Tour takes you to amarillo, texas. The treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin testified to congress. Theielded questions about 4. 8 trillion proposal and Economic Growth and the impact of the jobs act signed into law december, 2017. [camera shutters] sen. Grassley we are pleased to have treasury secretary mnuchin, here today testifying about the president s fiscal year 20202021 budget, the president s budget includes proposals to confront a number of important issues, i want to work with the president , the secretary, and others in congress, to address these and other pressing issues, within our committees jurisdiction. Drug pricing, and employer pension crisis are two such issues that must be dealt with, this Budget Proposal comes at a time when the economy is very strong, especially for working families. Better trade deals, less regulations, lower taxes from tax reform, we have translated into wage increases. Especially for lower wage earners. And historically tight labor market. Over six
Center fofof American Progress,d welcome you no civil rights and prayer breakfast. We know that the event is at capacity, so if you want to enjoy breakfast, please gather outside or stand along the wall. First, to open up the program, i want to welcome the fearless and the strong and the brave champion who has been chairing the Congressional Hispanic Caucus who represents texas and has been a steadfast champion of the immigrants whether they are dreamers, Asylum Seekers and you can find him in the recess breaks at the border, and today, he is going to be joining Daca Recipients in the court as well, so i want everyone to give a round ap of applause for congressman Joaquin Castro. Thank you. Good morning, everybody. I want to thank you all for being here on what is a momentus occasion as we stand in support of the Daca Recipients across the nation. Of course, im Joaquin Castro and i represent the great city of san antonio in the United States congress, and i wanted to thank and recogniz
Magna cum laude from rice university, masters degree from cambridge. Both of the people we had last week, although he did not take any courses from them. Joseph helped the briefing for the Landmark Supreme Court district of columbia versus. Eller in 2008 the district of columbia fire control regulation act of 1975 required, among other things, that all firearms be kept unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock. It also restricted those owning handguns except to the law. In a 54 decision the Supreme Court said it protects an individuals right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia. And to use that arm for traditionally normal purposes such as selfdefense within a home. Unfortunately, joseph was on the wrong side of that decision. Our second speaker is aaron murphy erin murphy. Aaron murphy is a partner and litigator with washington, d. C. Law Firm Kirkland and ellis. She earned a ba degree from northwestern and a jd degree laude from georgetown. She has cl
Cases currently addressing the issues. This is an hour and 20 minutes. [ applause ] so ladies and gentlemen, lets get to the heart of the matter. Are you ready . Over the last ten years, the right to vote African Americans who have been under pernicious, intentional, deliberate, orchestrated and clever. Theres been no period since the 1965 Voting Rights act has passed that these efforts have been so sustained. I like to think the attack is coming from three main fronts or what i like to call the terrible trio. The first member of the trio is the United States Supreme Court. Which in 2013, the year of the 50th anniversary of the march on washington in a poorly in an inexplicable decision that i predict will go down like dread and plessy as low moments in the history of american jurisprudence. Nokt out an important provision of the Voting Rights act. That provision required Southern States to gain Justice Department approval before they change their voting laws. What has happened since t
Highlight some of the recent actions hes taken for i get it off to a housing champion with us weve been dealing with a number of changes related to our Housing Element and hes pushed back almost every turn. Weve had legislation up here such as a recent fire Code Amendment by supervisor chan and if a champion that will make that hard to build homes in january and the City Attorney to look at whether or not we are unfairly targeted in San Francisco and making the same statement that senator wiener said recent actions and well list get back to those with we have champions on the board of supervisors looking at for us gracious enough to join us supervisor dorsey to get the Housing Element in place im sorry to bring him all 2340u9 to say a few words. Thank you a supervisor clapping. thank you, jan to a member of the board of supervisors im not sure there Small Business more of us itch of my career clapping. the two years in the Police Department that gets the holiness but talk about the 14