National Defense Authorization act, and a measure ealing with the boeing max 737 crashes. Requested votes will take place after 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Live coverage of the house here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by chaplain father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving and gracious lord of mercy, we give you thanks for giving us another day. In this single week, after a Long Campaign season and before breaking once again for thanksgiving, bless the members of the peoples house with focus and purpose on the issues facing them. We ask your blessing as well on those newly elected who will be joining this assembly for the 117th congress. May their transition into office be smooth and marked by the civility of Democratic Change of government which is the rightful pride of the United States of america. Lord, our nation continues to be besieged by the plague of the coronavirus. Send your spirit of peace that our people might be bro
And discussed concerns openly in front of the public. Allegations were raised against the justice but none could be cooperated or verified. I know because i had a team of dozens of lawyers and investigators chasing down each allegation that we received. My team spoke to 45 individuals and took 25 written statements. Now, anyone can review the 414 page investigation summary report that i released last november. We laid out the information we received including some of the ugliest of claims. In the endhe there was no credie evidence to support any of the allegations. Brett kavanaugh then was duly confirmed to the Supreme Court by this body as prescribed in the constitution. Now, fast forward to this past weekend. The issues i and a lot of other members of the senate are being asked about thisn very day. It just if theres nothing else going on in this town but you dig up something that happened one year ago. The New York Times published a book excerpt about Justice Kavanaughs younger days
Especially, for antitrust. What is your take on that . Speak to one of the important factors is the california ag is not one of the 48. Only two states declined in california is one of them. It could be and i have not had the conversation with the attorney general about it but google is a google based company and if we want to look at how its doing its Business Practices is important to do it in the a thoughtful way and i know that the department of justice and the federal trade Commission Also talking about doing investigations in competitive practices with these companies. Its good to look at this and investigate it and make sure committees are behaving. Im not sure bringing companies up is a good idea and these are Big Companies with a lot of tentacles and a lot of employees and if you break the company up like that and managed to do it there will be unintended consequences. For example, what will happen to the data that these companies own how will be parsed that up and coming peop
Had a good day yesterday. I certainly did. We can talk about it later. Today, we look at the Environmental Impact of the California Gold rush. , he said, you know, the story only asks one question. Whats going on here. He is absolutely right. Thing we have. We go back and say, whats going on. Lots of stuff. I hope you are getting that idea so far. The environment itself was being fundamentally changed, remade. Was an episode of expansion. S a very dramatic with the gadsden purchase. We have the contiguous 48 states. But whatis part of it, i want to begin, the california the rush will and all of California Gold rush and silver rushes were fundamentally different as western expansion into ways. First of all, they transform the environment in radically new ways, different ways. The bulk of the presentation will deal with that. We will go back to our hypothetical frontier Family Moving from North Carolina into tennessee. They were changing the environment, cutting down trees, bringing Dome
Constitution . Tore have been 27 amendments the u. S. Constitution. The first 10 compromise the bill of rights. The 21st amendment repealed the the sale ofbanned alcohol in the United States and the 27th amendment permits members of congress from receiving a pay raise until the next election had been held. How would you amend it . Start dialing in now. It joining us on the phonies Jeffrey Rosen. Lets begin with what was happening on this day in 1787 and the history of marking this day with Constitution Day. 87, september 17 in Independence Hall was the day the constitution was formerly formally approved and proposed. It was not the day it was ratified. The convention authorized president washington to send out the approved constitution to the states for ratification. After months of deliberation between may 20 fifth and september 17, the Constitutional Convention proposed the constitution. Congress passed a law requiring Public School kids to learn about the constitution on Constitutio