Making. It was put together by an amazing team, some of whom are in the audience. I see jessica and ruby her daughter. Welckermoore wendy was assisted so a bully by Cheryl Maslin and an amazing team of archivists, librarians, curators and it is largely inspired by the woman we will get to hear from in a minute, jen huntley. When we were thinking of creating an exhibition on yosemite, the power of the place and the complications of that icon and the sacredness of the landscapes all spoke to us. We created not one narrative but, as you can tell, about 23. Ebook thatnhanced is coming out soon to delve deeper into the complexities of the rich and beautiful and complicated Human History there. Tonight, youre in for a real treat. Y is an environmental historian of Sierra Nevada and the pacific rim. She is the assistant professor of humanities at the command to college in reno. She is a true cult scholar and thinker and his compassionate and intelligent. She was a treat to work with here as s
Creating snow there. That old system will move our way and bring up this moisture. The rain snow line, want to be very close to the i95 corridor. We are going to break that wind and this moves in. Who can expect what. Just how many of us will see accumulating snowfall. That coming up in the full forecast. Three hours from now, president obama will go to the capitol to share with congress his vision for the next year. His state of the Union Address certain to cover gun law reform, immigration, and the status of troops in afghanistan among a number of other items. Analysts say republicans will be watching the president as much for what he says as how he says it. Steve handelsman on capitol hill now with more on this. Thats for sure. Based on the speech excerpts just released by the white house, i will read a couple of it is clear that the president and his people want the American People to remember that he mostly talked about jobs here tonight. Heres a quote. Every day we should ask our
That isolated bases in cincinnati was unacceptable. He charged that we would get to the bottom of it. We have gotten to the fact that it is not isolated to cincinnati as was said. It is not isolated to washington. It goes to your chief consuls office. Discovery, do our that is where the rub is. You promised us full cooperation and yet the office of chief consul apparently has 70 attorneys delivering for documents a day per attorney, and they look like this. Print, 6103. Inute documentss working on , four pages a day or lawyer her lawyer. Per lawyer. This minimal reduction is required by law . I have a couple statements. Take take lisi to redact information specific to taxpayers. All information, bottom line, whether redacted or unredacted is delivered to this congress. You have delivered less than one percent six use me for standing but i have to get over your stack. You have delivered less than one percent of the documents to the committee. I disagree with that conclusion. That is wha
The committee on agriculture passed out a bipartisan bill in the last congress and it was never brought before my republican friends. This year the Committee Also passed out a bipartisan bill that was brought to this floor. It could have and should have been passed with a bipartisan vote. Not because i agreed with all of it, but because it was appropriate to have a bill to go to conference with on this important subject. Our republican friends added three amendments which we harmful to clearly those in need in america. As a result, we didnt vote for it, but thats not why it failed, mr. Speaker. It failed because 62 republicans voted against the bill reported out with every republican voting in committee for it. One was mr. Lucas, the chairman of the committee observed, it apparently wasnt good enough for those 62 republicans. Compromise seems very difficult for some people in this house. But i again remind us all it is absolutely essential. It we then passed a farm bill which said, unl
But its also been a boost in benefits to the local its just exciting he times that occurring right now. That is something that senator representative king needs to be aware of is hat his district is changing and that people are beginning to build relationships with the ocal immigrant community and theyre realizing the struggles and hardships theyre going through. Is drawing people to this issue is relationships people and stories. That is what is powerful. Hats something thats missing from representative kings speech is the human aspect. Ecause i doubt he knows any dreamers or any undocumented stories thend their way he talks about them. So i think thats just something he needs to come and come to changing and needs to be more in tune with what is occurring because its vastly different picture hes portraying im just excited for what is appening here and its very encouraging. Im very excited for the bill hat the senator has been working on. And i think now is just a very time. Ing and i