Series, saturday at 10 p. M. And sunday at 4 p. M. Eastern here on American History tv. Next, Cornell University history professor Lawrence Glickman describes how the modern concept of Free Enterprise formed in the 1930s during the rise of the new deal. He is the author of Free Enterprise an American History. Lawrence glickman is in the department of history at cornell. Enterprise to free in 2019, he has written for. Ther books he writes on a regular basis for publications including the Washington Post though i am not sure we would call that a popular publication. [laughter] with hisn review articles was named one of the most loved essays in the Boston Review in 2018. Thank you to rachel for the behindthescenes work and pete, eric, and christian and all organizations that make this possible. Thank you to all of you for coming out. I am honored by the size of this audience. No historian works alone. We stand on the shoulders of those who came before and i would like to begin by mentioni
Policy center here to walk us through this spending package that House Democrats and republicans have negotiated. Ofwhat you have is a package a bunch of spending bills with a grand total of 1. 4 trillion. How does this compare to previous deals question mark this is about 50 billion more than what we spend in the previous fiscal years. It is 12 appropriation bills and by the way it is to bills. They do not want to put all 12 bills on the desk, so they have broken it up into two, so they it is all theand funding for the federal government to the end of next year. Why 50 billion more. It is a number of particular and for 25terest years, i guess we have not had the authority to look at the , but i think about 2 million, so the increases are an increase of salary for employees and the president s wall. As he was saying, it was two packages, politico reports that one package contains four bills and buy Financial Service spending measures, it holds a bills to fund the department of agricult
Elected, young president that we all were excited about, an anticorruption president. The president tried to coerce him into interfering in the 2020 elections. The things that i have heard today about the Vice President s child, the things ive heard about the Vice President s son when we have millions of people in this country who are suffering from addiction, i believe to protect the president at any cause is shameful. Article 2, in the nixon impeachment said this, the article principally addressed president nixons use of power including powers vested solely in the president to harm political opponents and gain improper personal political advantages. And explaining this article of impeachment the house judiciary then stated that president nixons conduct was undertaken for his personal political advantage and not in the furtherance of any Valid National policy objective. The president abused his power and to me and at least the members of this side of the deus that matters and with tha
Against President Trump. We will also hear from members of congress who serve on the House Judiciary Committee. Washington journal is next. Is next. Host for only the third time in our countrys history, the u. S. House of representatives is slated to vote on articles of impeachment. President trump faces abuse of congress. 216 housesi needs members to vote yes to then send the impeachment articles to the senate for a trial. Our coverage begins this morning with all of you letting lawmakers know how you think they should vote today and why and the house gavels in at 9 00 a. M. Eastern time. We will bring you gaveltogavel unfiltered and uninterrupted coverage of the house debate and vote. Cspan, onch here on our website, cspan. Org, or download the app. Republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. ,oin us on twitter at cspanwj facebook. Com cspan, or text us at 2027488003. We will get to your calls in a minute. More on the rules of the road today in the house
Family knows something about the sacrifice of serving us into a my brothers served in the navy and vietnam war. My brother bob serving sue terms in vietnam. Im lucky to serve with those who have served on my own staff. Lieutenant colin my lawn who was called to service to active duty and david carr again and now as members of congress its our turn to stand up and doctor king one said the ultimate measure of man is not where he stands on moments of comfort its where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. This is a time of great challenge and some of my colleagues do not want to face the reality of a president s wrongdoing. So i asked my colleagues tonight, what are you afraid of . This country was built by those who are brave enough to stand up against king george. We are called to stand up against donald j trump. What are you afraid of . Look to our framers, look to our patriots for courage because this is about courage. The courage to honor my oath, your oath. Mister chairma