The Small Business committee will come to order. Before i give my Opening Statement in regard to today subject, i do want to express all of our concerns about the devastation thats taking place in kentucky. The flooding has been just horrible to see. We know these Natural Disasters are very, very hard on a community, and our prayers are with those that been victimized by the flooding. And we recognize there are many needs to how we respond as a nation to deal with this Natural Disaster. And i know our country will do everything we can to see the resiliency of the people in kentucky. I say that particularly knowing about our Ranking Member, senator paul, represents the great state of kentucky. And our thoughts are with them. I also recognize the Small Business relief is only one part of that recovery. I commend the sbas and asked that yesterday relief to Small Businesses, nonprofits, homeowners and renters in the region. Small Business Committee will work with the sba to get this inform
The Small Business committee will come to order. Before i give my Opening Statement in regard to today subject, i do want to express all of our concerns about the devastation thats taking place in kentucky. The flooding has been just horrible to see. We know these Natural Disasters are very, very hard on a community, and our prayers are with those that been victimized by the flooding. And we recognize there are many needs to how we respond as a nation to deal with this Natural Disaster. And i know our country will do everything we can to see the resiliency of the people in kentucky. I say that particularly knowing about our Ranking Member, senator paul, represents the great state of kentucky. And our thoughts are with them. I also recognize the Small Business relief is only one part of that recovery. I commend the sbas and asked that yesterday relief to Small Businesses, nonprofits, homeowners and renters in the region. Small Business Committee will work with the sba to get this inform
To the deaths of the people you can watch the full program and other programs of that u. S. President s on our website. Cspan. Org slash history. Were gonna start with our discussion of native americans this is one of two different discussions were having. Clear that we are not talking about the indian wars in this kind of lecture. Thats going to be in a couple of weeks. We are going to use that as a way to link kind of wars throughout the 19th century all the way up to, and including, the spanish american war. So, our focus is kind of around that. We are thinking more kind of legal policy and issues, and such. So, the goal is to think in that broad 19th century way. So, our start point is a couple key things we need to kind of deal with. The second half of our semester, one of the Big Questions we are picking up on is, what does it mean to be an american . All right, who cannot claim to be an american . Thats one of the Big Questions thats going to kind of take us through the end of o
Ambassador altidor. [applause] i know we had to leave shortly, but will turn to the next panel for judith to take over. Thank you very much, ambassador altidor for those remarks and being so candid and open with us and passionate about the future of haiti. Thank you. So now, we are going to turn to a panel of people who will bring some experience they have encountered working on the ground to tell you about some of the important accomplishments and challenges they are encountering. But pamela coe, have a coffee break at the end of it. At the panda will go for about an hour. Each of them will speak for about 20 minutes and then have a joint question and answer for both of them. You have their biographies and a section of paper attached to the program, so i wont read it all to you. But just to say that to my immediate left, its a great pleasure to have Elizabeth Lake with us who is Senior Vice President for advocacy and Governor Affairs for habitat for Humanity International. Youve all h
Constitution was put in place to guarantee that the power would not concentrate in washington. Because our founders knew that when political power concentrates, so this economic power. That is when you get the corruption and greed capitalism and major corporations coming to the politicians to help them compete rather than competing in the marketplace. What has happened over the last several decades in america is that centralized concept has changed and the fact that more and more power and control and money has come here trade that is why you see the exponential growth of lobbyist here in all sectors is because this is where the money is. This is where the power is. This is where we can change things. But that is never the way it was supposed to be. So those principles that began with individuals and individual liberty and decentralized political and economic power has been changed with policies and we detail it back from fdr all the way back up with what we have done with all good int