House wing where we use artifacts and photographs to trace the history of women in congress. This is the first of a twopart program. The story of women in Congress Begins with Jeannette Rankin, who is elected to the house in 1916 from montana. Shes elected to the house four years before women had the right to vote nationally. And in a way shes really a bridge from the sufferage movement. She was active in a womens sufferage organization. She got the right to vote in a couple of states west of the mississippi. And she runs in 1916. Shes elected to one of some the emptys two at large districts. And part of her platform is shes a passivist. Shes sworn into the house on april 2nd, 1917. And the house has come into special session, extraordinary session because the prison that night, woodrow wilson, delivers a message to Congress Asking for a declaration of war against germany. Its the u. S. Entry into world war i. And rankin, when that vote is held, is one of a group of about 50 members wh
Senator frank church who is investigating irregular layerties in the cia and fbi. This is in 1975 and 1976. There are major hearings held here for that. Parts vrt executive branch are operating without congressional oversight and that you need to have regular committee investigations. We dont see it as dramatically as what the Church Committee was doing at that time. After that, in 1983, the hard building opens up. Because the staff is happening at a very rapid pace. As late as the mid 1960s, there were less than a thousand employees. They were paid in cash. They stood in line to get an envelope full of cash. The legislative branch didnt feel it could trust the executive branch as much. Before that, they would be relying on executive agencies and now they needed their own staff to evaluate what was happening. And so they increased the size of the senate house staff considerably and the senate staff went about a thousand to close to 7,000. And so eventually they built the heart building
Just to set the scene, this is normally an oversight hearing. It is a routine hearing. What do they normally talk about and how will this be different . Normally, in an oversight hearing like this, you have a lot of questions about the routine business of the Justice Department. In this case, it would be antitrust questions, questions about civil rights, questions about criminal prosecutions. Democrats are going in with a lot of questions about Jeff Sessions in particular. Some of the events in the campaign. Some things that have come up as part of Robert Muellers investigation into broader russian mesylate medling. Publicans have developed their own set of questions. Some around the conduct of the now fired fbi director, james comey, as well as questions about a deal from several years ago involving a purchase of a uranium company. Sort of a tangled tale. Hits it jumps around and different things, but there will be some lines of questioning i think will keep recurring through the whol
An awesome forecast. If you couldnt get outdoors yesterday, youve got a Second Chance. Here is the look at the current 4hour change map. What does that mean . These arent your actual temperatures even though they look like they could be actual temperatures. This is the difference from yesterday morning to right now. Were 29 degrees warmer right now in philadelphia. Were 33 degrees warmer in wilmington and 34 degrees warmer in mt. Holly. You can see all locations are at least 20 degrees warmer than yesterday morning at this same time. Really impressive. Here are the actual numbers. Upper 50s mt. Holly and wilmington. 45 in allentown. 56 to start the day in Atlantic City which means if youre going outdoors, you only need a light jacket and will probably be peeling that off as we get into the afternoon with mostly sunny conditions and temperatures in the 60s. Radar and satellite for us currently, weve got clouds thinning out in Lehigh Valley berks county. Just a few sprinkles making it to
The world. It is also alumni glenn. With the discovery of gold not too far south of here and the inability to keep that discovery secret, the news quickly spread. And the ratio of settlers to native people began to radically shift. Prior to the gold rush, there would have been somewhere on the order of maybe under 5000 settlers in all of california. By 1855, that would have skyrocketed to above 50,000 settlers. And the relations were fraught. Not for every group at every moment, but there was a profound sense of racism towards native peoples. The general epithet used was digger indians. In other words, they were regarded as sub human. Because they did not have the kind of technological accoutrements that European American settlers considered standard. Its not because they were not clever enough to figure it out. Because those things were irrelevant to their daily lives. They were able to go, on the coast, you know, when the tide went out here in this part of North Central valley, the m