good morning, everyone. when we scheduled this address. we expected that president trump would be delivering the address tomorrow night. but we thought we would convene the panel anyway to discuss both what we expect the president to speak about when he does appear before congress, but more generally to talk about the current state of the relationship between the legislative and executive branches. i could not imagine a better my forf folks than government studies colleagues here with me to tackle these questions. you have full bios, but briefly, the debbie abraham chair and senior fellow in government studies. a senior fellow in governmental affairs, a senior fellow and deputy director of the center for effective public management, and vanessa williamson, who is also a senior fellow. , some folks have argued that at this point, the state of the union is in a neck or name, it , does it acronym matter? does it play any role in the relationship between congress and the presid
might govern. this runs an hour and a half. i want to start by acknowledging that justice ruth bader ginsburg has been hospitalized this morning from a fall. i ask you to keep her in your thoughts and prayers. i m john allen, the president of brookings and it s a pleasure to have you join us today for the important event. let me also welcome those who are coming in by facebook web casts, we also, as we always do, welcome the presence of c-span. this morning we re here to discuss a topic that has been on many of our minds over the last days and weeks and months. some of us since the 9th of november of 2016. the midterm elections. as with anything political at this moment in history, it s a great deal of anticipation and analysis that is coming from this moment. and perhaps some educated guesses, as well, as to how these results would turn out. and despite each of those efforts, there are some surprises that emerged from the events on tuesday. en know there are some still som
ladies and gentlemen, good morning. it s good to have everyone with us this morning. i want to start just by acknowledging that justice ruth bader ginsburg has been hospitalized for a fall and i would ask you all to keep her in your thoughts and prayers. i m john allen, the president of brookings and it s a pleasure to have you all join us today for in important event. let me also welcome those who are coming in by facebook, webcast and we also as we always do welcome the presence of c-span. this morning, we re here to discuss a topic that s been on many of our minds over the last days and weeks and months, for some of us since the 9th of november, 2016. the midterm elections. as with anything political at this moment in history, there s a great deal of anticipation and analysis coming from this moment and perhaps some educated guesses as well as to how these results would turn out. and despite each of those efforts, and as seems to be the norms of late, there s some surpri
book, inside job, how government insiders subvert the public interest. his book looks at the sources of national decline. typically when people think about national decline, they often look outside government, add special interest groups that try to co-op governments for their own benefit. however, mark takes a different approach and looks at the sources of national decline.com from inside government, from government insiders. it may cause even more harm to countries and civilizations than the harms that come fro outside government. we are looking forward to hearing from him today. the way we will frame today s book form, first we will hear remarks from him and then we will have comments from jonathan rauch at the brookings institution and myself. first i would like to introduce doctor zupan. he began his tenure as the 14th resident of alfred university on july 2016. he was at the business school of rochester from january 1, 2004. he served as dean and professor of economics
an award in honor of former attorney edwin meese. this is about 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] about the election law panel we just had. but i want to move on to one of our big victories with the confirmation of justice gorsuch and the panel we ve got now on the senate s role. so i m going to go ahead and introduce eric liken, rnla s vice president for judicial affairs. he s from lexington, kentucky, and has long labored in the field in kentucky both for our senate majority leader and also for the republican party in kentucky. everything? thank you, david. you re looking at one of the very few unfortunate cayennes not to be in the commonwealth on this derby eve. i do want to thank the national press be chub for giving the kentucky flag pride of place. hopefully, everybody at home understands i will be back this evening and please save me a mint julep. so i d like to introduce our panel for the senate role on the judicial confirmation process. first, we have martin