The last ten minutes or so lets go to the fox news capitol hill senior producer chad pergram with the latest. What are we looking at . I talked to senator jeff flake who indicated they might get to the 60 votes. This is all the math. They need to get this 60 votes. This is vote not to reopen the government. If they get 60 votes the government will reopen. This will be a test vote, signal, indicating later today that the senate will vote on threeweek interim spending bill to open the government through february 8th. It will have to go to the house of representatives, what the house of representatives approved last week is different from this bill. More significant from senator flake is saying, we learned democratic senator from florida bill nelson indicated he is a yes. Let me go through the math here. They need 60 yeas. Senators flake and graham, they are now yeas. There were several republican nos the other night. So that gets you up into the low 50s. Mitch mcconnell had to vote no fo
First, we are not considering such a step at the present time. I may say that the United States is interested, and i think this administration is extremely interested, and movements in latin america or Central America or the caribbean. Announcer American History tv is on cspan3 every weekend, featuring museumtours, archival films, and programs on the presidency, the civil war, and more. Heres a clip from a recent program. The revival first came to the attention of kind of a whentream press in 1906, newspapers started covering a major religious event known as the azusa street revival. Heres an image of the mission in los angeles. The Los Angeles Times oforting this weird babel ongues, so what is this be willed her dream for it are talking about . Pentecostal leaders had been traveling the country for a few years at this point when an africanamerican hotel later, a guy named william seymour, picked up this message of the radical power of the holy spirit to work in you and through you. Fr
Vietnam. One of those episodes focuses on the tet offensive. Documents and photographs from the National Archives and its president ial libraries described the attacks and their consequences but particular blow to American Public opinion of the war was the vietcong infiltration of the u. S. Embassy in saigon represented in the exhibit by a map of the defense of the embassy. And a memo describing the breach. If you have not already gone to the exhibit, i encourage you to come back and spend time there remembering vietnam, explores the war not only through documents but through interviews with american and vietnamese veterans and civilians and firsthand experience of the wars events. Now i ask all Vietnam Veterans or any United States veteran who served on active duty at any time during the period november 1, 1955, to may 15, 1975 to stand and be recognized. [applause] veterans, as you exit the mcgowan theater, volunteers will present each of you with the Vietnam Veterans lapel pin. On t
Last three congresses. It is an excellent example of a successful bipartisan effort. Immigration reform on both sides of the capital on both sides of the aisle work to accomplish these critically important reforms to control illegal immigration. In 1981, this administration asked the congress to pass a comprehensive legislative package including employer sanctions, other measures to increase enforcement of the immigration laws, and legalization. The act provides these three essential components. The problem of illegal immigration should not therefore be seen as a problem between the United States and its neighbors. Our objective is to establish a reasonable, fair, orderly, secure system of immigration into this country and not to way against in any particular nations are people. I would like to recognize a few of the Public Servants whose unflagging efforts have made this a reality. These congressmen have long pursued, now obtained, this landmark legislation. Important roles were playe
Tammy welcome. My name is tammy myers. And i am the president here at the gettysburg heritage center. For those of you not familiar with the gettysburg heritage center, we are an interactive museum. We value education, community, and preservation. Based upon our value system, we have developed a museum that is a collaborative effort with the adams county historical society, civil war trust, land conservancy of adams county, and Evergreen Cemetery association and center for civil war photography. We officially opened in may of 2015, and we count the battle of gettysburg story from a new perspective, one that focuses on both the military aspects as well as the civilian perspective. Beyond the museum, we do offer additional programming focus to for both the general consumer and the scholar. In addition to book talks such as today, you can experience our living history programs every weekend. And we have a saturday spotlight series where we have Educational Programs in the evenings. When y