Sometimes it seems nothing is happening on the senate floor. The action is going on elsewhere. Order in committee rooms, and senators offices and the offices of the Senate Leaders. But thats all preliminary. Sooner or later, everything has to come here. Here is where the final say, the final act takes place. Here is where the law is made. The United States senate has been legislating and carrying out its unique constitutional duties since 1789. The framers believed the senate should and could be the venue in which statesmen would lift america up to meet its unique challenges. We are still a work in progress in the United States senate. It is time for the United States senate started acting like a senate instead of kindergarten. If you think were emotional, wait until you see what happens if this bill fails. Reflecting the nations politics and made up of 100 members, two from each state, serving sixyear terms, this is how many have come to know the senate today. Democrats have been putt
Sometimes it seems nothing is happening on the senate floor. The action is going on elsewhere. Order. The senate has been carrying out its duties in 1789. The framers believed the senate should be the venue through which statesmen would lift america to meet its unique challenges. We are still a work in progress in the United States senate. We should act like a senate instead of a kindergarten. Wait until you see what happens with this bill. Made up of 100 members, two from each state, this is how many have come to know the senate today. Democrats have been putting up roadblocks one after another. It is not what the founders had in mind. There is a great deal of human affection around here. It is in private. You came to the wrong town at the wrong time. With a history of conflict and compromise, we will go inside the senate to tell its story. Its informal workings, we will learn about it as a legislative body. Following the footsteps of members in the core doors around the chamber, we w
Good afternoon. Good afternoon and welcome to the American Enterprise institute. I am a resident scholar and Financial Service organizer of todays event. This afternoon im pleased to host matthew to discuss his new biography one of the most influential politicians of his time in an architect of key legislation that shaped the American Financial system. Carter glass was born in 1858 in lynchburg virginia and grew up in the reconstruction south. The philosophy on the role of government was shaped by it the views of Thomas Jefferson a fellow virgin and born just 70 miles north of the virgin upon. From 1903 until the early 1940s, carter glass played a key role in every important financial legislative debate. His colleagues in the house and later in the senate, both the democrat and therefore can recognized glass is to go to expert when it cam comes to bang issues. Carter glass was a politician meaning he was an expert when it came to reading the political tea leaves and crafting compromise
This afternoon im pleased to host matthew to discuss his new biography one of the most influential politicians of his time in an architect of key legislation that shaped the American Financial system. Carter glass was born in 1858 in lynchburg virginia and grew up in the reconstruction south. The philosophy on the role of government was shaped by it the views of Thomas Jefferson a fellow virgin and born just 70 miles north of the virgin upon. From 1903 until the early 1940s, carter glass played a key role in every important financial legislative debate. His colleagues in the house and later in the senate, both the democrat and therefore can recognized glass is to go to expert when it cam comes to bang issues. Carter glass was a politician meaning he was an expert when it came to reading the political tea leaves and crafting compromises that could be passed into law. Never an ideologue is willing to empower the federal government is in his judgment, circumstances warranted. While not a
today s talk by matthew p fink is something i have been looking forward to because i like matt. i don t know anything about the subject. i will be learning with you today also. matt comes to us he is retired now. he spent the bulk of his career with the mutual fund association. he wrote what you described to me as a landmark on mutual funds. he followed it up with this book last year. carter glass and financial regulation. he has a few images to supplement his discourse and then he will take some questions. come on up. i had an interesting experience coming here today. i live in chevy chase, maryland. i called lyft and they came within a minute. i had barely put my tie on, and when i got in the car, i realized i had not put a belt on my trousers. i did not want to be standing here with my pants falling down, so one of my colleagues found a belt. you are safe from that at least. carter glass was a major figure in american history. i will talk for 20 or 25 minutes and the