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what i want to do is start by telling you that we have been offering charty day activities for a long time and our speaker this evening, eve leplank is a veteran. in 2005 she spoke on the lawn of the state house in the 375th anniversary of boston s naming and she spoke about her ancestor ann hutchinson and that was also the year that first church in boston finally released her from the excommunication given so many centuries before. so let me tell you a little bit about our speaker. e eve leplank has published five nonfiction books. two of them are especially relevant to our period. one is american jezebel, which is for sale outside after the talk. and it tells the true story of eve s ancestor, the colonial heretic and founding mother, ann hutchinson. the one who was finally brought back into it church and the second ancestor who will be mentioned this evening is the salem witch judge, samuel sul and that book won the 2008mous ps book award for nonfiction. a critic note ....
the excommunication given so many centuries before. so let me tell you a little bit about our speaker. e eve leplank has published five nonfiction books. two of them are especially relevant to our period. one is american jezebel, which is for sale outside after the talk. and it tells the true story of eve s ancestor, the colonial heretic and founding mother, ann hutchinson. the one who was finally brought back into it church and the second ancestor who will be mentioned this evening is the salem witch judge, samuel sul and that book won the 2008mous ps book award for nonfiction. a critic noted recently or i don t know when it was that laplank sees ann hutchinson and samuel sual not as the dark puretens many believe them to be but living presences, even models of rectitude into the 21st century. so please, welcome eve for her remarks. [ applause ] thank you, rose. and thank you to the partnership and thank you all for coming tonight. before i start i wanted to think fo ....
the excommunication given so many centuries before. so let me tell you a little bit about our speaker. e eve leplank has published five nonfiction books. two of them are especially relevant to our period. one is american jezebel, which is for sale outside after the talk. and it tells the true story of eve s ancestor, the colonial heretic and founding mother, ann hutchinson. the one who was finally brought back into it church and the second ancestor who will be mentioned this evening is the salem witch judge, samuel sul and that book won the 2008mous ps book award for nonfiction. a critic noted recently or i don t know when it was that laplank sees ann hutchinson and samuel sual not as the dark puretens many believe them to be but living presences, even models of rectitude into the 21st century. so please, welcome eve for her remarks. [ applause ] thank you, rose. and thank you to the partnership and thank you all for coming tonight. before i start i wanted to think fo ....
fruit long after their passing. it is also important to remember the contributions of any and play ands and sizes vital role to supporting the work we do here at the center, and that includes student research, fellowships, travel, and public programming and public education. thank all of our friends at the center who are here today, and this eating an event on the topic of civil religion, i salute you as well. for those of you who are just learning about the center s work or if this is one of our first times if this is why your first times attending our talks, we want to make sense of the past, the current moment, and to shape our shared future. i would encourage you to become a friend of the center. there are envelopes touted around the room, stuck to the bottom scattered around the room, stuck to the bottom of your shoe. there are assignments as a table at the tables on the entryways that you can take with you. i would be remiss if i did not think the outstandin ....
kind of support they can get for a much more conservative bill that does limit the chain migration and the visa lottery, provide protection for dreamers and include some other immigration p immigration reforms that conservatives are seeking in the house. they want that bill on the floor. we re live on capitol hill this morning as the senate finance committee hears from treasury secretary steven mnuchin. live coverage should get under way here shortly. the dcommittee will come to order. this morning s hearing will be the first in a series of hearings on the president s fiscal year to 19 budg2019 budg proposal. the committee welcomes steven mnuchin, who is here to testify. the president s budget includes numerous proposals to deal with a vast array of policy issues, including the opioid epidemic, infrastructure, modernizing government, national security, and lowering drug pricing and payments, just to mention a few. i think i speak for all members of the committee whe ....