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other stops on our tour at www.c-span.org/citiestour. you are watching american history tv on c-span3. next come historians discuss u.s. foreign-policy on human rights during the latter half of the cold war. chileters focus on iran, and cuba. they also examined the american stance on women s rights, torture and oppression in the developing world from the 1960 s on. this session was hosted by the american historical association at their annual meeting. it s about an hour and a half. thank you for coming to this session on human rights in the late cold war era. my name is amanda moniz. on the curator of philanthropy at the smithsonian national museum of american history. until recently, i was associate director of the national history center of the american historical association, which sponsored this afternoon s panel. amanda perry is the new assistant director. we are grateful to sarah snyder for organizing this panel. panelistsroduce our all together and then we will ....
braun, latinn american historian here at the university of texas. it gives me great pleasure to have read these papers and now meet the gentleman who have written these papers. i worked on the 1960 s. i see certain similarities and what is going on in the 1960 s with that which transpired between the united states and latin america in the 1980 s as well any papers. what we would like to do is i contestantsce the excuse me, the presenters. we are going to have the two papers on central america first. then we will turn our attention to south america because it is two different things. south america is dealing with the end of military governments, long-term military governments. then there is this act of newly installed leftist revolution in nicaragua that will take up our attention. we will do that first. then we will follow along with on southn the america. thatis interesting here is we have papers that are based upon u.s. sources and also based upon sources from lat ....
this is true devolution, making sure every head teacher is in charge of that irschool providing a great education for our children. finally, pauline latham. thank you, mr. speaker. my constituent jackie has been diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. she has shown courage in her fight against the disease but unfortunately jackie did not get the support or compassion of her employer who wanted to dismiss her through capability procedures. shocking. now her former partner, andy bradley is trying to get the house they own together repossessed leaving her homeless while dying. would the prime minister agree with me that we require better protection for working people who are diagnosed with a terminal illness? will he join with me and jackie in supporting the changes as outlined in the dying to work campaign? i think the point my right honourable friend makes are absolutely right. i will look very carefully at the case she raises. the truth in all of these things, ....
of the supreme court. interview, he also said, can you imagine dropping a nominee into that fight, into that cauldron in a presidential year? whichvironment within such a hearing would be held would be so supercharged to be able to be distorted. biden later, it chairman talked about the confirmation process and further explained his recommendation for deferring should a supreme court vacancy occur. he repeated his recommendation regarding how to handle a nomination that year. let me just refer to this chart and read it. president bush should consider following the practice of the majority of his predecessors and name a nominee until the november election is completed. if the president presses and election-year nomination, the senate should seriously consider confirmationg hearings until after the political campaign season is over. chairman biden again explained the reasons for this recommendation. the confirmation process is degraded in the wake of controversial nomina ....
assume if you promulgate a rule that s more protective of down seemers than a state has made that you deem that state to not be adequately protecting consumers. mr. corcray: we won t seek to occupy by the field in that way. what we will do, if there is a federal intervention, and this is not determined, that will coexist with state regulation and authorities. mr. mulvaney: let s be clear and honest. you do intend to preempt state aw in certain areas. mr. cordray: i don t think we preempt state law. what will happen mr. mulvaney: in a letter of february 11, 2016, to my ffice. i asked about this particular issue. you said among the bureau s goals is to ensure consumers are offered certain minimal protections no matter where they are located. state laws that afford greater protection would not be preempted by a bureau regulation on small dollar lending. the obvious implication to anyone who speaks the english language is states who offer less protection will be preempted ....