Books on how taxpayers dollars are spent and the need for government transparency. Veterans affairs we audited their checkbook for the last four years. Last summer we found during a period where up to 1,000 sick veterans died while waiting to see a doctor that the va spent 20 million on a highend art portfolio. It was 27foot christmas trees, priced like cars, 21,000. It was sculptures priced like fivebedroom homes. It was two sculptures for 700,000 procured by a va center that serves blind veterans. It was a cubed rock skel p tour all in with landscaping for 1. 2 million. This is the type of waste thats in our government sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. On lectures in history, Emory University professor Felix Harcourt teaches a class on how conspiracy theories about ufos shaped american culture. He begins in the late 1940s and describes how Public Opinion about extra terrestrials changed over time. This class is about one hour and 50 minutes. Lets start with a question im su
Today nomination hearing. This is the tenth nomination hearing the committee has held this year. I want to take a minute to thank Ranking Member and her staff for working diligently. With my staff. And this senator to process these nominees. Filling judicial vacancies, and executive appointments is an important part of committee responsibility. And i know that all members of the committee take this responsibility seriously. Today, well hear from two panels. First well hear from the nominees to the Circuit Court. Noter dame law professor. And Michigan Supreme Court justice. Our second panel will hear from eric. To be head of the Civil Rights Division. And the department of justice will also hear from two nominees to the District Court judges in tennessee. I understand that theres some concern with having two Circuit Court nominees on a hearing agenda. So i thought id explain this. Because its unusual. When the majority leader extended the Senate Schedule in to august. We scheduled a nom
We appreciate everybody being here. I turned it on. Especially welcome the nominees and their families. Today nomination hearing. This is the tenth nomination hearing the committee has held this year. I want to take a minute to thank Ranking Member and her staff for working diligently. With my staff. And this senator to process these nominees. Filling judicial vacancies, and executive appointments is an important part of committee responsibility. And i know that all members of the committee take this responsibility seriously. Today, well hear from two panels. First well hear from the nominees to the Circuit Court. Noter dame law professor. And Michigan Supreme Court justice. Our second panel will hear from eric. To be head of the Civil Rights Division. And the department of justice will also hear from two nominees to the District Court judges in tennessee. I understand that theres some concern with having two Circuit Court nominees on a hearing agenda. So i thought id explain this. Bec
Speaker marjorie j. Spruill an authority on the womens right movement. She is a professor of history and the awe thursday of the new women of the new south. She edited one woman one vote, rediscovering the suffrage moment. Which in fact, the New York Historical society will be screening on august 15th as a part of our centennial summer celebration. Professor spruill has served as an advise r for many museum exhibtions, documentaries and films. She is a former president of the Southern Association for womens hoist attorney. Her new book is divided we stand, dividing of women rights. Ladies and gentlemen, professor marjorie spruill. Well, this is an amazing venue i must say. It is so wonderful to be here. This is such a great tradition that this institution, these pair institutions has to get book lovers out here on these nice warm Summer Nights together with authors and talk about books, im pleased and honored to be a part of it and have a chance to talk with you about my new book. Divi
Speaker marjorie j. Spruill an authority on the womens right movement. She is a professor of history and the awe thursday of the new women of the new south. She edited one woman one vote, rediscovering the suffrage moment. Which in fact, the New York Historical society will be screening on august 15th as a part of our centennial summer celebration. Professor spruill has served as an advise r for many museum exhibtions, documentaries and films. She is a former president of the Southern Association for womens hoist attorney. Her new book is divided we stand, dividing of women rights. Ladies and gentlemen, professor marjorie spruill. Well, this is an amazing venue i must say. It is so wonderful to be here. This is such a great tradition that this institution, these pair institutions has to get book lovers out here on these nice warm Summer Nights together with authors and talk about books, im pleased and honored to be a part of it and have a chance to talk with you about my new book. Divi