Later we visit downtown rapid city for a look at their collection of lifesize statues of our nations past president s. We begin our special feature with the story of Calvin Coolidge in the black hills. We are here in south dakotas black hills in Custer State Park and we are at the State Game Lodge which is a 1920s era building that was constructed can several years before Calvin Coolidge made his summer white house here in 1927 and he and the first lady stayed here for three months from june through september 1927 while they were on vacation. Calvin coolidge took office in 1923 when he was Vice President and Warren Harding died so he served as the last little bit of Warren Hardings term and was elected to his own term in 1924 and so he came to south dakota in 1927 when a lot of people were speculative would he or would he not run for another term in 1928 and it was widely expected that he would but he came here in 1927 because he was looking for a place to escape the oppressive summer
Hello everyone this is the day the lord has made a lets rejoice and be glad. [applause] good morning. Welcome to the dedication of the museum of the bible the first worldclass museum in the history of a the world what a blessing to have you here. You will hear from wonderful people today making History Today is rededicate this museum in the of washington d. C. Area and also as the worlds museum. So as you can see we are located in the world stage theater we are coasting amazing grace. They are here with the second performance last night and will perform a limited engagement get your tickets go on line to the museum of the bible. [laughter] our mission as educational Innovative Institute our purpose is to invite all people to engage in this wonderful work recall the bible the history and its narrative and impact those are the three things you will see throughout the museum and it continues to lift up the people with those grand opening events before we created a new exhibit were policy
With me. Also ahead. Turkey says its offensive the Northern Syria wants the stablished security zone along the border. As liberia. As president of the challenges facing office and ending the trip. And the fallout from the sex abuse scandal. After holding an open air mass. U. S. President. Talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the visit is being boy palestinians angry at the. Declaration on jerusalem penn says the most senior american official to visit jerusalem since the us announced its decision to move its embassy there the city status is a key point of contention in the middle east Peace Process well this is what pans had to say soon after meeting netanyahu. Was great over. Israels capital jerusalem. Following over the story this is. Where he said we were in the. United states and israel. Introduced but also i would call. For speaking with you here over the river. Corresponding to how we force it now hes joining us live from the knesset and as we wait for the Vice President s
Week and follow it on all of the cspan networks. And online any time at cspan. Org. A rebroadcast of washington today and live on cspan radio. The bill before us, three things that every republican and democrat should be able to support. First, it ends the shutdown and restores full funding for the federal government through february 8. Second, it extends Health Insurance for nine million Vulnerable Children and third, it will enable congress to resume bipartisan talks on the important issues facing our nation. Host with that, the federal government is beginning to reopen after a weekend shutdown that moved into a third day and welcome to washington today. It is monday, january 22. We have a new countdown clock, 17 days until the government funding runs out. Today is a shortterm continuing resolution which expires on february 8 in exchange for ending the stale mate, republicans have promised to take up the daca bill. Steve scalise returned to the capitol after surgery that was art of h
And in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Schiff, for five minutes. Mr. Speaker, on may 16, a group of Peaceful Protesters gathered at a public park outside the turkish ambassadors residence in northwest washington, d. C. They came from a variety of backgrounds, armenian, kurdish, yazidi and more. But they shared a common concern about developments in turkey, including the crackdown on political opposition and free speech in that country and turkeys continued denial of the armenian genocide. About a mile away, turkeys president , erdogan, was received warmly by President Trump at the white house. The protesters felt and rightly so that they had to exercise their First Amendment rights and raise their voices in dissent, the very dissent that has been squelch by erdogan in his own country. What happened nex