Good morning. Please welcome to the stage politico editor at large peter canellos. [applause] good morning and welcome. Im peter canellos, Political Editor at large. Id like to thank you all for joining todays event, americas biggest voting bloc, nonvoters. Thanks to those watching via live stream. As a 202020 Campaign Ramps up both democrats and republicans are working very hard to rally the base. Theyre also trying to win over swing voters, but i think we all know especially we will see today that by far the largest bloc of voters out there come when hundred million voters voting ages of those who dont go to the polls. I cant say enough that the balance of power in the United States rests in those voters. These nonvoters span every demographic, and the racial demographic, age demographic, education demographic. Today were going to have i hope very enlightening Panel Discussion discussing with Party Leaders themselves how the plan to appeal to this group and get some of these people t
Test of these taking back power from the executive branch is often a challenge that requires overriding a president ial veto which is increasingly difficult. A return to normal appropriations, increase in legislative oversight, particularly by a spending authority, an earmark reform that both returns the practice while strengthening its integrity requires no president ial signoff. In fact each step rests solely within the purview of congress and it would allow legislators to increase capacity, better represent their constituents, uphold their oath and recommit to the spirit and letter of article i of the constitution. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Were going to head into questions. Im going to yield my time to representative scanlan. I know you have another hearing to get to. Thank you so much, i appreciate it. And thank you, chairman kilmer and vice chair graves for holding this hearing. Weve had a number of hearings talking about kind of the Practical Impact of issues so its re
Up next, a discussion on Election Security. This panel looks at preventing Voting Machines from being hacked. And talks about some of the benefits of paper ballots. Georgetown Laws Institute for Technology Law and policy hosted this series. Hi. Welcome. So im matt blaze. Im a professor here at georgetown in both the law school and Computer Science department. I want to welcome you to our afterlunch panel. Thank you for sticking around. On Digital Technologies and voting. We have, on our panel, who i will introduce very briefly, four very distinguished experts at various parts of the digital elections landscape. And and the technology and the risks of some of the Underlying Technology that is inherent there. And well be talking about this subject for from a very wide range of different perspectives. But all with a very technological bias. So im going to very briefly introduce these people. And im going to apologize now for being extremely incomplete in my introductions because they woul
Called the trillion trees act,s an effort that was made more um public by president trumps support of that at the davos World Economic forum. Tell us, congressman, what does this act propose . Well, this is an act that does just what it says, plant trees across the globe by 2050, for the u. S. To do our share oft that. Lott s a whole more, though. Our biggest tool that we have are forestsnd kee as far as mitg climate issues. When we utilize those forests and keep them sustainable and working and active, we royal have the best tool thats out there thats widespread, its natural, and its very economical to sequester carbon out of the atmosphere with fr forests. You come to this as a forester yourself, the only one in congress, a graduate of yale, a masters in forestry there. This must have been music to your ears when you heard the president getting behind this re effort. Yeah,is abo its something t near and dear too me. If you look at the planet, takn theres 3 billion tree the in the pla
I am harry litman, a former United States attorney and Deputy Assistant attorney general and current Washington Post columnist. We are here in washington, dc live to tape a series of podcast episodes just blocks from the capitol dome. All this thanks to our gracious host here at georgetown Laws Institute for constitutional advocacy and protection and for this episode as well the american constitutional constitution society, the leading Progressive Organization in network with over 200 lawyer and student chapters nationwide. All this week we are talking about what happens after Robert Mueller. What are the challenges and prospects for our Democratic Institutions . Today we are focused on what happens the day of Robert Muellers testimony to congress. Prior to the announcement of muellers testimony, the house s effort to bring the report to life seemed to be getting nowhere and near checkmated. 13 weeks have passed and the house hasnt succeeded in having a single fact witness testified pu