I will explain to you how that happens. And much of the research was done at library of congress, which is sponsoring todays event. It is a wonderful institution. A beautiful building, they are such Important Research materials there, and it is all available free. Public Access Library are really one of the things that make our nation great. [applause] and i am very grateful to the library of congress for being here and for continuing to give us such wonderful material. Now, this is a self selecting crowd. I know some of you already know who Frances Perkins is, but a lot of people dont. So lets start by asking this question. How many of you know who Frances Perkins is . All, yes. This is great. Good, good. How many of you know someone on Social Security . Please raise your hand. How many of you know someone who is receiving Unemployment Insurance or who has ever received Unemployment Compensation . Okay, Frances Perkins worked there, and we know so who is working a 40 hour week, genera
Supreme Court Nominee judge amy coney barrett. Good afternoon. Good morning. Welcome to the virtual Cato Institute. Im the director of Robert E Lee Center for constitutional studies and author of the new book, supreme disorder judicial nominations and politics of americas highest court and related to that, im glad everyone taking a break from the barrett confirmation hearings this morning. If you didnt watch, i envy you. There was nothing new, republicans and democrats placed their assigned roles but we are not here to talk about that. We are talking about something more interesting, the Roberts Court. More than any other Supreme Court justice in recent history, john roberts has played a defining role in shaping our free speech block. Hes been more than twice as many majority opinions in this area than any of his colleagues and there is a certain result in 95 of the greek expression cases decided in his tenure, hes been in the majority. Hes taken the lead of nearly 80 of the time so th
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Because the entire book and the life of Francis Perkins were in the streets around this building and ill explain to you how that happened, and much of the research was done at the library of congress which is sponsoring todays, vents. Its a wonderful institution. The beautiful buildings. Theres such Important Research materials there and it is all available free and these Public Access libraries are really one of the things that make our nation great, and im very grateful to the library of congress for being here and for continuing to give us such wonderful material. Now, this is a selfselecting crowd. I know some of you already know who Francis Perkins is, but a lot of people dont, so lets start by asking this question. How many of you know who Francis Perkins is . Oh, yes. This is great. Good, good, good. How about this . How many of you know someone on Social Security . Please raise your hand. How many of you know someone who is receiving Unemployment Insurance or who has ever recei
The league of women voters are proud to present this president ial debate, our moderator is howard smith. Thank you. The league of women voters is pleased to welcome to the cleveland, Ohio Convention Center Musical president jimmy carter, the Democratic Partys candidate for reelection to the presidency, and governor Ronald Reagan of california, the Republican Partys candidate for the presidency. The candidates will debate questions on Foreign Policy and National Security issues. The questions will be posed by a panel of distinguished journalists are marvin stone, the editor of u. S. News world report. Harold ellis. Hilliard, assistant managing editor of the portland oregonian. Correspondents, from abc news. The ground rules for this as agree to you gentlemen are these each panelist will ask a question, the same question to each of the two candidates. After the two candidates have answered, a panelist will ask followup questions to try to sharpen the answers print candidates will have a