He was appointed by madison in 1812. Live coverage now of this event from the Heritage Foundation. We will be beginning momentarily. Jessica does have note cards for those that have come from the Legal Strategy Forum for the question and answer session. If you like some wed be glad to get them to you. Remind everyone please check that our mobile devices have been silenced or turned off as a courtesy as he prepare to begin. We should begin in about two or three minutes. Mr. Meese will introduce our special guest and john malcolm of our legal center will moderate the q a following. Force. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation center for legal and judicial studies and to our tenth annual joseph story distinguished lecture. As you might imagine the name sake of our lecture is that eminent juris joseph story. He was a remarkable patriot who carried out the founders vision of a constitutional republic. Before joining the Supreme Court he had quite a career
The subcommittee on communications and technology will now come to order. And the chair recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. And i do want to welcome each and every one of you. Obviously a hearing of interest as we have a full room in front of us. And it is our first hearing in 2017 with a fully formed federal Communications Commission as often seems to be the case, the senate takes their dear ever loving time to get things done, but im pleased to see that the commission is back up to speed and ill tell you i am pleased that we have five members of this commission and they have different points of view to bring to the discussion on all things telecom related. I think that is healthy for the telecommunications and technology industry. Were here today to conduct oversight of the agency which is this subcommittees primary role. It is very important that we fulfill these obligations because we have given the fcc a Critical Mission and critical task to fulfill. From
This has to be part of the game plan going forward. You cant have people in front of 45 judges behaving like it is their first trip in the court. We have to consolidate so judges can make informed decisions about Everything Associated with those things. I have no problem at all. It would be a good idea to have a review that takes place every 10 years or so. Not only should there be a review, they should be reupped by Governors Council or whomever. Should be another vote . I guess what i would say is you can either have a process where they have to be reupped or the review would determine whether or not they would go before the Governors Council. I like the letter better than the former. These are lifetime appointments. We want to make good decisions. That is why we set them up. But they ought to be held accountable. At the same time, everybody ought to know at some point theyre working for the public and taxpayers are paying for it. Lets hear from patricia. I cover social services. Bot
Initiative is so important. It only covers one small slice of abuse, it covers ofeally important part abuse, one that needs to an dressed and we do need to bring to bear. Urce on the hope solo situation and the Michael Phelps situation, you know, both of those cases ie pending and it would be think inappropriate for us to comment on what may have happened or what should happen we have a version of the facts that either has been party ord by a third that all of the parties have acknowledged. Expect future repper kegses the the phelps . Clauses haveal been part of those contracts for a long type. We have a code of conduct that we ask each much our athlete to sign and they do sign. The truth is that if you look at of london, they were almost without exception, incident, buty almost would you exception the american athletes comported way that made us all proud to be americans. So one of the things were trying to do is focus the athletes attention on it in opposed to after the fact. So we a
This, noholdsbarred discussion we are planning to have. Are we seeing the field hockey player . If not why not . Theres a law known as title 9 signed by Richard Nixon june 23rd, 1970, to changing the Playing Field of america. The most important honor of our country, we have just begun to see it works its magic. It is still in its infancy. If you have a daughter or girl next door or granddaughter you know how important that lot is and wait until these women are running for president in universities and businesses in 2013, 24 become a 2015 and onward. We ignore that law unless we go to an economic model for College Athletics the lead the university and academic settings. If we go there, i think my overall feeling is the notion of be careful what you wish for. I am not sure we would like what we create if in fact we start paying athletes and have a whole separate proles. End loose what has been such the popular pieces of all our lives which is the College Sports experience playing or watc