As president , he took strong stands to ensure equality and opportunity for americans of all races, genders, and creeds. Many of the agencies they came into being under dwight nasa,ower, faa, surrounded this site, which will now be known as eisenhower square. There are many people here today who we want to recognize who played a role in making the special day a reality. We want to recognize labor secretary, the transportation secretary. We are delighted to have several members from both sides of the aisle. Marcy kaptur, rob bishop, darrell issa, mike gallagher, kevin yoder, and betty mccollum. And from the great state of , we are happy to welcome sam brownback. It is a special honor t
Welcome all of you attending this symposium in person. As well as our audience on cspan to this Second Annual symposium on constitutional issues. This year, we examine the 15th amendment and invite a conversation as our Program States on suffrage in light of the hopes and realities of american identity and governance. In many ways, this university is the ideal venue for such a conversation. Envisioned as a Great National episcopal institution by a group of founding bishops in the 1850s, the university of the south by 1860 possessed more than 6,000 acres of land on the Cumberland Plateau in tennessee. It had an endowment half the size of harvards. I often think with my regents about what that would mean for us today. We wouldnt be lamenting an 8 return. And saw itself, in that vision, with colleges of different sizes, schools of law and medicine and business and theology. Saw itself indeed as americas first truly comprehensive private university a half generation ahead of Johns Hopkins