As i am sure you just also, a onse voted for final passage the tax cuts and jobs act. That brings us one step closer to the president making good on his promise to deliver tax cuts for christmas. To this,oking forward and the president will monitor developers. This is a perfect opportunity to look back what is been by any measure of historic year. Nearly 1. 7 million new jobs have been created, and the Unemployment Rate has fallen to 4. 1 , the lowest in 17 years. The stock market reached a record high more than 60 times, closing above 24,000 for the first time in history. We rolled back 22 regulations for everyone, saving taxpayers over eight billion dollars and liberating the economy from a corrupt and bloated government. Renegotiated trade deals that once threatened to destroy american industry, shipping our jobs around the world. Onfinally set up our nation a path to not only energy independence, but energy dominance. We directed epa to end the war on coal. The president has protec
We learned that as a society, as a culture that you cannot kill an idea with a bullet. The tax reformf belt were in the house, speaker ryan and other leaders spoke to reporters about the changes in tax policy and the benefits for businesses. This is 10 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. I ask unanimous consent that all legislators have five days in which remarks can be revised for the bill under consideration. Without objection. Arer. Speaker, today we delivering on our tax reform promise to the American People. For the first time never three decades, we are delivering a new delivers more jobs, fairer taxes, and bigger paychecks to americans across the country. With this bill, and American Family of four will see a taxcut of over 2000. Our local job traders will see the lowest rates in modern American Industries and they can invest more in workers and future. Businesses will finally have a taxcut that helps them compete and win anywhere in the world, especially her
Way first. We begin with a big. Tv screen that shows the cbs soap opera that was running on that day in november on tv and as you walk by the tv, it interrupts the soap opera with the iconic footage announces the president s passing. With cronkite becoming emotional taking his ghass off and having to catch his breath. Our focus is not on kennedys death. Its on kennedys life. This part of the exhibit examines one of the most iconic parts of his life, his world war ii service. He became a hero and contained some amaze iing items includings actual signed letter where he requests duty, to serve in the military. Specifically says he wants to serve on the pt boat. The signed letter here. This flight logbook is believed to be the only evidence that exists that he took flying lessons. After the recover rd from his back injury somewhat, while he was still on duty in florida, he took flying lessons for awhile. This was the logbook signed twice. He did a solo flight is and its speculated that he
Surveillance act which authorizes the Intelligence Community to target the internet and phone communications of nonu. S. Persons located outside the u. S. Live coverage begins at 4 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan3. You can also watch online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. Since july of 2017, the National Archives has released thousands of documents related to the john f. Kennedy assassination. Many of these documents had been withheld by the cia and fbi for alleged National Security reasons. The document releases are mandated by the president john f. Kennedy assassination records collect act of 1982 and will continue into 2018, so some of the documents contain redactions. Up next on american artifacts from 2014, our visit to the National Archives to learn about the assassination records and to see some of the iconic artifacts such as Lee Harvey Oswalds wiefrl, the socalled magic bullet and the original. 8 millimeter film. Our guide is Martha Wagner murphy who manages t
This 90minute event. Good evening, everyone. Welcome back to the hilltop. Welcome back to smu, to dallas hall. And also, a joint program tonight between our center for president ial history and our klemmant center for southwest studies. Always exciting when the two History Centers here can come together and its really wonderful for us, chronologically at least, the younger partner, you will, the klemmant center, has been the leading center for southwest studies for at least a generation, so we are still in our toddler phase, look up to them, and they also baby sit us, so it works out really quite nicely. Im really thrilled to have you all here tonight for our continuing series looking at history and president ial history, especially since this one in particular, our talk tonight, has of course such a dallas flare to it. One might even say its fundamentally a dallas story. Of course, we all know, especially having gone through the last 50th anniversary of the fateful day in 1963, how mu