My name is christine black and i am the exhibits curator here at the Capitol Visitor Center inside the us capitol. We are here in the congressional investigations exhibit in exhibition hall and this is an exhibit that speaks to how and why congress does one of its most important jobs. The constitution, and gives congress the power to legislate. But in order to do that, Congress Needs information on what topics it can legislate on what needs to be legislated about. And Congress Gets that information through investigations. So at any given time, congress can be investigating. For example, if a law is being implemented as it was intended to or the cause of a disaster. And and it gathers information and uses that information to create new laws. One of our goals for this exhibit was for americans to be able to get a better understanding of the things that happen here in the capitol, the things done by their representatives in congress. So because investigations are one of those things that
My name is christine black and i am the exhibits curator here at the Capitol Visitor Center inside the us capitol. We are here in the congressional investigations exhibit in exhibition hall and this is an exhibit that speaks to how and why congress does one of its most important jobs. The constitution, and gives congress the power to legislate. But in order to do that, Congress Needs information on what topics it can legislate on what needs to be legislated about. And Congress Gets that information through investigations. So at any given time, congress can be investigating. For example, if a law is being implemented as it was intended to or the cause of a disaster. And and it gathers information and uses that information to create new laws. One of our goals for this exhibit was for americans to be able to get a better understanding of the things that happen here in the capitol, the things done by their representatives in congress. So because investigations are one of those things that
My name is christine black and i am the exhibits curator here at the Capitol Visitor Center inside the us capitol. We are here in the congressional investigations exhibit in exhibition hall and this is an exhibit that speaks to how and why congress does one of its most important jobs. The constitution, and gives congress the power to legislate. But in order to do that, Congress Needs information on what topics it can legislate on what needs to be legislated about. And Congress Gets that information through investigations. So at any given time, congress can be investigating. For example, if a law is being implemented as it was intended to or the cause of a disaster. And and it gathers information and uses that information to create new laws. One of our goals for this exhibit was for americans to be able to get a better understanding of the things that happen here in the capitol, the things done by their representatives in congress. So because investigations are one of those things that
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Historian of american conservatism on his life, career and key moments in the conservative movement spoke about his book just right at the Hoover Institution. This is just over an hour. Good afternoon. For those of you that dont know me welcome. A more parochial absent all the official papers are at the Hoover Library archives in palo alto and we have failed themselves of that when writing the book and the acknowledgment makes the point that it was lost or maybe you had forgotten about so i would suggest you talk about the book in your life. What is it like to go through all of your archival papers and find things you completely forgot about . Do i seem that stupid that i said that. Those of you that do not know lee, he is one of the great historians of the conservative movement and hes written over 25 books and is a great biography of Barry Goldwater and history of conservatism in different angles and history of the Heritage Foundation where he is a distinguished fellow in conservativ