Completely surrounded by a network of steel scaffolding on the washington monument. Recently was overhauled to preserve its beauty and to correct the results of years of exposure to all kinds of weather. This was the nations number one repair job. Uncle sam. The way in preserving the value and beauty of our national landmarks. They wouldnt have to be veritable human fliers as they labored 500 feet in the air at the peak of the worlds highest repair job. And here it stands in all its renewed glory, an architectural gem in the nations capital. Robert holgate, first Vice President of the immigrant Industrial Savings Bank of new york city, speaks on remodeling business property. The emigrant Industrial Savings Bank became the owner of a six story store and Office Building fronting on broadway 22nd street and fifth avenue, new yorks the ground floor was originally laid out into one small store and one large store. It was decided to remodel this large store, cutting it up into four smaller o
The Anderson Family fund. Rosalind p. Walter, in memory of abby m. Oneill. Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thank you for joining us. With the United States on the sidelines, climate negotiators from almost 200 countries have hammered out a blueprint for future commitments to slow the effects of climate change. The twoweek conference in bonn, germany, ended today. The goal was to come up with a technical rule book which puts the words of the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Accord into action. Presiding over the conference was the Prime Minister of one Pacific Island nation particul
Good evening everyone and welcome to i am interviewing Eva Moskowitz tonights program is a part of our Bernard Irene swarts Speakers Series and i would like to sake i like to thank mr. Swarts for his leadership which is enabled us bring 70 prominent speakers to the stage. I would also like to mention that our chairman emeritus had hoped to be with us this evening , but unfortunately his travel schedule conflicted with the programming. Im delighted to say that susan who has advised us at our history films is here and i would like to thank her and welcome her for all she has done on behalf of New York Historical. [applause]. Tonights program will last about an hour and will include a question and answer question session. Questions should be written on no cards. If you did not receive a no card my colleagues are still going up and down the aisle so good in no card from them. The questions will be collected later on in the program there will be a book signing this evening that will take ou
Joining me now to talk about that and more is congressman ro khanna. He represents the 17th district covering much of silicon valley. Congressman, nice to have you here. Great to be back. This week the house passed a gopled tax reform bill. The senate is now working on its own version. What do you think of republican efforts to change the tax code . Well, theyre basically giving tax cuts to corporations at the expense of middleclass families. That is their priority. Theyre eliminating deductions for graduate students. Theyre eliminating deductions for medical expenses. Theyre eliminating deductions for state or local property taxes to pay for what . To pay for tax cuts for corporations. You have proposed your own tax idea. Right. Its a 1 trillion plan, though. What would it do . Heres the difference. Theyre theory of the case is youve cut taxes for corporations, and somehow thats going to raise wages or create jobs. My point is if you want to raise wages, just raise wages. What we ough
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thank you for joining us. The republican tax reform bill that would cut business and personal taxes by 1. 5 trillion over the next decade is heading for a u. S. Senate showdown. Like the house of representatives bill that passed three days ago, the senate plan would also lower the top Corporate Tax rate from 35 to 20 , lower income taxes for roughly half of u. S. Households, end deductions for state and local taxes and student loan interest, double the estate Tax Exemption from 5. 5 million to 11 million. Republicans have only a twoseat majority in the senate, and at lea