a real connection. or . the welcome to the party itself and sad that beauty is in the eye of the beholder but hundreds of studies across decades showed that most beholders view beauty in pretty similar ways and that s leaps into all facets of a person s life. from the way a kid is treated in school 2 he s a very sick sassy into labor or marriage markets it s pretty clear that beauty is an advantage but is it really an unfair or superficial one to discuss that i m now joined by daniel hamermesh emeritus professor of economics at the university of texas and author of beauty pace why attractive people are more successful precious it s so good to have you on the show thank you very much for your time thank you for having me now it s been almost a decade since you published these groundbreaking book and there s been quite a lot of changes in this past decade beauty pageants not as popular as they used to be. some voters in some western countries are no longer discriminating agains
there to sit in today s hearing. so ordered. welcome. this hearing entitled the status of american hostages in iran will allow numbers of the families to share information about their loved ones who remain imprisoned or missing in iran. a hearing will have self committee and advance efforts to bring detained american citizens and legal residents home. without objection all members may have five days to submit for the record. subject to the rules, i will offer an opening statement and then turn it over to the ranking member, mr. wilson for his opening statement. i want to welcome eyewitnesses. am heartbroken to see you back at this table. i thank each of you for your courage and for your advocacy. it is my goal to have this be the last hearing like this that we do together. i want to acknowledge all the families, and family members here today in the audience and if you would, i would ask you to stand. please know that we see you and support you and we thank you. thank you fo
they want to have greater economic growth. watch afterwards sunday night at 9 pm eastern on c- span2. next, a hearing examines you wish nationals currently being held in iran. with testimony from three relatives of the hostages. they spoke on the impact their loved ones situation head on the family. held by the healths house foreign affairs committee this is one hour and 10 minutes. this hearing will come to order. i start by asking consent that the gentleman, mr. waltz be over there to sit in today s hearing. so ordered. welcome. this hearing entitled the status of american hostages in iran will allow numbers of the families to share information about their loved ones who remain imprisoned or missing in iran. a hearing will have self committee and advance efforts to bring detained american citizens and legal residents home. without objection all members may have five days to submit for the record. subject to the rules, i will offer an opening statement and then turn
held by the healths house foreign affairs committee this is one hour and 10 minutes. this hearing will come to order. i start by asking consent that the gentleman, mr. waltz be over there to sit in today s hearing. so ordered. welcome. this hearing entitled the status of american hostages in iran will allow numbers of the families to share information about their loved ones who remain imprisoned or missing in iran. a hearing will have self committee and advance efforts to bring detained american citizens and legal residents home. without objection all members may have five days to submit for the record. subject to the rules, i will offer an opening statement and then turn it over to the ranking member, mr. wilson for his opening statement. i want to welcome eyewitnesses. am heartbroken to see you back at this table. i thank each of you for your courage and for your advocacy. it is my goal to have this be the last hearing like this that we do together. i want to acknowledg
governor, republican rick scott. this is 30 minutes. sen. nelson: this is my farewell speech and i thought it would do well to think back to the very first speech that i gave on the floor. my maiden speech. my maiden speech was about a couple of months after the first time being sworn in. i had waited, back then this is 18 years ago it was appropriate for freshmen senators to wait a while. don t speak up right away. so i waited two or three months until it felt like it was the appropriate time and i remember, there was nobody out here. it was an empty chamber and in the course of this speech and i picked a topic of the day. i think we were trying to balance the budget at the time, something that 18 years later we re still trying to do. and then, in the course of the speech, i mentioned that it was my maiden speech. nobody out here except the presiding officer. all of a sudden those doors swing open right there. and then in strides senator robert byrd. i was standing at a