In new york city with george w. Bush. Past republican and Democratic National conventions saturday nights at eight eastern on cspan. If were going to invest additional 100 million into Higher Education in the commonwealth we got to change way we deliver education and expect more from the dollars we are getting spent sunday night onto a day, Gerard Robinson talks about the state of education in the u. S. Spent theres a body of literature thats pretty clear that theyre certain courses you should take, math, science and english that should be listed expect to be successful in college. To simply accept students who have not filled of that curriculum obligation, to let them into school i think is doing a great disservice to them and its selling the effort of affirmative action which is something i support. Sunday night on cspans q a. The u. S. Senate is about to meet and a pro forma session. No legislative work as expected. Now live to the senate floor. The clerk will read a communication t
Captioning performed by vitac commissioner, can i ask you, what kind of access do you think the uk can get to the Single Market if it doesnt agree if it doesnt agree to freedom of movement . Well, i cant answer that. The access to the freedom of market, with that source comes freedom of movement. There are four systems and they go together so [ applause ] yes. Hi, thank you, jim burger from washington trade daily publication. I heard a lot of talk about ttip but heard about political will, which you mention we need it, does political will include a willingness for both sides to make serious compromises . Because i havent heard the word compromise much in two years. I think i said concessions. But maybe its my im not a native english speaker. I didnt use that word but obviously if we were not ready to compromise, why would we engage in negotiations. We need to compromise and see whats on the table and what are your priorities. Are they enough so that you can compromise on those and make
Our time. Recogniziining texas. Mr. Chairman, thank you very much, i am pleased from this moment of history to join my colleagues who have come together with a similar and very important purpose and thats to save lives. The Ranking Members on the committee dealing with crimes. We see tl after math over the years of a wrong policy. Let me simply add to the record of startling facts. When an average day in United States, more than 650,000 opiate prescriptions are dispensed and 3900 people used nonprescription use of opiates. 78 people died from an opiate related deaths. 55 billion in health and social costs related to prescription opiate abuse each year and opiate poisoning. This Conference Committee is on the right direction. There are worthy bills. The problem is huge between 2014, almost half a Million People died from drug over doses based on the statistic that i just read. Also to fulfill our obligations for funding, i am glad to be a coresponsponsor of committee, comprehensive of o
1996 book it takes a village is a topic of a round table discussion with gill troy of the brookings institution. 1993 and 1994 if you said it takes a no one knew what you were talking about. Its hillarys branding. Carlos lozada of the washington post. It was a big moment right then to declare as she did in this book im a moderate. And amy parnes of the hill. Shes pushing equal pay and child care which was a huge issue for her right now. At 8 30 p. M. Eastern, gary byrne discusses his book crisis of character. A White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with hillary, bill, and how they operate. On sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern, afterwards, author eric fair discusses his book consequence, a memoir and his experiences serving as an interrogator in abu ghraib prison in iraq. Hes interviewed by raha wala from human rights first. The image of a number of men chained to their cell doors with their hands between their legs which was forced standing which was an enhan
This program is just under an hour. Ima curator of this exhibit. This exhibition is a copresentation with the museum of the city of new york. It is the first time that the collections of the library of congress and the papers have been married with the photographs and stellar collection at the museum of new york. We picked the word copresentation carefully because the exhibition here follows an exhibit that was at the museum of new york and that exhibit was slightly different. It looks at riis in a slightly different way, concentrating more on his biography, more on his photography. Here we are looking at riis as the journalist, because that is the strength of our collection. The papers here number 3000 in the Manuscript Division and are featured here. We also really wanted to emphasize the combination of the photographs and manuscripts in terms of jacob riis career as a photojournalist. Often people think of him as either a writer or a photographer. We are emphasizing the combination