Talking about, really i dont. Also i want to thank a couple. I could be here all night thanking people but there are a couple of people i want to mention. The most important one is kelly, kelly bird. Thank you for organizing all of this, bringing me here, getting us through the whole process of organizing the symposium itself as well as having me speak. And where is paul and nancy . Paul is over there. Paul, thank you for taking me to the best steak place in kansas city. Okay. Thank you. Now paul has been very helpful in other ways as well. Now diane has mentioned that my passion and ill admit this, i will admit to this, my passion is blackpast. Org. Now a 15,000 page website. Essentially a work thats based on volunteers. You can see some of it being skrold. Im not touching on it. You can see the scrolling. It started as kind of a project for our students at the university of washington and we forgot to gate it and as a consequence somebody wrote from new zealand and said, you know, sh
Young was among the speakers. An hour and 45 minutes. Hi, i know everybody is excited about the budget scoring, but im asking to ask everyone to take their seats. Thank you all so much for coming, particularly on an intermittently rainy friday afternoon. We are so excited to be here for the launch of the budget lab. My name is marcy gimble, im with our chief economist and president , our hope is to bring attention to the way that budget scoring is an incredibly important part of the policy process, bring a new perspective with focus on innovation and transparency. Were incredibly excited for danny to get up here shortly and share some of the research that weve been working on. Before i do that, im going to briefly embarrass our team by pointing them out because without them this would not have been possible. We have rich, our director of policy analysis, ernie our director of economics, john rico, associate director of policy analysis, harris epsteiner, associate director of economics.
Publishing in august 2017, and he also he and his son, lee, are editing an autobiography written by his father and lees grandfather. With that, i would like to introduce mr. Robert k. Sutton. [ applause ]. Goblod morning. Good morning. I cant tell you how excited i am to be here. This is i mean, im sitting here with goose bumps while im hearing the names of the victims of kwantrels raid because i just wrote about many of them, and you actually hear their names in this setting. Its really quite moving. Before i get going here, my wife and my son came with me. Theyre in the back row. And two of my oldest, oldest, oldest friends from california. And im going to tell you, we were all like 5 years old when we got acquainted sit ong the second row, nick and harry so, this is a really special day for me. One of the things that interested me in this topic was that my great i have to say sometimes you have trouble keeping track of the great great great greats, but any great great great grandmot
Television companies. It is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Next on American History tv, historians discuss the social and political impact of several events leading up to the civil war. Including the fugitive slave act and abolitionist john browns raid on a federal armory at harpers fairy. Erry. This was part of Yale Universitys Gilder Lehrman center for the study of slavery, resistance, and abolition. This was the most fun to , deciding which events, which problems, which moments of the precivil war era would we represent. Said, thisanna and is one you should moderate. Speak on no, i want to it. [laughter] which is great. Hook herst trying to into being moderator. The shock of events. The passage by douglas at the nation, the way he put it, not educated by theory, they are taught by events. We all know, we lived through events that no one predicts. Who predicted pearl harbor . Some people, sort of. Who predicted the end of the cold war in 89 . 9 11 . Last ye
I am calling the 2018 Summer Winter meeting to order. On chair would like to call the Committee Man from texas to the. Could we all stand for the invitation please . Dear lord, we thank you for giving us another day to serve you. We thank you for the blessing that it is to live in the greatest and most prosperous , and lord,he world we thank you for the opportunity to work to preserve the foundations of freedom and liberty and we ask that you would help us to continue to be the leaders that you called us to be. Help us to serve faithfully, and help us to understand that like your servant esther in the bible, we have been called for such a time as this. He asked that you would bless and protect the leaders of this great nation, President Trump, the house and senate leadership, governors and state legislators all over this land, that you would give them wisdom and understanding, and that they may make decisions that improve the lives of all americans. Bless and protect our Party Leaders