To the National Constitution centers interactive constitution. A panel of academics on President Trumps use of executive power hosted by the Heritage Foundation. This is an hour. Good evening, everyone. Thank you very much for coming to the hosted event with the Heritage Foundation. We are just a year into the frum trump presidency. At the oneyear mark, you would think people professionally analyze politics and would have conducted competent evaluation of how the president has executed his constitutional goodies. Since the President Shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, there is much to discuss. Given that President Trump has taken away from the paths of his predecessors and given the boldness of many policies. Beside controversial boldness, in many ways, President Trump has also been a rather conventional republican president , rolling down regulation, dealing with the minister of state and appointing justices and trying work with congress on legislation. If you are lo
And we are pleased to have three members of the house today to talk about their report and here reactions from notable experts on the programs. But first, and perhaps most importantly, we are going to start outside of washington. And hear from experts in the field of helping lowincome americans moving up. They work in places far removed from the halls of congress about their work has informed some of the ideas contained in the steering committees report. I have a special affinity for these outside of washington experts, as that is where i worked prior to coming to washington. I spent 19 years working in social Service Agencies in the state and city of new york and i have some idea of the dedication, hard and wisdom of people who work in peace programs, and i always love to be among them. So im very pleased to welcome and introduce to you the first panel which features three 3 mef communitybased organizations. First will be owed l. Cleveland the Administrative Officer for the Baptist Ch
Death penalty and my name is dale. I teach law at georgetown and to run a Supreme Court practice. We are here to talk about the Death Penalty, where its going and i cant imagine a better group of panelists. Over here is the president of the Southern Center for human rights. You know in my mind the leading Death Penalty litigants in the country. And has been for a number of years traveling throughout the country to bring these cases. He had a big one in the Supreme Court or couple weeks ago ago which may be i will tell you a little bit about that hes been teaching at Yale Law School since 1993 which yesterday was significant because that was my first class on the Death Penalty which he taught and was just a marvelous in its rationale figure and its a delight to be here with him. Roy adams is the director of the center for effective justice of the texas Public Policy center. Mark does interesting work in the cause of the criminal Justice System and is making the case for a conservative c
We will have votes in a couple hours. We want to make sure we move quickly through this. Before i start, i want to acknowledge that our good friend and Ranking Member of the committee, frank palone is not with us because his father died. We keep his family in our prayers. I did not personally know his father, i know he raised a good son. So we thank him for that. We will continue on from there. Next, joined today also with my colleague who is wearing Denver Broncos orange. Congratulations for a super they must be a good team, because they beat the steelers. Now on with our hearing. Good more than, wer good morning. Were reminded those that seek to do us harm through a variety of harms, including biological attacks. The threats are growing and every changing. We are ill prepared to detect and respond to the threats as rapidly as needed. We have been caught flat footed too many times in the past. We face a deadly enemy we cannot see. Our methods to find it are inadequate. We may know kno
So the Vice President is the only person that can cut through that, talk to the private sector and simultaneously talk to state and local governments. And put all those pieces together. Hes also the only person that can demand a unified budget out of the omb and across the government. This was a bipartisan recommendation. It was a bipartisan recommendation. I have to tell you, i hesitated, as someone who sat in a government agency, a powerful government agency, i hesitate to transfer power to a Vice President or to the white house in general. As you know, cabinet agencies have a certain amount of tension with white houses. But at the end of the day, this is one of the areas where you need a unified budget. The only other place we have a unified budget is actually in intelligence. So this is a parallel to that, to pull all the pieces together. And its important enough to identify the Vice President. And Vice President s always have some time to take on other responsibilities. Thank you