Official vote. One week later that was set up a final confirmation vote on the full senate floor the week of october 26 tonight, California Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein is alling grahams move unprecedented senator find side tweeted is another example of republicans ignoring rules and tradition so they can rush this nominee through before the election and in time to supply a vote to strike down the Affordable Care act today was the day of Opening Statements from barrett, herself and senators democrats unified their message on the Affordable Care act, joe khalil reports from washington dc. The truth, the whole truth. And nothing but the truth so help you God Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett played out her judicial philosophy in the first Senate Hearing of her confirmation process i believe americans of all backgrounds deserve an independent Supreme Court that interprets our constitution and laws as they are written barrett described herself as a textualist who strictly inte
States right now in washington, fragile hopes for a stimulus deal remain Speaker Pelosi and secretary treasurer mnuchin are expected to talk this afternoon in hopes of getting a deal done. A full economic recovery has a long way to go and another expert said many lost jobs may not come back. All 11 s p sectors are lower 59 minutes to go we are making new session lows with the dow down 400 points. Lets get to the market downturn we just referenced. Mike santoli is tracking all of the action no trigger but a clear response. The only trigger that seems clear at all is the mark of 2 30 eastern time, when the downturn accelerated. It seems as if it is essentially kind of getting ahead of the close, peeling down exposure we did have that good rebound into last week from the late september lows we had some positioning indicators suggesting people were full up on equity there has been a pattern of strength overnight in equity futures opening up strong and selling throughout the day it seems li
Candidate, eugene debs. This is a class at columbia university, of course i called the american radical tradition, and we started with the American Revolution and have been going through the Abolitionist Movement, early feminism, the civil war reconstruction, labor conflict and the gilded age, the populist movement, and now we are sort of entering into the 20th century and in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of, a lot of labor unrest, Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the four. Municipal reform, many other things, but today our subject is, the socialist party, the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in new early 20th century. On our reading list, the chapter by michael kaizen gives a good quick summary on the various kinds of socialism at the time. From 1860 onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in the United States, but largely confined to immigrants from europe, particu
Various scenarios that could take place after the election involving delayed counting of ballots. This runs whenever. Im aaron david miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and welcome to carnegie connects, series of virtual conversations on issues of critical importance to americans and to the world. Our last session which took place on the afternoon of the first president ial as diverse of the question, what Foreign Policy figure in the election and our three panelists, charlie cook, jen saki and Amanda Carpenter i think myself included knew the answer to the question before we began. Not so today. The question we pose come will american democracy survive november 3 and beyond, is unanswerable. It may be overly dramatically rendered, but there are simply too many unknowns and too many uncertainties and fears about the consequences of this election. However, there are also hopes. Rachel kleinfeld has written and i would put myself in agreement with this, reflecting the factef
Representatives and a member of the advisory meeting on the records of congress, to which the legislative records reports twice annually. He is a longtime friend and supporter, as well as a source of guidance to the center through his service on the advisory committee. Matts here today to discuss hispanic americans in congress, 18222012, which was published last year. This is the third in a series that has come out of the house office of the historian under leadership, the previously published volumes being women in congress 19172006, and black americans in congress, 18702007, published in 2008. The total page count for these three volumes is 2573, and still counting. I believe there is a fourth volume in the works. [laughter] so, this series obviously represents a very substantial effort for which were all grateful and eager to hear about this latest publication and thank you so much for joining us, matt. Matt thanks for inviting me. Its a pleasure to be here. Pleasure to see so many