This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. A new push his stance honoring john lewis was unveiled for the ceremony in the u. S. Capital. Speakers included postmaster general lewis to joy, Kevin Mccarthy and hakeem jeffries. It is about 50 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen please welcome speaker of the house, Kevin Mccarthy. House democratic leader, hakeem jeffries. Postmaster general, louis dejoy. And mr. Michael collins, chief of staff to the honorable John Robert Lewis. [ applause ] Kevin Mccarthy, speaker of the United States house of representatives. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. It is my privilege to recommend to the u. S. Capital. We are honored to have with us the u. S. Postmaster,. And linda early chastain to participate and share a special occasion. Each of them is instrumental in honoring the legacy of congress ms. Congressman luis and having the special stamp. Commemorative stamps are more than just pieces of paper with pictures on them. They tell stories
We also have to think about security, cybersecurity with all of that connectivity. Finally making sure we dont exhaust i. P. Addresses. I think all of those things play into the internet of things and will be really important Going Forward. Guest the fact of the matter, youve got two agencies primary in this space, with us being Expert Agency when it comes to telecommunications platforms and the like and we have to recognize and i believe the way the world is evolving. Once upon a time you know, you two are still wedded to paper and i am, i am surprised i dont have it in front of me and thats where our information was stored. Now most of our information is not and so when you talk about these companies that have access to your personal information and seems like like every hour were hearing about a data breach. It is important for us to keep this working relationship with the ftc and other agencies to insure that there is a seamless line or means of protection for consumers by all the
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These other folks that make sure these sessions come off without a glitch. [applause]. Indispensable to our success, as is a number of individuals and institutions. They have generously underwritten the seminar for a number of years now as have the George Washington history department. This is essential for the programming, feel free to join their ranks should you see fit. After our session today, there will there will be a reception outside of these doors. There are books for sale. I highly recommend that you pick one up and perhaps get a signature on it. With that, i will turn turn over the introduction of our speaker today to christian. Thank you eric. Its good to be here. Welcome everyone to this washington history seminar at the center. Its wonderful to have terry back. He is an alumnus of the Wilson Center and spent part of his work on the book here at the center. We are delighted today and welcome him back with the final product. Let me just say by way of introduction, he is the
The awards are supported by the university of michigan and the knight foundation. And the indian trail foundation. Were lucky to have the winner award,2015 Livingston Matthew aikins, with us today. Wrote a story called whoever saves a life. A tremendous story that First Responders in syria. I really recommend it. It is a tragic story. These people are on the receiving end of bombs from the regime. Capturinggreat job at the humanity of these First Responders. The gallows humor. He did amazing story for Rolling Stone from yemen. I will ask you about that later. Yemen is under a blockade right now. He took a 24 foot speedboat across the water from djibouti to sneak into yemen to do this story. Awa about pole called war killings in afghanistan. He won the mcgill middle of courage for that. He is now a fellow at the nation institute. He writes for the atlantic, gq and others. Younger, the author of the perfect storm which was on the bestseller list for about five years. A movie with george