The proud superintendent of the School District and this years chair of the forum. Today we are delighted to open our program to a number of members of Community Members outside of the forum for this very special event where we can hear from our own native, ed stack as he highlights the history of Dicks Sporting Goods in his new book, its how we play the game which i was able to get a little early and read and it is just a great book and great story and if you not got a chance i strongly encourage you to do that. We are thrilled to have you here today and welcome you home to share your story. I want to welcome our invited guest in particular i wanted to draw attention to the [inaudible] new Vision Business Academy students and students from the district of our region and we are thrilled to have them here today in particular. So for those of you who are not familiar with the forum it is a Membership Organization that brings people who share commitments for advancing universities and our
Committee. The meeting will be called to order. The chairman is on his way. He has asked me to gavel in and begin my Opening Statement and then hopefully he will be here. We are very, very honored to have chairman powell. We thank him so much for testifying today. I look forward to hearing your perspective on the current state of the economy, and the potential challenges ahead. Id also like to thank you for your thoughtfulness as you help steer the economy through what in some ways are extremely challenging times. As you have said in your testimony, by some measures, our economy is strong. The National Unemployment rate fell from 10 at its peak during the Great Recession to only 4. 7 when President Trump took office. And it has continued to fall. It now stands at only 3. 6 . The economy has continued to add jobs now for 10 9 consecutive months. More than nine years. Years. Inflation remains low. Below the feds target. Wages are moving up though not as fast as we would like. But it is w
181171, comcast versus the africanamerican owned media. Mr. Estrada . Mr. Chief justice and may it please the cure the, the main circle held in this case that a plaintiff may succeed in a 1981 claim merely by showing that race was a factor in the defendants Decision Making even if the decision would have made and was made for entirely appropriate business reasons having nothing to do with race. Solely on this basis, the 9th circuit saved the plaintiffs third complaint from dismissal. We submit that this decision is wrong and should be reversed for at least three reasons. The first is that it is to this courts decision, holding that but for the background rule that Congress Must presume to have been adopt individual federal staff toots unless the statute provides otherwise which we submit section 1981 does not and originally adopted in 1866 or amended in 1991. Second, in 1991 congress amended title 7 to provide for a motivating factor standard, but did not amend 1991 the same even thoug
In the Natural Resources committee, he will be so long shortly. Mr. Scott will stay on in for him. We will pick up with him later. I will read a stigma. A. Before we get started, unanimous consent that a member of the committee, be allowed to join us, mr. Brown who is behind me, and to participate in the questions and there is a formal ask unanimous consent that we allow him to participate in todays hearing after all of the subCommittee Members have had an opportunity to ask questions. Is there an objection. There being none. The nuns of kim subcommittee member is recognized at an appropriate time for fiveminute questions. And more okay with that, kemeny will come to order. Ladies and gentlemen, i call the committee to order and assent many in the Armed Services Committee Presents february of this year, the subcommittee has been conducting oversight of the privatized military housing program. We first heard about this systemic failures in the privatized military Family Housing program
Good afternoon, im the director and associate fellows of the american society. Im happy to host this panel, last december, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador won in july 2018 in a landslide victory on a left wing platform that would promote the respect of human rights improve the economy, work to end the ongoing drug war, and address corruption at all levels of government. For many mexicans, amlo has represented a paradigm shift from the governance of the past few decades and sees himself as a remedy to ineffective government responses to corruption and violence. Yesterday marked the First Anniversary of his inauguration and during his first year in office, amlo has enjoyed a record high approval rating. However, in the past year hes also faced challenges on many fronts including mexicos security, economy, and migration. Today, we will discuss his Campaign Promises, how they have fared in this first year, and what to expect going forward. Today, im joined by four experts, carlos is associate