investigation that found of uses and most of the 408 indian boarding schools operating from 1819 to 1969. we hear from survivors of the boarding school system from the house natural resource subcommittee on indigenous peoples. this is an hour and 40 minutes. the sub committee for the indigenous people was of the united states will now come to order. the subcommittee is meeting today to hear testimony on a single bill, but a very important piece of legislation. it is hr 5444. the truth and healing commission of indian boarding schools policies act. introduced by representative davis of can david s of kang this david s of kansas. this will allow us to hear from our witnesses sooner and house members keep to their schedule. therefore i ask unanimous consent that all other members opening statements be made part of the hearing record, if they are submitted to the clerk by 5:00 p.m. today, or at the close of the hearing, whichever comes first. hearing no objections, so order
Happening now, nurses who work for Santa Clara Valley health care are on day one of a planned threeday strike. Nbc bay area joins us from the picket line. Ginger, the nurses say they need and want better pay and working conditions. Reporter that is correct. And they are making their demands loud and clear, chris. You can also hear much of what its been like this morning. Nurses on strike, cars honking showing their support. 3,700 nurses are striking today, tomorrow and thursday at dozens of locations here in the south bay. Patient care will be disrupted as it is here at valley medical center. This is what its looked like again for most of the morning. In just moments we are expecting to hear from the county executive James William and board of supervisors about what were hoping to be the latest on negotiations. There will be a representative from Santa Clara Valley health care. We are waiting for that. Picketing outside valley medical began early this morning. Valley medical along with
Esthetic, maybe amendment hesic, maybe a better word would be snobbery. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Welcome to lynchburg, virginia, on booktv. Located in the foothills of the blue Ridge Mountains along the james river, it has a population of about 80,000 people. Founded in 1757, lynchburg was named more its founder for its founder, john lynch. The city is home to poplar forest, Thomas Jeffersons private retreat. And with the help of our Comcast Cable partners, for the next 90 minutes well feature the citys Literary History beginning with poet ann spencer. Ann spencer was a poet, an american poet mostly associated with the harlem renaissance period in 19241945. How she becomes part of the harlem renaissance is how harlem comes to lynchburg. Unfortunately, theres a whole group of people who are associated with that period of time like ann spencer that people dont know about. Ann spencer was born in 1882 in henry county, virginia, which is southwestern vir
Jamie now onto our speaker today. A former Senate Speech writer Alan Pell Crawford has reviewed books on u. S. History, politics and culture for the wall street journal since 1993. Alan has been a resident scholar at George Washingtons mount vernon. My previous employment, the International Center for jefferson studies at monticello and the boston and the name. He is the author of several books, including unwise passion, true story of a remarkable woman and the first great scandal of 18th century america. Twilight at monticello, and most recently, what we are all here today to learn about his wonderful, entertaining new book how not to get rich the financial misadventures of mark twain. Please join me in welcoming alan crawford. [applause] alan thank you, jamie. We are all familiar with the story of how mark twains death was greatly exaggerated. [laughter] alan there were two times in which this took place. The first one, the one we are all familiar with, was in 1897 in london. The sec
Which no one in either party, establishment of Neither Party responded to. And donald trump reached out to them. Whether they were wise to look to him as their trip and thats another can we can debate that. I have debated my relatives and friends in west virginia, but he noticed that those people were forgotten, or left behind, or look down on, were held in contempt, war was waged on their economy and he benefited. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Welcome to lynchburg, virginia, on booktv. Located in the foothills of the blue Ridge Mountains along the james river and has a population of about 80,000 people. Founded in 1757 lynchburg was named for its founder john lynch. The city itself to poplar forest, Thomas Jefferson and private retreat, and Jerry Falwells Liberty University. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners come for the next and humans will feature the cities local authors and its Literary History beginning with poet anne spencer. Anne spencer