Distinction or previous posts here and we appreciate your willingness to serve. Our goal is to enable the committee to consider your qualifications and to allow for deliberation by our members. She has provided substantive written questions. For thoughtful deliberation by our members. Shes provided substantive written questions answers to more than 90 questions presented by the committee and its members. Today, of course, members will be able to ask additional questions and to hear from ms. Elwood in this open session. Courtney comes in front of the committee with the distinguished legal career. After graduating Yale Law School in 1994, courtney clerkd for the u. S. District court of appeals for the Fourth Circuit after which she went to clerk for chief Justice William rehnquist of the Supreme Court sht she then took a job as the associate of kellogg, hub better, hanson in the same firm where she is now a partner. January, 2001, she left the firm to serve as associate counsel to the pr
Welcome, everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome to the American Association to the advancement of science or sss, as we call it and welcome to the kickoff event for the historic charge for science and were at aaas. Its our distinct pressure to introduce our speaker dr. John holdren hes the professor of environmental policy at the Kennedy School of government and a professor of Environmental Science and policy in the department of earth and Planetary Sciences at harvard university. In 1995 john gave acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the pugwash conferences on science and world affairs, an International Organization of scientists and public figures in which he served in various leadership positions. More recently for the last eight years, john was president obamas science adviser and director of the office of science and Technology Policy where he was my boss for a while. John is the longest serving president ial science adviser in the history of the position. His
Affordable care act. I shared ideas on how to improve health care. Other speakers included representatives from planned parenthood and the Service Employees International Union. This is an hour and 15 minutes. Let me first introduce myself. I am gary rzeznik. I have the honor and privilege of being the mayor of wilson son honors. Wilton manors. I would like to open my City Commission meeting with a pledge to the flag and some good news. If you could join me in a pledge to the flag. A fledpledge allegiance to the of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. As i indicated, i also like to share a little bit of good news. We had some excellent news a couple hours ago. Senator frank artiles, from the state senate resigned. I dont know if it is appropriate but i dont think there is any room in the Florida Legislature who makes bigoted, racism and homophobic remarks. So im happy to see
InterNational Churchill society. The result of a collaboration between the society and the George Washington university, the library is the First Research facility in the Nations Capital to go into the study of Winston Churchill. Here students and visitors have access to a vast range of primary and secondary materials, an interactive touch screen exhibit, and starting next month, displays of original manuscripts and artifacts. As i have said many times before, the nclc is more than just a place for study. It is also a venue for discussion and debate. And in the short time since we opened our doors, we have explored not just the legacy of Winston Churchill, but the very nature of leadership itself. I hope youll return on april 26th at 6 00 p. M. , when we welcome former British Foreign secretary david owen, now lord owen, who will discuss his new book cabinets finest hour the hidden agenda of may 1940 and also the current state of brexit. Let me take this opportunity to encourage you to
Were not always being taped live by cspan. Were delighted to have them all here today. This is a particularly exciting entry in our longstanding Public Health rounds that are sponsored by our Health Society and medicine program. The focus today is the inaugural report of the aspen Health Strategy group. The name, Health Strategy group, is taken from the aspen Strategy Group, for those of you familiar with American Foreign policy, you probably know about the aspen Strategy Group. It is undoubtedly the leading Bipartisan Group of its kind looking at Critical Issues of Foreign Policy and we establish the Health Strategy group with that in mind to bring together remarkable people from across different sectors in the American Health and medical landscape to look at the most pressing problems and to come together with different perspectives to make recommendations for change. This particular Strategy Group is cochaired by former secretaries of hhs, and also former governors, both kathleen se