1994 federal assault weapons ban. This is two hours. All. I apologize for being late. I really dont have any opening remarks and i welcome all of our colleagues here to these introductions andill turn it over to senator feinstein. Mister chairman. As you can see we have four nominees before the committee today. Id like to welcome the majority leader, thank you for being here. We have not had a Senate Confirmed director of the atf since march 2015. And in fact, weve only had one confirmed head of the agency since the director position was subject to Senate Confirmation in 2006. So im really very pleased that members of this committee will have the ability to question mister canterbury, not only on his record but also on his priorities for combating gun violence should he be confirmed to this position. I really have been at this for so long and ive seen us experience so many endless tragedies at the hands of firearms. From parkland to newtown, from San Bernardino to sutherland springs, f
Department on august 21, 2017, after unanimous confirmation in the United States senate. As that of the office of legal policy, assistant attorney general williams oversees the departments policymaking functions and serves as a covice chair of the attorney general task force on religious liberty. She bravely serve as special counsel for the United States Senate Committee on the judiciary can work in private practice and serve as a law clerk to judge Richard Wesley of the United States court of appeals for the second circuit. Please join me in welcoming to the stage assistant attorney general beth williams. [applause] thank you, john, for your kind introduction. Im honored to beer to facilitate a a discussion about the administrations efforts to combat antisemitism. Im also honor to serve in the departments stand for the rights of all americans including those of jewish faith to worship and safety into practice their religion freely. As we were going the last panel one important way tha
Policy beth williams. Assist at that particular time attorney general williams was sworn into the department on august 21st, 2017 after unanimous confirmation in the United States senate. As the head of the office of legal policy, assistant attorney general williams overseas the policymaking functions and serves as the covice chairman of the attorney general on religious liberty. A. A. G. Williams served as special council for the United States Senate Committee on the judiciary. Worked in private practice and served as a law clerk to richard c. Wesley of the United States court of appeals for the second circuit. Please join me in welcoming to the stage assistant attorney general beth williams. [applause] thank you, john, for your kind introduction. Im honored to be here to fa still tate a instruction of the administrations effort to ombat antisemitism. Also want people to worship freely. One important way that the department protects those rights is by investigating and prosecuting hat
And now on american tv, we continue our special series on speech that defined a presidency this week a look at the 863 gettysburg address. Now it was only 3 minutes in length, but it proclaimed a new birth of freedom and defined Abraham Lincolns legacy in so many ways youll. Hear an actor read the entire address and thats by a discussion on its historical significance. This begins now for a score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield that war. We have to dedicate a portion of that as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate. We cannot consecrate. We cannot
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