Thank you for his service to you and country. Lord, were also grateful for all of our military men and women who back their words with courageous deeds. In this season that brings tidings of a coming dawn, guide our lawmakers through the darkness that precedes the breaking of day. You have guided this nation through stormy places, and we have felt the winds and have been tossed by troubled seas. May our senators, amid the tumult, hear the whisper of your promise to never forsake us. Remind us of lifes brevity so that we will number our days and have hearts of wisdom. We pray in your marvelous name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. 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. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington d. C. , december 15, 2014. To th
And whether you are black or white, if you get arrested and charged with a felony crime for doing some things that the last three president s of the United States admitted to doing, if you are arrested for that, tried and convicted and i say tried because with hesitancy because the majority of them are plea bargains as the president knows, if you get convicted of that felony offense for that nonviolent drug offense, the collateral consequences to your life are horrendous. We now live in a nation where the chat rail consequences are profound. The collateral consequences are profund. Time behind bars reduces peoples hourly wages by 11 . Their annual employment by nine weeks, their annual earnings by 40 . It has a powerful economic impact. If a person is convicted for possession of controlled substances, use, they become ineligible for so many benefits that we would often think that we would want these very people to have. They cant get federal education grants, like a pell grant. They ca
Thats this Christmas Day on the cspan networks. 50 years ago on september 24, 1964, Supreme Court chief Justice Earl Warren handed a report on the assassination of president kennedy to president johnson in the oval office. The commissioners pictured here concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. The warn Warren Commission acted here for nine months. We set up a camera to talk to a local author using key phone calls, documents and art facts some of the lingering controversies regarding the warn report but first we take a brief tour of the former officers. Hi, im brian summers. So much testimony from the witnesses and those essential to the investigation met here in this Historic Building itself. It was in this room here on this floor that the Warren Commission saw for the first time the entirety of the committee. Would have taken place down here at that time and mid may of 64, Lee Harvey Os walds brother was here. And we have photographs to subs stanceuate that here in the building.
Beginning in the 1940s with republican congresswoman clare booth luce. Im farar elliott. I take care of a lot of the artifacts, the artwork, the objects that document the houses rich heritage. Im matthew wasniewski, the historian at the house. My job is to collect biographical information on members, to gather data and lists and conduct oral historys. We answer reference questions that come from on the hill and off the hill. And we try to tell the story of the house which is this very big, very Old Institution in a way in which people can connect with it at a human level. We do that through telling biographical stories or clips from oral histories that give people a human a sense of a very large institution. Today, thought we would try and do that by telling you about the history of women in congress, which is a history that dates back to the early 20th century. This is a nifty piece of campaign ephemera. It is for clare booth luce, her reelection campaign. It is quite handy. It tells
You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. Like usa conversation, on facebook at cspan history. Tvsweek American History american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Up next, we take you inside the house wing of the u. S. Capitol learn about the history of women in congress. In the second of a twopart program, we continued the story beginning in the 1940s with republican progress in clare booth luce republican congresswoman clare booth luce. Im Farar Elliott i take care of a lot of the artifacts, the artwork, the objects that document the houses rich heritage. Im matthew wasniewski, the historian at the house. My job is to collect biographical information on members, to gather data and lis oral historys. We answer reference questions that come from on the hill and off the hill. The story of tell the house which is this very big, very Old Institution in a way in which people can connect with it at a human level. We do that through telling biog