Okay. I guess we have a break. We can get going. Welcome to everyone. My name is mack owens. We are an independent graduate school of National Security affairs. We offer three masters degrees. We offer an executive and a professional masters as well. In addition we have 18 certificates. Were very happy to cosponsor this event with mark meyer whom i will introduce this very second. Weve got a great speaker who is done a great deal of work in this area. Its a topical topic as you know. I think that department of redundancy department. We are cosponsoring this with the center for military and diplomatic history. Mark miller, say a couple words. Great. Im dr. Mark mirror. I wanted to thank dr. Owens, president who have done a wonderful job organizing this event and several others that weve done here and also lindsay markel. We do events on history that have relevance to todays issues. Weve been hosting an average about one event per week since we were formed nine months ago and we particul
Neil gorsuch will be sworn in today. Watch the ceremony administered by Justice Anthony kennedy live at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. After that, democratic senator, chris murphy, talks about u. S. Foreign policy. We have it live at 12 30 eastern also on cspan. Now, a discussion on women in con bat. Speakers discuss the challenges and how allowing women in combat has changed the military from the institute of World Politics, this is just over an hour. Welcome to everybody. My name is mac owens. I am here at the institute of politics. We are an independent graduate school of National Security affairs. We offer three masters degrees, an executive and a professional masters as well. In addition, we have 18 certificates. We are very happy to cosponsor this event with mark moyier, whom i will introduce in just a second. Very important topic. Weve got a great speaker, who who has done a great deal of work in this area. It is a topical topic in the redundancy department. As i say, we are cosp
Both iraq and afghanistan i helped both countries with their constitutions being sort ofor o issues among iraqis or afghans. Your influence is considerable. Heads of state or government very anxious to meet with you. Sunday night, former u. S. Ambassador to afghanistan, iraq and the united nations, Zalmay Khalizad discusses his memoir. We saw that the extremists such as zarqawi exploited although we have then corrected it towards the end of the period that i was there by the surge, by reaching out to the sunnis, by building up iraqi forces, by establishing a unity government, killing zarqawi at the end, to bring about security, violence was way down. But, unfortunately, when we left and the vacuum was filled by rival regional powers pulling iraq apart, violence escalated and we have isis now. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan. We continue now with the discussion on ways to combat military Sexual Violence. This next Panel Focused on how to better address Sexual Assaults in the milit
Roll in dare county yesterday a canine officer found heroin in the car and both women are out on bond tonight thirteen news now has tracked a growing heroin problem in virginia our thirty minute special hooked on heroin virginias growing killer is an in depth look at this epidemic and we put the entire documentary on thirteen years now dot com for you it will air again on sunday january seventeen at four oclock and you can click on the investigates tab on our website. Virginia beach as the only Police Department in Hampton Roads that does not have body cameras but that is about to change the police chief old spy to start using body cameras and early twenty seven team tonight at six there will be a Community Meeting to talk about how the cameras will be used and how much they will cost tonights meeting is at the mire over north library there will be another form on january twenty third at one p m at the Law Enforcement training academy. Remember that stretch of days of heavy rain and fl
[ room noise ] [ room noise ] so the House Rules Committee taking a break here. When members return, this meeting will continue live on our companion network cspan 2. On the house floor votes are currently under way. Members are voting on two bills including one that aims to prevent suicides among veterans. The measure requires an annual thirdparty review of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention programs at the png and veteran affairs department. Thats live now on cspan. And in the senate today there was a procedural vote on a bill authorizing construction of the Keystone Xl Oil pipeline. The vote was 6332. Which was enough to limit debate and advance the bill for a vote on final passage at a later time. As always, you can watch the senate live on cspan 2. Here are a few of the comments weve recently received on the 114th congress. The thing that really needs to happen is going back to what the incomeing majority said, is they need to get back to regular order. If they go back and pass