Conference quick welcome to new perspectives and sources, this is a panel to devoted to understanding a horrific series events that started just over id years ago where African Americans were hunted down by an raged crowd of whites in arkansas, i want to recognize the work lancaster did in helping to organize this panel, in unfortunately he had to change his plans to join us, and participate all three of our scholars, here on this panel are contributors to a book edited, we are shamelessly plugging that right here, the elaine mascara in arkansas, a century of atrocity and resistance, 1819 to 1919, full disclosure i read it to, this is not about me, i want to introduced all three of our panelists first, though each present for about 20 to 25 minutes, and after that i will spend just a few minutes offering some thoughts, designed to generate discussion and then we will enjoy a question, answer i will get out of the, way we will go in the order of the Program First matthew hills who, is a
very few times that we see a whole lot of good that comes out other chamber in the capitol. this is one of the rare moments, this, i would e actually encourage support of it. g.a.o., since e 003, we ve had $1.5 trillion, that s trillion with a t, in improper payments. year 2018 alone, federal agencies estimated there $151 billion in improper payments. knows that probably oftentimes we have had in versight committee annual payments andproper consistently we re talking about hundreds of billions of dollars that are sent to not only the but in terms they re payments not even accounted for. after you get hundreds of billions year after year, eventually that adds up to real money and it s time that we ddress , this is a commonsense piece of legislation so hopefully we can start addressing the sad state of where we are in addressing improper payments. the american taxpayers demand it, the american taxpayers deserve it, and ultimately, we have a responsibility to address it and so
Of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, yi end end visible, with liberty and justice for all. I want you to know im here because i work for you. Yay [ applause ] and im not here to lecture at you. My hope is that we all learn something from each other tonight. Theres some other people who work for you that i want to introduce to you. Theyre all people who work in the district, in the, in pennsylvania, in the 17th Congressional District. And i want you to get to know who they are a little bit, in case you ever need to call upon them for help. Starting with my district director, mr. Bob morgan. [ applause ] now bob is also an Economic Development specialist. And when i first learned about what it is to be a member of congress, i learned that there are no more earmarks, and well talk about that in a little bit, but what that means is you need Economic Development specialists to help local municipal
Impact elections in the u. S. And abroad. This is 90 minutes. Well, thank you, brad, for the kind introduction and let me start by thanking my friend Robbie George and his James Madison program on american ideals and institutions and bringing me to princeton its my first time here at this beautiful campus. I want to start with a personal story about my birthday. I happen to have been born on february 1st, 1985. But the february 1st is the point of interest here because on the persian calendar, i was born and raised in tehran, iran, on the persian calendar its the date on the Ayatollah Khomeini returned to tehran from his exile to herald the Islamic Revolution and founded the republic that took over after the shah was toppled. All of our relatives and friends would ask me, remind me what was your birthday and i would say february 1st. And they would always say because you brought the stench of the imam, which is terrible but its true. Why do i say that . None of my relatives were opposi
Of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, yi end end visible, with liberty and justice for all. I want you to know im here because i work for you. Yay [ applause ] and im not here to lecture at you. My hope is that we all learn something from each other tonight. Theres some other people who work for you that i want to introduce to you. Theyre all people who work in the district, in the, in pennsylvania, in the 17th Congressional District. And i want you to get to know who they are a little bit, in case you ever need to call upon them for help. Starting with my district director, mr. Bob morgan. [ applause ] now bob is also an Economic Development specialist. And when i first learned about what it is to be a member of congress, i learned that there are no more earmarks, and well talk about that in a little bit, but what that means is you need Economic Development specialists to help local municipal