I was Getting Started myself. Was the year around my First Campaign and i won. Now, there are 26 women in the United States senate. Youve allowed so many more n electedrun, wi office. Woman rr champions. They have the power to make a difference. I want to say thank you for getting this started. I am so appreciative of your vision. Thank you for starting an organization that brings women together. For making this country a better place. Stephanie, i am so grateful for your amazing leadership. You always have the ability to see what is possible. Thank you for your courage. We will make sure more women are at the table than ever before. Especially more women then color women of color are running for office and winning. When i see women who look like me become elected officials all over the United States of america in every corner of this country, you helped elect new, democratic, prochoice women to the United States congress. So much has been accomplished in these 35 years and so much mor
And thank you all for joining us this evening. For the conversation, the judicial nomination process. Whats the future . Or w. T. F. Im the director of Strategic Engagement at the American Constitution Society and i have the distinct privilege of working on the very relevant and dynamic topic of judicial nominations and amplifying the importance of the courts to the issues near and dear to all of us. Lena a. C. S. Believes that law should be a force to improve the lives of all people. A nonprofit and Nonpartisan Organization, a. C. S. Works for positive change by shaping debate on the vitally important legal and constitutional issues and we have networks of lawyers, law student, judges and policymakers all across the country dedicated to those ideas. I encourage to you visit our website, acslaw. Org, attend our events, and get involved in our local and student lawyer chapters all across the country. For those of you here in d. C. , please get in touch with our d. C. Lawyer chapter, man
Screeria nigeria. By the inauguration ceremony for colorado governor john hickenlooper. The u. S. Commission on civil rights hosted its series of panels examining the nations use of immigration detention facilities. Speakers included government officials discussing how the facilities are created and ultimately maintained. The Commission Also looked at the legal challenges that the Detention Centers pose as well as other methods that could be used for immigration enforcement. Going to call the meeting to order. Good morning, everyone. Welcome. Im charm marty castro of the u. S. Commission on civil rights. I really would like to welcome everyone with us today, those testifying, members of the audience as well as those joining us via audio link as well as First Time Ever Live Streaming by the commission of a hearing or briefing on one of our civil rights topics. This is an effort by us to make our work more transparent and open to the public. We hope to continue to grow how we use technol
We understand the problems and put forth the message that targets specifically not how we can help the economy but how we can help you and you and you. And we do it in a way that isnt divisive but unifying. How do we do this . Its actually pretty easy. Its actually pretty easy. First it starts with education. If you look at the 70 of americans who dont have a college education, have limited skills, we need to make sure that we have opportunities for people to get those skills. We also need to look at why people are failing in schools and not getting those basic skills to be able to survive. Why . Because we have a top down governmentrun Education System that is failing our children. [ applause ] we need less common core and more common sense if we want to make america a great and educated country. [ applause ] we whats the common sense . Talk to any teacher or administrator theyll tell you that the biggest key in determining the success of a child in school is the parents involvement w
Held the secretary, held with china in december, this was one of the issues of very much on the agenda, and weve made some progress in moving ahead on the application of antimonopoly law that we think should be applied to deal with issues of competition, not issues of industrial policy. So we are engaged with them as are our competition authorities and the ftc to work to encourage them to apply the law as its intended to be applied. I know these are tough areas. Canadas creation of a heightened standard for patentability, for pharmaceutical patents is a serious problem for our u. S. Innovators. This standard to obtain and enforce patent rights in canada. Also inconsistent with the World Trade Organization and under the nafta. We have raised this concern directly and repeatedly with the canadian authorities. That issue is now being litigated, and i believe the canadian authorities are looking to see how it proceeds in litigation as we continue that dialogue with them. Ambassador, from o