The title of the book is pageants, parlors, and pretty women race and beauty in the twentiethcentury south. One of the real kind of jumping off points for this aside from all these conversations i had with nonsoutherners about southern women were beautiful is the fact that white southern women have a track record of doing very well at the miss america pageant. We can document this. We can see they have won a d disproportionate amount of titles. They did especially well in the 1960s. I love a parade dont you . Among the prefavorites, miss texas, no Deputy Sheriff but very arresting. Miss alabama, accounting student. Miss california, susan erin bradley. The winner miss alabama and tears of joys replace the pictu picture. A lot of the practices and rituals we associate with beauty were initially very controversial in the south. I am talking about the teens and 20s and there was a lot of controversy about white southern women entering beauty contests they would have been called bathing bea
Wyoming, delaware and colorado. Senator john ber rasso chairs the committee. Good morning. I call this hearing to order. President trump has made improving our nations infrastructure a top priority. Infrastructure is critical to our nations prosperity. The Senate Environment Public Works Committee has jurisdiction over our nations highways and roads and its ports. These things allow for American Goods to go from the heartland to the coasts and even overseas. They allow for flood protection for both rural and urban communities that save lives. In addition our committee has jurisdiction over the environmental laws that impact the modernization of infrastructure. Doesnt matter whether the setting is urban or rural, rules and regulations can halt or delay the modernization of infrastructure and the impact is particularly counter productive if theyre applied without understanding the difference between urban and rural. Our committee has members from both urban and rural areas. The members o
Wyoming, delaware and colorado. Senator john ber rasso chairs the committee. Good morning. I call this hearing to order. President trump has made improving our nations infrastructure a top priority. Infrastructure is critical to our nations prosperity. The Senate Environment Public Works Committee has jurisdiction over our nations highways and roads and its ports. These things allow for American Goods to go from the heartland to the coasts and even overseas. They allow for flood protection for both rural and urban communities that save lives. In addition our committee has jurisdiction over the environmental laws that impact the modernization of infrastructure. Doesnt matter whether the setting is urban or rural, rules and regulations can halt or delay the modernization of infrastructure and the impact is particularly counter productive if theyre applied without understanding the difference between urban and rural. Our committee has members from both urban and rural areas. The members o
Congressman david kustoff, what did you do before you came to congress . Ive been a practicing lawyer and was honored to serve as the United States attorney for the Western District of tennessee for a few years, sculpt l of years during president bushs tenure and ive enjoyed the practice of law, i enjoyed representing the people of west condition condition as the United States attorney. Its the chief Law Enforcement officer for the district. Tell our viewers was what operation tennessee waltz and your role in it. There was in the early 2000s and in the mid2000s in the Tennessee Legislature there was a level of corruption among state legislators. And so the u. S. Attorneys office and the vib before i became United States attorney developed an undercover operation, tennessee waltz where a Fictional Company was created. They would quote unquote lobby members of the Tennessee Legislature. Orme they were bribing those members who had been engaged in other activity that they should not have
Work force. This subcommittee will work to find sense sbl solutions. Federal agencies employ some of the best and brightest individuals this country has to offer. Every day federal Civil Servants protect our communities, keep our airports running safely and smoothly and military running extremely effectively. We are gafl for their diligence. Important work is obstructed by a culture that rewards attendance over initiative, one that does not differentiate between poor performers and those who excel. The high performing often complain that under performing count parts harm work place moral and raise concerns that compensation is not appropriately related to performance. The 2016 federal Employee View Point survey found a mere 22 of employees agreed with this statement. Pay raises depend on how well employees perform their jobs. While the government fails to appropriately compensate employees based on performance managers face additional challenges. Federal managers are frustrated by comp