Washington journal, live at 7 00 eastern tuesday morning. Join the discussion. Joining us to take to talk about her book one person, no. Ote is the author why did you write this book . The book emerged out of two one was the 2016 election and there i saw the pundits keep talking about people just didnt show up. Up andople didnt show hillary lost because black people werent feeling hillary. That and it did not make sense because this was the first election in 50 years without the protection of the Voting Rights act. We had a series of laws coming through, targeting africanamericans, so i wanted to lay out how Voter Suppression s. Rks because host what protections were under the Voting Rights act. Passedin 1965, congress the Voting Rights act. It began to deal with the massive disenfranchisement happening particularly in the south. Where you had counties that had a majority black population, but zero africanamericans were registered to vote. What the Voting Rights and did was have a prov
Mendenhall well, good morning. Welcome to the montgomery federalist society. Im president of the montgomery chapter. Im excited to have you here today for our topic on occupational licensing. Occupational licensing laws establish entry into professions and fields based on the allegation that the general safety and welfare of the community is served and protected by them. The reality is that connected Interest Groups favor lobbyists and other connected Interest Groups favor occupational licensing for its anticompetitive effects. The fees and restrictions instituted by occupational licensure prevent entrepreneurial innovators, who often come from modest backgrounds and represent groups, from efficiently vulnerable groups, from efficiently providing consumers with better goods and services. The onus of these laws falls disproportionately on minority communities from the eliminate to benefit from the eliminate national elimination of burdensome regulations and the expense of Economic Freed
Jobs as here breeders, if they wanted to learn from ms. Brantley, they couldnt because it was a crime for her to teach them. Ouruncer just some of program looking at occupational licensing laws. You can watch it tonight at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. And announcer cspans live 2020 coverage continues saturday at 4 00 p. M. Eastern with Tulsi Gabbard in hudson, new hampshire. Sunday at 2 00 p. M. Eastern, joe biden in peterborough, new hampshire. Monday at 2 00 p. M. Eastern, andrew yang in nashua, new hampshire. Tuesday at 11 00 a. M. Eastern, Elizabeth Warren in boston. Watch the president ial candidates live on cspan, online at cspan. Org, or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Announcer former speechwriters for president clinton, obama, bush and obama discuss their the and stories from behind scenes. Hosted at the university of chicago earlier this year, this is an hour and 10 minutes. [applause] thank you all for coming. The iop is honored to welcome speechwriters behind the words that
Welcome back ourwitnesses and i now recognize the gentle lady from washington. Thank you mister chairman and thank you all for your very informative testimony. You all touched on this but a common refrain we hear from companies is during the course of this committees investigation but also just on my own i have many of them in my district is that they cant possibly be violating antitrust laws and the primary argument is that its because many other products either cheap or free and therefore consumers are inherently benefiting. You all have indifferent ways talk about this. To me the big question of course is is free really free . Consumers i think its increasingly clear are paying for the products that they use read theyre paying in data, theyre paying in privacy and often dont know theyre giving up and of course the Big Tech Companies use that data to build these massive empires of information about consumers then give them spectacular advantage over newcomer businesses, allow these c
Queen elizabeth my lords and members of the house of commons, my governments priority is to deliver the United Kingdoms departure from the European Union on the 31st of january. Prime ministers will bring forward legislation to ensure the United Kingdoms exit on to make the most of the opportunities this brings all the people of the United Kingdom. Thereafter, my ministers will seek a future relationship with the European Union, based on a Free Trade Agreement that benefits the whole of the United Kingdom. We will also begin trade negotiations with other leading global economies. The integrity and prosperity of is of the kingdom utmost importance to my government. My ministers will work urgently to facilitate talks to restore the government in northern ireland. My government will embark on an Ambitious Program of domestic reform that delivers on the peoples priorities. For the first time, the National Health services multiyear funding settlement, agreed earlier this year, will be enshr