Employment and where there are still challenges to overcome. We will hear from members of our military and their families. Youll hear about their struggles and their triumphs, as they navigate the transitions to civilian life. We will get a first look at a road map created by the Bush Institute and hiring our heroes. The roadmap serves as a guide or the men and women of our military as they seek meaningful, longterm employment as civilians. We know that securing military meaningful, longterm employment and experiencing a Successful Transition from military to civilian life, go handinhand. Our fellow citizens have answered the call to support our veterans and military families with opportunity. Over the past five years, over 2000 businesses were part of the coalitions in this room, hiring our heroes, the hundred thousand job coalition, led by j. P. Morgan chase, blackstone, as well as organizations like bank of america, have committed to hiring veterans. Our government partners at the v
We are going to have a great conference. This morning, we heard a anthemul version of our by katie huffman. Her credits and awards are far too numerous to list here. She has starred on stage and television. She is best known for her role as ula in the smash hit the producers, and she remains one of broadways bright stars. But she is also a passionate advocate for veterans. When i called katie and asked her to come share her talent with us here today and i told her what you all were up to, if myaid, and i quote, little boys can help in any way, of course i will be there. After you heard her this morning, we all know she doesnt have a little voice. But katy wanted to be here, and ladies and gentlemen, ooa purrington,n please welcome back to the stage my friend, miss katie huffman. [applause] music plays] nine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord he is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored he has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible, swift sw
You are still figuring out what needs to be done and you are needing an assistant. Men have to be lead parents or fully equal coparents. For our complete schedule, go to cspan. Org. We have more on the u. S. Chamber of commerces summit on Job Opportunities for veterans. Up next, former first lady laura bush. She specifically focuses on Military Spouses and the challenges they face. Attendees also hear from congressional medal of honor recipient dakota meyer, labor secretary tom perez and joint chiefs of staff vice chair admiral james winfield. This is just under two hours. Good morning, im the executive director of the institute for military families and i would like to welcome my friend mark here from deloitte and ill i guess ill say first its humbling and honestly intimidating to follow president bush but is to spend just ten minutes talking about the collective and collaborative action. A recap of where weve been relative to vets em ploimt and also what may lie ahead. Challenge chal
Littleknown aspects on the lives and leadership of Union General ulysses s. Grant and then on real america a 1965 Progress Report on nasas projects including the manned Space Program and the mariner 4 flyby of mars and just before 9 00 writer and awardwinning documentary filmmaker rick burns on how the public learns about history through film and tell vision. American history tv, all weekend, and on holidays, too, only on cspan3. We have more now from the recent u. S. Chamber of comerlss daylong summit called Mission Transition creating Employment Opportunities for post9 11 veterans and military families. Up next companies such as Jpmorgan Chase, uber, usaa and others took part in a series of discussions on the Job Opportunities available and how to help veterans transition to civilian life. This is about an hour 40 minutes. My name is susanne clark. Im executive Vice President of the u. S. Chamber of commerce, and let me be the officially the 12th person to welcome you all here to thi
To the new communications and transportation capabilities that weve developed. Given the shifting culture and those expectations for speed and ontime delivery, im reluctant. You have to look at the economics of all of this and the trade offs and costs, but i hate to see the Postal Service give up one, two, three. Thank you. Mr. Miller. Mr. Chairman two things. One, as i recollect, the rational for this change in Service Standards was developed after i left. I dont know the details of it. I hesitate to answer because without having time to analyze the data. Second, there is a trade off obviously. You cant do all things for all people. You have to make some choices here. Service standards should be an input into the question of plant and logistical rationalization it seems to me. I just dont have i dont have my hands on the information necessary i understand. Everything else equal. I think theres something nice about having as you characterize, a one, two, three kind of standard. You wou