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live coverage here as long as it lasts on c-span3. [ banging gavel ] rules committee will come to order. and good afternoon. and welcome to another fun day at the rules committee. today we have an exciting panel with two very experienced members who take time to visit the rules committee often. we welcome the young chairman of the financial services committee, the gentleman from dallas, texas, mr. hensarling, as well as the gentlewoman, my dear friend, ms. waters, from los angeles. and we re delighted that you re here. the rules committee today will be considering hr-3971. the community institution mortgage relief act of 2017. and hr-477, the small business mergers acquisition sales and brokerage simplification act. of 2017. and house joint resolution 123, which will be the second part of the hearing today, the continued appropriations act of 2018. m & a brokers provide necessary services for small, private companies that are looking to merge. and/or to be acquired. but ....
this is a statement on how pathetic things really are in government, they imagine themselves to be solving a great case in a quote, in the global war on terrorism. getting three kids in miami beach, stopping them from shipping ammo to afghanistan was them winning the global war on terrorism. and that literally is how it was discussed inside government. you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. and now from politics & prose bookstore in washington d.c., npr s steve inskeep provides a dual biography of andrew jackson and cherokee leader john ross in the lead-up to president jackson s signing of the indian removal act of 1830. our featured attraction, of course, this evening is the great steve inskeep who i m sure is already familiar to many of you. certainly, those of you who listen to national public radio. he s been an on-air presence there for 19 years, and for over a decade now he s been one to have hosts of morning edition, the most widely ....
both anciently and now, and always and is always perplexing, is what is being, end quote. does this question apply to the being that is asking, to us? be so and it seems so if so, and it seems so, then to paraphrase aristotle, the inquiry and perplexity in early times and now and always is this: what is human being? our panelists are christopher toll left seven, distinguished professor of philosophy, university of south carolina, charles rubin, associate professor of political science, duquesne university and author of eclipse of man: human extinction and the meaning of progress. adam kuiper of the ethics and public policy center, editor of the new atlantis. christopher. thank you very much. it s a pleasure to be here. unlike most of the panelists so far, i m not a former student of leon kass. in fact, only was introduced to you yesterday morning. so i feel the need to ask permission, can i call you leon in the [laughter] thank you. okay. with that down, never ....
origins of wall street, to excavate the international origins of wall street and to locate those origins in the caribbean, and the west indies which i think was a kind of critical and fertile testing ground for wall street son. internationalization. at the same time i was interested in trying to understand to some degree is there a relationship between wall street s history in the international field and some of its contemporary practices? is there a way one can trace something of a genealogy through the 20th century from the time i look at which is 1873-1973 up until the present and what with the terms of that genealogy andd of that international expansion? and in that i think a couple of things emerged for me. one is the critical relationship that institutions, wall street institutions, including what s i now citigroup, jpmorgan chase,. had to u.s. imperialism in the 20th century, how the institu institutions really grappled with the question of international expansion thro ....
[applause] good afternoon, everyone. it s a pleasure to be here with all of you. as our spring semester draws to a close and i wish to begin by expressing our deepest decision to justice ruth bader ginsburg were joining us here on campus today. it s an honor to welcome here to gaston all and to hear her reflections this afternoon. i also wish to express our gratitude to the honorable ronald chief judge for the us court of appeals for the second circuit and all his efforts to make this extraordinary symposium possible for our community. i look forward to sharing a few more words about the judge in just a moment. i d also like to think professor mary and professor wendy from our georgetown law center who will join the justice in conversation today. professor hartman and professor williams are for authorized biographers and co-authors of her recent book, my own words, published this past year. i wish to thank all of you being here for the special gathering. the bernstein s ....