And the new global realities. Justice breyer is a longstanding front of the society. He has delivered lectures at the will be today. He is dinners, introduced speakers and we are fortunate that he is giving us this lecture. He truly is a man that needs no introduction and there is not an introduction i could do that would be complete in the time allotted. Tummy tuck on some highlights, he graduated with highest honors in stanford. And went to oxford where he received firstclass honors with a ba degree in philosophy and economics and politics. He went to Harvard Law School where he also excel. Articles editor of the law review. He then clerked for Justice Arthur goldberg and bike all caps, is very circumspect about his work. He doesnt knowledge that he contributed to the first draft does acknowledge that he contributed to the first draft of the griswold versus connecticut case. It is the case that recognized the right to marital privacy. After cooking for justice goldberg, he worked in
Need of the Financial Assistance to us. I appreciate your answers. We are ready and willing to do whatever we can from the side of the capital to be helpful in your efforts there. Thank you. Thank you, senator menend. How much i appreciate your accessibility, your willingness to work to solve problems. Appreciate everything youve done for us. Youre on the Moon Shot Task force for cancer cures. I am. Ive got a homework assignment. The Surgeon General in 2014 said skin cancer was the fastest killing cancer of all cancers. As one who survived two melanomas in my life, i took that on as a call to action. And found out there was a 13 year backlog of ingredients submitted to fda approval in sunscreen that had been delayed. So we passed the sunscreen innovation act out of the Health Education labor committee. 14 months later, none of those ingredients have been approved. Nothing has moved forward. As one to quote the president , hes asked you to identify and address any unnecessary barriers.
Mr. President , honored guests, its a great honor for me to be here this evening with all of you. Some of you may recognize me from television, but most of you probably recognize my voice and not my face from National Public radio. We are assembled here at the embassy of israel in washington, d. C. To award medals and certificates of honor of the righteous among the nations to the late Master Sergeant Roddy Edmunds and to the late valerie sveski of poland who risked their lives to rescue jews. The Holocaust Remembrance Authority was created by the state of israel in order to gather all information about the holocaust to commemorate, document, preserve, research and educate. When it was established, the jewish people did not forget the nonjews who stood by their side in it the darkest hours of history, struggling with the enormity of the loss and grappling with the impact of the total abandonment and betrayal of europes jews, the state of israel made a point of remembering the rescuers.
That they currently exist in, were just going to have weaker product delivered later. I think we need to have some reform as the next round. And i think theres enormous potential there, not just in the military departments but between the military departments and osd, within osd, and further out into the headquarters in the field. Well, i thank you for that. And you are uniquely situated now to play a key role. And i agree with you. Just flatout reductions is just the first step. You have to its a little bit like sequestration in that its a meat ax when we need a scalpel and so i would look forward to having you play a role there given your unique background. Finally, the source of great frustration this committee, all of us members, is this continued cost overruns on weapons systems. Weve made some reforms. Were putting the Service Chiefs more involved. You are aware. But it still seems to go on. And every time we really need something, we use that expedited process, which we used for
Z3, the annual Palo Alto conference on the future of Zionism, is making big changes to it schedule in light of recent events in Israel and lower the cost of attendance.