Communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , august 11, 2023. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable sheldon whitehouse, a senator from the state of rhode island, to perform the duties of the chair. Signed patty murray, president pro tempore. The presiding officer under the previous order, the senate stans adjourned until 12 00 p. M. On tuesday, august 15, 2023. Lawmakers in a monthlong recess for their state work period. They will be back september 5 and you can watch live coverage here on cspan2. We take you back to our book tv programming in process during world war ii, when us entered world war ii and we needed china as an ally there was a long period were talking about so there were files on all the family members who came in and i should also say that chinese exclusion was the first major federal immigration restriction that effectively shut the borders for the very first time ag
I thoroughly enjoyed it and im really looking forward to our conversation today. Thank you. Its really so to be here with you. Yeah. Would love to start by just simply asking about the Research Project itself. You know, being a i was just fascinated by all the different kinds of things you were looking at from the official records housed in the National Archives, newspapers, census records, family photographs, all of it, and it sounded like, from the way you describe the process, you basically been researching this Family History for a very long time. So maybe you could start by taking us back to when you start first. Think about writing a family or researching your Family History and what brought you there. Sure. Absolutely. Thank you. And i just want to say that mott is about the impact of the exclusion act laws on four generations of my famy in new yorks chinatown. As we landed out in the American West then did a reverse migration across country before eventually landing in the same
Council looked at the potential role of american muslims in combating terrorism, policy differences between the obama and Trump Administrations, at the potential impact of president trumps immigration policy. [inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. My name is rabia ahmed. Thank you so muchh for attending aus roundtable titled islam vers the west. We are grateful to our esteemed panelists who are agreeing to speak on this very critical in timely topic, and to all of our viewers were watching on cspan2 and listening on cspan radio. We would like for this penalty be as interactive as possible so we have cardsac on the table for our guests inhouse to submit question for the q a, and we also for our viewers were watching on tv, please tweet us your questions at hashtag ask impact. Before i pass the mics on to the director of a policy and ethics the program and the moderate of todays event, i which is like to say a few words about impact. Impact is a National Public Affairs Organization t
Public affairs council. Thank you so much for attending our round table, entitled islam versus the west, the lie that keeps on giving. We are grateful to our esteemed panelists for agreeing to speak on this very critical and timely topic. To all of our viewers watching on cspan2 and listening on cspan radio. We would like for this panel to be as interactive as possible so we have cards on the table for our guests here in house to submit questions for the q a, and we also, for the viewers watching on tv, you can tweet us your questions. Before i pass the microphone to our director of policy and advocacy program, and the moderator of todays event, i would like to say a few words. Mpac is a National Public Affairs Organization that works to promote and strengthen pluralism for the american doublet. We do that by working on policies that affect our community. The Foreign Policy areas we work on are National Security and Civil Liberties, immigration, human security, as well as religious fre
Us on facebook at the spent history cspan history. History tv is joining our Cable Partners to showcase the history of grand rapids, michigan. To learn more about the cities on the tour, visit cspan. Org cities to work. We continue to look at the history of grand rapids. We are at the Gerald R Ford Residential Museum in grand rapids, michigan. He is beginning his professional career. It is not clear even to him, because at the same time that he is establishing hislop rectus he is applying to become a field agent for the f ei. He wants to be a gman. He is writing letters and toward the end of 1941, trying to figure out what the status of his application is. Himself, along with america, caught up with world affairs, when the japanese bond pearl harbor. There after he shifts his attention to the navy. He wants to become a naval officer area he sends in his application to be commissioned as an officer in the navy but april 1942 and he joins the navy. Annapolis down to cap where he goes thr