After a lot of soul searching this congressional interview available on our website cspan. Org. We will interrupt it for live coverage of Calista Gingrich for ambassador to the vatican. Mrs. Calistal. Gingrich is the president s nominee to be ambassador to the vatican. Mr. George edward glass is the nominee to be the u. S. Ambassador to portugal. And carl c. Rich to be secretary of state for counselor affairs. I want to congratulate the nominees and thank you for your willingness to serve. We have congressman rooney here supporting mrs. Gingrich. Congressman rooney was the ambassador to the holy sea during president bushs term. The senior senator from oregon, ron widen and an esteemed member of this committee, senator portman from ohio. Mr. Chairman, thank you for your courtesy. As senator portman knows, we are right in the middle of debating tax reform, i know a topic of great interest to many senators here. Im trying to help out chairman hatch. I will make this a filibuster free oppo
Judge kennedy in an of itself is a superb candidate for united stes Supreme Court. In comparison to do not this gentleman justice. He has a deep compassion for the law, as many of you know your keys highly intelligent of his academic record. We can discern that come and his experience, 12 years on the Appellate Court in california and in the western area demonstrates a level that very few nominees to the Supreme Court demonstrate. Obviously, judge kennedy is a conservative, and here represented are here as democrats. We support him because of our personal knowledge of judge kennedy. I look back in Sacramento County where he grew up and where i grew up, and i can talk to the 1 Million People in Sacramento County, and that one of them would have anything negative to say about this candidate. One individual when asked by a reporter what they thought of him said, they noticed a lack of an observable ego. Judge kennedy is a man of humility, a man of compassion. Hes an individual that really
Hour and 20 minutes. [applause] thank you very much. Can you times you guys hear me . It is on. Good morning and thank you for joining us inside this airless windowless room on this beautiful saturday morning. We are here to talk about the presidency, scope and limits of executive power a hallmark recurring defining issue of the 21st century for two presidency so far. We are going to move along because we have an excellent panel and im sure all of you are deeply familiar with this topic already. The 10,000foot reminder is that president bush came into office with a very powerful Vice President whose experience as chief of times of staff in the four demonstrations after watergate and vietnam and during the Church Committee had marked him as a strong opponent of executive power and critic of congressional regulation and he used that position of influence in the crisis of the september 11 era to advance, establish precedence as commanderinchief in wartime cannot be bound by the Internatio
Harassment. Congressman Jason Chaffetz chairs this two hour long meeting. Good morning, the Committee Comes to order and without objection the chair is authorized to call recess. We will have hearing about the National Park service. 2016 represents the hundred year since the park service was founded. We find an agency in crisis. We have good, hard working people who do good service for this nation. They serve the public as attending the parks at record numbers but we are having problems. We should be working to increase visitation and providing recreational opportunities to the American People. The mission of the National Park service to is honor the values for this generation and future generations. But that doesnt work when you have multiple cases of longstanding employee misconduct that is distracting the agency from the mission. There is no doubt when you hire tense of thousands of people there is going to be bad apples. They will cause disruption and heartache to a lot of people i
We thought you take this opportunity to be in prime time this week. Were focusing on books related to the Supreme Court. It began its fall session monday october 5th and here are the books we will be showing you tonight. We will begin with Erwin Chemerinsky who has written a book called the case agaist the Supreme Court. After that in the biography on thurgood marshall. And a new book out called sisters is lot about the first to women to serve on the Supreme Court and their relationship. Finally we will visit with the Justice Stephen breyer whose book is out about international what. Would Dash International law. First is Erwin Chemerinsky ti if and the case agaist the Supreme Court from thethinks hl tucson book festival last march. Sure it is actually off. With that i am very pleased to introduce the founding dean of the university of California School of law which the six short years as one of the finest law schools in the country. A prolific scholar a legendary teacher of constituti