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- Earl Butz says that he will stay on as Secretary of Agriculture for the chance to fight against harmful legislation.
- Date Issued:
- 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch testifies at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in these excerpts from the second day of hearings. In response to questions from U.S. Senators Lindsay Graham (R-SC), Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)and Al Franken (D-MN), Gorsuch discusses "water boarding" as torture, the concept of "originalism" and its relationship with technology and scientific advances, the rights of corporations, the "plain meaning rule", and his past opinions on judicial interpretation of administrative rules. Senator Chuck Grassley chairs the committee.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-03-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama announces the nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the seat left open by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Obama says Garland is experienced and respected by his peers and recounts Garland's education and qualifications. Obama criticizes the Senate Republican leadership who have stated they will hold no confirmation hearings on any nominee until after the Presidential election in November. Garland says the nomination is the greatest honor of his life and looks forward to the confirmation process. Held in the White House Rose Garden.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-03-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Supreme Court Justice Nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee about allegations that he sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford at a house party in Maryland while the two were teenagers. Kavanaugh categorically denies the allegations and asserts that any investigation will clear him and that there is an organized effort to discredit him and scuttle his nomination. He acknowledges that he attended parties while in high school but says that he never met Blasey Ford and that he never had sex until he was married. Kavanaugh also talks about his support of women and says that he has already hired a team of women law clerks in anticipation of being confirmed to the Supreme Court. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) chairs the hearing.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-09-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Clinton announces that he is withdrawing the nomination of Lani Guinier for assistant U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
- Date Issued:
- 1993-06-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In the second of two oral history interviews, Olga "Jo" Beltrame and her husband Ed Beltrame discuss their careers as union organizers for the United Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee (later called the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union). They talk about organizing the meat processing plants in Detroit, efforts to integrate the workforce at local restaurants, people thinking that childcare centers for workers were "socialist", organizing drives at packing plants in the South, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and management's exploitation of female workers. The Beltrames also talk about the efforts to organize Wolverine Worldwide in Michigan and the very difficult time they had. The couple says that they retired from organizing in 1974 and that unionism bettered their lives and the lives of millions of workers around the world. The Beltrames are interviewed by John Revitte, Michigan State University professor of Labor and Industrial Relations. The second of two interviews.
- Date Issued:
- 1982-12-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) addresses the Senate about the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. McConnell announces that the Senate will vote on President Trump's Supreme Court nominee in the fall, discusses Kennedy's career and explains how the pending nomination is different than the fraught situation surrounding the 2016 Obama nomination and is more akin to situations faced by other presidents making mid-term nominations to the court.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-06-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Bill Clinton appoints Evelyn S. Lieberman to be Director of the Voice of America in this excerpt from a VOA broadcast.
- Date Issued:
- 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In the first of two interviews Dale Brickner, professor in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations and associate director of the Labor Education Program at Michigan State University, talks about his youth, family and education and explains how he became interested in labor issues. Brickner talks about his early labor activism and says that he served on a picket line as a youngster and was struck by a teargas canister. He recalls jobs he had in college that had him advocating for labor rights, working in a steel mill and as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Brickner also talks about graduate school, teaching economics and labor relations and recalls several of the union officials with whom he worked and shares stories of his time working with unions and educators. Brickner is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 1995-07-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama talks about the necessity of reducing the federal deficit and initiatives he is taking to cut spending. He also announces his intention to seek a two-year pay freeze for civilian Federal employees, a measure he claims will provide $28 billion in cumulative savings over the next five years.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-11-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection