Successful and we continue to be here to address any issues that might come up. To the 15th annual is this on 15thium e to the Barbara Olson memorial lecture. And this memorial lecture started, as many of you after 9 11. Ted olsons inaugural lecture reminded us of what it means to an american. How our legal tradition is a critical part of our identity as americans. Both ted, who is here today, and barbara, understood this connection. We want this lecture to remind lawyers of it so they foster advance nciples that individual freedom, personal and the rule of law. Other lecturers have included chief justice roberts, Vice President cheney, sten starr, ginsberg, now justice judge, gorsuch, former attorney general teal, john y, peter alison and two senators. To todays us luckture. Introduce or to Barbara Olson. Mcgann. Use counsel don before the counsel, served as hairman of the fcc around more recently a partner at jones day. The hat prior to joining Trump Campaign as their counsel. He ear
Quest the business many will come to order, we will do a little business on the front end and hopefully take care of some business quickly, i know people have other meetings and then will move to the hearing itself. We think our witness for allowing us to do this and we are glad you are here. Items on theber of agenda today, we will move a number of nominations and Foreign Service officer list. Theill also take up multilateral act of 2017. I want to think sen. Coons his leadership and hard work on this bill, i want to recognize senators isaacson, rubio, young, kane and merkley whether contributions to this important Bipartisan Legislation before our committee. Establish all process for conducting objective reviews on how multilateral institutions carry out their missions with our funding. Authorities through this process, we will be able to evaluate their performance in an objective way. The review will look at performance, management, accountability and transparency. Transparency alig
[inaudible conversations] welcome to arlington vermont on booktv. Located on Lake Champlain about 45 minutes south of the Canadian Border. Its home to the university of vermont and its the states most populous city with about 42,000 residents. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners over the next hour we will feature the Literary Committee including author Willard Sterne Randall on the war of 1812. A lot of people have misconceptions about the war of 1812. They think it was all about the star spangled banner and the british attack on washington and it was not very important like a hiccup in history. It had been a long struggle with the british over trade and writes and basically to take us back so its much more important than the way its taught in school. We begin our special feature in burlington with bill mahers and Jeff Danziger on their book the full monty, vermont in the age of trump. About a month before trump was elected i had openheart surgery and so i was not in great shap
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