Not have dealt with it the way Charleston South Carolina did. We dont talk about it very often. Tim scott was there, and because of that mayor, the time they had with each other they move forward and overcame, and and how many black men, and stops playing politics with race. 75 billion going into the most economically challenged country because of tim scott, donald trump and, eight black colleges and universities are stronger today because of donald trump than they have ever been. Mister president , the time to act is now, stop pandering to the Democratic Base and get something done. This was never intended to be a end all but a platform for constructive debate and here we are with two Democratic Senators to start the debate. I yield back. Thank you, senator perdue. There is a scripture in the bible in the book of ezekiel chapter 33 around verse 6, a watchman on a wall, there is danger coming. Very important job. A watchmans job is to say there is danger coming. I had that conversation
The only way forward is to treat each other with the respect and empathy the presiding officer without objection. Mr. Durbin thank you. Mr. President , this past weekend, i went back to illinois and visited with two different groups, one on friday, another on saturday. They were Young African americans on the southside of chicago and in my hometown of springfield. I wanted to sit down with these young people, some just barely high school students, who had been engaged in the protests and demonstration in their hometowns and asked them what happened it was about, what it meant to them. I wanted to hear it first hand. They talked about the killing of george floyd in minneapolis and how it changed the conversation about justice in america, and it moved them to stand up and speak up. Im proud to say that those that i met with have engaged in Peaceful Demonstrations quint with american consistent with American Values and our constitution. Im proud of them because there were no distractions.
Chief of staff. Now, live coverage of the u. S. Senate. Vice president under the previous order, the senate will consider the following nomination. The clerk nomination, general charles q. Brown, jr. , to be chief of staff and general of the United States air force. The Vice President under the previous order, the question occurs on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . It appears there is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the Vice President are there any senators wishing to vote or to change their vote . If not, on this vote, the yeas are 98, the nays are zero. And the historic nomination of general charles q. Brown, jr. As the United States air force chief of staff is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Mr. Alexander madam president . The presiding officer the senator from tennessee. Mr. Alexander thank you
University, and i will provide over this panel, talking about the 17 nineties. Then and, now thinking about allegedly put between that fragile moment between the 17 nineties and how we might think about what we can learn about that moment and how it connects or does not connect to what is happening in american political history at this moment. So i will introduce the four panelists, each person will talk for five to seven minutes and develop a few lines of inquiry. I will ask a few people based on what people said and folks will have a chance to have a conversation here, but we want to leave the last 45 to 30 minutes for questions for the audience. So, as we are going have in mind thinks that you want to say or things you want to ask about. I want to introduce folks from my left to right. So, first is katlyn carter. Katlyn its a visiting University Professor at the university of notre dame, her ph. D. Is from president. She spent two years as a post doctoral fellowship as a wiser cente
And talked about and consumed over the years. This conference is sponsored by the department of history at purdue university, is organized by one of our panelists. It is also by nikki. We are thankful to all of them to get into this and discuss how history is going to be taught in the future. My name is connie doebele. We are fairly new entity the, here at purdue, our goal is to help professors from across the country used the cspan archives, which is over 250,000 hours of american political history in their classrooms and in the research. We do some other things but thats what we are concentrating on at this conference. I tweet at c. J. Doubly we we hope that you will follow us. On twitter. We would be interested in following you as we reach out to, specifically history professors across the country who are interested in using the cspan archives in their classrooms and research. Here is what we are going to do, we have three excellent panelists who have different areas of interest und