Wherever we are when the Ranking Member gets here, so she can make an opening statement. Good morning. I am pleased that we can hold this nomination hearing for three very wellqualified nominees to three important positions in our government. Noel francisco, nominated solicitor general. He will be the first ever asianamerican senateconfirmed solicitor general after confirmation. Steven engel, assistant attorney general for the office of Legal Counsel, an office that functions as Legal Advisor to executive Branch Agencies and the president. Makan delrahim, nominee to be assistant attorney general for antitrust division at doj. Immigrated to this country when he was 10 and if he confirmed, he will be the highestranking iranianamerican official in the department of justice. We all know makan because he was staff director for our friend sen. Hatch here, and his former staff director, he knows what it is like to sit on this side, and he is going to find out what it is like on the other side
Wherever we are when the Ranking Member gets here, so she can make an opening statement. Good morning. I am pleased that we can hold this nomination hearing for three very wellqualified nominees to three important positions in our government. Noel francisco, nominated solicitor general. He will be the first ever asianamerican senateconfirmed solicitor general after confirmation. Steven engel, assistant attorney general for the office of Legal Counsel, an office that functions as Legal Advisor to executive Branch Agencies and the president. Makan delrahim, nominee to be assistant attorney general for antitrust division at doj. Immigrated to this country when he was 10 and if he confirmed, he will be the highestranking iranianamerican official in the department of justice. We all know makan because he was staff director for our friend sen. Hatch here, and his former staff director, he knows what it is like to sit on this side, and he is going to find out what it is like on the other side
College of liberal arts and a good indications professor at the university of colorado denver, here to talk about title ix, one of the most discussed areas of sports in the last 20 years. What is title ix . Title ix is a very short law 37 words that requires gender equity occur in federally funded educational settings. Thats broader than just schools. It does require federal funding. What is its genesis . It stems out of the civil rights movement. In the 50s and 60s, the womens right grew and equal pay act shows up in 1963 and women expressed concern roles and women were not getting the same opportunities as their male counterparts. This is fairly traumatic fairly dramatic. The university of virginia did not accept women into any college except nursing and education until 1970. A lot of women thought that was unfair, so the idea was to stop gender discrimination in school. Ask how did that start . How did women and individuals and groups start using title ix . It started with the woman
Conceding to mike honda. He will go and serve another term in the house of representatives. Close race here. Losing by about four or five percentage points. Conceding to mike honda as you just heard right there. Now, lets go to controversy surrounding decision 2014. Weve learned an investigation is underway and it may be more than one investigation. Robert is live in san jose with more. All this because of a whistle blower. Reporter thats right. It looks as though the secretary of state will be joining a crowd of field of people looking for answers. They say the counting has already launched the investigation expressing concerned votes were lost due to problems with computers and the abrupt resignation of theics t manager. They invited the secretary of state and the public to investigate for themselves. Feel free to come in and ask about it and ask for any data you want to ensure that the normal process has been going on. And we have no evidence that there was any sabotage or any effor
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