john sherman, the acting chief information officer for the department of defense told fed scoop in february of 2020, that the n s. a wanted to move its data from some sites and use vendors for manage cloud services as part of its hybrid compute initiative. but to do so without bidding out that contract, that could be a problem, which is why microsoft filed a protest with the government accountability office or the g a o. the federal agency that is tasked with probing government spending decision on microsoft says that the security agency did not issue a thorough and evaluation before issue in this award to amazon. again, they say that the a while in storm. i can't believe we're calling it that. that contract was improperly awarded for boom bus. i'm been one. the world is bracing for impact as china face is a continued outbreak of the code. 1900 delta various. the country reported 143 new cases on monday, which is just a small fraction of what we're seeing here in the u. s. but still the highest number, beijing has been since january. now do china 0 tolerance policy experts or warning that a

john sherman acting chief information officer of the department of defense told fed school in february of 2020, that the n s. a wanted to move it's data from some sites and use vendors for managed cloud services as part of its hybrid compute initiative. but to do so without bidding out the contract, well, that could be a problem, which is why microsoft filed that protests with the government accountability office, or the g a o. the federal agency tacit probing government spending decisions. the bottom line here scott, is that microsoft says that the say did not do a thorough enough job evaluating all the potential competitors before awarding that contract for new views. hughes, i'm been one not in new york were newly released documents revealed department bought nearly 200000000 dollars of surveillance tools. no public oversight. the new parking outrage amongst many trays. chavez has the story on today. the n y p t under fire for spreading over a $100000000.00 of public funds on policing technology, with no public oversight, the legal aid society and the surveillance technology oversig

standard oil trust, led congress to pass the sherman antitrust act, which is named for senator john sherman, the brother of william sherman. by 1827, the states had passed antitrust laws and now the congress was joining the parade. the sherman law, and the language is important for us. the sherman law outlawed every contract, combination or conspiracy in restraint of trade. again, imposing a $5,000 fine per offense and potentially also a year in prison. but i don't want you to be misled. this hardly represents the foundation of a robust regulatory regime. for one thing, the presidents of the gilded age were generally uncomfortable with this sort of state intervention. they held to a more traditional laissez-faire view and so benjamin harrison was president and signed this law because it was in accord with public opinion, but it didn't do too much to enforce it and the same could be said for his successors, whether they are a democrat like grover cleveland or a republican like william mckinley. indeed, in times when the federal government did try to enforce it they were smacked down by the c

committee of five who are tasked with drafting the declaration which included ben franklin, john adams, roger sherman and robert livingston. and so the "we" means committee of five, but it also means the 56 members of the continental congress. and then on top of the members of the continental congress, it means american people, and the declaration of independence is speaking on behalf of we, the people, we, the people of the united states of america, we hold these truths, but there is a problem, because what it does it mean to say we, the people, hold these truths to be self-evident, and these are going to hold some complex philosophical problems as we will see, but did all americans come to see these truths all at the same time? surely there is a difference of intellectual capacity of between say thomas jefferson and john adams on the one hand and an uneducated scramble farmer living on the frontier of massachusetts. so i think then that the key word then to unlock the meaning of self-evident truth is the word hold. so we hold, and hold means to grasp something that can take place over time. and by

. >> deputy secretary sherman, back in 1790 seven, john adams was in a situation of observing that thefrench were seizing u.s. commercial ships, so he requested authorization to respond and congress did not respond. in may of 1798 congress did give him authorization and then he deployed u.s. ships to protect our commercial navy ships. in 18 oh one, thomas jefferson was president and the ruler of tripoli was seizing u.s. commercial ships in the mediterranean. thompson asked -- thomas jefferson asked congress for authorization to respond. a few weeks later, congress did, in 1802. he made the request in december of 18 or one in february 18 02 congress gave authorization. in 1815, president madison had the situation where the regency of algeria was seizing u.s. ships in the mediterranean. so he sent a message to congress and ask for a declaration of war . in march, the following month, congress rejected the request but passed legislation authorizing responding. why did these three presidents not simply assert article two powers and proceed to deploy u.s. ships, naval ships to protect our c

actually a direct descendent of roger sherman, signer of the declaration of independence and constitution. he was an early law clerk to judge hand. labor advisor to senator john f. kennedy. solicitor general in the kennedy administration. we talked about that last class when we talked about the johnson and kennedy civil rights cases. he argued many of those famous cases in the supreme court. after watergate became chairman of common cause and fought to craft the ethics in government act of 1978 to try to reverse some of the abuses of watergate. you could hopefully get a little bit of a glimpse from that film clip that cox's performance in watergate was really the culmination of a lifetime commitment to the rule of law. i did hundreds of interviews in working on this book with major figures he had interacted with. this integrity and principal thing he was known for was not a fake at all. it's how he had lived his whole life. it was especially on display in the way he interacted with attorney general elliott richardson who was another one of these boston staid fellow. cox had taught him at harvard law school after world war ii. when you see how they navigated t

sherman adams. former president eisenhower was so upset that he sent word to president kennedy and asked that the justice department not prosecute his former chief of staff. john f. kennedy wanted dwight eisenhower to be indebted to him so he ordered his brother, the attorney general, to drop the case. and his brother said that would be wrong. and john kennedy said which one of us was elected president? so there's a lot of interesting stories in there in terms of other agencies. and also, wasn't just washington, d.c. pearson had people all over the country who were telephoning him tips. he had regular people that he would check in with. newspaper editors, lawyers, politicians in different states. pat brown in california was constantly leaking, especially after he lost to ronald reagan, continued to leak about ronald reagan's administration to pearson. so quite often, the columns dealt with particular states. in one case, in 1939, the former governor of louisiana showed up on pearson's door step with evidence that the current governor was corrupt. they were taken money from the wpa for private uses in the state of louisiana. pearson's columns exposed the situat

sherman: as the member designated by mr. john garamendi, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that john garamendi will be voting yes on ordering the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. pallone: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. donald payne, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. payne will vote yes on ordering the previous question. as the member designated by mrs. bonnie watson coleman, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mrs. watson coleman will vote yes on ordering the previous question. and as the member designated by mr. albio sires, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. sires will vote yes on ordering the previous question. and as the member designated by mr. paul tonko, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. tonko will vote yes on ordering the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from virginia seek recognition? >> thank you, mr. speaker. as