Sometimes it seems nothing is happening on the senate floor. The action is going on elsewhere. Order in committee rooms, and senators offices and the offices of the Senate Leaders. But thats all preliminary. Sooner or later, everything has to come here. Here is where the final say, the final act takes place. Here is where the law is made. The United States senate has been legislating and carrying out its unique constitutional duties since 1789. The framers believed the senate should and could be the venue in which statesmen would lift america up to meet its unique challenges. We are still a work in progress in the United States senate. It is time for the United States senate started acting like a senate instead of kindergarten. If you think were emotional, wait until you see what happens if this bill fails. Reflecting the nations politics and made up of 100 members, two from each state, serving sixyear terms, this is how many have come to know the senate today. Democrats have been putt
Sometimes it seems nothing is happening on the senate floor. The action is going on elsewhere. Order. The senate has been carrying out its duties in 1789. The framers believed the senate should be the venue through which statesmen would lift america to meet its unique challenges. We are still a work in progress in the United States senate. We should act like a senate instead of a kindergarten. Wait until you see what happens with this bill. Made up of 100 members, two from each state, this is how many have come to know the senate today. Democrats have been putting up roadblocks one after another. It is not what the founders had in mind. There is a great deal of human affection around here. It is in private. You came to the wrong town at the wrong time. With a history of conflict and compromise, we will go inside the senate to tell its story. Its informal workings, we will learn about it as a legislative body. Following the footsteps of members in the core doors around the chamber, we w
It develop in the past ten years is amazing. And hopefully i will go to represent gb in tokyo. Just explain how the year will play out for you because you want to make sure you are peaking at the right time. What are peaking at the right time. What are your events looking like to prepare you for the paralympics . Next month i go to tokyo for the test events and that will be the best preparation for me with it being my first games i do not know what to expect. So i canjust experience it and hopefully get an understanding of what it is going to be like and then in october i will compete in the european championships. Great to have another sport in the paralympics, another exciting sport. And for other sports like athletics to see a new sport like athletics to see a new sport like tae kwon do coming into the paralympic family is very important and it shows the legacy of sport and hopefully amy inspires the next generation of tae kwon do athletes to participate in the future games. Both lo
Dead and buried . Bolton wanderers and Bury Football Clubs face liquidation after the deadline to save them expires. Documents discovered by the bbc suggest the government, and h52, knew the High Speed Railway was over budget and behind schedule years ago. Brazils president rejects an offer of aid from the g7 leaders to tackle the amazon wildfires unless he receives an apology. And would you be prepared to feed your pets insects . Vets say it could help fight climate change. Good evening. With just 65 days to go until the uk is due to leave the eu, the leaders of the main opposition parties have met today and agreed to Work Together to stop britain leaving without a deal. Jeremy corbyn says Opposition Mps will take the first steps towards trying to pass a law blocking a no deal brexit when parliament returns next week. He added a book of no confidence remains a full option. The government accused them of trying to create chaos, delay and uncertainty. Our Political Correspondent, ben wr
About a big issue that goes throughout the civil war era, that we need to look at in the antebellum period, the civil war and reconstruction to understand. That question is the United States constitution. One of the things historians have been asking for generations about the constitution and the civil war era, basic questions as to what degree did the constitution shape the civil war era . To what degree did make political actors do certain things . Constrain them or guide their actions . On the flip side, to what degree did the civil war shape the constitution . Some of this is very clear in the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, which directly change the constitution, but also different views of the constitution. One of the things people have looked at, looking back at the u. S. Constitution during the civil war era, is how different people, particular president s, have actor have interacted with the constitution. Have they followed it, tried to defend it, did they abridge the constitu