How do you engage High School Students in government . Sunshine so many focus on s. T. E. M. , and i like to explain and explore why that matters. You are going to be a voter forever, you will be a juror forever, and it is helpful to know notably why it is impactful now but why it will continue to e. I need to give you tools to help you for the rest of your life. It is helpful to do that if you know not just whats happening now. We know with twitter and social media, the Attention Span of this generation can be small. Of your secrets, bill kamps . Bill their story doesnt begin right now because when they are born, so wait a minute, it is not only started in vain with me, but if i contribute, in that way, allowing them to seek perspective of others through social media and through video, it gives them the chance to really think ok, this is how i see the world, but why do i see the world this way . How can i maybe expand that by taking in other peoples perspectives . Host do you think the students go to high school with a basic understanding of government and a document that ships america . Sunshine i think some of them o. I think they have a sense that they live in an extraordinary country, but it is my responsibility to take that and help them understand why it is so extraordinary. Lets explore this to i think some kids have a really fundamental understanding and other kids have a narrow one. It is my job to push them further. Host what is your sense . Bill a lot of times kids are picking up with a here and come in with a lot of assumptions come in with a lot of assumptions, no job is challenge them, to ask the right lessons, to stop when necessary but also create a space that they can acknowledge and admit that it is ok if they do not know something, that that is ok, that is a good starting point, to acknowledge that maybe i have a limitation and that is a healthy way to move forward and to give them the opportunities and resources and the Critical Thinking skills to be able to speak in government and some of the largest issues at hand. Sunshine back to your point about twitter, when youre trying to tell a story in 140 characters, it is not a very long story. They all know the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness part, but what is the next entence . Deriving their just powers and consent to be governed. Much as a soundbite, not just 140 characters, but what does it all mean, and how does it fit into the narrative . Host lets talk about the last year, one of the most polarizing elections and certainly one of our most consequential elections in American History where you saw the popular vote go to democrats, the Electoral College vote go to donald trump, our 45th president. How do you teach that in the classroom . Bill i have a unique experience because i pitched in 2012, you know what would be great, if we had a class where we could engage the election directly . Often times with dissident into other issues, other topics, but this year, i was given the opportunity to teach in the fall semester and elective solely based on the election, so it gave students the chance to who wanted to learn, and were eligible to vote in november for the first time a chance to really process how they think and again where they stand on some of the issues and how they understand the history of the presidency and the history of the media and the presidency. At the end of the day, of course all of the energy at the end of the day coming in, and they engaged in welcome and i got a firsthand look at how a teenager is taking in all of this. I would have to sometimes drop my plan and say ok, we are talking about this today because it would challenge me as a teacher because i need to be very flexible and very clued in as to what is going on around me so i can tackle in realtime what is going on. It was a challenge, but they were excellent. Host and sunshine cavalluzzi, on the Electoral College. Sunshine absolutely. It was a really interesting contract between a similar situation and this one, and it was great because the way it works in the ap class, we had talked about the Electoral College, why do we still have it, and this was a very good example about how government is relevant, of this is why, this can happen, and how can we take a theory we talked about and see it in reality . Host again, all of these are available on our cspan library, cspan. Org, the inauguration of donald trump from the west front of the u. S. Capitol. Pres. Trump what truly matters is not who control the government but whether the overnment controls our is controlled by the people. January 20, 2017 will be remembered as the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now. You came by the tens of millions to become part of a historic movement, the likes of which is the world has never seen before. At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction that a nation exists to serve its citizens. Americans want Great Schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for the families, and good jobs for themselves. These are just and reasonable demands of righteous people and a righteous public, but for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists. Others and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories, scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation, an Education System flush with cash but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge, and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This american carnage stops right here and stops right now. [applause] host january 20, the inauguration of donald trump. Bill kamps, in the classroom, how does this speech play out . Bill we watched in realtime. I made sure students who want to come by could watch it. Students have needs. There are mixed reactions. Some embrace the popular flames of it come others embrace the exaggerations. Most students were clued in. They were watching it, they were processing it, and for me, someone who likes to take in the big picture, a group in my fifth period class would lead us in a seminar, and in the end of the school year, brought back this as a topic of populism. What is the grand narrative of presidency using populist narrative and how that plays out in the inauguration, as well as the other Campaign Rhetoric . For them, it is interesting, as much as there were some differences in how they interpreted the day, they certainly were able to see it in a larger historical context, which is what we are looking for. Host and the context of your courses on government, we have had polarizing times in america. Before world war ii, and isolation movement, watergate, the impeachment of bill clinton. How do you deal with the current Political Climate in context to what we have seen in the 20th century . Sunshine i think explaining to students that what is different now is the ease of communication, and the fact that ews travels so fast and so broadly, that it feels like everything is happening everywhere and to you. And also a wide array of news sources, that you can choose to only hear things you agree with already. Thats what makes it different, but these are not new times. America has always been stronger than the challenges we face. For the kids feeling unsettled or left out or frustrated that heres no reason to be pessimistic, there is a reason to be optimistic. They are better at channeling the modern tools available than anyone at any time in history, so they have the capacity to create change, and they should view that as a very important tool, but it is also critical that they talk to other people and expand outside their own confirmation bias narrative to hear other stories, and that they can listen to Something Like the inauguration dispassionately. Maybe listen to it twice, one for the emotion, and one other time for reason and think, ok, now what do i do . Bill its not a new discussion. I think most teachers would probably say we have been talking about checking sources and making sure you find reliable information along the way. As funny as it sounds, it is actually helpful for us as teachers that this is now a National Dialogue and the word is thrown around, because now students are more hyperaware. I want to make sure im doing things accurately. In a way, it has given legitimacy to something that i think we have been saying all along, which is you have to make sure that what you say is supported by the right facts. You cant just go in and make something up on a paper. We will hit you on that. In some ways, it is nice there is a National Conversation about this, and it has allowed us to say, look how this is playing out around you. We are not just making it p. Host i know as part of your july fellowship, you got the chance to go to the white house and hear from jim acosta and others in the White House Briefing room. This is jim acosta during president trumps first News Conference. Jim arent you concerned that you are undermining peoples faith in the first amendment, freedom of the press when you call stories you dont like fake news . Why not just say its a story i dont like . Not just undermining it. Pres. Trump heres the thing. I understand that you are saying. Youre right, except i know when i should get good and when i should get bad. Sometimes i will say, wow, that is going to be a great story, and i will get killed. I would be a pretty good reporter not as good as you. I know what is good. I know what is bad. When they change it and make it really bad, something that should be positive, sometimes something that should be positive, they will make ok, or even negative. Because i am there, i know what was said. I know who is saying it. Im there. It is important i want to see honest press. I started off today by saying it is so important to the public to get honest press. The public doesnt believe you people anymore. Maybe i had something to do with that, i dont know. But they dont believe you. If you were straight and really told it like it is, i would hear i would be your biggest booster, i would be your biggest fan in the world, including bad stories about me. But as an example, you are cnn, it is story after story after story that is bad. I won. I won. The other thing chaos. This is zero chaos. We are running this is a finetuned machine. Reince happens to be doing a good job, but half of his job is putting out lies about the president. I said yesterday, this whole russia scam you are building so you dont talk about the real subject, which is illegal leaks, but i watched him yesterday working so hard to try and get that story proper. Im saying here is my chief of taff, a really good guy, did a phenomenal job at rnc i mean, we won the election, we got some senators, all over the country, hes done a great job. I said to myself, and somebody that was in the room, take a look at reince, hes working so hard putting out fires that are fake fires. They are fake. They are not true. Host that was back in february from the white house. He News Conference of donald trump from the east room. Sunshine cavalluzzi, as you look at that and teach students, what is your take away . Sunshine one of the things that will have a privilege in teaching students is that i did have the opportunity to go to the white house. I can tell students that i was there, and jim acosta popped in to say hi, and it was 8 00 p. M. , and he was still doing his job. We had a job that we were doing. These are not soundbites. These are real people working really hard to do a job, and here is a difference between what makes headlines and what is actually the story, and we need to, as responsible consumers, separate the news. Maybe its fake, maybe it is a real story, but lets separate the impulse to just label something in a way that is quick or convenient from what is actually being told. Everyone involved in this business, from every reporter, everyone in the middle is really trying their best on telling the story, and it might disagree on what that story might look at, but they are working hard. I remember how jon stewart used to call his show fake news and that is how it means to me, is on the comedy channel. We will talk about the interesting feature of that being applied to news on cnn or any other broadcast elevision. Bill you brought of social media earlier, this is one of the limitations. It takes very complex issues and brings it down to 140 characters. You cant really cover the complexity of this. These are human beings working hours and hours to make sure they are communicating something they feel strongly about what they feel like they have factual support. Whether that is people in the administration or in the media, i think we forget the humanity side and forget there is complexity to their stories and to their worldviews, we fall into these traps of just black nd white all the time. Sunshine in my class, we always discuss what is our responsibility as consumers when contributing to this, that we expect news in realtime . We expect the journalist to, as this is happening, to tweet or put up a blog post or put up a news story virtually as it is happening, and virtually never make mistakes. Are we holding them to unfair standards . Dont ever make a mistake, dont ever contradict yourself, dont ever change your mind as you get more information are we holding these people to a standard they cant reach . And then contributing to that, are we complicit, and can we be more responsible as consumers . Host lets talk about the polarization in this country, the process, and a moment that took place on the senate floor, we carried it live on cspan2, with senator Elizabeth Warren of massachusetts, and this exchange with the Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell on the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be the u. S. Attorney general. En. Warren in 2013, senator sessions voted against reauthorizing the violence against women act, a bill that expanded protections and Services Provided to victims of Sexual Assault and domestic violence. There is a piece from the bedford minuteman that really tells the story of how Sexual Violence impacts massachusetts. This is what it said. They are mothers, daughters, sisters, fathers, sons, and rothers, sen. Mcconnell mr. President. Majority leader. Sen. Mcconnell the senator has impugned the motives and conduct of our colleague. Senator warren said, senator sessions has used the often power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens. I called the senator to order under the provision to rule. Sen. Warren mr. President . Madam from massachusetts. Sen. Warren mr. President , i am surprised that the words of Coretta Scott king are not suitable for debate in the u. S. Senate. I ask leave of the senate to continue my remarks. Is there objections . Sen. Mcconnell i object. Objection is heard. The senator will take her seat. Sen. Warren i appeal the ruling of the chair. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The clerk will call the role. Mr. Alexander. Sen. Mcconnell senator warren was given a lengthy speech. She had appeared to violate the rule. He was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted. Host really an incredible moment where politics and process and social media came into play. Sunshine absolutely. One of the things bill and i did this summer, as you mentioned, was to create content to include in the cspan teacher website, and this was one of the moments i chose for my lessons on senate rule 19. 2, which is something i can assure you that in 17 years, my students have never been interested in, until now. That is one of the gifts of this. You mentioned it is polarized, but now we have an awareness i have never seen as a teacher in the intricacies of the process among the public as a whole, and it trickles down into the classroom. Remember how i talked about the senate rules and you all kind of mentally snoozed because you didnt think it was important . Lets put it in this context. You saw neverthelessshepersisted. What does that mean . Lets look beyond the hashtag and delve into what it means. What are the underlying questions . Host and of course, senator Mitch Mcconnell is a master of the senate rules. Ill kamps . Bill yes, and certainly when there is a dynamic when you got o the two large figures in their parties, and there is a repartee on using the rules as well as using the media around it, you are going to have an inevitable story. Thats what i like sometimes about even the hashtag, even though it is simple, it is a good place to start a dialogue. Students who i never thought would watch an event on capitol hill were coming in the next day and asking to talk about it. I want to know it happened, can you help me understand . They are even coming in with an attitude, i will acknowledge that i dont know much, can we dialogue through this . Highly appreciate that. Host we always remember where we were on september 11, 2001. Your students were either not born or they were in intent. How do you teach post9 11 politics and Security Issues in this generation . Sunshine its very difficult. I was teaching in this time. I had students that did experience this with me. Those who dont do not have any kind of living memory. I use video. I go to the archives. I go to news clips and show it. Then we talk and say, imagine what it would feel like to watch this live and not now. I have personal stories from my students of that day that i share to help contextualize it. T is difficult, because they dont remember meeting someone at the gate, do we love each other enough to meet someone at the airport and come to the gate, or should i wait at curbside . So this is definitely a challenge about security, International Threats in the divide of before and after. Host part of that came with the president s first overseas trip to saudi arabia. He talked about terrorism, National Security, and immigration. Pres. Trump every time a terrorist falsely invokes the name of god, it should be an insult to every person of faith. Terrorists do not worship god. They worship death. If we do not act against this organized terror, then we know what will happen and what will be the end result. Terrorisms devastation of life will continue to spread. Peaceful societies will become engulfed by violence, and the futures of many generations will be sadly squandered. If we do not stand in uniform condemnation of this killing, then not only will we be judged by our people, not only will we be judged by history, but we will be judged by god. This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects, or different civilizations. This is a battle between barbaric criminals who seek to obliterate human life, and decent people, all in the name of religion. Ost bill kamps, as you hear the president outlined his agenda in a post9 11 world, trying to turn a page from barack obama, how do you incorporate that into the classroom . Bill certainly, we talk a lot about the world post9 11, because so many of the different themes that come up in history related to americas appropriate role in the world i think are dramatically shifted post9 11. In that regard, we talk about what was the Obama Doctrine . What was the bush doctrine . What was their foreignpolicy pproach . How do they define terrorism . As we see an emerging trump doctrine, what does that look like . How can we be america first, in his perspective, but at the same time, he takes a hardline stance on the issue of terrorism . How does he intend on balancing those . And letting them explore. What were some of the events they lived through as men that have shaped their perspective . For someone living through vietnam, that will have a different impact on how they want to do policy in combating terrorism. Host and of course this generation is living through what is happening in north korea. Here is secretary of state Rex Tillerson in new york at the United Nations earlier this year. Sec. Tillerson with each successive detonation and missile test, north korea pushes northeast asia and the world closer to instability and broader conflict. The threat of a north Korean Nuclear attack on seoul or tokyo is real. It is likely only a matter of time before they can strike the u. S. Mainland. Indeed, the dprk has repeatedly claimed they plan to do such a strike. Given that rhetoric, the u. S. Cannot idly stand by, nor can other members of this council who are within striking distance of north korean missiles. Having for years displayed a pattern of this behavior that defies multiple Security Council resolutions, including 2270, and erodes global progress on nuclear nonproliferation, theres no reason to think north korea will change this behavior under the current multilateral sanctions framework. For too long, the International Community has been reactive in addressing north korea. Those days must come to an end. Failing to act now on the most pressing security issue in the world may bring catastrophic consequences. We have said this before and it bears repeating. The policy of strategic patience is over. Additional patience will only mean acceptance of a nuclear north korea. Host how do you incorporate that to your government students . You have the very real threat of north korea. They are all deeply complicated. I think we start with how we teach. How we can understand how to respond to the situations as they present themselves now. Also we talk about what are our responsibilities as voters . One is to have a position on these issues, not just a position but an informed one. These are people who have access toings this we wont have for 30 years. And so we need to judge them remembering that they know more than we know. That the president and National Security team knows more than were acting in their best faith on the best information they ave. If we act here, where else do we have to acts . What other condominium does that require . As far as my students thinking iket, where do with you we want to help . Students the deall the is they assume all of our response has to be military. What else. What are our political options . Where is it our responsibility to go with those and get them to are think through there parallels to vietnam in terms of how we have shaped their foreignpolicy . Could use here part of that starting with the fact that korea, foreign politics for more than a generation now certainly again, there is this question of do we want to be aggressive . Want to what the world that youre not know that we are not backing down. There is no pearl harbor moment, no 9 11 moment. For americans, there is almost we will react, but he is asking for some level of proaction. That is a harder thing historically for americans to show that they are willing to e. As a president at the start of a new administration tries to do Something Different from their predecessor. Is it different with this president . It feels different. Does it feel different because it is different or does it feel different because we see it . Kids are directly communicating with us on twitter. Do you think that is a good or bad thing . They have gone up always with antibullying and do not name call. To them, they would not talk like that. I think they do like being able to hear this unfiltered perspective. One of the lessons that i wrote last week, is twitter the new fireside chat . He was able to say i want to directly talk to the American People in their homes, about the crisis going on. These of the new waters we are swimming in. It does not matter if you like it or not. If this is the reality, what will the next president do . This is the new normal, what is the next step . Reaction to Vice President mike pence responding as he outlines the agenda. The president has taken Decisive Action to make this country great again. President trump told you that he will battle for every american who has lost a job, every family who has lost a loved one, every american who has lost their rights and freedom. That is exactly what he has done. Our president has been busy. This president has signed more bills into law, rolling back federal regulations and red tape than any president in American History. He is unleashing American Energy and unburdening american businesses. He is putting americans back to work and is working fighting every day to put america first. President donald trump pulled the United States out of the aris climate accord. Amazing to think the and a nail the International Deal would have cost 6 million jobs in the next 25 years and put incredible burdens on the American People while allowing countries like china and india to get off scott free. In his decision, he put American Workers first he put americas future first. I promise that President Donald Trump will always put america first. Vice president mike pence and we are here with our High School Teachers. One teaches government and the other teaches history. The fundamental question, what is the role of the federal overnment . You can use what you heard from the part Vice President about what the government should o. That frames almost everything we talk about. Everything we talk about in the terms of policy and your position on it comes back to you. What should the role of any government the in particular to the federal government . Do we agree with this and why are why not . It affords an opportunity to differentiate politics and policy. It is one thing to say you will do something. It is one thing to leak that you might be proposing a bill. For everyone to get up in arms and crazy about it, it is another thing to have a bill go through. What is the role and what gets done . Where should we be freaking out, if someone thinks that is not a good idea . Did you two know each other before you joined the program . No, not at all. We work really well together. We have collaborated on a couple lessons. Definitely a wheelhouse of coming up with creative extension activities for teachers. We laid out the lesson, we have some of the questions. This is how we can take it further. She is a master of that. He is the king of incisive questions. What is a good question . In regards to what you are talking about the role of government. Among them to ask the question, where has that role of government changed over the course of the 20th century . Have americans are based on the things they live through, how is the answer that question . Letting them understand that someone in these sets of circumstances might have a different opinion on government the my circumstances and 2017. You are in new jersey and you are in california. Have you compared details on students . The have chided about it. The answer to that question is the same as the answer to the, is there differences between us and the Founding Fathers . Our kids have different experiences that shape their behaviors. They are very similar. This generation is extraordinary. It is such a gift to spend time in california, new jersey, and anywhere else in the country. You have been teaching for 17 years. How about you . 15. I think part of it is social media. The access to new has been much more news has been more a gala terrien, that it is more accessible to them that way. They are interested. Those students were like, i have opinions and ideas. I want to do something with his. Here can i go . What can i do to be engaged . We have raised awareness and the events of the last year. So what do we do with that . How to we take that energy stored up and put it towards something that is productive . Do deal with the political rhetoric versus little reality political reality . Absolutely. Kids are getting news differently. Most are getting it through their phone. They decide whether to click or not click. Paul is before you reach me and pause before you click. Pause before you retweet and paz before you click. Pause before you click. Our website for teachers at cspan. Org classrooms. The russia investigation, as you pointed out, as all my colleagues have reflected, is one of the most serious, hostile acts, undermining the very core of our democracy and elections. T is not a discrete event. It will likely be prepared for 2018 and beyond. The president of the United States fired you because, in your own words, some relation to his investigation. Then he shows up in the oval office and classified u. S. Crazy and a net job. You disproved that this morning. Your conclusion would be that the president is downplaying the seriousness of this threat. N fact, took specific steps to stop a federal investigation of the Russian Investigation of russian influence. From what you said this morning, it does not seem to particularly interest him about the hostile threats from the russians area russians. I do not know if i can agree to that amount of detail. It is my judgment that i was fired because of the russia investigation. I was fired in some way to change the endeavor was to change how the Russian Investigation was being conducted. That is a very big deal, not just because it involves me. The nature of this work requires that it not be the subject of political consideration. On top of that, you have the russia investigation itself as vital. If any americans were part of helping the russians do that to us, that is a very big deal. I am confident that if that is the case, director mueller will find that evidence. Host how do you translate that moment in our history, and earlier this year, and turn that into my lesson plan . That is an example where how i taught something last year changed this year in light of the venns. We were just wrapping up the watergate discussion. There were a lot of social Media Outlets saying is that firing comey similar to the ncident . I said no, this is a word. You are hearing this. This is something that we need to make sure that you are clarifying. Here is that event playing outcome the firing of the fbi director. How similar is it . How different is it . Is this going to have the same direction . The Media Outlets were engaging in that question. You had people on both political sides saying it is a totally different situation. Others were saying it is exactly like that. Letting students sift through those opinions. Host what were your students telling you . One of the things they were really hung up on is how director comey found out. He was giving a speech on the other side of the country and then he thought it was a joke at worst. Their first reaction was very much about that. I thought that was interesting and a reflection on who they are, as students. To lent itself so beautifully a discussion we have had all year long. What is the difference between can and should . Can the president do this . Of course he could. But should he . The difference between politics and policy is what is allowed and what is it acted leads to wonderful questions. In this case, my government class was at the beginning of the day. It was ideal for us because you draw the lesson plan and today e are queuing up cspan. The republicans blocked in nomination of president obama on the Supreme Court. This year, the nomination of neil gorsuch, who now sits on the Supreme Court. It was fascinating to look at again. We talk about Senate Confirmation hearings. That is not something as appealing to students. Senate confirmation hearings made it highly relevant to their lives. Those unprecedented to watch and raise questions. It was a gift toward government teacher for this is why we have to care about the rules and your hip. Leadership. One of those moments from the senate floor. When president clinton nominated stephen breyer, i voted to confirm it. Nominateddent clinton ruth bader ginsburg, i voted to confirm her. I thought it was the right thing to do after you won the election. He was the president area the president gets to appoint the Supreme Court justice. Nd president obama nominated sotomayor and kagan, i made sure that they got an up or down vote, not a filibuster. No filibuster. No filibuster. We thought it was the right thing to do. It is not because we harbored illusions that we usually agree with these nominees of democratic president s. Certainly not. E even protested when majority leader file closure on the kagan nomination. We talked him out of it. Said it was not necessary. Jeff sessions, the current attorney general, was the Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee at the time. Jeff sessions talking harry reid out of filing closure because it asnt necessary. We did not even want the pretense of the possibility of a filibuster on the table. It is quite a different story from what we are seeing today. This is where our democratic olleagues have taken us. A partisan minority will prevent the Senate Bipartisan majority. What they really subject this qualified nominee to a filibuster . America will be watching. History will be watching. The future of the senate will ang on their choice. From the senate floor, bill camps. Neil gorsuch did finally get confirmed. He did not mention what happened last year. He did not get into the whole situation with garlands nomination being held off for what was almost a year in terms of trying o prevent obama from filling that seat left by scalia. I probably did not overstate enough, trying to understand what they were living through was a historic event, to see the length of time for that seat to remain vacant during the last year of a presidency. For the students, that was a good moment to let them understand that this was something that is a process in our history. It really stalled out in the name of partisanship. It may set a precedent. If the republicans lose control of the senate, with the democrats controlling the senate, hypothetical, you wonder if there would be political payback. Cannot imagine that there will not be. You can argue that what Mitch Mcconnell did was payback. To harry reid. Lowering the closure margin for other federal nominations. I thought it was interesting as it was happening. Mitch mcconnell is gambling on a republican winning the presidency, which at that time, was not as for seen. I cannot imagine there will not be retaliation. This has been going on so long with judges. Were just seeing it continue to escalate. Host do you have a sense this is a broader question. Do you have a sense that this matters to students . I think it is a hard statement to generalize with teutons. For some, they are all in. They are political junkies and follow events and stories. For some, we have students who start worrying about what they will eat that day. It is a most like they do not have the privilege. There are absolutely direct connections. Topics of immigration, that hits home for many of my students react. A lot times students can come in with Different Things they are thinking about during the course of their day. They are thinking that their parents, their parentsjobs. In that regard, there is often not disconnect, that we try our best to make that connection for hem. It is hard when lifes realities come into play. I think that is our job to explain to them why it does matter if they dont understand. Why these are the reyalts that youre facing. Realities that you are facing. Should you take out a student loan . Should you get a parttime job to help your family pay expenses . When you dont feel like you understand, you do not realize how important, not only the decisions that are made, but your voice is in influencing. I ask myself every day, every period in my class. This is why you need to care. I do not think a lot of students understand why they should. That is my greatest responsibility to teach him that not only should they understand they need to act, they have to add their voice to the nate rative. Narrative. It affects americans one way or another. Here is the senator from vermont. He ran for the democratic nomination in 2016. Senator bernie sanders. Mr. President , i note that no republican wants to see anybody die, nobody does. That is the reality we are dealing with. You cannot ignore it. If somebody has cancer, if somebody has Heart Disease and you take away their insurance, i do not need studies from Harvard University to tell me and to tell you what you know to be the case. This is the United States of america and we can do better than that. Mr. President , i would ask unanimous consent. That the article that will appeared today be submitted for the record. Mr. President , this issue is not ust about health care. His is a profound, moral debate, defining who we are as a people today and who we want to be as a people in the uture. Mr. President , a great nation is not simply won by how many millionaires and billionaires we have and by how many tax breaks we can give the billionaires. A great nation is judged by how they treat the weakest and the most vulnerable amongst us. Those people do not have fundraising, they do not contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars into the political process. A great nation is judged by how we treat the children, the elderly, the sick, the poor, the people who have disabilities. That is what a great nation is. This legislation is not worthy of a great nation. This legislation must be defeated. I yield the floor. Host on the senate floor. One voice out of many. The one topic has consumed washington and the country, health care in america. How does that play out in the classroom . It plays out in the classroom all day long. The day the house voted on the bill, i was home watching the news. One of my students know me saying there brother is diabetic their brother is diabetic. This issue is so real and relevant. We have to talk about what do you do . What are your responsibilities . Do not get cynical. Special interest is an amorphous idea that cannot walk into a town hall meeting. You have to be informed. This one is more compelling, but it is a platform for you need to have an opinion and take action. You need to let your voice be heard. What is your didnt student population in california . We had a significant amount of students with parents have college education. 30 hispanic, it is a fairly mixed group. My daughter will be in middle school. She is coming to my school. Two falls from now. Amazinging to be an thing. He we have 1500 students. We are the center of the nation, in a sense. There are students who speak multiple languages, different backgrounds, to come into the school. They talk about the United States demographics. You are but the country is going to be looking like in a few years. In that sense, seeing the trends. That is not just diversity. That includes Economic Diversity as well. Do you approach structure . T william that is a real challenge. I appreciate that our school has taken that to push that push. We have students were coming from a lot of different walks of life. We need to understand that we may not be able to teach the same way we taught 10 years ago. The world is changing and needs are changing. It can definitely be a challenge. I am not nearly the expert level, where i should be. But it is a challenge that is important if you want to do this well. Tom mccarthy held a five hour plus meeting in your area. Lets watch and get your reaction. My friends and i came here because we feel the need. Not because were having fun. We are not children. We are concerned with ourselves around us. Yone else we are the future. We are going to vote. I have a question. Considered a preexisting condition . Yes or no . Yes or no . Yes or no . Them. Craig fugate to ask the questions, i get to answer them. Then answer them. Me say one more thing. I believe this statistic is that one and five women will be the victim of rape before their freshman year in college. I cannot fathom that. The fact that it might be a preexisting condition, a you call that not discriminating against women . What do you call it . How can you say that . Answer it. I will. My friends and i will continue to get involved. You will answer to a. You are our representative. Answer me. I will if you give me a chance. I give you multiple chances. It is possible one of your in this room might be a victim of rape. It is possible. I will not reduce that to calling it a preexisting condition. You are saying that rape is not a preexisting condition. You cannot deny you or church more he can being raped. Host that is Tom Macarthur a governor of new jersey. That was a five plus our town hall meeting. I was hoping to get there that night, but i had family obligations. Is similart student to a lot that i know who have attended rallies. Eitherll come in and frustration. R or they have questions that they are looking for an outlet. Many of them realize they have a voice, an opportunity to get involved. I have a great group by todd fisher. They are wonderful. I have students i know, one of them wants to be a civil rights attorney now after this discussion. They have the drive, they have the desire. They just need the resources and materials and the right direction. It is awesome to watch. Host to final points. What was your path to becoming a High School Teacher . Sunshine the i double majored in Political Science and u. S. History. I have always loved the sciences. I worked a little bit in never likeand it was the impact to the High School Student teachers made on me. They always made me feel i was capable of more than the i knew. They always gave me that chance to give it back but pay it forward. To do it for someone else. All the students have amazing stories. The fact that we get to be some kind of a footnote in those stories is such an extraordinary, extraordinary gift and i would not do anything else with my life. Host and for you . Hugs i had a guidance counselor in high school, and we never had a particularly close relationship at any time we would meet she would say, you would make a great teacher. And i would think now. Teachersate there were in my life along the way who were able to see something it be that i had the gift for this. It is not the thing that anybody could interact with High Schoolers and want to bring out the best in them. Somebody saw that in me. I am simply trying to do that with my students. Try to speak the things that are important. In just about their place history but who they are as individuals. To say, yes. You have something. You have what it takes. To think that into their lives because sometimes theres nobody else to do that and that is a great, great privilege we have to be able to push them and that direction. Host let me conclude with this, what have you learned a summer and what are your plans when you start back in august or september and had he plan to incorporate what we do here into the classroom . Used cspanhave resources before my classroom but the chance to see the wealth of things available, one of the things ive loved it is that every time there is a fill in the blank, there is a cspan for that just like there is an for that. An app for that. I can translated into my classroom. Going back is ultimately the stuff i created. I am definitely going to use the step will created as well because it is great. I look forward to our studentteacher conferences to learning even more about what they are doing. William selfishly, think a lot of the lessons i created are the things that i will need. I will be encouraged to develop lessons i will use. I know a lot of them are things i have full intention of try to incorporate and i do appreciate having just the chance to sit and really taken the materials there are to offer. I think it is really helpful to know there is really just a wide array of material. The other thing that i am hoping fall isup in the another new elect of called the is veryitizen which serviceoriented. I will be sharing here and sharing the stories of people i met along the way. There is a lot of different ways you can be involved that does not always have to be running for congress. There are a whole wide group of people who are finding a way to make a difference and the engaged citizens and let them know that they have options. New jersey, afrom High School Teacher. Teaches and california. A reminder, you can check out all of our information at cspan. Org\classroom. Announcer if you are a teacher tosocial studies and Civics Middle School and high school, try our resources at the cspan. Org website. There are ways you can engage your students and discussions, with new content added regularly. Many teachers across the country use these resources. You should try it, too. Go to cspan. Org\classroom to sign up. Harvey cameurricane through texas, now is the repairs. Lawmakers return to washington today after a monthlong break. They were quickly take up an initial request for 8 billion in disaster aid. The house rules committee, which sets the guidelines for debate. N the house floor meets live coverage beginning at 4 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan3, online at cspan. Org, or on the free cspan radio app. A headline in the washington. Ost the un Security Council held a hearing to talk about north koreas most recent nuclear test. North korea claims to have successfully tested a Hydrogen Bomb over the weekend. Securityrges the council to take the strong as northle measures against korea. Nikki haley said the time has come to exhaust all diplomatic means before it is too late. She says they will circulate a new draft hoping for a vote next monday. The 8039th meeting of the Security Council is called to order