The committee on rules and administration will come to order. Good morning to i want to thank amy colleagues for joinin us today. Id like to welcome our nominees to todays hearing. Shawna bashard, sean cooksy and alan dixon are the president s nominees to be members of the federal elections committee. As our witnesses are joining us remotely i also understand that their families and friends are watching today and so i welcome them as well. This is a big responsibility, its a significant president ial nomination, and significant to the work of this committee. And i know youre proud of your Family Member as they have moved forward to this opportunity. Let me say a little bit about a couple of nominees and then im going to turn to another committee member, senator cruz to talk about the third nominee. Allen dickerson is the nominee to be a member of the federal Elections Commission for a term, expiring on april the 30th, 2025. Mr. Dickersons been practicing law for 20 years, primarily in
You could tell how violent that impact was. People shouldnt innocently an airplane ticket and then be in a flying coffin. Boeing installed a that had the power to take control of the plane from the pilots o without them even knowing about it. To find out what was given the power to try to kill them essentially until it finally succeeded. Will passengers be willing to fly again on its troubled max . 346 people died. Can you answer a few questions here about that . On a sunny march morning in addis ababa, the capital of ethiopia, a truly Remarkable Group of passengers converged on Bole International airport. 149 passengers from 35 Different Countries around the world got ready to board Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 heading off to nairobi. It was seemingly just packed with people who were on on Goodwill Missions of various kinds. There was a big environmental conference happening in nairobi, a u. N. Environmental conference. Amongst the 149 passengers were also nine ethiopians, and one of
Its also known for something else. These cabaret dancers are all transgender. Born as men, now women. Being one of the leading countries for sex reassignment surgery, thailand has a reputation as a transgender paradise. In certain sectors of the workforce and not just entertainment, they have a high profile. Their social skills are especially favored at supermarkets and restaurants. But there are many occupations are discrimination against transgeer people persists. One of them is in education. A teacher at a public elementary and secondary school, the school recently decided to dismiss her after she dressed as a woman in the classroom. A similar s story. Earnining a university educatio degree with excellent gradedes s not enough. Three years after graduation, she still makes a living as a tutor. But some in the Education Field are taking a stand against this kind of discrimination. A lecturer at thailands prestigious tamastat university. In 2015, she, then an assistant, took a promoti
Test test test test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 it isnt possible in Watkins Harper view to take a position that speaks to antiblack racism and doesnt speak to gender. Her often quoted line is, we are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity. This becomes the signature contribution that africanamerican women will make to this ongoing debate over Voting Rights that will continue i would say even until our own time. This view that it is not possible to parse out access to the polls, access to office holding, to jury service and more along manmade differences as she should put it like race and gender that she asks this, including stanton, including douglas, to really lift their sights to the interests of all humanity as she would put it and this is the position that black women will put on the table. They will not carry the day in the 1860s but they will press this position coming all the way through the 19th amendment and beyond. Ill leave it to ano
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