[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Welcome the cato institutes i am the director of the cato center for constitutional studies and your host for this event i also will welcome the cspan audice began to those lght streaming and later through the archives. Were here to discuss religious liberty as it may or may not be exercised in the context of the of modern Business Corporation with statutory and constitutional law. To mark the publication of a new book on that subject religiousiberties for corporations . And i know the title ends with a day question mark. In the book the two main speakers ilya shapiro and david gans have a comprehensive analysis of the issues ainst. Host day the blockbuster decision of the Supreme Court handed down at the end of the last term that rejected the obamacare regulation provided Employer Sponsored Health care plans to provide or that required employers to provide free contraception coverage. The book is based on a series of debates that took place ea
[inaudible conversations] finish good afternoon. Welcome to the Cato Institute. Im roger pilon the director for constitutional studies and your host for this event. I want also to welcome our cspan audience and those of us those who are looking at the event on cato Live Streaming and later through the archives. Were here to discuss religious liberty as it may or may not be exercised in the context of the modern Business Corporation pursuant to both statutory and constitutional law. More immediately, were here also to mark the publication of a new book on that subject from palgrave religious liberties for corporations, and i note the title ends with a question mark. In the book our two main speakers today ilya shapiro and david gans provide a comprehensive analysis of thish shoes in burwell very can issues in burwell v. Hobby lobby in the blockbuster decision the Supreme Court rejected the obamacare regulation that proviewedded employersponsored Health Care Plans to provide which requir
History tv. 48 hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan 3. Follow us on twitter at cspan history for information on our schedule, upcoming programs and to keep up with the latest history news. Dealer rare map admitted in federal court to steeling almost one00 rare maps worth almost a Million Dollars. In this event, author Michael Blanding recounts smileys career as a dealer and thief and describes the historical significance of the maps he stole from several libraries and universities. This is about an hour. Thank you all so much for coming here this afternoon. Im particularly pleased to be giving this talk here at the national archives, such a wonderful repozztoir of old books and manuscripts, and in the reporting of this book i became a great lover of archives going to the institutions that smiley ended up taking rare maps out of. I got to see a lot of these old documents like myself and theres nothing like seeing an original document to be able to touch it wit
Today. Well have some sunshine at times, and some seasonable temperatures. But otherwise, cloudy, humid, showers and thunderstorms popping up, especially in the afternoon. So, ultimate doppler showing the thunderstorms are far to our north, far to the south at the moment. We have rain up in new york city, but nothing showing up really, we were watching the rain that just moved off shore down in maryland, eastern shore, and williamsport is dry for the moment, but as we keep an eye on the Little League wormed series, thunderstorms in the forecast for later on for them, as well. 86 degrees was yesterdays High Temperature, 85 is the average hi, 69 degrees where we are right now, southeasterly wind 6 miles an hour, gives us relative humidity of 84 , so it is pretty sticky out there. And 85 will be our high today. Got to watch out for scattered showers, thunderstorms this afternoon, specially if you are at the beach or at the pool. And then tonight, were down to 70 degrees, more clouds, more
Conditioned on this question the incoming secretary needs to have the courage to speak truth to power to congress, yes but also to his commander in chief. Half. Mr. Durbin mr. President . Speaking in morning business, i rise to express my support for the president s nominee dr. Ashton carter to serve as our nations 25th secretary of defense. A few words of thanks first for chuck hagel our former colleague in the senate who served as secretary of defense. Hes a friend. Hes had a long career in public service. Hes a veteran from vietnam and the people of nebraska rewarded him by asking him to represent them in the United States senate. As our nations first person 6 enlisted rank he had a unique ground level view on matters of war and peace and a strong, strong commitment to our troops. I thank chuck hagel for his service. Dr. Ashton carter has an impressive distinguished record of service as well in government. An advisor scholar. He has what it takes to be a great secretary of defense.