Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the White House Historical association and our 2023 symposium, the white house in Popular Culture hosted by the association and good friends, our partners, the john w klug center at the library of congress. My name is stewart mclaurin, and i have the privilege of being the president of the White House Historical association. And i see many familiar friends and faces here today and, of course, those who are joining us by cspan and through our own digital coverage. Its great to have all of you joining us here today as well. I want to recognize three of my colleagues who have been involved and on point for this many here at the association and have played a role in making today happen in these annual symposiums, which theyre actually a year long effort to put together. We start with a colloquium of scholars in the fall and focus on a topic or a subject with our partner in this case, the clergy center. And then that evolves over the course of the year
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the White House Historical association and our 2023 symposium, the white house in Popular Culture hosted by the association and good friends, our partners, the john w klug center at the library of congress. My name is stewart mclaurin, and i have the privilege of being the president of the White House Historical association. And i see many familiar friends and faces here today and, of course, those who are joining us by cspan and through our own digital coverage. Its great to have all of you joining us here today as well. I want to recognize three of my colleagues who have been involved and on point for this many here at the association and have played a role in making today happen in these annual symposiums, which theyre actually a year long effort to put together. We start with a colloquium of scholars in the fall and focus on a topic or a subject with our partner in this case, the clergy center. And then that evolves over the course of the year
1954 and the entire time they faced resistance from religious leaders, Civic Leaders official leaders and never back down and kept punishing. One of the analogy former force member she said i always felt like we were those guys in sun dance kid at the end when butch and sun dance were followed and lose these guys and the people that are tracking them stay up behind theming and use techniques to lose them and bush cast city say who are these guys . That was the response many people are in omaha who are these guys what do they want and why are they here . That was a great question because if to you look to any state, that wowrve is the response but it wasnt another one of the groups because there wasnt another group like that. One with of of the most pornt parts is it was such a pioneering effort in such an unlikely place. For more information on cities visited by our local content vehicles go to cspan. Org local content. Beth shapiro is next on book tv her book how to clone a mammoth ta
Vote vote vote the presiding officer is there anyone wishing to change their vote . Is there anyone remaining to vote . On this motion the yeas are 87. The nays are 9. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report. The clerk nomination, department of transportation, derek kan of california to be under secretary fo secretary of transportation for policy. A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune madam president , i rise to voice my strong support for the nomination of derek kan. The Commerce Committee held a hearing on his nomination on june 8 in 2017 and reported his nomination favorably out of the committee on june 29 of 2017 by voice vote. Its now november 9. Over four months since the nomination was reported out of committee. This noncontroversial well qualified nominee has been languishing in the senate for far too long. Its truly unfortunate, madam president , when we have to go through the cloture process on this particular nomine
2017 Arms Control Association annual meeting. Im daryl kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, and as most of you know we are an independent nonpartisan Membership Organization established in 19 said one and we are dedicated to reducing and eliminating the threats posed by the worlds most dangerous weapons which would of course be nuclear, chemical, biological weapons as well as certain conventional weapons that pose particular harm in risk to civilians. You can find more about the Arms Control Association, its history, its ongoing work and to get more information also about these issues through website, armscontrol. Org and you can follow us on twitter at arms control now. The latest issue of our journal arms control today just went online so you can check that out there. You can also check out our resources on our arms control out which is simply arms control on all of the app stores. We are very pleased to see so many of you here today, members, friends, colleag