Funding expires. Bills on energy and clean air and forced labor. Announced Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in state in statuary hall at u. S. Capitol friday. The ceremony will only be open [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by conroy. Plain, father chaplain conroy let us pray. Ord, merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. E give you thanks for the life and work of justice ruth ginsburg. Americans be inspired to be their best selves because of her example. She rest in peace. Bless those throughout our ation who are suffering from the pandemic, fires, hurricanes, and flooding. Needs continue. Our political leaders to tend to those needs with sp
Week and every weekend on cspan three. There are more than 400 National Parks across america, covering over 85 million acres of land, with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited the state sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, we will feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin just outside cleveland, situated along the cayuga river, we will learn how the canal system here plays a major role in our nations westward expansion in the 18 thirties and forties. The ohio and eerie canal is part of a two canal system that was put in place in the early years of america. Built between 1825 and 1832. Its basically a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river. It was part of a larger idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated right along the atlantic seaboard. Our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we n
County, pennsylvania to visit the flight 93 National Memorial and take a tour of the Visitors Center which details the events of september 11th 2001. The memorial is the final resting place of 40 passengers and crew whose decisive actions prevented four al qaeda hijackers from crashing a United Airline 757 into the likely target, the u. S. Capitol building. This program is just under an hour. Hi. Im Adam Schaefer and im a park ranger at flight 93 National Memorial. Today well take a look inside the flight 93 Visitors Center which was dedicated in september 2015. We are currently standing out at the end of the flight path overlook. So were standing on the shadow of the flight path that flight 93 would have been on just before impact in the ground behind me and the reason were standing here is because this orientation for visitors is central to the design of the Visitors Center itself. The walls of the Visitors Center shield the visitors view of the landscape around us here and the enorm
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Hi, im adam shafter. Im a park ranger at flight 93 National Memorial. Today were going to take a look inside the flight 93 Visitors Center which was dedicated in september 2015. Were currently standing out at the end of the flight path overlook so were standing on the shadow of the flight path that flight 93 would have been on just before impact in the ground behind me. The reason were standing here is because this orientation for visitors is central to the design center, itself. The walls of the Visitor Center shield the visitors view of the landscape around us here and the enormity of the landscape. And only frame the flight path as you approach the Visitor Center entrance so as youre coming off the parking lot you have to walk the flight path that this plane was on just before it crashed and the tall walls help to frame the last piece of sky that flight 93 passes through before impact here. One of the first things visitors notice as theyre walking the night path from the plast to at