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Our website on all of these occasions. In house, wee would ask that courtesy checks that our mobile devices up in silence and turned off as we prepared to begin. For those watching online, youre welcome to spend send questions and comments at any time emailing speaker at heritage. Org. Leading our discussion this afternoon is peter brookes, the senior fellow for National Security affairs and Foreign Policy. Asis also in his fifth term a member of the congressional u. S. China Economic Security r...

Thank you all for joining us here at the National Center for the preservation of democracy. I am the associate publisher of zocalo public square. I want to begin by thanking our hosts, the Japanese American National museum and a big thanks to cspan for recording tonights program for a later broadcast. [applause] here are mission is to connect people to ideas and to each other. We are a Nonprofit Organization publishing an online ideas magazine and providing live events of that examine essential ...

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Vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change his or her vote . If not, the yeas are 51. The nays are 49. The concurrent resolution as amended is agreed to. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell tonight we completed the first step toward replacing our broken tax code by passing a comprehensive fiscally responsible budget that will help put the federal government on a path to balance. The budge...

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May be a real victory for short people. Marys book, in the kirby lobby, thank you for sharing. Thanks very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] next, Melvin Urofsky from the bill of rights book festival, talks about the role of dissent and the Supreme Court. He has an extraordinary array of publications in addition to his definitive biography of brandeis, a life. He has written books on american zionism and his latest book which we are here to discuss is so wonderful and so timely, so prov...

Its not a coincidence that its the First Amendment to our constitution. And its not a coincidence that the terrorists chose an element of the press in france, the free press, as their target. Yet here in the United States and in europe theres there are signs, have been signs of a sort of unilateral intellectual disarmament in the face of these kinds of threats. We all saw the pusillanimous initial reaction of sony to the threats of the north koreans. We saw that the Associated Press pulled Charl...

Screeria nigeria. A look at the financial influence that outside groups have in todays elections. Next, a look at irs operations and how budget cuts have impacted the agencys ability to provided equate Customer Service. From washington journal this is an hour. At the time table nina olson the National Taxpayer advocate here to join us to talk about budget cuts and Customer Service. Related issues. Remind us what your job is. What does a National Taxpayer advocate do . The National Taxpayer advoc...