Love that never gives up on us. Bless our lawmakers today, guiding their thoughts, words and actions. Inspire them to live as your servants, always striving to honor you through their labors. May they conduct themselves in a manner worthy of the sacrifice you have made for their salvation. Empower them to continue to grow in knowledge and understanding so that they will be instruments for your glory. Continue the work you have begun in them until it is finally finished. We pray in your great name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington d. C. , december 15, 2013. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby app
Items, finalists for the Nonfiction Book award and the winner of the finishing line press jet boat competition is also the author of six nonfiction prose books including revenge of womens studies professor, reel girl and womens history for beginners. Author Bonnie Morris, in your book revenge of womens studies professor, revenge for what . The title is not meant to be provocative or roots, it is about having the opportunity to talk back to many people this stereotyped my fields or asked unfair questions. I have a lot of terrific students who are intimidated by the idea of taking the basic class in womens history. They come to me and expressed doubt or concern, they are afraid of what people would say, what does it look like on their transcripts of those experiences lead me to a keen awareness of how many people feel there is something wrong which looking at half of the worlds history and i negotiated many of these routes conversations throughout my teaching career. The idea of revenge
Host serving as first lady from 1869 to 1877, julia grant relished the role. She once commented that life inside the white house was a garden spot of orchids. Growing up in a slaveholding family, she ended up as wife of the commanding u. S. General during the civil war. She and ulysses s. Grant shared 37 years together that included the hardships of war, the challenges of politics, and eight years in the white house. Welcome to our program, first ladies influence and image. Tonight, julia grant. Let me introduce you to our guests. Bill seale is a member of our series. He is a Longtime White House historian and the author of the president s house. Pam sanfilippo is a historian at the ulysses s. Grant National Historic site. She is also working on a biography of julia grant. I want to start with you. We last left the series with the johnsons after impeachment and the politics with the radical republicans in reconstruction in the south. Set the stage for us as the grants come into the whi
You can also email us, journal cspan. Org. We will begin with josh rogan who broke the story. He is our Senior Correspondent on the phone. Is headline in your piece the Obama Administration secretly suspended military aid to egypt. How did you find this out . The primary source was senator patrick leahy, he is the chairman of the state and foreign appropriations subcommittee. I asked a lot of people what was going on with this 1. 3 billion of u. S. Military aid to egypt. Their understanding was that it had been halted. I investigated a little bit further and what i found was that the administrations review of military aid is ongoing. They are going through a broad review of the entire u. S. Egypt relationship. They decided not to disburse most forms of the military aid, with some exceptions this was a with some to exceptions. Despite the fact that the administration is determined that if that sounds at the mouthful, it is because it is. Wheres the money in the process . And what impact
Certainly taken a turn backwards. Am i depressed . No. I am energized to move forward and to be sure to see the gains that we have encountered and had to come to us, that we have had to work so hard for, are not lost. So i do ask you, one of our next steps, we created a framework, but there is so much work to be done. Many of our civil rights leaders, including my husband and dr. Martin luther king, were still of an age when they took the lead. With that question and mind, i challenge you to get back to community building. It is your problem, it is our problem, it is our neighborhood. These are our children, you are the parents. But in that same breath, and victory will be a collective one. It is with a clear conscience, knowing what we have done and can do, that we will reach that mountaintop, and we will overcome. But it will take each and every one of us, in unity, in unison, letting those who say that they managed this country of america know that it is the people. It is the voice