Good evening. My name is Jane Campbell and as president ceo of the United States Capitol Historical Society, i have the honor of serving as the master of ceremonies for this event. I want to acknowledge that several of my Board Members are here, i have to be especially nice to them. They are my bosses. Don carlson, my board chair, sean perry giles who else is here from the board way your hand. Thank you very much for all that you do to keep the society. The Capitol Historical Society was founded in 1962, chartered by congress to encourage in the most comprehensive and enlightened manner an understanding by the american of the significance of, the capitol, as the tangible symbol of their representative of government. And we celebrate the capitol every day before we get started with todays program, we to take a moment to the passing of my immediate predecessor, former congressman ron harrison, who served the third president of the society from 2000 through 2018. Rons tenure was character
Direction i need him to run. Ill never forget that grip. He says, senator, were in danger, you have to come with me. And because of leader schumers position, he needed to go to different locations than Everybody Else did. We are walking briskly through a hall. And there are two gentlemen right by the stairwell. One baldheaded gentleman. Another one, long, black hair with a punisher shirt. We immediately aboutface. I grab the leader. We run out the door at full speed. I was within 20 feet of these insurrectionists. I heard second hand that someone pointed at me and said, theres the big jew, lets get him. We had a plan set. I ran to the elevator, i hit the button. We get up there, we pop out the door, boom, theres our vehicle, cars running. Heres our avenue out of here, we have made it. We start making our way to the secure location. I ask my colleagues to rejection this objection, to respect the will of the voters in the state of arizona the debate continues. Then i start noticing some
Votes. Were going to take you live to the house gaveling in for votes. The motion of the gentleman from missouri, mr. Smith, to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 5863. As amended. On which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title. The clerk h. R. 5863, a bill to provide tax relief with respect to certain federal disasters. The speaker pro tempore the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended. Members will record their votes by Electronic Device. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 382, and the nays are 7 recorded as present. 2 3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, this bill passes an
You are watching live coverage on cspan2. Kansas. Da drl drl mr. Marshall i ask to add our amendment to the substitute amendment for the faa reauthorization bill. Kansasians elected me to fight for them in washington to fgive them a voice at the highest levels of government. I took that seriously. For that reason, i stand here today and will not fall in line to the coward operating pro procedures that block us from bringing our priorities, the priorities of the people to the floor. Kansasians want our voices to be heard and not sidelined by lobbyists. Every senator in this chamber should have the right to hear and vote on their amendments. Many of my colleagues and i welcome this debate. Its healthy. Lets have the debates. Lets take the hard votes. Whats the harm . I ask everybody, what is the harm of these discussions of these debates and then letting the cards fall where they may with each vote. Each senator deserves the opportunity to bring their amendments to the floor and make the
This office. And that was august 8th, 1974, when president nixon went on national tv to announce his resignation from office. That followed a compel long series of hearings in the us senate the year before and a threat of impeachment by the house of representatives. Thanks for joining us for the American History tv series. Congress investigates where we look at significant congressional investigations over our history. This week, its a look at the watergate hearings and their aftermath. Our guest is kate scott, who is the Senate Historian and author ofhe book reining in the state Civil Society and congress in the vietnam and watergate era era. Ms. Scott, what was the defining event that led to the Senate Hearings in 1973 . The trigger that set off the hearing, the call for the Senate Hearings in 1973 had happened the prior year in june of 1972, when five when burglars broke into the Democrat National Committee Headquarters in the Watergate Office and apartment complex here in washingto