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[applause] good morning and welcome to the center for American Progress. My name is carla martin. Im the the Vice President for policy. It is my honor to welcome to this exciting event. Our lineup today is a real testament to the importance of this issue to this administration and to president obama. Nearly one in three americans has some type of criminal record that creates barriers to employment, housing and many other pathways to opportunity. Some americans with criminal records are even barred from casting a ballot which denies the right to participate in our democracy after they have paid...

Good morning, everybody. So we will shift gears now building on the remarks from representative pose and representative crowly. We want to do three things. First we vpt to a conversation about what the pba accomplished and what was left undone. That is the purpose of this conversation. We will get indepth into it with really great speakers into what happened in the ten years since the tpa was passed, what it means for retirement in america, and what more needs to be done and hopefully that will tee up the next of the day. Followed by keynote remarks at 11 30 from edmond murphy, ceo of power re...

Experience with i. T. Was that it was boondoggle after boondoggle and a tremendous waste of taxpayers money spent on incompetent private contractors who never seem to be able to get things right. And im wondering if you could comment and perhaps its better now, and what impact this has on the current sense of trust among Public Officials regarding their sure. So i would say the failures are just as bad or worse in terms of government contracting, i. T. , healthcare. Gov and the electronic records archive, expensive yearlong projects that largely failed, with healthcare. Gov until it was rescue...

Day, i hear stories just like my own. Hope. I have there is a growing awareness about the impact of human growing thethat is strength of survivors in our communities and businesses. And this growing commitment to finding a solution to make sure this generation of survivors will be the last. [applause] hope, especially that Hillary Clinton is becoming president , as a survivor and an advocate, i have hope that we can end human trafficking. Thank you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome former secretary of state, madeleine albright. [applause] thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you ...

Who pushedne leader to open the first Eagle Academy in the bronx and she made a promise to return four years later to offer the keynote address to our first graduating class. And that is a promise that she kept. You see, im with Hillary Clinton because she has been with us. [applause] men who areve young confident, future leaders who are resilient. Just look at them, america. [applause] they are brilliant. [applause] and full of promise. And we start every day with the poem, the same poem that strengthen the resolve of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela when he recited it each day so young men of t...