Congratulations to the class of 2016. Today is your day of celebration and youve earned it. The voices crying for peace and light, because your choices will make all the difference to you and to all of us. Dont be afraid to take on cases or a new job or a new issue that really stretches your boundary. You spend your summer abroad real ships rather than internships, and the specter of living in your parents basement after this Graduation Day is not likely to be of greatest conce concern. Watch commencement the streets to the class of 2016 in their entirety from colleges and universities around the country by business leaders, politicians and white house officials. On cspan. Antenna on cspan2 take a live to a forum on Community Organizing and civic mobilization. 17 citizen groups will be speaking today and will be hearing opening and Closing Remarks from ralph nader, author, activist and former president ial candidate, this is being hosted by the center for the study of responsive law at
By representative candice miller. This is an hour. I now call to order the committee on administration for todays hearing on the u. S. Capitol police. And the record will remain open for five legislative days so members might submit any materials to include. Quorum is present so we might proceed. Were meeting today to hear from the new u. S. Capitol chief of police matt verderosa. And as a committee, we want to congratulate you on your appointment and looking forward to continuing to work with you shoulder to shoulder. So we appreciate you coming. Hes going to be talking of course today about his vision, his direction for the Capitol Police moving forward. Some of the specific items we hope to discuss today include the Capitol Police Budget Priorities and recent security events and actions taken and the Capitol Police initiatives current and future. The Capitol Police is a Law Enforcement with a unique mission. Charged with protecting and serving the u. S. Capitol, the seat of the nati
Itself issues. Texas a quand m, university of texas at austin, the university of houston, other institutions, these arell public universities. And these individuals, these students, pay tuition to go to these public universities. And in response, theyre issued identification vehicles. Identification cards. But the state of texas has seen fit to say, thats not valid in order to vote. And i think that one example, and weve heard several others, basically exposes the fact that the movement to impose voter identification requirements is a fraud itself. Its a sham. The whole argument behind it is that were trying to protect the integrity of the Voting System. Heres the problem. Youre protecting the integrity of the Voting System by imposing a solution in search of a problem. Because none of these individuals in any of these states has been able to produce a scintilla of evidence of fraud. In fact, there are studies that have shown that there have been over a billion instances of americans e
Michael obviously there is a lot of political intrigue in the Supreme Court. A lot of powerful people are interested in the decisions that you come to any effects that they have on Public Policy and commerce. My question is, what if any effect is that political interests have on the court decisionmaking process, and what steps do you take to maybe isolate yourself from that political interest . Is it just something that you and the other justices get used to overtime . Justice sotomayor you do not get on the court unless you are a concerned citizen. Every single justice has had a career in which they have devoted their lives, in some form or a the other or the other to the public view. Even any private practice they have been involved in activities that do public service. We are, by nature, citizen lawyers. You do not work as hard as we work, reach where we have reached, unless we have shown that to the powers that be. We get selected because we are the very best at some aspect of the
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