the american enterprise institute hosts. watch live at 1:00 p.m. eastern, on c-span.org, or full coverage on our new video app. icki, the education workforce and income security director of the government accountability office . here to talk with us this morning about their new report on hate in u.s. schools and violence in u.s. schools. jacqueline nowicki, welcome to "washington journal." guest: thank you for having me. host: first, tell me the overall mission of the government accountability office. guest: gao is a nonpartisan congressional agency. we are tasked with providing objective fact-based analysis for both sides of the aisle. gao analyzes and audits programs and provides information to congress for them to use in their decision-making. we are not policymakers ourselves. host: the way your reports are generated, you get a request from a lawmaker or somebody else within the administration to follow-up on this particular issue? guest: correct. like almost all gao work, this work was punted by congressional interest. it is obviously a high i

the american enterprise institute hosts. watch live at 1:00 p.m. eastern, on c-span.org, or full coverage on our new video app. icki, the education workforce and income security director of the government accountability office . here to talk with us this morning about their new report on hate in u.s. schools and violence in u.s. schools. jacqueline nowicki, welcome to "washington journal." guest: thank you for having me. host: first, tell me the overall mission of the government accountability office. gu

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the american enterprise institute is the host. >> -- decide what infrastructure, items, funding. the community infrastructure allows members of congress to -- tutorials for local police departments for many other things. this conference runs from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. today. it features two panels and ample opportunity for audience participation. you will get further instructions on how to queue up questions and comments shortly. to start us off, we will hear from the honorable tom graves. he currently is president and ceo of urban grades strategy group. tom graves served in the house for a decade as a republican representative of georgia's 14th congressional district. he is well poised to discuss the power of the purrs. he ran as a tea party member and cochaired the select committee on the modernization of congress, which recommended various strategies to strengthen congress's power over the purse, including something that looks a bit like the community grants program. with that, the honorable tom graves. rep. graves: welcome to the aei family and community. thanks for tuning i

hosted by the american enterprise institute and the american academy of arts and sciences -- on december 9, the american academy for arts and sciences published a report entitled, the case for enlarging the house represented us, and it was authored by jonathan cohen. today will be discussing the findings of that report. it expanded on the recommendations put forth on the project. our common purpose, reinventing american democracy. our guests today are ruth, assistant professor in the political science department at the university of chicago. lee druckman, senior fellow in the political reform program at new america. kevin is a senior fellow of my colleague at the american enterprise institute, and the director of social, cultural, and constitutional studies here and my direct supervisor. not only is he a handsome man, he is a powerful man. we are going to kick off, i will explain why this is an obsession of mine. the first piece i ever got published in a mainstream publication anywhere was my argument for expanding the house of representatives which , appeared in the wall street journal