Rights. And i remember when president bush signed that law, he uttered these words. He said, let the shameful walls of discrimination come tumbling down. A wonderful day. And looking back over those 24 years, can anyone deny that our country has made great progress in expanding our concepts of the rights of people with disabilities, the right to be educated and welleducated, the right of people with disabilities to have independent living, to live on their own, not to be institutionalized, the right of people with disabilities to associate freely with others, the right of people with disabilities, children with disabilities, to go to school with other kids who are not disabled, the right of people with disabilities to travel freely with barriers broken do down, ramps, not stairs, buses that are fully accessible now, trains, everything accessible, every building designed in america think about that every building designinged and built in America Today is fully accessible. And we have go
This House Committee on the benghazi attack hearing about to get under way. While we have a second were going to take a chance and give you some background on todays hearing from a capitol hill reporter. Welcome for purposes of taking testimony pursuant to house rules. Chair will recognize himself and Ranking Member for purposes of making Opening Statement. Without objection the Opening Statement of any other member of the committee who wishes to provide one will be included in the record. A little over two years ago, four americans serving our country in benghazi, libya, were killed. Two of them were killed when a facility emblematic of our country was set on fire. And two of them were killed when they dared to fight back and defend themselves. And others. Sean smith, Chris Stevens, ty woods and glen doherty represented us. They represented our country, and our values. We ask them to go. We sent them, and they were killed because some people hold a deepseated animus toward us simply b
Agreement between her family over who gets to control her still productive cells. Brown its a hope for many people later in life growing old without leaving their homes. Ray suarez profiles one group, bringing a retirement communitys perks to urban neighborhoods. When we initially started beacon hill village, there were 11 of us who got together on a cold november day with this abstract determination that were not going anywhere. Ifill a veteran political reporter looks back at the transformative 2012 election and how it permanently changed politics. We talk to the Washington Posts dan balz about his book, collision 2012. Everything changes from one cycle to another. I dont think ive seen as many changes in one cycle as we saw between 2008 and 2012. Brown and can apps for babies be educational . Or are they harmful entertainment . We look at one Advocacy Groups complaint to the federal trade commission. Ifill thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has
Then we get to North Carolina where over 700 people have been arrested in the past 10 weeks in a weekly protest called moral monday. It means using bills to suggest their prolife when in fact they are prohypocrisy. We will look at moral mondays and a move by North Carolina lawmakers to shut down abortion clinics by adding antichoice restrictions to a bill on Motorcycle Safety. Prisonersover 12,000 in california enter their fifth day on Hunger Strike to protest solitary confinement, we will speak with a reporter who survived solitary in iran, shane bauer, author of, solitary in iran nearly broke me. Then i went inside americas prisons. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is reportedly set to meet today with International Human Rights Groups in the transit area of a moscow airport or he has been holed up for nearly three weeks. He has received asylum offe
Then we get to North Carolina where over 700 people have been arrested in the past 10 weeks in a weekly protest called moral monday. It means using bills to suggest their prolife when in fact they are prohypocrisy. We will look at moral mondays and a move by North Carolina lawmakers to shut down abortion clinics by adding antichoice restrictions to a bill on Motorcycle Safety. Prisonersover 12,000 in california enter their fifth day on Hunger Strike to protest solitary confinement, we will speak with a reporter who survived solitary in iran, shane bauer, author of, solitary in iran nearly broke me. Then i went inside americas prisons. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is reportedly set to meet today with International Human Rights Groups in the transit area of a moscow airport or he has been holed up for nearly three weeks. He has received asylum offe