Kochs belief in a free and Prosperous Society. And going back to some of the last panel which i thought was excellent as well talking about removing obstacles for opportunity talking about disadvantaged, the poor. If you want to help the poor, as we do, i think probably everybody in this room does, everybody on this panel does. Theres no better way than to reform our criminal Justice System because they are the most adversely impacted by that system that is so broken. So thats one part of it. The other part is we had some negative experiences ourselves with the criminal Justice System. Back in the mid90s. That we learned from. And we wanted to see whatever we learned and how the process went for us. If its happening to a big company with a lot of resources like us whats happening to the Small Business owners whats happening to the average citizen, whats happened to the average joe in the street out there, and so that got us involved working with the nacdl, National Association of crimi
The committee on rules for filing under the rule. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title. The clerk report to accompany House Resolution 543, resolution providing for consideration of the bill h. R. 2824, to amend title 5 of the Social Security act to extend the maternal, infant and Early Childhood program. Providing for consideration of h. 2072 to limit payment of benefits to fugitive felons under titles 2, and 16 of the Social Security act and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore referred to the house calendar anded ored printed. Proceedings will resume on motions to suspend the rules priestly postponed. Votes listen taken in the following order, h. R. 3823 by the yeas and nays and h. R. 2061 by the yeas and nays. The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15minute vote. Remaining electronic votes will be conducted as fiveminute votes. The Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from florida, mr. Curbelo, to suspend the rules and p
Recognizing those who have promoted Free Expression in areas of speech, the press, religious liberty, and arts and entertainment. Recipients included apple ceo tim cook, u. S. Representative and civil rights leader john lewis, abc for the spares dash before the first reporter Martha Raddatz and Playboy Enterprises founder hugh hefner. This is just over one hour. Good evening, fellow champions of the First Amendment, and welcome to the newseum Second Annual Free Expression awards dinner. We are honored to have you join us tonight to celebrate six men and women whose lives and work has been the embodiment of Free Expression. Now, standard speaker protocol calls for me to make a joke at this point. To relax the room, bring us together, and let me move on to more serious subjects. David bradley, a wonderful supporter whos here tonight is a genius at this. The problem is, i dont know any jokes about the First Amendment, less aye all George Carlin on you. [laughing] and where to keep this di
We are honored to have you with us tonight. Standard speaker protocol calls for me to make a joke at this point. [laughter] to relax the room, bring us together and let me move on to more serious subjects. David bradley, a wonderful support here tonight, is genius of this. The problem is, i dont know any jokes about the First Amendment unless i go all George Carlin on you. [laughter] and we have to keep this dinner pg. So i did what a modern person would do, i googled. I mean i asked alexa, i mean i asked siri. [laughter] about jokes about the First Amendment. Not much luck there. Not due to the technology. Of course. There are many stories about someone making a joke of the First Amendment and countless stories about whether the First Amendment does or does not cover jokes about mothers in law, police or various ethnic and racial minorities. The answer by the way is yes, yes, and yes. I have found some possible material from lenny bruce, but i figured we had that angle covered already
We are honored to have you with us tonight. Standard speaker protocol calls for me to make a joke at this point. [laughter] to relax the room, bring us together and let me move on to more serious subjects. David bradley, a wonderful support here tonight, is genius of this. The problem is, i dont know any jokes about the First Amendment unless i go all George Carlin on you. [laughter] and we have to keep this dinner pg. So i did what a modern person would do, i googled. I mean i asked alexa, i mean i asked siri. [laughter] about jokes about the First Amendment. Not much luck there. Not due to the technology. Of course. There are many stories about someone making a joke of the First Amendment and countless stories about whether the First Amendment does or does not cover jokes about mothers in law, police or various ethnic and racial minorities. The answer by the way is yes, yes, and yes. I have found some possible material from lenny bruce, but i figured we had that angle covered already