Climate crisis and during our lunch break we started talking about the 9 11 attack, the u. S. Invaded afghanistan and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11, and we started laughing about the color coated. It was really to keep people in a state of fare fear and that we needed another colorcoated alerto that theres another way of dealing with this. Thats when we came up with the idea of code pink. We wanted to be hot pink because we were fivesy women but it was already it was taken by a foreignut group. We game pink. How do you pickos your issues . We started out not wanting to be an ongoing organization. And so we did that, we got involved. We had tremendous support around theme country without without really trying we had hundreds of groups that formed in places around the country and we were part of a much Larger Movement that did things that come out to protest on days like february 15, 2003 which is r
He was history teacher and came to congress and realized there was no organization saying nice things about the congress and thought there ought to be somebody who did that and created the u. S. Capitol Historical Society as a way to create an organization whose responsibility would be to educate the public about the capital, the capital building, the people who served here and the architecture thats here. For over 50 years, we have been doing this with publications. With guide books to the capital. Calendars that we produce and many members purchase and issue to their constituents. And other ways. Were formed by congress, but were not a federal agency. Were a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. We have to raise all of our own dollars for people who help sponsored this evening tonight are part of that organization of people who help us stay in business. And every year we try and honor a committee of the congress. This year the ways and Means Committee and we try and alternate between
Reading festival. Here is alonso an the personal life and political career of fdr. Thank you to the roosevelt reading festival for 2016. Some of you have been here and i want to welcome you for what should be a wonderful lecture. This is a program that franklin and elenor wanted to have, a discussion and for people to visit the location because to understand Franklin Roosevelt you have to come to high park. It influenced him in so many ways. The festival has been going on for years and an opportunity to bring authors from all over the country and create an opportunity for people to hear these stories and for the researchers who have come here and spent time in our library to come back and share their work with the public. Alonso hamby, one of the great experts on both truman and roosevelt. The distinguished professor at ohio university. Hes written a number of books beyond the new deal, the american libbal rism. Man of the people. Life of harry truman and for the survival of democracy.
Off the coast of the northwest us the earthquake risk which is a very large risk command i think that we can show where we are going and tell you what we think is the path to get us there and then that will give you an opportunity to look at additional tools that you could give us. The stafford act was often times a constraint. In the past year we have responded to haiti which is traditionally the role of usaid. We were asked to support usaid command we did. We were asked to support unaccompanied children in detention facilities so we supported that. We were asked to support the ebola response. Many of these things may not be in the papers but our capabilities command you give us tools. The stafford the stafford act is limited to often times only those Natural Hazards with limited flexibility. I think the delegate brings up an important. What is the role of the Disaster Relief fund and the consequence world and if it is not in rebuilding in the Emergency Response cost and the ability t
But could you just describe this sort of the sort of obstacles that you ran into in the course of your investigation of the fast and Furious Scandal . Some of this which is already sort of in the public record, when i began covering this story, the Justice Department employees put out intrernl emails that said the story was false and the whistleblowers werent telling the truth, which we now know, have proven, they were, and the Justice Department has admitted it. But they put out a series of false implications and information along the way. They launched a campaign in my view of calling superiors, bosses colleagues, social media, using bloggers to cooperate with them and work with them in some cases directly saying it was not true, repeating false talking points. It was an allout effort to kill the reporting and stop other reporters who might be pursuing it. The extent of the links lengths to which Public Affairs officials went to try to stop this line of reporting on a story they clea