board high chancellor of great britain and on a constitutional changes, the 2002 re-enactment of gibbons and the 2006 enactment of the treason trial. as you might imagine, it is a high priority to present a significant meaningful program for the heritage lectures. this year, the jackson center in jamestown, new york suggested a program on the office of the solicitor general. of the program committee and society's executive committee agreed that they were an ideal fit. the executive director of the jackson center brought this program to us. i also want to thank our panelists. our discussion this evening will focus on the work of the solicitor general and away from specific cases, but we do hope that our panelists. the solicitor general, it was not until 1870 that congress authorized the office, saying that there should be an officer learned in what to assist the attorney general in the performance of his duties to be called the solicitor general. since then, the solicitor general has been tasked with conducting all litigation on behalf of the united states supreme court, and supervising t

in its very first case, gibbons v. ogden in 1824, thomas gibbons had received a federal license to operate a steamboat tbeen ne newsteambetween -- a st between new jersey and new york state and wanted to compete with mr. ogden. in the winter of 1942 he grew more wheat than allowed under the agriculture adjustment act and challenged the resulting fine. in hodel v. reclam mangesation and surfan, companies challenged surface coal mining. these cases have two things this common. the supreme court upheld federal authority in each case but each case involved an activity. remember the word "activity." in which individuals chose to engage. there would have been no give bonus v. ogden if he had not chosen to operate a steamboat. congress could regulate his activity but could not have required that he engage in it. there would have been no wicker v. filburn, if roscoe filburn had not chosen to grow wheat. congress could regulate his activity, but not have required that he engage in it. and there would have been no hodel case if

i'll start with the nevada governor, jim gibbons. "under the reid plan, a mandatory expansion of the nevada medicaid program would add more than 41,000 people to the program's rolls in 2014. expanding nevada's medicaid enrollment by nearly 60% by 2019. overall, the reid plan will cost nevada taxpayers more than $613 million in state general fund dollars between 2014 and 2019. in addition to imposing this massive tax burden, the bill also removes existing state options essentially federalizing this program." end of quote from the governor of nevada. then a quote from north dakota's governor. "we along with the national governors' association urge extreme caution in moving forward with any plan that would commit the states without their expressed participation and consent to obligates that may financially bind them for decades into the future." end of quote. i'll close with two of my favorite governors' quotesment both of these are democrats. the governor of tennessee says this: "there won't be new prisons built during that period, the

board high chancellor of great britain and on a constitutional changes, the 2002 re-enactment of gibbons might imagine, it is a high priority to present a significant meaningful program for the heritage lectures. this year, the jackson center in jamestown, new york suggested a program on the office of the solicitor general. of the program committee and society's executive committee agreed that they were an ideal fit. the executive director of the jackson center brought this program to us. i also want to thank our panelists. our discussion this evening will focus on the work of the solicitor general and away from specific cases, but we do hope that our panelists. the solicitor general, it was not until 1870 that congress authorized the office, saying that there should be an officer learned in what to assist the attorney general in the performance of his duties to be called the solicitor general. since then, the solicitor general has been tasked with conducting all litigation on behalf of the united states supreme court, and supervising the handling of litigation in appellate courts. four

. >> so i want to go back-- gibbon netley you have all decided that it deserves some more funds. >> gs part of the institution but to the stress test early in the spring. s4 manning we identify significant capital needs and for all those institutions we said if you do not raise capital from the private markets, if you are unable to be put to you because it is important to the stability of the system so the only thing committed to do back then and i think actually the ultimate will be lower than we anticipated back in june. >> apparently you have decided to inject more capital. >> no, somewhat less than the estimated in june. >> but the more recent round, where they have come back. >> no, in june when we released the estimates and the stress test, the estimated capital needs for the institutions we gave them a curative time to go out and raise capital from the private markets. overwhelmingly banks were able to do that. you see private investors willing to come in and increase their stakes in banks across the country now allowing the taxpayer to get out of those. it was never going to b

and i would name the minority clerk, dena barren, and on the majority side, dave gibbons and allison peers and jeannine. and on our side, i want to give the strongest praise to our staff and to our clerk and that staff, kate who has given me a list who doesn't have her name on it. she is so modest here. kate, laura, alex, sylvia garcia, who is in this lengthened process a replacement in the middle of the process of bringing out this legislation for a previous staff member who has now gone on to greener pastures. and with that i am prepared to yield time if the gentleman has no other -- i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from iowa is recognized. mr. latham: i thank the speaker once again, and i want to express my appreciation to the chairman for his patience. this has been a difficult process, and like he mentioned, we've started and stopped and back and forth, but it's been a real pleasure for me in my first year on this subcommittee to work with the chairman. while we don't always agree on everything but we always h

. >> so i want to go back-- gibbon netley you have all decided that it deserves some more funds. >> gis part of the institution but to the stress test early in the spring. s4 manning we identify significant capital needs and for all those institutions we said if you do not raise capital from the private markets, if you are unable to be put to you because it is important to the stability of the system so the only thing committed to do back then and i think actually the ultimate will be lower than we anticipated back in june. >> apparently you have decided to inject more capital. >> no, somewhat less than the estimated in june. >> but the more recent round, where they have come back. >> no, in june when we released the estimates and the stress test, the estimated capital needs for the institutions we gave them a curative time to go out and raise capital from the private markets. overwhelmingly banks were able to do that. you see private investors willing to come in and increase their stakes in banks across the country now allowing the taxpayer to get out of those. it was never going to

. >> so i want to go back-- gibbon netley you have all decided that it deserves some more funds. >> gis part of the institution but to the stress test early in the spring. s4 manning we identify significant capital needs and for all those institutions we said if you do not raise capital from the private markets, if you are unable to be put to you because it is important to the stability of the system so the only thing committed to do back then and i think actually the ultimate will be lower than we anticipated back in june. >> apparently you have decided to inject more capital. >> no, somewhat less than the estimated in june. >> but the more recent round, where they have come back. >> no, in june when we released the estimates and the stress test, the estimated capital needs for the institutions we gave them a curative time to go out and raise capital from the private markets. overwhelmingly banks were able to do that. you see private investors willing to come in and increase their stakes in banks across the country now allowing the taxpayer to get out of those. it was never going to

chancellor of great britain on constitutional changes in the united kingdom, the 2002 reenactment of gibbons v. ogden. you might imagine it's a high priority of the society to present a significant and meaningful program for the heritage lecture. this year as we were making plans, the robert h. jackson center in jamestown, new york, suggested a program on the office of the solicitor general. the program committee and the society's executive committee agreed that it was a worthy program and an ideal fit for the national heritage lecture. we're indebted to adam bratton, executive directer of the robert h. jackson center for bringing this terrific program to us, and we're honored that the jackson center joins us as co-sponsors for the national heritage lecture this year. thank you. i also want to thank our panelists, former solicitors general paul clement, drew days and ken starr for taking time away from their very busy schedules to join us today. our discussion will focus primarily on the work of the solicitor general and away from specific cases, but we do hope that our panelists will be ind

. >> so i want to go back-- gibbon netley you have all decided that it deserves some more funds. >> gt to the stress test early in the spring. s4 manning we identify significant capital needs and for all those institutions we said if you do not raise capital from the private markets, if you are unable to be put to you because it is important to the stability of the system so the only thing committed to do back then and i think actually the ultimate will be lower than we anticipated back in june. >> apparently you have decided to inject more capital. >> no, somewhat less than the estimated in june. >> but the more recent round, where they have come back. >> no, in june when we released the estimates and the stress test, the estimated capital needs for the institutions we gave them a curative time to go out and raise capital from the private markets. overwhelmingly banks were able to do that. you see private investors willing to come in and increase their stakes in banks across the country now allowing the taxpayer to get out of those. it was never going to be possible for g. all we are