Tension is running high in the democratic republic of congo protesters denounce the nomination of a controversial they get to head the Election Commission so how will this impact the Ruling Coalition and can any fallout be contained this is inside story. And welcome to the program im laura kyle the democratic republic of congo is braced for war violence after several people were killed in protests across the country on thursday thousands of protesters defied a ban on public gatherings to march against the nomination of a new election administrates. Rigging previous polls in favor of the former president Joseph Kabila who stepped down last year after 18 years in office well bring our guests in just a moment but 1st this report from catherine soy whos following developments from kenya. The shooting started as supporters of president likes to see katies union for democracy and social Congress Party on a march in Kinshasa Police fired tear gas and bullets to disperse demonstrators trying t
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
For their presentations. They will speak for 10 to 12 minutes at the most, i will enforce that with an iron hand about their Current Research on president ial commissions and then the three of us will talk in conversation about the role of president ial commissions and political history. And i will reserve the last half hour at least for questions and comments from you and for us to continue talking. As you can tell todays session is being filmed by cspan so do with that information as you will. All right. Frank is going to go first and introduce yourself. Yeah, my name is frank popper. I teach city planning rather than history, although increasingly i take a historical approach to city planning. I do that at rutgers and at princeton. The reason im here is that nearly half a century ago i wrote a small book for the 20th century fund, now the Century Foundation in new york city on president ial commissions and its one of the very few sources, i think, on them and a couple of months ago
Next on American History tv, a decision on policymaking and president ial commissions in political history. This talk from Purdue University lasts about 90 minutes. 90 minut. Welcome to our panel on president ial commissions. At the intersection politics, policy making and forgotten history of president ial missions im joanna grisinger. Im a legal historian of the modern Administrative State who has written about president ial commissions and Administrative Law reform. Thanks to you all for coming, unfortunately Cynthia Spence is unable to be here today but we still look forward to great conversation. We will be informal today. There are two panelists, dov weinryb grohsgal and frank popper will introduce themselves for their presentations. They will speak for 10 to 12 minutes at the most, i will enforce that with an iron hand about their Current Research on president ial commissions and then the three of us will talk in conversation about the role of president ial commissions and polit
Welcome. My name is Francis Gary Powers jr. I go by gary. Im the founder of the Cold War Museum at vent hill, virginia, about 45 miles west of washington, d. C. I founded the Cold War Museum in 1996 to honor cold war veterans, preserve cold war history and educate future generations about the time period. What i realized when i was giving lectures to High School Students in this area, nine times out of 10, the students would not know anything about the cold war. They would think that the utwo incident had something to do with the utwo rock band. I noticed that they needed to be taught about the cold war time period. In 1996, we founded the museum which opened in 2011 here at vent hill farms station. A former Army Communication base near the washington, d. C. Area. It used to be used by nsa, c. I. A. , asa, Army Security agency, and other groups to monday horthe Electronic Communications around the washington, d. C. Embassy and international signals. The cold war was a geopolitical stan