Im chairman kilmer. Im excited to be here the first day of the new year. We had an incredibly productive last year with 45 recommendations to make congress more effective and officiate so it can better serve the American People. Im proud of what we accomplished as a committee so far and equally proud how we accomplished our Work Together. Every member of this committee has been fully engaged in the committees work and taken realtime to think about the issues in our mandate and their own perspectives and really listen and consider their colleagues perspective. This committee has worked because theyre finding Collaborative Solutions to the challenges this institution faces. The key word here is invested. Whether were talking about businesses or organizations or governments depend on people invested in the work that theyre doing and thats fundamental. Successful institutions also invest in themselves, their employees, infrastructure, overall Work Environment and experience. They think and
Clear that were not talking about the indian wars in this kind of lecture thats going to be in a couple weeks and were gonna use that as as a way to link. Kind of wars throughout the 19th century all the way up to it including the spanishamerican war so our focus is were kind of around that. Were thinking more kind of legal policy and issues and and such so the goal is to think in that broad 19th century way so our start point is a couple key things we need to kind of deal with the second half of our semester one of the Big Questions were picking up on is what does it mean to be an american . All right who can claim to be an american . Thats one of the Big Questions thats going to kind of . Take us through the end of our semester into as we deal with the 19th century. So in upcoming weeks were going to talk about, you know, immigrants. Were going to talk about kind of the progressive error and things like that. I think this is a good start point. To think about who is claiming american
Unfiltered, unbiased, word for word. From the nations capitol to wherever you are this is what democracy looks like. Cspan powered by cable. Our topic today were going to start with discussion of native americans won two different discussions we arere having. Want to make clear that is going to be a couple weeks but are going to use that as a way to link our focus is kind of around them. We are thinking more legal policy and issues. We think about this in the broad 19th century way. I will keep things to deal with. The second halfon of our semestr one of the questions we are picking up on is what is it mean to be an american . Who could claim to be an american to take us through the end of our semester as we deal for 19th century. And her upcoming weeks well talk about immigrants. Were going to talkbo about progressive era this is a good start point to think about who is claiming american status and what does that mean . We are going to build from some of the ideas with manifest destin
Former President Trump beating President Biden by ten points. Even the Washington Post is calling its own poll an outlier. Senior National Correspondent kevin corke is live in dc with how the panic is now playing out. Kevin good evening. Reporter dont think you predicted that would happen on a monday. Good to be with you my friend. Every single time trace a gop candidate has a good showing in a poll democrats love to remind folks in washington dont forget republicans led the polls heading into the 2022 midterm elections and that was anything but a red wave so its against that backdrop saying dont make more out of an outlier of a poll than you ought. Talking about their own Washington Post poll. But by any measure lets be honest these numbers dont lie and frankly dont look so good if you are the democrats or President Biden. Ask who youd vote for if election were held today, look at that 5142 pummeling. But wait theres more, you like that . Chances are youll like the other polling, do y
March. Finally, an examination of the evolving efforts to recognize Women Air Force Service Pilots. We have a terrific panel today. Introduction, i want to explain how this panel came to be. Participants in the Summer Institute on veterans in society, ambiguities and representations. The subtitle is incredibly important. It represents some of the confusion that might exist about who counts as a veteran, what it means to be a veteran, how that meaning has changed over time and how society has understood that change. How all of these things connect with nonveterans in society, and the Civil Military divide that seems to be growing ever greater. Were broughtissues together in a threeweek Summer Institute at virginia tech, washington actually. We explored with about 20 other colleagues from a variety of disciplines some of these issues. One of the big takeaways or one of the Big Questions that we were talking about is whether it would make sense to talk about Something Like veterans studie