Port please. Welcome our host jen mascot assistant professor of law and code executive director of the sea Boyden Gray Center for the study of the Administrative State at the Antonin Scalia law school and john malcolm heritage is Vice President for the institute of Constitutional Government and director of the me center for legal and judicial studies. Well, i want to welcome you all to the Heritage Foundation on behalf of heritage in the great center. Today has been its been a special day and it is still a special day. We are delighted to be here honoring the 30th anniversary of Justice Thomass appointment to the Supreme Court as an associate justice. Weve been fortunate to have Justice Thomas here before he was our 2016 story lecturer and we are thrilled that he is here with us this evening. So with that im going to turn it over to my cohost jen and i hope you enjoy the evenings program. Thank you, john. Good evening. The sea boy and grace center is thrilled to host this event with th
Port please. Welcome our host jen mascot assistant professor of law and code executive director of the sea Boyden Gray Center for the study of the Administrative State at the Antonin Scalia law school and john malcolm heritage is Vice President for the institute of Constitutional Government and director of the me center for legal and judicial studies. Well, i want to welcome you all to the Heritage Foundation on behalf of heritage in the great center. Today has been its been a special day and it is still a special day. We are delighted to be here honoring the 30th anniversary of Justice Thomass appointment to the Supreme Court as an associate justice. Weve been fortunate to have Justice Thomas here before he was our 2016 story lecturer and we are thrilled that he is here with us this evening. So with that im going to turn it over to my cohost jen and i hope you enjoy the evenings program. Thank you, john. Good evening. The sea boy and grace center is thrilled to host this event with th
Port please. Welcome our host jen mascot assistant professor of law and code executive director of the sea Boyden Gray Center for the study of the Administrative State at the Antonin Scalia law school and john malcolm heritage is Vice President for the institute of Constitutional Government and director of the me center for legal and judicial studies. Well, i want to welcome you all to the Heritage Foundation on behalf of heritage in the great center. Today has been its been a special day and it is still a special day. We are delighted to be here honoring the 30th anniversary of Justice Thomass appointment to the Supreme Court as an associate justice. Weve been fortunate to have Justice Thomas here before he was our 2016 story lecturer and we are thrilled that he is here with us this evening. So with that im going to turn it over to my cohost jen and i hope you enjoy the evenings program. Thank you, john. Good evening. The sea boy and grace center is thrilled to host this event with th
What is being done and perhaps not being done. Here are the numbers. If not by sound, you can send aus a tweet. You can post your comment on facebook and you can send us an email. We look forward to hearing from you. Here is one of the headlines this morning in the Huffington Post theyre talking about congressman Harold Rogers, the republican of kentucky who chairs the Appropriations Committee. Writes about this as well. Russell permanent shares the byline and joins us by phone. Burman shares the by line. Guest pretty interesting day in the house yesterday. They were considering a House Appropriations bill to fund the department of transportation and housing and urban development. This has been a key bill implementing deep cuts offered by congressman paul ryan. They effectively pulled the bill from the floor, saying they did not have enough time in the week left before the august recess to complete it because of amendments. Said they hope to bring it back after the recess. Then we solv
What i have heard and read is that they will come back in the fall and see if they can come back to the table with something on the house side. A similar exercise occurred on the senate side. The senate bill was beyond sequestration lovells. We, the senate bill was beyond sequestration levels. We, at the department, felt better about the senate bill. Sequestration is a blunt instrument. Pham and arithmetic perspective, it places the with from an arithmetic perspective, it places caps and makes it difficult for us to accomplish the goals we have for our country across a variety of fronts. I think there is a growing sense that there is a need to relook at it. You do not have any idea of what the numbers are or some of the projects. I can live with it. With i am saying to you is that the situation is obviously very fluid. In our department, we happen to be ready for just about anything. Thank you, mr. Secretary. We are honored to have you with us. Most governors recognize how important tr