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
So i was kind of about to say we save the best for last, but i was afraid i would get insulted by all the excellent presentations weve had before and i was tempted to say that neither congressman needs an introduction, but ive been haunted by something said once that said now barny frank who needs no introduction, his response was just once id like to hear that introduction that people dont think i need. The congresswoman comes from a strong line of politicians. Her mom was an alder woman in new haven and is in 103 years old. She is a member of 62 different house caucuses. You cant possibly go to 62 house caucus meetings. No. Good. Tom reed who comes from new york has been in Congress Since i forgot. 2010. Somewhat less service than rosa delora. Before he came to washington, he was the mayor of new york, which is relevant because weve had a lot of conversations today about their relationship between the federal, state and local governments and he is the youngest of 12 children. So i fi
[applause] good morning and welcome to the center for American Progress. My name is carla martin. Im the the Vice President for policy. It is my honor to welcome to this exciting event. Our lineup today is a real testament to the importance of this issue to this administration and to president obama. Nearly one in three americans has some type of criminal record that creates barriers to employment, housing and many other pathways to opportunity. Some americans with criminal records are even barred from casting a ballot which denies the right to participate in our democracy after they have paid their debt to our society. The impact of these barriers goes beyond those previous convicted of a crime. Criminal records are a family sentence. In fact, they have found that nearly half americans children now have a parent with a criminal record. Study after study has shown that the barriers associated with the parents criminal record can severely limit the childs opportunities and lead to worse
Police to gather things like location, information or serial numbers of not just a specific targets phone all target phones, but all those in the area. I can think of one particularly gruesome homicide we had a couple of years ago where while the case was resolved by itself our information, that was basically broke the case. We would have never found the suspect but for the historic selfdoubt information. Watch tonight at eight eastern on cspan2. Booktv is live beginning at 7 p. M. Eastern at politics prose bookstore in washington for race in america, a Panel Discussion with authors and educators about Race Relations examining the relationship between police and the africanamerican community. For campaign 2016 cspan continues on the road to the white house. We need serious leadership. This is not a reality tv show. Its as real as it gets. We will make America Great again. Ahead, live coverage of the debates on cspan, cspan radio app, cspan. Org. Monday september 26 is the first preside
Assistant secretary in the department of Homeland Security for border immigration and trade policy. Were also supposed to be joined by tom bush, but he had a illness that came up this morning, so was unable to join us. Well proceed with these three fine panelists for discussion of terror travel related issues and what we can be doing to prevent terrorists from exploiting the travel system in support of their objectives to carry out attacks in the United States, over seas and our allies which is a key element of their efforts in term in pursuit of carrying out attacks. You know well have a moderated discussion. Ill jump right in and put the first question to seth. If you look at the, you know, current terrorism of threat that we have with isis, very diffuse threat, with al qaeda, a variety of other groups, its very different than the threat that existed when many of the u. S. Government programs to prevent and disrupt terrorist travel were created 15 years ago, 10 years ago. So you have