Good afternoon, everyone. First off, id like to thank the Clermont Institute for sponsoring this panel and for sponsoring all of its panels here at the american Political Science association, and thanks to all of you for coming to hear whether congress is still dysfunctional. I suspect you already know the answer to the question, but maybe well provide a fuller background and explanation about whats going on these days on capitol hill. Its no secret to political scientists that congress is a mess. Its no secret to the members of congress that congress is a mess. And nor is it a secret to the American People that congress is a mess. Routinely, congress polls very poorly when people are asked whether they approve of the job its doing, and this trend is bipartisan whether democrats or republicans control congress, most people assign it a failing grade. The trend is also long standing. Over the past Decade Congress has not once achieved an Approval Rating above 30 . It wasnt always this wa
The live from our International Use center in moscow. This is our t hello and welcome to the program. Russia is wanting nothing. European union is shooting itself in the thoughts for proposal to use russian money for ukraine is given the green light. You Foreign Policy chief use appraisal is seeking to spend 90 percent of the revenue earned on frozen russian assets on age and munition. For kids must go, saves the new vote, provo, decades of legal buckets. It to show this is an out of a statement in line with the Movement Towards the destruction of the illegal foundations of europe. In an International Law, the europeans are well aware of the damage such a decision can bring both to their economy and to their reputation as reliable guarantors of the involve ability of property. The damage will be inevitable. The persons who will be involved in making such decisions, the countries that will decide this, they will become the object of prosecution for many decades. Yeah, well its basically
Joint chiefs of staff. Chairman brown general brown spoke about civilrights, diversity and inclusion in the military. This is about 20 minutes. [applause] general brown thank you, and good morning. As president truman once said, occurs when courageous leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. Today we are here to celebrate 75 years of progress, only possible because resident truman and his administration seized the opportunity to change things to make america better. An in order that made it possible for ordinary americans to have so many opportunities. Thanks to general scott for the kind introduction. Its an honor to have someone who knows my parents, someone who served with my father, introduced me. Thank you so much. I want to thank the Truman Library institute for the opportunity, and for everyone that has worked to make the truman civilrights symposium possible. Thank you all in attendance, not yesterday, but over the course of the past three days to help us
On and in a new way. I saw this morning the Biden Administration is looking at the uc mj revisit a Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment can be prosecuted in military the language as it presently exists isnt strong enough, to your point. Do we have time for questions . Very good. Thank you for being flexible with us and thank you for this conversation is much appreciated and looking forward to the next speaker here. Thank you. [applause] we sought answers to the question where actions let us since the executive order and how we have come together to commemorate it signing. Last Nights Program was simply spectacular. This speech is included our president , fabulous dinner, all the excellent conversation, a few months ago when i committed to speaking at the symposium, no one told me that that was good to happen where i had a chance to speak, so theres no pressure this morning to be the closing speaker, but i do hope that i can close the symposium and not disappoint. Today i want to talk to ab
On and in a new way. I saw this morning the Biden Administration is looking at the uc mj revisit a Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment can be prosecuted in military the language as it presently exists isnt strong enough, to your point. Do we have time for questions . Very good. Thank you for being flexible with us and thank you for this conversation is much appreciated and looking forward to the next speaker here. Thank you. [applause] we sought answers to the question where actions let us since the executive order and how we have come together to commemorate it signing. Last Nights Program was simply spectacular. This speech is included our president , fabulous dinner, all the excellent conversation, a few months ago when i committed to speaking at the symposium, no one told me that that was good to happen where i had a chance to speak, so theres no pressure this morning to be the closing speaker, but i do hope that i can close the symposium and not disappoint. Today i want to talk to ab