Research Council North carolina congressman mark meadows spoke at the conference. Mr. Meadows god bless you. It is great to be with you. Thank you for that welcome. I normally do not get a like that in washington, d. C. We are here to tell a little bit of the truth about what is going on. I am having to leave right after this to go and do an interview. Ambassador that was relieved of her duty as part of the impeachment effort. I think it is time we sent adam schiff home. Instead of the president of the united states. I think it is time. What do you think . [applause] they love to do these things in secret. They love to try to have a narrative form a narrative trying to impeach this president. Spoke in november, 2016. They spoke loudly saying we need a change. To drain the swamp. President donald trump is doing exactly that. Hes doing exactly that. [applause] had thedows i have opportunity to be the chairman of the freedom caucus. For some of you that do not know, we started a small gro
Time, why did they care about this . This has not happened in any real sense. Once again, we have learned how the wisdom of the Founding Fathers is relevant to this very day. If a foreign country can actually affect our elections, americans will lose faith in our democracy, this grand and wonderful democracy. We must guard against that. At the same time, we have to do two things at once. We can protect our constitution and do things average working families need at the same time, and democrats are intent on pushing for working families. From the very beginning, Senate Democrats have been committed to doing the peoples business. The price of health is too high, incomes are too low, our infrastructure is crumbling, gun violence is an epidemic. Too Many Americans have trouble voting. Our elections remain vulnerable to foreign interference. Climate change is an existential threat to the planet that remain that demands bold action. Over the course of his presidency, long before the house in
Leading political rivals. It is an incident serious enough to warrant a full investigation by congress, and that is what the house of representatives have decided to do by begetting a formal impeachment inquiry. We have a responsibility to see that all of the facts get out and to consider those facts with the best interest of our country, nothing else, in mind. When i studied our constitution in high school and college, when we learned one of the greatest threats our Founding Fathers feared was foreign interference in our election, i said at the time, why did they care about this . This has not happened in any real sense. Once again, we have learned how the wisdom of the Founding Fathers is relevant to this very day. If a foreign country can actually affect our elections, americans will lose faith in our democracy, this grand and wonderful democracy. So we must guard against that. But at the same time, we have to do two things at once. We can protect our constitution and do things aver
Because nobody is going to steal our businesses, nobody will close our factories and nobody will close our plants anymore. They are all coming back. [applause] susan President Trump has popularized the debate over tariffs in our country once again. How long throughout our history have tariffs been a subject of political debate . Peter tariffs have been the topic of discussion from the beginning. Tariffs make great rhetoric. Really power people up. One could argue that the United States was founded on a tariff thatll. Not american tariffs, but opposition to english tariffs. Susan we will spend some time we started asking questions about the tariff debate and we thought we would bring the audience along to learn more about the role of tariffs and American History. Before we get into the meat of this, what is a tariff . Peter it is a tax. There are many different kinds of tariffs. You will hear about protectionist tariffs, punitive tariffs. But at the end of the day, the difference betwee
A portrait of persistence. For this exhibition i worked 3. 5 teachingearching, myself this history, and finding all the objects. In the exhibition, we have about 124 objects, of which there are 63 portraits. In curating the exhibition i was , hoping to commemorate the 19th amendment and tell the history of the 19th amendment and how women lobbied to get this amendment passed and ratified. But also ask questions about it. Ask what does it do and what does it not do, and why 1965, the Voting Rights act, was considered a part two of the amendment. 19thif you follow me, i will take you through the exhibition and show you a few of the objects that tell this history. So lets go. We are in the first gallery of the exhibition. I mentioned we have portraits that drive the narrative. I also wanted to include pieces of art, like the one we are looking at. It is titled the war spirit at home, and its by a female artist. She was active in the 1860s. I wanted to include this it portraysause Young Ch