Human services. The Health Committee holds a courtesy hearing on the nomination of the secretary, the finance committee receives paperwork, it will vote on the nomination. Senator murray and i will have an Opening Statement and former secretary and former governor of utah Michael Leavitt who we welcome today, good to see you and have you back and senator young who is a member of this committee will introduce alex azar after his testimony then senators will each have five minutes of questions. We have a lot going on in the senate today but we have a good turnout so i anticipate a good, vigorous questioning period. Alex azar, if confirmed will be did the of health and Human Services, you will be running 1. 11 trillion organization, that almost equals the total of 12 Appropriations Bills Congress Passes each year to Fund Everything from National Parks to National Defense to national laboratories. You will be overseeing medicare and medicaid, the nations government run Insurance Programs f
The National Battlefield park. He has published a number of articles and reviews on various history topics. One of his primary interests as chief historian and as superintendent at mannasas was leading the emphasis on expanding the interpretation of the civil war for assessment. Dr. Sutton is currently serving as a consultant to the American Battle monuments commission, assisting Commission Staff in developing interpretive programs to commemorate the centennial of world war i, and hes currently working on a book on world war i aimed at middle school children. Dr. Sutton has continued teaching, he teaches courses in the Johns Hopkins program on the Senior Adult Program on civil war in the american west. He will be the resident historian for viking Ocean Cruises as well. Dr. Sutton also has written a book on the civil war era in kansas published by sky horse publishing in august 2017, and he and his son lee are editing an autobiography written by his father and lees grandfather. With tha
Abolitionists immigrated to kansas and their efforts to make kansas a free state and their impact on the civil war. Good morning, everyone and welcome to the watkins. Its my distinct pleasure and honor to welcome our keynote speaker today. Mr. Robert k. Sutton. Mr. Sutton retired as chief historian of the National Park service in 2016, after serving in the position for nearly nine years. He came here after being superintendent of the manassas state park for 12 useful years and published articles and reviews on various history topics. One of his primary interests as chief historian and superintendent at manassas was heeding the emphasis on expanding the interpretation of the civil war for the centennial. He is assisting Commission Staff in developing interpretive programs to commemorate the centennial of world war i and currently working on a book on world war i aimed at middle school children. He has continued teaching and teaches courses in the john hopkins Senior Adult Program on the
Up next on American History tv, former National Park chief historian, robert sutton, explained why new england abolitionists immigrated to kansas and their efforts to make kansas a free state and their impact on the civil war. Good morning, everyone and welcome to the watkins. Its my distinct pleasure and honor to welcome our keynote speaker today. Mr. Robert k. Sutton. Mr. Sutton retired as chief historian of the National Park service in 2016, after serving in the position for nearly nine years. He came here after being superintendent of the manassas state park for 12 useful years and published articles and reviews on various history topics. One of his primary interests as chief historian and superintendent at manassas was heeding the emphasis on expanding the interpretation of the civil war for the centennial. He is assisting Commission Staff in developing interpretive programs to commemorate the centennial of world war i and currently working on a book on world war i aimed at middle
And published articles and reviews on various history topics. One of his primary interests as chief historian and superintendent at manassas was heeding the emphasis on expanding the interpretation of the civil war for the centennial. He is assisting Commission Staff in developing interpretive programs to commemorate the centennial of world war i and currently working on a book on world war i aimed at middle school children. He has continued teaching and teaches courses in the john hopkins Senior Adult Program on the world west and will be on the viking Ocean Cruises as well. He has written a book published by sky horse publishing in august, 2017. Ers he and his son, lee, are editing an autobiography written by his father and lees grandfather. With that, i would like to introduce mr. Robert k. Sutton. Good morning. Good morning. I cant tell you how excited i am to be here. This is i mean im sitting here with goosebumps while im hearing the names of the victims of quantrels raid and you