He earned doctorate in politics from Princeton University and author of two books like congress, legitimacy and responses to the 2008 financial crisis. Sitting at the far end is daniel lipinski, the 13th fellow at the university of dallas. He represents the Third District of illinois in the house of representatives since 2005 to 2021. Congressman lipinski earned degree in political science, content and consequences. In the middle we have ride ribble, university of wisconsin green bay. He too served in congress and served well. He represented the eighth district of wisconsin and the u. S. House of representatives from 2011 to 2015 and after retiring from the house he served as the Contracting Association for 5 years. With that, let me step away and bring up our guests. [applause] just want to start by thankinge everyone who braved e smoke today and is here in person. Its a real honor to have you gathered together and to thank theer American Enterprise institute for providing really such
[applause] mr. Pence good afternoon everyone. I want to welcome you. My name is neil the vet vivek. [applause] we have a special guest today. Mike pence is a former member of the house, governor of india anna, and the 48 governor of indiana, and the 48th Vice President of the United States. It is good to have your. [applause] mr. Pence thank you. I want to thank the New Hampshire ends new hampshirans. It is great to be back. I am mike pence, i am from indiana, and i am running to be the next president of the United States of america. Thank you all for coming out this afternoon. I cannot think of a better place to reflect on the future of our country and the Republican Party. I appreciate you all making time. Particularly the students who i hope are not skipping class to be here with us. I stand before you asked republican candidate for president of the United States because i believe this country has had a lot of trouble. Joe biden has week has weakened america at home and abroad and i
Politics in manchester. [applause] mr. Pence good afternoon everyone. I want to welcome you. My name is neil the vet vivek. [applause] we have a special guest today. Mike pence is a former member of the house, governor of india anna, and the 48 governor of indiana, and the 48th Vice President of the United States. It is good to have your. [applause] mr. Pence thank you. I want to thank the New Hampshire ends new hampshirans. It is great to be back. I am mike pence, i am from indiana, and i am running to be the next president of the United States of america. Thank you all for coming out this afternoon. I cannot think of a better place to reflect on the future of our country and the Republican Party. I appreciate you all making time. Particularly the students who i hope are not skipping class to be here with us. I stand before you asked republican candidate for president of the United States because i believe this country has had a lot of trouble. Joe biden has week has weakened america
Good evening. Welcome. Happy new year. Im matthew spalding. Welcome to the allen b. Kirby campus. Our event is cosponsor idbid real clear politics. And i recognize david, in the back, there he is. The pressurer and John Mcintyre who is with us here as well. Our discussion deals with a collection of essays med on the 35th anniversary of the new cite tieran ming. The title of the book is vox poply, the perils of populism. It means the voice of the people. The old adage, the voice of the people is the voice of god, which was often times used in history to attack monarchs and attack people who said such nonsense. The idea of populism is also not new to america. One thinks of will William Jennings bryan, roosevelts, Andrew Jackson, Ronald Reagan more recently. Not surprising in a regime of popular consent based on human equality. Theres always been a tension between popular government and constitutional government. That sense of the potential of populist demagogues. Hence, promises and peri
Senator frank church who is investigating irregular layerties in the cia and fbi. This is in 1975 and 1976. There are major hearings held here for that. Parts vrt executive branch are operating without congressional oversight and that you need to have regular committee investigations. We dont see it as dramatically as what the Church Committee was doing at that time. After that, in 1983, the hard building opens up. Because the staff is happening at a very rapid pace. As late as the mid 1960s, there were less than a thousand employees. They were paid in cash. They stood in line to get an envelope full of cash. The legislative branch didnt feel it could trust the executive branch as much. Before that, they would be relying on executive agencies and now they needed their own staff to evaluate what was happening. And so they increased the size of the senate house staff considerably and the senate staff went about a thousand to close to 7,000. And so eventually they built the heart building