Will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, who makes us one, use our lawmakers today as agents of reconciliation. Give them the wisdom to build bridges that will enable Diverse People to accomplish your purposes on earth. Lord, inspire our senators with such oneness of spirit and resolve that they will provide our nation with a model of cooperation. Remind them of the wisdom of matthew 12 25, which states that a house divided against itself cannot stand. Lord, we thank you for giving senator grassley another birthday. We pray in your unifying name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president. The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley i ask for one minute. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Gr
How have you been. We call ourselves partners in crime. That we are not going to talk about the crime part of it, just to the partner part. What has been interesting since ive been in the position of library of congress is the fact that people ask me what does the National Archives do. What does the archivist do a and then theres a confusion around the history and the role of each of the institutions, and ive learned a lot about that even in coming up to reclaim the declaration of independence, the bill of rights. We call it the constitution. And that was held by the library of congress and the type of thing. It wasnt until the 1930s the United States got serious about its records. Iwas Franklin Roosevelt was passionate about records and that we actually created and he signed the legislation that created the archives. The charters had been in the custody of the state department independent of library of congress when the archives building was built, a beautiful tabernacle was created f
We had a very, very strong economy, and then we were hit with the virus that knocked everything. He reacted quickly. He closed the border from china. Then he closed the border of those coming in from europe. And he went right to work setting up the task force to study the virus. This virus was perplexing. No one knew what to do at first. We did close the country. We shut things down because we tried to get a handle on it and didnt want to overwhelm our medical systems. And once we got that under control and started to change the curve on the virus, the president realized and he knew that the economy would be killed if we didnt start to reopen. So he worked the scientists to get regulations or suggestions to the governors on both sides of the aisle on how to open up and get the economy back on track. You are seeing that working. With the past three months we have created almost 9 million jobs. We came out of a great recession. By comparison, it took four years to create 9 million jobs i
8000. Republicans come your opinions will come in on 202748 8001. Independents, your line will be 202748 8002. You can always text us your always ond we are social media at twitter and on cspan. K. Com tensions have been ratcheting up the last few days, with both countries forcing the other to close a key embassy in that other country. Ae wall street journal has story about that this morning that we will bring to you so i want to bring that story to you. The u. S. And china moved rapidly friday to shut down consulates and evict diplomats, unprecedented steps followed by calls on both sides to ease tension. Flareups between the worlds two biggest economies, even amid the move to avoid further acts of immediate excavation escalation. Aging ordered the shutdown of , describingsulate it as a necessary response after washington ordered china to consulate in houston. U. S. Defended the closure, citing unacceptable espionage and intellectual property theft linked to the outpost. As evidenced
Tour guide at the u. S. Capitol. About it formerly a proud paratrooper in the 82nd airborne division. Im from north carolina, so were exceptionally proud of the 82nd and their actions over at fort bragg. We like to tell people we are the most militaryfriendly state in the nation and we work really hard to live up to that. But so without any further ado, mr. Jackson, youre on. Thank you very much. [ applause ] thank you, and good morning. Welcome to the william g. Mcallen theater. And were here to salute american icons, the Tuskegee Airmen. Please allow me to briefly introduce the panel, and then well come back and hear from our panelists and then well ask the field to give questions. I may recite the question a time or two just for clarity. Lets first begin with the person closest to me. With the blue cap. Lieutenant colonel robert friend. Next to him Lieutenant Colonel harold brown. Lieutenant colonel george hardy. Lieutenant colonel alexander jefferson. Lieutenant colonel james h. Ha