Hello and welcome to the arterton foundation. I am andrew parks the assistant director. Thank you all for joining us today at the Louis Lehrman auditorium. I just want to take the opportunity to remind everyone watching inhouse to silence your cell phones. For anyone who is watching on line, you are broken to submit questions via email link speaker heritage. Org. Hosting todays program is Lindsey Burke. She researches and writes on federal and state education issues as a will skillman fellow at Heritage Foundation but she focuses on reducing and empowering families with School Choice. With that, Lindsey Burke. Thank you andrew and thanks to everyone for being here today and everyone watching on line as well. We are really excited to welcome vicki alger to heritage today to discuss her thorough and really interesting new book on the failures of federal intervention in education. She doesnt mince words at all. She wrote failure the federal miseducation of americas children and she argued
Youve never seen before, and we are going to protect it. You know in paris, which has the toughest gun laws of the world, the world, no tougher gun laws than paris, france. Tough. Guess what . 130 people dead, no bullets were going in the opposite direction. It was just boom, boom, boom. Same thing happened in california. 14 people, radicalized people, she probably radicalized him. They went in and killed 14 people that they worked with, supposedly that they liked. Its not going to happen anymore, folks. Its not going to happen. Were going to be smart. Were going to be vigilant. Were going to be the smart people. Were going to know what were doing. Were going to be proud of our country again. [cheers and applause] our military is depleted. Our military is exhausted. We dont replenish. We take, we dont replenish. We send the best equipment in the world over to wherever were sending it. We dont even know i dont even think we know where were sending it. And a bullet gets fired in the air,
No option to negotiate with another station of the same network because of the little individual fiefdoms that have been created by the broadcast networks. Host do you foresee a day when mctv is simply an isp . Guest boy, you know, im proud to say our Third Generation leadership is installed at mv tv now. My mvtv now. My daughter joined us a couple years ago. I think thats a problem shell have to deal with, but i dont think thatll happen probably during my end tenure or lifetime. Host bob gessner, matt polka of the american cable association, this has been the communicators on cspan. Guest thanks, peter. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Today the American Enterprise institute and the Markel Foundation host a discussion on expanding opportunities in the digital economy. Thats live at 1 30 p. M. Eastern. And the Senate Returns at 3 p. M. For general speeches, at 5 debate begins to com
Subcommittee hearing is two hours and 15 minutes. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the subcommittee on health and Human Services and education to discuss the fiscal year 2017 National Institutes of Health Budget request. We are looking forward to hearing the testimony of dr. Whoins and his colleagues will be brought in for questions along the way. I would like to publicly thank dr. Collins and the staff at the nih for hosting me and other subcommittee members for a briefing at a tour at the nih campus a few weeks ago. I hope it will become an annual trek. Withinleft nih appreciation of the exciting work your staff to every day to find ways to save lives. I am proud than last year this congress was able to increase nih funding by 2 billion a night in confident that through these efforts one day we will find cures for diseases like cancer and alzheimers. Fore disappointed is the proposed budget cut to the. Ih this year the proposal to divert one billion dollars of Biomedical Research
The most formidable people i have seen in my life have that balance. The ioc sports as the be all were involved in another part of their life the tunes you cannot out compete them. There is a way but when you build 16 million stadiums it is hard and not fair and to expect the kids to concentrate. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. Were kicking off a full day today with the new book, and president reagan talking about president interjects and present bush and the Science Behind but the whole the of civilrights and the relationship between the u. S. And israel in the American Space program. That is all, being applied today from boston for you can get the full schedule on line and follow us on twitter and facebook as well to give scheduled updates. Here is h. W. Brand from the 20th annual texas book festival live coverage on booktv from austin, texas. Good morning, good morning, and thank you so much for joining us at the 20th annual texas