Edmund burke, thomas paine and the birth of the right and left. Applause [applause] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the second installment of our thrilling First Ever National Constitution Center bill of rights book fair. For those of you who are joining us for the first time on cspan let me introduce this great event briefly one more time. Im jeffrey rosen, the president and ceo of the National Constitution center, which, as our audience knows is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. And this book festival is part of a daylong celebration, today, december 15, bill of rights day which is the 225th 225th anniversary of the proposal of the bill of rights. Of the new Exhibit Opening at the Constitution Center which displays one of the 12 original copies of the bill of rights. And this was one of the copies that George Washington sent to the states on october 2, 1789. Were displaying it with ra
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That front. Guest part of the challenge in wrapping this management arms around the challenge is that it has, it is been at this odd quirk of the way it was set up. Is legally prohibited from investigating its own workers misconduct. Investigate your coworkers misconduct. Instead, because of the way that they had anp, argument for doing it this way. All of those have to go to the Inspector General for the department of homeland security. Is the dhs igs who is never had the resources to police the police force as large as cvp, does the rest of dhs and has never been able to devote the resources that they need to investigate corruption. You have seen at least hundreds if not thousands of cases of reported corruption within cvp that is never investigated because of this weird bureaucratic quirk. It is played out in recent years. They are beginning to fix that challenge. The commissioner has made some tweaks to that system to try to allow cvp to be able to investigate its work force workfo
We want to start off today with a debate closer to home gas prices. Congress is considering raising the federal gas tax. The money could be used on bridges and infrastructure. We want to get your thoughts and comments on this issue. You can also join in on the conversation, many already have, on our Facebook Page. Or send us a tweet. Good sunday morning to you. Front page of the Washington Post focusing on two big stories. First of all, in france, the Prime Minister saying that the country is at war. Next to that, jeb bush and mitt romney beginning to maneuver on a potential bush romney primary in 2015. I want to share the story with you from cnbc on gas prices. According to the aaa, gas prices have dropped putting over 14 billion in the pockets of consumers. The question of whether or not the congress should increase the tax rate it is argued that consumers can take it. Speaker the house john boehner sharing his thoughts. How we will funded, we will have to work our way through this.
D. C. , theres always something in bloom, always something to see, and hopefully always something to see that you havent seen before. Youre watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. To join the conversation like us on facebook cspan history. This is American History tv on cspan3. You can watch us every saturday and sunday and on holidays, too. We bring American History cspan style. Lincoln formally abolished slavery in the United States on august 15, 1855. Next David Rubinstein and others discuss lincolns legacy and the 13th amendment 150 years later. Its about an hour and a half. Ladies and gentlemen, its now my great pleasure to introduce my friend and coauthor and a great friend of the National Constitution center, David Rubinstein. David . Yes. Good round of applause at the beginning. [ applause ] david as i said, has generously loaned us not only this magnificent copy of the 13th amendment which i hadnt seen before now, and after the show, please dont com