My name is matt schera, director of under graduate ppe program. Its honored to be the host of Roger Wilkins lectures. So whats the connection between our pbe program and these lectures . Im glad you asked. As director, i spend a fair amount of time explaining what it is and what makes Masons Program unique i can go on. Really, i can go on. But today im going to go straight to the bottom line. It exists to serve highly motivated students who want to help create Better Solutions for the difficult and pressing problems that arise in the public life of a complex society. The problems that arise and persist in what Roger Wilkins, in the first chapter of his autobiography, had called with immense understatement, complicated times, such as our own today. Approximate. Pe offers an opportunity for students to build meaningful careers in civil service, journalism, business and the law and other socially engaged fields and endeavor. In this regard its my hope that generations of students will set
House speaker ryan held a briefing with reporters earlier today. He was joined by other Republican Leaders as they expressed their support for President Trumps executive order on refugees and immigrants and then discussed g. O. P. Efforts to repeal and replace the health care law. Its 15 minutes. Mr. Ryan good morning, everybody. This week in the house, were making important progress on two fronts. First, our committees are set to begin holding legislative hearings on bills to deliver relief for americans struggling under obamacare. This is the next step in a step by step approach to repealing and replacing obamacare with affordable, patientcentered system. We know that this law is collapsing. We hear it from every we hear it every day from our constituents. We hear it from the families who tell us deductibles are so high it doesnt feel like they have insurance. We hear it from people who have been denied choices. We need to step in and restore real choices and real competition so we c
[ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] [ applause ] all right thank you. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] as speaker of the house delegates and president of the joint assembly, its my pleasure to present to you his excellency, the governor of the commonwealth, the honorable terrence r. Mcauliffe. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. Thank you. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. Speaker, leader norman, ladies and gentlemen of the virginia General Assembly, thank you for invoiting me to speak with you this evening. And to the people of virginia, who are with us tonight or who are watching from home, thank you for the honor of serving as this commonwealths 72nd governor. [ cheers and applause ] we are joined here this evening by our great lieutenant governor, ralph northam. [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ] and our great attorney general, mark herring. [ cheers and applause ] these two virginia leaders have been great partners as we work to build a stronger, more
[ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] [ applause ] all right thank you. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] as speaker of the house delegates and president of the joint assembly, its my pleasure to present to you his excellency, the governor of the commonwealth, the honorable terrence r. Mcauliffe. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. Thank you. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. Speaker, leader norman, ladies and gentlemen of the virginia General Assembly, thank you for invoiting me to speak with you this evening. And to the people of virginia, who are with us tonight or who are watching from home, thank you for the honor of serving as this commonwealths 72nd governor. [ cheers and applause ] we are joined here this evening by our great lieutenant governor, ralph northam. [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ] and our great attorney general, mark herring. [ cheers and applause ] these two virginia leaders have been great partners as we work to build a stronger, more
Muslims and arabs from muslim majority countries from entering the u. S. Betsy devos nomination to be education second advanced today. Very early this morning in the senate with a party line 5248 vote to move to a final confirmation vote set for early next week. Two republican senators, Susan Collins and lisa murkowski, have announced they will vote against confirmation, although both voted today to move ahead with the nomination. Live coverage on cspan2 of next weeks senate action. This weekend, on American History tv on cspan3, saturday evening at 6 00 eastern, on the civil war, author and historian Harold Holzer on abraham lincolns view on immigration and his efforts to court the german american vote early in his career. One in ten immigrants, one in ten, joined the Union Military as soon as they arrived. By lincolns optimistic calculation, the result with black enlistment factored in and even with the dead, wounded, captured and missing subtracted was a net gain for the military an