he is a summa cum laude graduate of bowdoin college and san francisco school of law. please help me welcome san francisco's mayor. [applause] >> thank you. happy new year. [applause] it is my delight to be here. i want to add my thanks to the u.s. postal service. i look forward to this every year to see the postal officials delivered the artistic beauty of these stamps. this is the fifth stamp set the we have enjoy. thank you for being here. i really enjoy the camaraderie of everybody on the stage. he represents a much of what we're proud of in the city reduced represent so much of what we're proud of in the city. -- you represent so much of what we're proud of in the city. it was in the earlier years when we started the tradition of designing the stamps. claudine, thank you very much. [applause] tommy ing, officials are here today as well from the u.s. postal service. thank you very much. to my good friend who will follow me. we were law school roommates at berkeley. he is also a dragon. we have two dragons in the house. he is now the federal judge for the ninth circ

she is summa cum laude from princeton. she is here with her first collection, "fighting for progress in the age of obama." i do not always agree with her personally when it comes to politics. we are here to find out from katrina how we're going to save the world with barack obama. let's start there. [laughter] >> i do not know how you learned by worked at national lampoon. saving the world. let me begin by saying how low they must be to go that low in new orleans. i would not put in the same sentence president obama and saving the world. it is very much about movements and the power in our history to bring about a fundamental change. you do need people inside, political leaders inside. it captures the imagination of the nation. through the turbulent history, it has been movement and the power of movements. franklin roosevelt was moved by later movements. lyndon johnson had the civil rights movement. i think we begin with that. this book comes out at a moment when the country sees the power and possibility of occupy, 99%, a

he received his baccalaureate and sacred theology summa cum laude. he is now a doctoral candidate in a teaching fellow at the school of philosophy at the catholic university of america. i would like to introduce and pass the word to ryan to continue further the discussion. >> tonight as you know we are having a panel discussion on the hhs mandate in i just want to introduce a three panelists, experts in the topic. the first is richard. as you know he works at the united states conference of catholic vicious. he is associate director of the secretary of pro-life activity where he is worked for over 30 years. month his duties he prepares policy statements educational material in and congressional testimonies on abortion and euthanasia conscience rights and health care embryo research and other medical moral issues for the bishops conference. yields a b.a. degree in m.a. from the university of chicago and conducted doctoral studies in theology. mr. james capretta is a fellow at the ethics and public policy center. he was associate director an associate

the national assembly, relocating to rome he then received a baccalaureate in sacred theology summa cum laude from angela collinson is no doubt your candidate and teaching fellow in the school of philosophy at the catholic university of america. i'd like to introduce -- passed over to bind bind to continue and further the discussion thank you. >> thank you very much. tonight is you know we are having a forum discussion at panel discussion i just want to introduce a three panel of experts on the topic are the first is mr. richard doerflinger. he works at the united states conference of catholic bishops, themr. richard doerflinger. he works at the united states conference of catholic bishops, the associate secretary of pro-life activity worries were for over 30 years. among his duties come he prepares policy statements can education materials and testimony and abortion, euthanasia, rising health care, embryo research and other medical moral issues for the bishop bishop conference reveals a ba degree from the university of chicago and connected doctoral studies in theology at that institution at