Amendment. Always. [applause] my administration has also curtailed harmful and intrusive use of federal consent decrease which wrongly give meddlesome officials in washington, d. C. , immense authority to tie down local Police Departments and make it very difficult to do their work. No longer will federal bureaucrats micromanage your local police. We will work with upon request local police to help them, not to hinder them. And were waiting for a call from chicago because there is is no place we would rather help than chicago. To reduce people going back to prisons and help nonviolent inmates successfully rejoin society. Last year we passed historic bipartisan criminal justice reform. It has been very successful. They have been trying to get it passed for a long time. We had conservatives. Connell President Trump addressing members of the police force in his first visit to chicago since he took office. The president as you heard on fox business taking aim at major issues facing the cit
Again so thank very much. The first time i met tim smith was 455th anniversary in the Vicksburg Campaign, and i went for the American Battlefield trust along with chris white out to do a series of videos. And so i meet tim on Champion Hill on the anniversary of the battle, which, as a civil war nerd, i was totally out about. Right. But its not that its even worse than that because i packed a whole suitcase of tim smith books for him to sign. So im like, tim smith, so glad to meet you. Sign my books. Yeah. Total fanboy going on at the moment and tim was super gracious and very kind about it and since then we have grown to become friends and he is truly the epitome me of the gentleman and the scholar. But hes the southern gentleman and the scholar. So everything he says is not only kind and polite, but with a really quaint drawl, which is wonderful and he is so gracious with his time. Hes been deeply, deeply invested in his series about the Vicksburg Campaign. If you havent had the oppor
The first time i met tim smith was 455th anniversary in the Vicksburg Campaign, and i went for the American Battlefield trust along with chris white out to do a series of videos. And so i meet tim on Champion Hill on the anniversary of the battle, which, as a civil war nerd, i was totally out about. Right. But its not that its even worse than that because i packed a whole suitcase of tim smith books for him to sign. So im like, tim smith, so glad to meet you. Sign my books. Yeah. Total fanboy going on at the moment and tim was super gracious and very kind about it and since then we have grown to become friends and he is truly the epitome me of the gentleman and the scholar. But hes the southern gentleman and the scholar. So everything he says is not only kind and polite, but with a really quaint drawl, which is wonderful and he is so gracious with his time. Hes been deeply, deeply invested in his series about the Vicksburg Campaign. If you havent had the opportunity to read those books
Im the chair of the special Investigative Committee and thanks for joining us for this very special book for him. What i want to do now is turn this over. As you know the American Veteran centers presenting the Andrew Goodpaster award and i want to turn it over to jim roberts. [applause] thank you very much tom peter. And officers of the army and navy club thank you for being our partners for this evenings lecture. Ladies and gentlemen on behalf of my colleagues at the American Studies Center i welcome you to the armynavy club for the presentation of the eighth annual Andrew Goodpaster award named after he read rate american and presented to another Great American Lieutenant Colonel ralph peters retired. Before her proceed further i would like to say that we are honored by the presence of Andrew Goodpasters granddaughter and her husband matt. Would you please stand. [applause] is great to have representation as we have always had from the goodpaster family here. I would also like to th
Good morning, were placed to welcome back a good friend, dr. David shulkin. She last time you appeared before our committee you were in the virginia undersecretary for health and now kicked upstairs after a nance confirmation vote and that says a lot in this political environment. So congratulations. You have a great background in the philadelphia area, just learned you were in marstown and you certainly bring lat of experience to the job and although im sure these days that the challenges are very dawning for you daunting for you. This hearing is unusual. Rather than the typical Budget Hearing we have at this time of year, were limited to a discussion of the skinny budget, the skinny budget materials the onb sent to the hill in march. They twopage entry for the va doesnt give us much to go on in terms of Program Priorities but the skinny budget gives us the administration is proposing a 4. 4 billion 6 funding increase for the agency and addition theres 2. 9 billion proposed in new man