sumac how do you programs differ in rural virginia opposed to virginia. >> at interesting that in virginia, we have 2 million people in rural and 6 million in irvine in the other part of virginia. the percent of our fast-forward at in rural virginia. the only difference the big one at the jobs that are in demand in certain regions, that's a southwest southside, are different from the jobs that are in demand in your region. for example, rhonda, they don't really are crying out for a lot of folders. your major employer, that ceo goes to sleep at night and wakes up worrying about working fine welders to build aircraft carriers. we look at these regional differences and we take a lot of respect to those regional differences. were not a kind of franchise, where we have the same venue across the board in 23 different communities. >> thank you. doctor, xavier has an outstanding reputation of producing minority medical dodgers can you explain how you have that success and what you do to create that success. >> it begins first it's the intentionality of when the students first arrive. we first begi

my whole goal was to diversify the virginia economy, build the new virginia economy. that's what we set out to do, i put a billion dollars into it to make sure would be redoingca the education and virginia. we recruited cyber, the number one state in america. four years later i gote the big surplus in the history of the state. why, were open, welcoming to everyone and that why they say why didn't we went amazon? everybody wanted it, were open, welcoming and invest in her talent and workforce and that is why google, facebook, microsoft, amazon all come to virginia. that's a point, you have to have your state open and welcoming. we in virginia do not allow local jurisdictions to determine what to do. we ought a pass appeal under bill for the local jurisdictions can determine what monuments are in your city or county. that should be your decision not the state decision. >> it's worth pointing out two years later the statues arey, still there. >> has to pass the republican legislator. >> that's when we have a legislator the share. >> i wonder if that's a good segue of why

virginia's cayenne, devoted husband and father of 12, 25 grandchildren. barbara, philosopher, botanist, amateur musician, fluent in two languages, architect of the declaration of independence in service component in america of religious liberty in history. when he received little credit little from history. he's looked at as a grumpy old patriot. when he lost his political game in philadelphia. they took hispanic willman home. that's why when he repeated the sign somewhere new. i hope to give the reader a new look at mason's character in his life and accomplishments. mason is shown to be in my book, to be a compassionate, sensitive and well read boy who matured into an accomplished salesman devoted husband and father. jefferson never mayday secret of the fact that when he redo your george mason. when he called him the wisest man of his generation. jefferson same biographer, dumas malone, agreed summarizing mason's contributions to the revolution we need said quote mason jar the rights of human beings much more fully than jefferson did in the immortal but

and in fact come of the nascent virginia declaration of rights emerged as the brilliant and eloquent blueprints as my first draft of the declaration of independence. mason's layered personality also played a notable part in so many important fields including government, law, free exercise of religion, agriculture, architecture and philosophy. he was among american authors of rights and independence whose eloquent articulations of the american creed articulated a vision and set the course for history. yet he remained a somewhat reclusive figure up until the american revolutionary war. a war that precipitated his constitutional brilliance. the war for independence didn't swiftly. as england's oppressive course became national policy, towards the colonies, mason netted with a resolution no was fixed and forceful language. he wrote that, quote, though we are these subjects, we will use every means which heaven has given us to present our becoming its slaves. with mason's commanding strength and intellect, he became aroused by the emotional appeal and figure of words. all is at stake, he

a member of the virginia and new york historical society and served on the board of directors of the thomas jefferson society. please welcome the william hyland jr.. [applause] >> thank you and thank you to the archives for inviting me back. this is my third time back here and i enjoy my business back here because i really feel a closeness of history when i come back here. it really gives me chills to know the three most important documents in our founding history for just 200 feet above us. the declaration of independence, the constitution of the united states and the bill of rights. i very much feel close to history when i come here. doug swanson i want to thank for inviting me. i'm a lawyer by pratt does and i always start off my speeches by telling a story. even though george mason was not a lawyer he is a wealth of legal knowledge but he did not go to law school like jefferson and madison. this is a story i want to tell about a lawyer, a doctor, a priest and a boy. they were all on a small plane and riding together to they developed a little engine trouble. the pilot said we are

he previously served for about 15 years or so in the virginia house of delegates in the virginia senate. he's a graduate of harvard and boston college of law. so thank you very much for coming. >> thank you. [applause] >> to his left is eric cantor. eric cantor served for 25 years in the house-- in the virginia legislature and also the congress and rose up to be the house majority leader. he's a graduate of george washington university and william & mary school of law and vice-president of a company, a distinguished investment firm. thank you very much for coming. [applause] >> and andrew card. andrew card is a person you may remember who served as chief of staff under george w. bush. prior to that served as secretary of transportation under george herbert walker bush and acting of the school of policy at a & m and serves as president of franklin pierce college in new hampshire where he resides, a graduate of university of south carolina. thank you very much for coming. [applause] >> so, we were going to have opening statements, but i thought they'd be too boring and long so i've gotten

virginia seceded in 1861. 1861, there was no virginia, as we know virginia today, so they moved over to western virginia, which is where wheeling, and that was the restored government, that's where the capitol was. that was all through arthur borman. then in 1863 -- we have a statue in the capitol that has abraham lincoln walking at midnight. deciding is he going to sign this proclamation? the country's already divided. now he's going to divide a state. that has not been done because basically up until that, the constitution is very clear, you had to have permission from the territory you were in for from another state to succeed. but abraham lincoln took it upon himself. and if you see the beautiful, unusual shape of our state, there is a very few straight lines. especially when you see this eastern panhandle that's only an hour, hour and ten-minute drive from here, the reason for that, you have harper's ferry, john brown's raid, 1859, kicked off the civil war, and then you have the railroads, the confluence of the shenandoah and the potomac. it's just unbelievable what all. he knew

at virginia tech. i won't go into it because i'll segue when i talk about a hero but the shooting at virginia tech happened because of a weakness in the background check system. the individual, the young man who killed 32 people was prohibited from having a weapon because he'd been adjudicated mentally ill and dangerous but weaknesses in the background check system enabled him to get a weapon anyway. we learned a powerful and painful lesson that day which is if your background check system has loopholes and gaps, disasters will result. so i join with my colleagues who say house bill 8 that's come from the house, that's a comprehensive background check system bill that keeps weapons out of the hands of people who are dangerous to themselves or others is something we should absolutely pass. and last, let me just tell the story about an american hero. i've told this story on the floor before but not for a number of years. and i want to tell the story because i think everybody should know this individual's

i graduated from college in virginia. i went right into my first job and worked for the virginia stateoa legislature. talk about dysfunctional, first republican governor had just been elected as a democratic and wanted to be the democratic dominant. capital square was a war zone just to walk between the attorney general's office and the governor's mansion. the phone rang while i was at the state capital in the press room and i would be interviewed to be a network correspondent. in 201,974 after four years in virginia, i go up and abc news sends me into the white house up north one, just after president nixon just left. the only president in history to resign. talk about constitutional crises. talk about times of when the american segment of our society being torn apart from the vietnam war watergate civil rights. let me ask each of you now to come upom with some ideas or thought. i'm going to go out of order and start with governor allen because -- i'm sorry, governor of south carolina. you come from a state that is now n

spring have come to central virginia but so have the war shattered rifles. broken canteens and even the jagged remains of the drum. down with a small group of men were galloping full speed towards fredericksburg. desmond have just been at the home of thomas coleman chandler who lived in a small hamlet on the richmond railroad. all that sunday they waited outside a small frame house on his estate and prayed for the man lying on the net bed inside offering supplication almighty that he may be spared and returned to duty. the have not been answered just the day before the ailing leader his friend from his bedside to the army headquarters. his mission was to conduct sunday morning worship of the truth as usual lacey preferred to stay but jackson insisted. the spiritual welfare of the men was paramount regardless of what happened to him. >> the chap dutifully five. of hundred soldiers 100 soldiers and their army commander robert e lee. the great victory had been achieved primarily by jackson's attack on may 2 and now at the height of his military success leaves f

>> i'm optimistic about virginia. the virginian legislators still when john one was there and when eric wasn't there, we get together and get along with ourselves better than 80 any delegation, even massachusetts, all democrats. we get together on a bipartisan basis and work together better than anybody, anybody else. but i have a great concerned some of the things going on now, and reminded of martin luther king that something to the effect of, this generation will have to answer not for the bad deeds of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of good people. people are being silent about some of the things that are going on at that it think they will have to respond. [applause] >> optimistic or pessimistic? >> i am optimistic. i have spent a lot of time abroad now and i can tell he the admiration and respect that other countries have for what we have come freedom. i do believe it comes down to what the discussion is about over the several days. it's about the construct of laws that we have data for the individ

we saw the beautiful c campus and i thought i might apply to the university of virginia. he was standing very close to me and considerably shorter and jammed his finger into my chest and said you are going to yale and i don't want to hear any more about it. [laughter] he didn't say's it out and let's talk about it or your feelings. [laughter] it was a different approach and never thought about the university of virginia again. [laughter] change one - - teachers change the world. and who they give credit for and one of the most lovely of all to say she and up being a teacher. you are doing what needs to be done. here is to you. >> so you are a person to have ways of communicating that is astonishingly powerful as the narrator and we have heard the voice of the john adams series of ten birds to tell the stories. but tell the story on a page requires a certain mastery language tell us about the approach for language itself. >> i write everything i write many times over. because if somebody reads it back to you or if you read yourself you can hear when you are repeating or th

your districts is one of the most expensive in virginia to live. totally ashamed. >> i don't even know what to do with that. clearly, you are not a democrat. i am not making an apology for the fact that i am a democrat. i am proud of my party. unlike your party. holding this president and this administrationen accountable. that is our constitutional law. if you have a problem with that, maybe you want to make -- that is how it works. i do not think we have ever had a president with this kind of behavior in our office. he needs to be held accountable to it. just parts and politics. like you conveniently ignored that we had something called a molar report. bob mueller, lifelong republican he carefully delineated for the better part of two years. i report that it is deeply troubling. 180 pages. it talks about the connections with the russian government that are unique and unprecedented and deeply disturbing. could not prove criminal conspiracy, but they did not mean there were not lots of unusual and disturbing contacts between trump and paid official

all of this property have been followed by womanhood seen fit to petition the virginia legislature for private pension dreams were because of her sons allegedly collect. i think a better verb that amassed would even help on for dear life. of course the last piece of property that mary ellen and ship out it since she was three years old. she had already given the of the fuse to johnny. there's no evidence that the was ever a petition and there's no evidence she was the petition herself. only that she spoke often about her money worries. mary looked carefully, pinched pennies, worried about, much more as she got older. she never had much of a chance in life to be compliant. circumstances of her life didn't allow for it. her war experience did not soother or maker sweeter, but she wasn't inventing or difficulties. george historians have use their imaginations generously towards him but without exception about it impossible to bring any generosity or real scholarship to imagining his mothers life. what they've done is to repeat stories that were established in the '40s and 50s, particularl

through the citizenship process in virginia. individuals who were american citizens were being declared noncitizens by state election officials. being removed from the rolls. this is a problem congress needs to addressbecause the motor voter system is broken . it is not working because of technology changes in the last 30 years since motor voter 25 years since it was passed.so it is important i believe that only citizens the on the roles and their easy way to fix that. cooperate with state officials, federal governments, state officials cooperate to post registration to verify citizenship . allow states to use some form of citizenship verification thatis nonintrusive, easily salt . >> mister chairman, i deal back the balance of my time. >> thank you mister klein. miss cameron, you're recognized. >> the ranking members openly but evidence of disparate impact is not proof of discrimination and i have to differ based on our experience is in the commonwealth of pennsylvania. a decade ago pennsylvania's legislature and executives pas

i interviewed her and so obviously big one. >> virginia state legislature. >> two seats in virginia state house and two in senate to have control, that's a huge deal, after 2020 we do the census, we draw boundaries for congressional district, if virginia, if democrats control the state legislature in the state of virginia, for example, they can assure it's not gerrymandering. once it goes red it's hard to undo it. pick a women, any women, to give you a list amanda running against horrific women amanda chase. my kind of fight. amanda was young candidate and amanda chase, bigoted, hateful, victim-blaming. [laughter] >> there's just dozens of amazing -- so take a look at 2019 races. 86,000 seats up for grabs, more than 150 candidates on the ballot. lay it is ground work for 2020 and the work we do now will help the democratic president's nominee for president but anyone else. that's a longer answer. [inaudible] >> how do you -- >> that's a great question. >> it's an interesting things that most organizations do. we don't for a couple of reasons, state campaign law, the amount of money and le

wine in mclean, virginia, one in great falls virginia. unacceptable. this trauma needs to stop. the major city chiefs association american people have looked to thete united states congress and the white house for many years to take a leadership role in passing commonsense measures to keep firearms in the hands of law-abiding americans and out of the hands of those who will do harm to our families, friends, neighbors, and anyone that we love in our community. we urge you in the strongest possible terms to immediately act to reduce the trauma of the everyday gun violence and the slaughter of innocent people during what feels like a never ending episode of mass shootings in our country, in our schools, entertainment venues, places of worship, businesses andnd homes. .. requiring background checks for every firearm sale, but we believe that this is just a start of what needs to be done. we call on congress to move forward with broad legislative response and we call on the president to support this effort. the major city chiefs association joins the collective voices of millions of

. >> peter in alexandria, virgin virginia. >> caller: hi, peter and james. peter this is so funny, i actually called about seven years ago, you are interviewing a gentleman at the space museum. and my question is, thank you so much for cspan. mr. donovan, i wanted to get your views excuse me i'm a little nervous. on the nuclear rockets successful ground test in 1969 and part of the issue is that is being done at the marshall center and this is just an idea the particular idea that a rocket laboratory and what is needed instead of the current term of laboratory. i think we should upgrade everything to rocket laboratory and marshall to move marshall to california texas, or florida. i just want to get your opinion. >> host: peter in alexandria, virginia thank you. >> guest: there was some research and development into nuclear propulsion. it was abandoned, they stuck with chemical which they been using a course, but right now, of course they are thinking about going to mars and is a long, long way. 34 million miles. they're looking at other systems, ions, nuclea

for the high commissioner in virginia, human rights are personal. advancing rights and opportunities of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century but it is important to take a broad view of what is happening in the effort to continue to promote human rights worldwide. consider the recent report from the defense department inspector general on conditions at the refugee camp in syria where tens of thousands of women and children are being held in horrible conditions and lack of proper security has resulted in the spread of isis ideology by the women in the camp. we know that women play critical roles in violent extremism, both as perpetrators and as victims and we also know that women are often in a prime position to root out early signs of radicalization because women's rights and physical safety are often the first targets of fundamentalists yet too often our united states and our global counterterrorism strategies fail to enlist women to combat this radicalism. over the years the georgetown institute has helped build a compelli

. >> host: peter in alexandria, virginia, go ahead for your question for james donovan. >> caller: this is so funny. i actually called about six and years ago, you were interviewing a gentleman at the air and space museum. my question is similar for james donovan. i'm amazed i got through twice but thank you so much for c-span. mister donovan, i wanted to get your views, i'm a little nervous, a nuclear rocket successful ground tests in 1969. it is being done at the marshall center, just an idea if that particular, a rocket propulsion laboratory is needed instead of the current term, the jet propulsion laboratory, the rocket propulsion laboratory and marshall to move marshall to california, texas or florida. >> host: peter, in alexandria, virginia, thank you. >> guest: there was some research and development into nuclear propulsion. they stuck with chemical which they had been using, but right now they are thinking about going to mars. a long long way, minimum 34 billion miles. they are looking at other possible systems, ion, nuclear and a few others. i don't think they have made their d

. >> we are in virginia valley and we are in pastured livestock, think about tyson chicken houses and factories, so our animals are out on pasture and they move every day or every couple of days, -- >> they go where they want? >> no, they are controlled with high-tech electric fencing, we can be thankful for high-tech electric fencing so we can mimic choreography of migration times and steer them around the landscape to get the benefit that nature offered for long time before, you know, before domestic livestock were the norm. >> what are those benefits? >> well, in america, for example, you know, the big herds of bison built the deep soils of the prairies and where we live and the valley of virginia, kept it moving, native americans lit fires to attract them and to open up, you know, grazing areas and there was a plant that was quite -- quite well managed, managed and maintained, this was not a wilderness area, it was a very carefully managed landscape by both, you know, by both climate and people. and so by looking at that template and trying to duplicate it, commercial domestic mod

. >> guest: here in virginia shenandoah valley. think about tyson chicken houses in smithfield hog factories. our animals are all out on passenger and every day or every couple of days to go where they want. they are controlled with high-tech electric fencing that we can be very thankful. we have high-tech fencing to this weekend migrate with the modern technology. and we can steer them around the landscape to get the synergistic benefits of nature offered for a long time before the domestic livestock were the norm. >> host: what were those synergistic benefits? >> guest: in america for example, the big herds of bison built the deep prairies wher buy witprairies where welive in andy in virginia. they lit fires to attract them and open up grazing areas. so there was a plant symbiosis that was quite well-managed by both the client and the people. and so, by looking at that template, and trying to duplicate it on a commercial and domestic models we were able to bring back the abundance of us here prior to today. people don't realize t

. >> host: peter and alexandria virginia. mr. donovan. >> guest: there was research into the nuclear propulsion and they stuck with chemical which they haveon been using of cours. but right now, of course they are thinking about going to mars and it is a long way. gminimum of 34 mile 34 million . >> host: there's a potential thl return to theet moon. do you have an opinion aboutpi that? >> guest: some people say if we could just move on there's a lot of things you can do. >> host: dave is in vancouver washington. go ahead. this dovetails on us going back to the moon. moon. would we not need to go to the moon first before we go to mars to establish a research outpost that could develop fuel on the moon that would get us to mars that much easier because we are out of gravity area and secondly, the soviets propelled us with nick to do the apollo program. let's say the chinese put a man on the moon, would that motivate us to go forward with establishing the research outpost on the moon to go to mars? >> guest: they are not in the mid

evangelicals of virginia hated the idea had medicine two. if you read the memorial carefully, madison says things like general assessment hurt the diffusion of the spirited christianity and things like that. so madison actually argues that we don't want assessment because it hurts christianity. now he might've done that as a matter of rhetoric that if use that rhetoric, you thought it would be meaningful to virginia. colin: question sir. >> this is the question for both doctor hall who seems like he would be a christian i would want is my neighbor. the quicker and i come from a line of quaker. i'm trying to start a line of atheism in my family. and as a member of the freedom from religion foundation, both you i would like to comment about the religious rights and fundamentalists christian law who have perhaps had a great influence in the last presidential election and how that is hurt the country. >> all right [laughter] >> i teach at a quaker school though i am not currently worshiping. i am very sympathetic as for the founders. the founder

saw the beautiful campus there, and i was thinking maybe i might apply to university of virginia. he was stapgding right close to me and he was considerly shorter than i and he jammed his finger into my chest he said you're going yale and i don't it e hear anymore it be. [laughter] he didn't say let's sit down and talk about your innermost feelings it was a different approach and i never thought about going to university of virginia tben. again great teachers change the world. [laughter] i've been doing a collection of prominent story when figured in all, music, art, politics and who was the teacher that they gave credit for? being what they were in every single one of them had such a teacher and one of the most hovly of all what she had to say about her teachers, of course, she wound up being a teacher for quite a while. so i don't know how many teachers here but you're doing what needs to be done -- to you -- [applause] speaking of teaches i want to know what a you think about, i mean, you're a person who -- about has really two way of communicating you're hearing one way of com

in virginia. we found this out when it began to inquire about records regarding noncitizens. we found the commonwealth was canceling citizens. in some there are things congress can do. we examine the interplay between motor voter dmv laws and election officials. the dmv part of motor voter is hidden from the public. because congress gets it. secondly, congress shielded motor departments in that field should go away. third, they strengthen obligations for election officials to be transparent. we are currently suing the state of pennsylvania and texas and another one because they're not allowing public inspections of the public records. fourth congress should allow citizens and states to verify citizenship. thank you very much. >> thank you mr. adams. author of several recognized articles including growing threat, right to vote, noncitizen voting, and election day long the lines be sourced obligations. electorate law at columbia and served as an adjunct professor at the nyu school of law. law degree from columbia and she's also public interest fellow, received a master for the

even jock was in virginia hated that. they said things like general assessment, the spirited christianity and things like that. so they argue we don't want excitement because we don't want standard. if you use that rhetoric, you have to be meaningful to virginia. >> thank you. questions. >> this is for both doctor hall who seems like he would be a question and i come from a line of quaker and i'm trying to start a line of atheism in my family. as a member of the freedom of religion foundation, i'd like to, about the religious rights fundamentalists christian walk who have perhaps had a great influence in the last presidential election and how that has hurt the country. >> all right. [laughter] i teach i look quaker school but i'm very sympathetic to the founders, they built religious accommodations into the constitution itself. why they believe jesus said swear not at all, quakers do not swear off but we don't mind this. his in the u.s. constitution in article two, the choice to swear our firm. similarly james madison in

the gentleman from virginia. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i am grateful to you for holding this hearing today. an issue that has been in need of examination for some time. i'm hopeful after today's hearing we can act on some of the excellent ideas and many others that have been put forward on this committee. while the responsibility of carrying out elections is one of local state government, they do have a critical role to play as has been discussed. it is a fact that other countries are trying to interfere in u.s. elections. russia, most notably. we must remain vigilant. new threats will never cease and our nation must stay to ensure our elections stay secure. it is our duty to carry out that mandate and resist all forms of tyranny that written our freedom. i have listened with interest. it seems we moving into different directions. one towards more use of technology. decentralization, block chain. i am curious about real time testing of block chain in west virginia. your your neighboring state, west virginia had apparent success in using t

one of the main characters is now a congresswoman in virginia who turned the red district blue and now she knows she has to raise $1 million she even made sure she had the network now somebody like catalina cruz did not have that powerful network so she was relying on small donations ten or $20 in the beginning her primary opponent that was the establishment had exponentially fewer and that this was a grassroots effort and volunteers on her campaign to do something as major as fundraising but it is interesting to see how they fought and in some cases it was the organization and she came to the city to meet with the democratic donors when she cannot get the people invested with all of these different meetings because people were focused on the governor you have to say that it's nice to do that you should do for charity but it's important for democracy for a lot of these policy issues they are invested in. >> so run for something exclusive like the legislature and below. to dogcatcher and corner. people don't care. and it is especially hard if you are a woman of color. not only do not ha

bad asses actually there is for because abigail was forgot to be called a bad ass because she is from virginia and she is white. [laughter] i'm from philly so i can use those terms. [laughter] that is the inception of the idea. >> also the idea of people who have served then running for congress to the country was a strong powerful message in the last election and there are those commonalities among people who have served that run pretty deep so when we got together not only did it not only makes sense but we really enjoyed each other and purposely got offices as close as we could in a lottery system and spent time together and said is it time to go out tonight? and as i think often happens in some women's organizations you go from having a close working relationship to be each other support and friend so makes it a pleasure frankly to be on the normal committees. >> and for all of this to happen there was an element that we all experience on the campaign trail talking about your background and somebody comes up to you and says you are kind of a bad ass with a little bit of interest because so

i am from west virginia just 20 miles from the potomac. with three sets of black people and they live 30 miles from where i was born. so in virginia until june 201863 so that when they were free they had a thousand acres of land so what do you do? they all stayed in the south the only reason why they left this out is because it had a long continuous that never went anywhere. >> i say in the book it is unlikely that plessy case would have been brought other than new orleans. because it was brought by a mixed-race group of three blacks that have been freed for 100, years. >> and they spoke french. >> so now we will start taking questions so the whole point is to learn from history and inform us where we are right now. so to look at the story of reconstruction and thend idea of civil rights progress by a huge backlash. i'm not naming thei' - - naming names but what is the solution since you are the experts you have a great documentary how do r we redeem the redemption? that is an excellent question. i believe and i definitely think the emerge

of getting to the supreme court, you are still a very junior justice, you are assigned to write the virginia military institute case striking down their policy of exclusion of women. you would not have gotten that assignment but for your female colleague, justice o'connor, right? >> right. seniority is a very big workplace. justice o'connor would have been way ahead as he chose an opinion writer. but she's a groove should write this opinion so it is thanks to justice o'connor that i got to write the decision in the virginia military institute case. >> you wrote in that case that most women, indeed most men would probably not want to meet the rigorous demands, but those extraordinary individuals that can and wants to meet those demands should be permitted to. so, you are invited a little over a year ago i think to give a speech. how did that go? >> they invited me toto come and the 20th anniversary of the decision. my calendar was too crowded, so it turned out to be the 21st anniversary, and you were with me for that change and the school has been enormous. the commanding officer was so proud

other in virginia. lincoln wrote to grant and said, hold on with the bulldog grip. so we like to say that even lincoln knew. [laughter] so we have a new mississippi state bulldog. to tell the truth, we do is we then tried to tell the truth that in addition to grants historical connection to mississippi, mississippi state made the best offer of a lot of different institutions around the country to provide institutional support for this grant presidential library. msu president mark aquino came up with the idea for this book and when you look at the copy of the cover you will notice that the book has been written by a number of people, mark aquino has had a chapter, chief justice of rhode island retired frank williams two grand editors. we wrote this book, which every freshman now will be getting and discussing over the years. the thing that we tried to do you can see it's a thin book. knowing what students are like we wanted something for him so they might actually read it. [laughter] but in any case, re

next, the associate superintendent of mcdowell school in west virginia. in her 16th year as an educator and as a high school administrator in charge from riverview high school. doctor berger works as an associate superintendent at the schools and serves as the coordinator and works extensively to support the development of comprehensive student support. doctor barker earned her bachelor's in english and completed a masters of arts from westst virginia university in secondary education. doctor barker is here for the leadership university. the stat state superintendent of public instruction in oklahoma was elected to serve as the state superintendent november 2014 and began his second term in january of this year. they revealed t the ineffective exams in the accountability system and student safety. to emphasize on the collaboration and focus on ensuring children have equal access to opportunities, strength and academic standards and testing evaluation sent from statewide attention to the needs of the children where they are. and finally, not the least, the

i healed. >> the chair recognizes the representative from virginia. for five minutes. >> thank you, i greatly appreciate it. you and i spoke last year discussing the concerns that my constituents have and i was going to ask you some questions and update me on what you're doing related to pipelines and the cyber security and coordination. you answered the questions earlier when ranking member upton was asking questions. i appreciate the answers, i will skip those questions i would have asked. i don't ask the same questions over again. if anybody back home is watching this, i encourage you to flip back a bit and look at your answers to ranking member upton in regards to the coordination you're all doing, it sounds like you're in the right direction. you have anything to add? >> the short answer is yes, it's demonstrated through the exercises and the information is also shared through the meetings that we have when the government partners are there and talking about the physical threats that happened with the voluntary reports and fbi is there and that h

future of representative democracy at an event hosted by the college of william & mary in williamsburg, virginia. this is about an hour and a ha half. >> it's my great honor to welcome our distinguished guests, so many here today at william & mary and to our beloved kaplan arena. i'm enormously proud to introduce our keynote speaker today, william & mary's 24th chancellor the honorable robert m gates. chancellor gates is the model for statesmanship we look to now and to the future. he's dedicated his career to service, serving eight u.s. presidents. he leads with a restless and compassionate

i remember virginia fox, warren and lou. and i remember your sons and your daughters, your parents and siblings and all first responders. i remember all, i remember them all and pray with you for them today. some people did something said a freshman congresswoman in minnesota to support the creation of cair. today i'm here to respond to you exactly who did what to whom. madam, objectively speaking, we know who and what was done. there is no uncertainty about that. why your confusion? on that day 19 islamic terrorists, members of al qaeda killed over 3,000 people and caused billions of dollars of economic damage. is that clear? but ass to whom, i was attacked. your relatives and friends were attacked. our constitutional freedoms were attacked and our nation's founding on judeo christian principles did. that's what some people did. got that now? we're here today congresswoman to tell you who and the squad just who did what to whom. show respect in honoring them. american patriotism in your position demand it. for god and count

[applause] and virginia marta velasquez founder of an organization based in house honduras that provides legal and psychological services to women who have survived violence. known as à [applause] i wish to offer each of you are most sincere gratitude for your leadership and for this opportunity to recognize your exceptional contributions and accomplishments. the award named for secretary clinton recognizes her pivotal role in the promotion of women's rights and her distinguished career of public service. words she offered in 1985 in beijing and are now famous address on women's rights anime, are convening today. she said then and i quote "if women are healthy and educated, their families will flourish. if women are free from violence, their families will flourish. if women have a chance to work and earn as full and equal partners in society, their families will flourish. and when families flourish, communities and nations will flourish. ". [applause] 16 years after that seminal speech in december 2011 on this very stage she joined us for the launch of the u.s. national action plan for

the banks of the potomac and to get the session of lands from the maryland general assembly in the virginia general assembly and have congress accept that and build capital there. in the politics around that and around the question of the revolutionary war is fascinating. but there's also the question of the committee system, how would congress operate. what would the rules be. what would it do with all of the debts that were bequeathed to the first congress from the revolutionary war about a standing army. about a government and then about a bill of rights because the bill of rights had not been adopted yet. would there be a bill of rights in madison came the champion but he was a reluctant champion. at first he didn't really think we needed it but he became a champion of the bill of rights which of course had been demanded by the antifederalists were afraid that the central government would become too powerful. and too overweening and violate the rights of the people. it's a fascinating story with incredible people in there including elbert jerry the author of the first known gerrymander

my father was best at west virginia university. when i was a teenager, i went for the annual eve party we have the marks the end of our madonna. normally we would all mixed together just like we are in the room, men and women sitting together, that was together, husbands wives next to each other. but one year then we were told as we walked into the front, women over there. we were sent as women and girls into the little studio apartment, you know, , that the graduate students lived in. and there the men would bring the food that all the women had cooked and leave it at the door, knocked on the door and run away, as it they were to look at us and then turned to stone. because saudi students have come to campus and they had brought with them suitcases of their koran and their interpretation of islam, this wahhabism that sara talks about. and what is happening in america that is such importance to all of you are interested in our political system is that first the salaries and other government qatar and also now the current government

so it's thanks to justice o'connor that i got to write the decision in the virginia military institute case. >> so you wrote in that case that most, most women -- indeed, most men -- would probably not want to meet the demands, the rigorous demands of the portfolio -- m.i., but those extraordinary individuals who can meet those demands and want to meet those demands should be permitted to. so you were invited to vmi a little over a year ago, i think, to give a speech. how did that go? >> in fact, they had invited me to come toll vmi at the 20th -- to come to vmi at the 20th anniversary of the decision. my calendar was too crowded, so it turned out to be the 21st anniversary. and you were with me -- >> yes. >> -- for that. the change in that school has been enormous. the commanding officer was so proud of his women cadets. they live in the same quarters that the men live in, but they were so enthusiastic. many of them were in the engineering program. one wanted to be an atomic scientist. the school, by admitting women, they were able to upgrade their applicant pool considerably -- [laug

rochelle bractney is the chief of police in charlottesville, virginia. previously she served for 30 years with the pittsburgh bureau of police. she was the first african-american woman to oversee a special operations division. she received her b.a. and m.a. from carnegie mellon university and phd from robert morris university. she is a graduate of the stillal fbi come -- now -- national fbi academy in virginia. this --next guest, served with the consumers union. mrs. randall received a b.a. from university of southern california and jd from george washington university. amy swearer is a senior legal policy analyst in the center for judicial studies at the heritage foundation. previously she held positions with the charles koch institute and the lancaster nebraska public defender's office. she received or bachelor of science in criminal justice and her jd from the university of nebraska. diana muller is the founder of the grass roots initiative to bring one woman from every state to washington, dc to meet with legislators on behalf of gun owners. she is a

so that was an amazing partnership between "the washington post" and a small west virginia paper whose community was totally torn apart by ipo addiction. yeah, i think that we should be partnering more with local news big outlets. i think that would be something that would be really cool to do. >> and mentioned this briefly, going off that, i think that attention could be the answer to both. so news organizations paying attention to diversity, how can you help. at abc we have fellowships, paid internships and we're in touch with different schools throughout the country who we hire and your second part of the question, how do we cover the entire country instead of the big cities. >> at abc we're lucky we have affiliates from across the country and stringers and reporters from everywhere. i think other companies who don't have that should pay attention and start relationships, you know, with other outlets in smaller parts and say, have the pulse on the local news there. i think that's a responsibility up to the organization. >> and there are that are doing this, like some npr affiliates

virginia ormiston. kevin o. rourke. plonk ortego-campos. alexander ortiz. james marie. >> amelio pete ortiz. david ortiz. and my brother daniel. we miss you and love you and we keep you alive and the victims of 9/11. please, never forget. and my brother, my big brother, joseph john henson free. i go by the memorial every day on my way to work and like all of us do i know he would want me to take a moment to say i am proud of you mom, dad to have our ups and downs but we are there for each other and extremely proud of us and my little nephew who isn't so little anymore how proud he is a view. do great. i would be remiss if i did mention two of his best friends. we set up a beautiful golf outing every year to celebrate my brother's life had been so much you and your beautiful wife, thank you. and i brother's best friend who's been like a second big brother to me. i would be remiss if i didn't mention my friends. my brother said i have the best friends in the world and he was right. and maybe you can cindy. whole life.ou my my eyes were opened to see what i ha

in virginia alone more than one million people live with preexisting conditions. before the affordable care act, an insurance company had every right to deny these individuals coverage, charge them unaffordable premiums, or when they got that condition, terminate their plan. i think we all agree we can't go back to those days. the administration knows perfectly well that these junk plans don't offer real benefits. they've been warned repeatedly by hundreds of patient groups, physicians, hospitals, and insurers, including the american heart association, the aarp, the american academy of pediatrics just to name a few of the organizations who have come out against these plans. all of these stakeholders are telling us the same thing, the trump administration's plan will weaken consumer protections and dispoe portion natalie hurt -- disproportionately hurt sick and older americans. my republican colleagues insist that they actually support protections for folks with preexisting conditions. okay. with this c.r.a., i think there's a chance to prove it. this resolution we

ingrida barker associate superintendent of schools in west virginia. she is in her 16th year as an educator. she is best six of which were teachingd to at sandy river middle school and three spent as a high school administrator in charge of curriculum and instructions at riverview high my youngest happened to be public school teachers. servesly, dr. barker as the title ix coordinator and works extensively to support the development of comp range of student supports in the county. dr. barker earned her bachelor's french,n english and and completed a master of arts degree from west virginia university in secondary education. dr. barker received a doctoral degree in leadership studies at marshall university. ms. joy hofmeister -- did i get right? , she hasing office released a more user-friendly system and bolstered student onety, with an emphasis ensuring children have access to opportunities to achieve .cademic success she has revamped teacher evaluation and brought attention to the need for trauma informed instructional practices that meet children whe

but then there some bad news, which is a study out of west virginia showed that fewer than one in ten people who had a non-fatal overdose of opioid actually got treated with buprenorphine. fewer than one in ten. so 90% plus people are not getting medication that actually reduce the risk of death by 50% or more. i'm not an addiction medical doctor. i'm a pediatrician or my wife is an addiction medical doctor. when we were in middle school i thought she was going to be, like i said why, microphone, she's like a saint. she is going to take care of patient and all the patients are going to die. in fact, i thought it was hopeless. i thought was hopeless and about as a pediatrician i would be getting all kinds of presents for my patients. you, because i be such a great nutrition. fast-forward and pair turkey busy to give presents to the pediatrician, why wasn't that good of a pediatrician. [laughing] my wife supports people in treatment and recovery. she treats people from the brink of death and from homelessness, from hiv. she helps them get into treatment come counseling ever patients do

i'm from west virginia. so i am from a extremely conservative place being a liberal. so don't tell me after this. >> is fine, we love you. >> i come from a city that 26 people in one day died from opioids. and the main opioid epidemic is, stems from huntington west virginia if you've ever seen heroine or any of those documentaries that we are known for my grandfather has been a preacher for 60 years . he has been fired from eight different churches for his beliefs, anywhere from allowing someone to be a part of the church to drink to allowing women to read scripture. so my question was during your research, do you think that in this type of christian community that churches who are trying to be more accepting can survive? >> first of all, thank you so much for talking and sharing and that's so interesting to hear about your dad or your grandfather and it sounds like he's a really cool guy doing some really hard work inside of a place that is very resistant to change. i think what's dominating our culture right now is the idea that when we say christian, what comes to

nordquist of virginia to be united states executive director. the presiding officer: the senator from south dakota. mr. thune: madam president, it was a good august. while i head back to south dakota almost every weekend, august gives me the chance to spend multiple uninterrupted weeks back home visiting with south dakotans and traveling to the far corners of the state. august is also fair season in south dakota. and there is nothing better, madam president, than a south dakota fair. this year i got to attend the south dakota state fair, the brown county fair, the empire fair, the turner county fair, the mccook county fair to name a few on the list. as usual i had a great time at all of them. of course, the people are the best part of the fair. although i have to say that the fair food is not far behind. i'm still enjoying at this late date the tubby burger that i had at the brown county fair, and i would tell you, madam president, that they don't have burgers like that here in washington, d.c. madam president, agriculture is the lifeblood of so

in 1861 a free african-american woman mary peek top 20 students under an oak tree near union base in virginia. that tree still stands tall and mighty on the campus of hampton university. [applause] in the face of hardship and painful injustice your school rose to the pinnacle of academia, becoming many of america's finest and most acclaimed institutions of higher learning. tremendous respect everybody has for the work that many of you have done, almost everybody in this room has done. i can tell you, hbcus graduates have uplifted and improved every teacher in american society, your holes came those like booker t. washington, rosa parks, ida b. wells, supreme court justice thurgood marshall, mathematician catherine johnson, acclaimed inventor lonnie johnson, air force general daniel james junior, nfl hall of fame jerry rice and legendary coach eddie robertson. he was a good coach. [applause] he won more games than anybody is true? and by the way we have scott turner, speaking of good football players. he is leaving such a great charge with the opportunities. thank you. [applause] great gentlem