The museum has undergone a number of changes. This museum was the next phase of being built in appomattox, chosen to be here because of the people that come to this particular area. Appomattox is one of the top draws for civil war historians or people interested in civil war history. We wanted to give them another experience where we could bring more of our collection out and bring the collection that specifically relates to appomattox. I have been with the museum for 15 years. Four years as director. Love the job totally. It has been fantastic. An excited about the future with the museum as it continues to grow and expand and improve our collection. We hope you will stop by and see us. Please do. You can watch this or other programs at any time by visiting our website. The new congressional directory is a handy guide to the 114th congress with color photos of every senator and house number plus Contact Information and twitter handles. Also district maps, a foldout map of capitol hill,
As i began looking into it what i found was that this has to be one of the most deadly, least known shipwrecks in america. And i uncovered a tale that was so horrible and so surprising i could not let it go. And in a lot of ways the story would not let me go, either. So were in july 1915, almost exactly 100 years ago. A large steamship. Think of the flatiron building on its side. That is virtually the exact size the eastland was. Flatiron building turned on its side quickly capsizes. Though it is tied to its dock. It is still tied to the dock and yet, it capsize. Capsizes. 844 people die. Within minutes. 844 people. That is more passengers than died on the titanic, much more famous accident. 22 entrire families died on the eastland. Mothers, aunts, 22 whole family units gone, wiped out in the Chicago River. Now, i do not know how many of you are familiar with chicago but the Chicago River is wide and it winds straight to the through the city. So, when the eastland went over, it was rig
Now Florida Governor rick scott talks governing in florida and talk about expanding access to health care and the annual National Lawyers convention in washington, d. C. Hosted by the Federalist Society. The topic is the future of constitutional law and the Supreme Court. This is just over half an hour. Good morning, for the first address today, we welcome a man who is no stranger to hard work. Raised in ad 340est household, learned the value of money, hard work, and traditional values, and this guided his pursuit of the American Dream ever since. After earning the ged from smu, worked in the Largest Law Firm specializing in health care manners. Later, in founding the hospital corporation, he established what has become the largest forprofit health care conglomerate in the nation. They employee over 199,000 people, thats job creation, of course. [applause] it provides Quality Health care to millions of people, but he didnt rest there. They have also worked with a group calledded world
But look in the mirror and hate yourself, not the people who are doing this work. It is the job of these senators to question policy but attacks are thats what you do instead of dealing with the policy issues. We have have a very distinguished member with us, a good friend of all of us, someone who deals seriously with policy issues and is joined us today and that would be january from illinois. Also i think today of most significance i believe is my role on the Intelligence Committee. All of us were given a briefing based on emerging information from the Intelligence Committee. Susan rice, i do susan rice went on television based on the information that was available at the time and the briefing that she was given information and intelligence that she had no part in collecting. The kind of statement that is anyone who had been given those briefings would have made in public. Obviously, this was on an unclassified buys sis but she was given information that she had that has subsequentl
Senate. It will move to a oneday extension of government funding. Government funding is expected to run out at midnight tonight. What Congress Needs to do is extend their deadline so that they have more time to pass this covid relief bill. The deal is set, in addition to some of the things that you mention is in this bill, there are other important items as well. Including the Eviction Moratorium for one month until the end of january, giving renters more relief. Also, 25 billion for rental assistance and thats something that renters are going to need as well. Small businesses are going to deduct. Leigh anne, we have House Speaker about to deliver remarks on this deal. Lets take a listen. I am honored as well as tonight happy to welcome the distinguished leaders of the democrats and the senate. I want to salute for the magical work he did the last evening to find a solution to give us a path to bring the legislation forward thatll help americas working families. Our purpose has always