And at the base of capitol hill, speakers included in the world designer frank perry, former secretary of state, senator pat roberts and president eisenhowers grandchildren david in susan eisenhower. Exploring the american story. Watch it on cspan 3. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the ramification of the 14th amendment to the u. S. Constitution. Up next on American History tv, climbs in University History professor oval vernon why was essential to ratify after the abolition of slavery. This is hosted by the u. S. Capital Historical Society is 45 minutes. Now with great pleasure, i get to introduce our first speaker oval Vernon Burton, who holds the judge math jay perry distinguished chair. In history panafrican studies sociology anthropology and computer science. If you think its weird but i do baseball, vernon does it all. Hes actual one man university. At Clemson University in South Carolina. Hes also the director of the clients Cyber Institute in addition to that, he recei
Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 92, the nays are 4. And the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The presiding officer the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of john w. Holcomb of california to be United States district judge for the Central District of california. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of john w. Holcomb of california to be United States district judge for the Central District of california shall
Achieve, to participate in and contribute to society violates the equal protection clause. 81, massive victory. I thought it was very interesting her points she often made in the dissent. The Supreme Court argued in the 2007 case ledbetter versus Goodyear Tire and rubber company, the majority saitd, you know what . If you have been discriminated against in pay in your job, and you learn about it years later, you can no longer appeal for redress because you had to have come to the court at the moment the discrimination first occurred. Of course, that was a catch22, an impossible situation. If you didnt know about it, you couldnt possibly come to the court. And she addressed this, and she said comprehend she said the majority does not comprehend or is indifferent to the insidious way in which women can be victims of pay discrimination. So she called on congress to act to address really this mistaken opinion of the court, and we did in 2009, the first year i came to the senate. And anothe
Close, all the major averages ending the week with significant gains, its a second straight week of gains for the s p and for the nasdaq. We began with fox Business Team coverage, blake burman and edward work lawrence in washington and we will start with blake, what is the latest on the stimulus. I guess there was a movement the democrats say they are willing to lower their number down a trillion dollars, however, no movement at all because it doesnt seem as if either side as if closer to a deal, we had another meeting on capitol hill, the top ford negotiators Steven Mnuchin and meadows, nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer for democrats. Democrats say theyre willing to drop the number from three and half trillion dollars to another relief package and down a trillion dollars, so long as republicans move up there 1 trillion, another trillion. For the sake of america, meet us in the middle, dont say my way or no way, thats what theyre saying, they want to come off the number. Walking into that
July jobs number will be released. Ahead of that, what sort of trends are you seeing as states begin to report have reported a rise in cases and weve seen closures of the economy in some states across the country . Right. Let me start by saying good morning, bill, to you and your viewers. Well, the trend lines have not been good. There are two indicators for whats happening with employment. The Census Bureau is putting out preliminary data that indicate that the percentage of americans who are employed is declining again. And the Labor Department puts out data about initial weekly unemployment claims. Basically people filing for their Unemployment Benefits for the first time. And those numbers have been pretty stagnant since the beginning of june, and recently have gone to tick up a little bit which is application that there are more people losing their jobs in the economy. So those two indicators suggest that while we may see some jobs growth when we get the unemployment and jobs numb