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
History, Anderson University professor joel schrock talks about a black Voter Registration in mississippi. In 1963 the Voter Education project discontinued funding for mississippi and you know this because ann moody talks about it in coming of age in mississippi, the checks stop coming. They had the fewest results of any state in the Voter Education project. Black voting in mississippi went from 5. 3 to 6. 7 . Thats it. Tha thats what they got for two years of beatings and arrests. Send afternoon on real america, the regulators focuses on pollution regulation in the national parks. Congressman paul rogers and author of the monumental 1970 Clean Air Act was revising that law. Although a great deal had been accomplished in cleaning up the nations air the slides were evidence that the parks were still unprotected. And at 6 30 historians talk about the groups that other past Counter Culture in the 1960s and 70s. People that produce the counsel of the summer of love are more the kind of peo
Facebook. Com booktv. My forthcoming book is called r freedom now, and i have an edited volume, black women respond to michelle obama. I want to welcome everybody on behalf of the links, wonderful organization here in charlottesville, virginia, as well as the Virginia Foundation for the humanities and the producers of the virginia festival of the book. Please turn off all your cell phones, okay . I will just tell you the festival is free of charge, not free of cost. So please remember to go online and give back or pick be up a giving envelope from the information desk at the omni hotel and support your festival so we may sustain it for many, many years. Please till out the evaluations, these provide useful information that helps the festival continue to be free and open to the public. Following the talk there will be a book sale so, please, support our fabulous authors by buying tear books, okay their books, okay . And the program today is called africanamerican stories of work, change
Although the car was completely wiped out, nothing recognizable left of it, it sold in predictable rather than unpredictable ways which it failed in a planned fashion and the passenger compartment stay intact and the air bags deploy it, the windshield and the war did not fly off, you walk away concluding whoever is driving a car in that situation had a crack the day no question about it but probably went away from the action. Progress is a doubleedged sword, the 57 chevy is a wonderful thing in the sense you can dive under the load. You can sleep on top of the engine and so close the road on top of view. On the other hand the car that runs like a sewing machine that doesnt seem to have much romance to it has its advantages. Yes, sir . Hello. I have a couple of observations about postwar and the automobile and the american dream. My father coming out of the war like a lot of g is ended up wanting to settle down and aspire to the middleclass suburban dream. Somehow raised enough money fo
Without anesthesia. He snuck out of the hospital for a beer at a nearby strip club, got into a fight and reopened the incision in such a manner that he drenched himself, the club and a neighboring 7 eleven in blood. Point of information, he owned the strip club. Two breaks in the bones of his nose. And here and there faded nicks were calling a melee outside of a virginia sailor bar. Then made good on the threat by clamping his beefty hands around the charging animals neck, squeezing until it passed out and beating the adopt with his own cop with his own german shepherd. He can be inperson rate with the language. Thats the paragraph well skip. Ive heard many labels applied to him; crazy, brash, a rough customer, funny, charming, shrewd. The case could be made for any and all of them to which id add a scholar. His expertise is such that people come hundreds of miles to tap it. He is a historian, a curator of memories, a student of americas Popular Culture in the mid 20th century, though