For a u. S. District court judge in ohio. It is also the first opportunity for members to speak on the floor sense election day. Watch live Senate Coverage on cspan2 and the house on cspan. Amtrak president and ceo William Flynn was on capitol hill to testify on how the coronavirus affects the Passenger Rail system and what amtrak is doing in response. The Senate Commerce of science and Transportation Committee also heard from representatives of the freight Rail Industry and about the challenges they are facing as a result of the pandemic. This hearing is just over two and half hours. Order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network
Doctoral fellow and virginia sensor for civil war studies. Im certainly really glad she is here and i think you all will be as well once you hear her talk. Its clear she will bring an awful lot to Virginia Tech in terms of teaching, research and outreach programs as well. She specializes in 19th century u. S. History. It but also north american slavery more generally. Her writing as appeared in civil war monitor annes and Civil War History journal among other publications. Her big project at the moment is converting her ph. D. Dissertation into a book. That is going to be well worth looking at a few years down the line. Its in the same topic we will speak about tonight. You can see the power point is already up there. Black prisoners of war in the confederate south. Under the rebel lash. Hero she was big for 30 or 35 minutes, which will leave us plenty of time for discussion. I think another advantage of the zoom format is that you can type in your questions using the queue and a featu
Alan fisher has more from washington, d. C. He has been on a Conference Call and says that the democrats, lying, cheating and stealing. Asking people to report any voting irregularities that they have seen. They have also announced a big win in the courts in pennsylvania. They overpromise and under different. What the judge said when asked if they could observe, they said on you go but there were democrats and republicans in that room already. Although they have managed to do is to swap those people around. Kosovos president has said he will resign immediately to face a were crimes trial at the hague. Scotland, wales and Northern Islands have had all restrictions in place. Tanzanias president has been sworn in for a second term. Opposition parties allege widespread voter fraud. The United States of america. As the result of the election hang in the balance supporters of donald trum and joe biden are growing impatient. This is inside story. Democratic challenger joe biden is inching tow
Emerging revolutionary war, mark maloy is a historian with the National Parks service, and hes like what can i do thats revolutionary war and its like, mark, no, this is the civil war. Hes like, whoa so we decided we would let him come talk about fort sumter, its as close as we can get in the war to the revolutionary war era. I say all that because mark is a delightful historian, wonderful guy, i wish i could get him to laugh on cue, his most distinctive feature is his laugh. We like to get him pumped up and going. Were delighted to have him come here today to speak the first shots of the civil war at fort sumter. Mark . Thank you very much for that introduction, chris. And its a pleasure to be able to speak at this symposium for the emerging civil war. Wed love to have done it in person but being able to do it digitally like this is a wonderful way to do it as well. So but yeah, as chris mentioned, you know, my main passion is the American Revolutionary war. But, you know, i work for
Applause rs and louder cheers and applause] thats better. Women for America First has managed to put forward a feat that if i do say so myself, was pretty impressive. This is because of all of you. It is because of all of us, americans, showing support for our president , donald j. Trump. Can i get a round of applause . Thats right. Yes. And thehat is going on silent majority is silent no more. Not at all. Make some noise, silent majority. Let them know you are here. So i just have to go over a few housekeeping items because we all know how things are. Covid. So. Just hear me out. Wear a mask unless you are medically exempt. Mask, are not wearing a we will assume you are medically exempt. Wear a mask and social distance unless you are with family. Hello, family. Sanitize hands and often, that is basic hygiene. Thats it. Obviously this goes without saying because our groups are very clean. Pick up after yourselves because we dont want to get stuck with a huge bill. That is pretty much i