P. M. E p. M. Eastern also on cspan3. Now a conversation on women in combat from the institute of World Politics. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. Okay, i guess we can get going. Welcome to everyone. My name is owens. We are an independent security school. We offer three masters degrees. We offer an executive and professional masters as well. In addition we have 18 certificates. Were very happy to cosponsor this event with mark moyar. We have a great speaker who is done a great deal of work in this area. Its a topical topic as you know. I think the department of redundancy department. But as i say we are cosponsoring this with the center for military and diplomatic history. And mark moyar, to say a couple words and i will introduce our moderator. Im dr. Mark moyar. I wanted to thank dr. Owens, and katie bridges and kevin dunne, you have done a wonderful job organizing this event. Thanks also to Lindsay Markell and daniel, the Foreign Policy initiative. We do events on history that
We welcome everyone to todays enforcementestoring of our nations Immigration Laws. The chair recognizes himself for an Opening Statement. The title of that this meeting is restoring our Immigration Laws. President obamas delivered undermining of our Immigration Laws, the growth of antiimmigration policies at every level of government and the vilification of state and local officers who attempt to dulyce our nations enacted Immigration Laws. Our Immigration Laws are an expression of our immigration countrys sovereignty. Were the past eight years they were largely ignored in the example with that from the top. The of them administration abandoned the rule of law under discretion. Orial it had devastating consciousness. A coldblooded murder. Terroristui and to the sanging from bernardino. Of a rockville teenager. The time has come and gone for the laws to be truly restored. Catch it release of rubber at the border and its outright prohibition on isis carrying outrom the Critical Mission h
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If the resolution were to pass yesterday, the treasury secretary would have to get the president s taxes and everything that goes with it to us and we would in privacy decide whether we should make them public. That is what the law said. The law is on our side. 6103 of the section tax code which was put into the tax code in 1924 after the teapot dome scandal. It was a result of that. Because there is no law that insists or says that the president has to give us his tax returns. But every president since gerald ford has given us his tax returns. The American People deserve to know if there are any potential conflicts. Are you president first or businessman first or whatever . Thats why we need to get his taxes. You cannot simply speculate about conflicts of interest. Article one section nine of the addresses gifts to the president of United States. If the president is going to carry on Foreign Policy with other countries, which is one of his jobs, then we have to know whether our presid
Calendar. There is not one argument they have made that can apply there. In my view, that decision was made in november 2013. For 200 years, the standard for confirmation of a federal judge in the United States senate was 51 votes. That is how the constitution has operated, its how the senate has operated for most of this countrys history. Indeed, no Supreme Court justice in history has been defeated because he was filibustered. The only arguable example is a nomination that was withdrawn in the face of the scandal. No justice in history has been filibustered. The notion of filibustering federal judges was largely the invention of Chuck Schumer in 2001 when george w. Bush became president and Senate Democrats then began unprecedented filibusters of federal judicial nominees. I hope that next week the democrats do not choose to filibuster judge gorsuch, a candidate for whom they voted unanimously just a decade ago. If they do, i am confident the senate will return to the rules that gove