You may have noticed this event originally called for our speaker bill fowler to be here. He is my predecessor at the Historical Society, which many of you already know. He is a distinguished repressor of history at northeastern professor of history at northeastern. We realized that such a fundamental story of the irish in boston would benefit from additional perspectives. He suggested, i will give him credit, this conversation would have more depth if we invited others, leading subject experts on the irish famine in the american response. We are pleased bill is joined tonight by catherine shannon, the guest historian of exhibition at westfield state university. We have christine can nearly, author and founding director of irelands Great Hunger Institute at quinnipiac university. Please welcome me in joining join me in welcoming, bill, christine, and kathleen. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you to all of your staff and trustees for hosting this exhibit. Louder. Louder, ok. Close
Won the election in november of 2014 and when i arrived i realized that i was learning the details of how this town is as opposed to having a general feeling of the fact that it was dysfunctional. As i wrote in more detail about it was important the American People know the details so they can take action so they can help fix the problem. Its not going to get fixed by people inside d. C. Working on the problem. Scott to have america involved in helping so i decided to write a book about it. Host we are going to get into the problems and the solutions that i do want to share with viewers a bit of your history. You have a career became you came to washington. You have been a federal prosecutor and you ran successfully for the senate in 2010 and decided to run again in 2014. Tell us about yourself and your district. Guest i actually started out of law school with cheney who is a congressman from wyoming if they time on the irancontra investigation here in d. C. So that dates me a little b
Won the election in november of 2014 and when i arrived i realized that i was learning the details of how this town is as opposed to having a general feeling of the fact that it was dysfunctional. As i wrote in more detail about it was important the American People know the details so they can take action so they can help fix the problem. Its not going to get fixed by people inside d. C. Working on the problem. Scott to have america involved in helping so i decided to write a book about it. Host we are going to get into the problems and the solutions that i do want to share with viewers a bit of your history. You have a career became you came to washington. You have been a federal prosecutor and you ran successfully for the senate in 2010 and decided to run again in 2014. Tell us about yourself and your district. Guest i actually started out of law school with cheney who is a congressman from wyoming if they time on the irancontra investigation here in d. C. So that dates me a little b
Committee will come to order. Mr. Debty attorney general, welcome to the commerce justice and science appropriations subcommittee which we will be hearing in department of justice fiscal year 2018 budget request. Im pleased to welcome you here to your first hearing before this subcommittee and im grateful that you and attorney general sessions have brought new desperately needed leadership to the doj. Youre input is helpful and necessary as we review the present Spending Priorities in order to ensure the countrys National Security and Law Enforcement needs are funded appropriately and sufficiently. This is a challenge in budget climates as you know. As Violent Crime has risen, the president proposes to decrease funding to the department of justice by 637 million in 18 for a new total of 28. 3 billion. Since the start of the new administration and during the early days of your tenure as the Deputy Attorney general im pleased that the department is refocusing on these core mission of enf
General rob rosenstein, there he is on the screen, testifying about the Justice Departments budget request for fiscal year 2018. Much of the questioning has been on the investigation into russian meddling in the u. S. Election and whether President Trump has been an impediment in that investigation. E join it in progress. Mr. Rosenstein i think o. M. B. Would be the right agency to answer that question. Mr. Senator lankford i hope to work on that. Rather than go back to treasury, as we solve that issue, that budget gimmick goes away. Ill follow up on a question for the record to private prisons that i know youre trying to reengage and well follow up. Thank you. Chairman shelby senator coons. Senator coons thank you, mr. Chairman. Deputy attorney general rosenstein thank you for being ere. You are here because attorney general sessions abruptly canceled his commitment to appear before this committee it is the attorney generals job to be here today. The fact he has again chosen to skip t