President trumps tweet and whether the president is satisfied with the agreement reached by Congressional Democrats and republicans. Hes joined by john kelly. Whats in the bill to protect the country and keep our borders safe. Ironically when the secretary is done hes got to get right to the meeting with the president to talk about the wall and the efforts hes taking to drive down illegal immigration and border crossings. After hes done, the director of management and budget, Mick Mulvaney will come up and talk about the overall status of the president s priorities in the funding bill and take your questions. So without further well, ive talked to many in the media over the last 100plus days about the things our department does on a daily basis to keep our nations safe. In the past 100 days weve been incredibly successful in enforcing the law and defending the nation. I believe this budget will help us begin to improve the way we do business and how we accomplish our goals to make this
Best use of every single taxpayer dollar, assuring more reliability and predictibility that than a government operating under a continuing resolution. In short it moves our nation forward in the right direction. The bill includes full year funding for the remaining 11 annual Appropriations Bills for defense, infrastructure, health and safety programs through the end of the fiscal year on september 30. As well as critical emergency and defense and Border Security funding requested by the president. In total it provides 1 1. 63 trillion in base and overseas Contingency Operations funding. These levels meet the caps provided by the bipartisan budget act of 2015. This bill makes the senator decisions investing funding where its needed most. Rebuilding our military, securing our borders, and bolstering Economic Growth, getting people back to work. First and foremost and most importantly, this bill prioritizes funding for national defense, restoring the strength and capacity of our armed for
Global Affairs Global Government Affairs at policy at ge. Laura fraedrich, partner at jones day and warren maruyama, so please welcome them to the stage. Well, we saved the most timely topics for last and thank you for joining. One of the reasons this is particularly interesting is because President Trumps views have been developed over the 30 years so when you look at his public statements from trade in the late 80s, he uses language strikingly similar to today. In light of who hes picked to go into the administration, karan, how do you understand the president s objectives . First of all, kristen, i would say theyre evolving. What we saw coming out of certainly the campaign, coming out of the early days of the transition was a very strident, i think a lot of people used the term protectionist tone. I think we have seen even within the span of 90 plus days sort of an evolution in some of the messaging. I think take the nafta letter to congress for instance that was recently submitted.
20 years ago, you would have, the mountain and justine jeffersons beautiful neoclassical villa. What we wanted to do was change that. We wanted to restore the landscape of slavery because of you had come up this mountaintop in jeffersons time, the first thing you would have seen would be enslaved people. There would have been no place on this mountaintop that slavery was not visible. , maket to restore that that known to visitors who come here, today. We are now in the middle of recreating or restoring ,wellings along mulberry row the main plantation street, as well as rooms attached to the house, just behind us. All of this is part of an effort to shift the focus away from just jefferson, and talk about the dozens of other people who essentially made his life possible. Are just near jeffersons main house, the mansion that he built throughout his life. We are standing next to mulberry row, which is the main plantation street at monticello. It is about 1300 feet. Through documentary res
The organization of american historians hosted this 90minute event at their annual meeting in new orleans. Ok. Ok, so, i think we are ready to get started. Sorry for the delay, but welcome to the first Plenary Session of the 2017 annual meeting of the organization of american historians. Our session is called historians in court. It examines the complex roles of historians applying their scholarly skills to courtroom litigation. Thanks, first, to the o. A. H. For organizing this session and, in particular, to the president , nancy cott, for her support of our endeavor here today. Today, we will address a timely topic the participation of historians in courtroom proceedings. Theres no systematic study, but the evidence we have indicates that the use of, for instance, scholarly amicus briefs, where scholars file amicus briefs in court proceedings, has been increasing. Theres a long history of scholarly input into Appellate Court cases stretching back at least to the famous brandeis brief