We call to order. Thank you to my colleagues for attending, and for our collection to look at. Were glad to have you and several two people, but im confident you will be able to be the man at the microphone here. This is your First Official appearance before the senate rules committee, im grateful to have you with us. It is historic and a number of ways, the first African American secretary to lead the smithsonian institution, as well as the first Museum Director who was later appointed secretary and around 74 years. Hes a historian, something i really enjoy, and he really understands, so its a great combination of things. This is the fourth position the secretary has had at the smithsonian, something i dont believe any of your predecessors could claim. In 1978, he began his smithsonian career at the national air and space museum. 11 years later, he joined the National Museum of American History, at the most recently served as the founding director of the National Museum of African Ame
We call to order. Thank you to my colleagues for attending, and for our collection to look at. Were glad to have you and several two people, but im confident you will be able to be the man at the microphone here. This is your First Official appearance before the senate rules committee, im grateful to have you with us. It is historic and a number of ways, the first African American secretary to lead the smithsonian institution, as well as the first Museum Director who was later appointed secretary and around 74 years. Hes a historian, something i really enjoy, and he really understands, so its a great combination of things. This is the fourth position the secretary has had at the smithsonian, something i dont believe any of your predecessors could claim. In 1978, he began his smithsonian career at the national air and space museum. 11 years later, he joined the National Museum of American History, at the most recently served as the founding director of the National Museum of African Ame
The Christian Science monitor, he was asked about tuesdays elections in kentucky, virginia, mississippi and new jersey as well as the impeachment inquiry. Good morning. Im linda feldman. Washington bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Our guest is tom perez, chairman of the Democratic National committee. This is his third appearance on a monitor breakfast. Welcome, chairman perez, and congratulations on last night. For his background, chairman perez grew up in buffalo, new york, the son of immigrants from the dominican republic. He earned his bachelors degree from Brown University and a large degree from harvard. After graduating, he served in a number of government positions, wasked for a federal judge a federal prosecutor, advised senator kennedy, was in hhs under president clinton, became the first hispanic member of the perez was elected chairman of the Democratic National committee, which brings us to today. Now for the ground rules. We are on the record here. Please, no
My friend amy klobuchar. Thank you so much, deborah. It is so great to be here with all of you. Especially, did we not pick the best day . The sun is out. The leaves are still beautiful. We had a National History last a victory last night across the country. I think thats a good place to start. First of all, in New Hampshire, the mayor here in concorde was reelected. We are happy about craig in manchester. We had eight out of 10 of the mayors races that went democratic in the state of New Hampshire, in the major places. Big excitement in laconia for what happened. Of take it out of New Hampshire for a second, not that we should. But i was thinking about this on the way here. I filed for president today to get on the ballot in New Hampshire. With the secretary of state who was delightful. Course, allugh, of the paths. I saw the picture of Walter Mondale icefishing, all the past primaries and what had happened. He was very good at not only telling me historical facts, but also filling me
[applause] good afternoon, everyone. As we settle in i often pick a word for the day. A kind of how i govern myself often times and my frame of mind. But today im going to take an image of the day if you look at your screen, one of our commissioners shared with me this image and i think it sets the tone and stage and underscores the importance of why we are here. This is a chinese book for kindergartners and even if you dont speak chinese, circled r. Two letters, ai. Kindergarten textbook. The senator talked about us getting ready from grade school to graduate school. Now we are talking about kindergarten or even pre k. If we are going to keep ahead and stay number one when it comes to ai so i just want to start with this image because again it really for me underscores the urgency of why this commission was formed and why its so important as we are here today. We have a broa had a broad mandh concrete steps the government should take to build and maintain a Machine Learning work force