The committee on rules and ministers will come to order grea good w morning to i want to think our colleagues for joining us today and i like to welcome our nominees to todays hearing and shauna broussard, sean cooksey and Alan Dickerson are the president s nominees to be member of the federal Elections Commission and as our witnesses are joining us remotely i also want to understand that their familyod and friends are watchig today and i welcome them as well. This is a big response ability and a significant president ial p nomination and significant to the work of this committee and i know you are proud of your Family Member as they have moved forward to this opportunity and let me say a little bit about a couple of the nominees and then i will turn to another Committee Member senator cruz to talk about the third nominee. Alan dickerson isom the nomineeo be a member of the federal Relations Commission for a term expiring on april 301, 2025. Mr. Dickerson has been practicing law for 20
Now it is a great honor to introduce our guests. What an amazing panel. Americas most distinguished historians and scholars of congress to help us understand our current vexations. Edward ayres is president emeritus at the university of richmond. He is the author of many books on the civil war and reconstruction, including, i will highlight one of his many Award Winning books the thin light of freedom the civil war and emancipation in the part of america, which he discussed at the National Constitution center in 2017. His forthwomaning do ining book southern journey. Welcome, it is an honor to have you. My pleasure, thank you. And Joanne Freeman is 1954 graduate of Yale University and is a professor of American History and american studies at Yale University, where she specializes in the politics and political culture of the revolutionary and Early National period. She is a cohost with edward ayres of a Popular History podcast back story. She is the author of many books as well includi
Up next, a discussion on Election Security. This panel looks at preventing Voting Machines from being hacked. And talks about some of the benefits of paper ballots. Georgetown Laws Institute for Technology Law and policy hosted this series. Hi. Welcome. So im matt blaze. Im a professor here at georgetown in both the law school and Computer Science department. I want to welcome you to our afterlunch panel. Thank you for sticking around. On Digital Technologies and voting. We have, on our panel, who i will introduce very briefly, four very distinguished experts at various parts of the digital elections landscape. And and the technology and the risks of some of the Underlying Technology that is inherent there. And well be talking about this subject for from a very wide range of different perspectives. But all with a very technological bias. So im going to very briefly introduce these people. And im going to apologize now for being extremely incomplete in my introductions because they woul
Hi, welcome. So im mac, a professor here at georgetown, in the law school and Computer Science department. I welcome you to our after lunch panel. Thank you for sticking around. On Digital Technologies and coding. We have on our panel who i will introduce very briefly, four very distinguished experts at various parts of the digital elections landscape, and the technology and the risks of some of the Underlying Technology that is inherent there. And well be talking about this subject for, from a very wide range of different perspectives, but all with a very technological bias. So im going to very briefly introduce these people and i want to apologize now for being extremely incomplete in my introductions because they would take up the entire panel. Andrew appel is a profess her of Computer Science at princeton, where he served since 1986, and in fact, he was one of the members of my Doctoral Committee at princeton. His research focuses on software verification, security programming lang
Altamont. Some slowing through Construction Zone for sunnyvale. No Major Concerns there. This is the crash were talking about eastbound at 780 off i80. Not presenting a problem. Back to you. Thanks, mike. On capitol hill today its expected to be another explosive day as President Trump denies accusations of impeachable acts. A key hearing will happen in one hour from now. The acting director of National Intelligence is set to testify about the phone call with the president of ukraine. Live with what we should expect on this very momentous day. Good morning, chris. Reporter yes, good morning, kris and marcus. According to the latest nbc news count there is a majority in the house of representatives for the first time of people who believe some sort of impeachment action should take place with President Trump. He is coming back to washington today after spending the early part for the u. N. General assembly. He will arrive while his acting director of National Intelligence is answering q