Now, before we start i want to thank a couple of folks and a couple of institutions. I want to thank the institute for technology, law and policy. The institute for public representation, which is also part of Georgetown Law Center, the betten foundation and no civil la foundation for sponsoring this event. I also want to thank senator richard blumenthal, and i want to thank jamie who is a Research Fellow at georgetown and kind of my personal law clerk and doing a fabulous job. And alexander givens whos the head of the institute who some of you may have heard broke her leg when she and her son or daughter were shopping at h m in friendship heights, a shoplifter knocked them over and down a flight of stairs. I was in that h m, like, the day before. If people could send well wishes to alex, shes done a fabulous job running the institute. I also want to thank the other georgetown students gathered by Andy Schwartzman, one of our panelists, who are going to be helping today with various an
Local content and media diversity. This is an hour and 40 minutes. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome. I am so excited to see this crowd to talk about the media ownership. Im gigi sohn, fellow at the georgetown university. I want to thank the institute for Technology Law and policy. The institute for public representation, which is will part of Georgetown Law Center. Fenton foundation and mozilla. I want to thank senator blumenthal from connecticut who well hopefully being hearing from soon for reserving this room and a Research Fellow and personal law clerk, doing a fabulous job, alexander gibbons, head of the institute, who some of you may have heard pro her leg when she and her son or daughter were shopping at h m were shoopping and a shoplifter knocked her over. I was there the day before. If people send well wishes to alex, shes done a great job running the institute. I want to thank other georgetown students gathered by Andy Schwartzman, our panelist, helping today with various a
Coming up in an hour what the republican tax bill means for you. Tax host good morning. It is tuesday, december 19. A twoour washington journal is ahead for you. The Senate Reconvenes at 10 00. The top item will be the final vote on the gop tax reform legislation. That will also be the focus of washington journal with republicans confident they will be sending President Trump a tax overhaul for his signature. Ifwers, call and and tell us you support or oppose the bill. If you support, the number for you is 202 7488000. If you oppose the legislation, give us a call at 202 7488001. You can catch up with us on social media. Good Tuesday Morning to you. You can start calling in now. A little over a month ago, the house passed its version of tax 2 to bestdecember passed its version of tax reform 5149. After reconciling the 2 bills the final legislation is expected to hit the floor in both chambers and republicans are confident they have the votes. [video clip] kevin brady, the chairman of t
Correspondent daniel new howser and congressional reporter pitterson, later anthony from the center for strategic and International Talk about the Foreign Policy challenges that are facing in 2018. Social media. But voters, wed, should make it a priority that basic knowledge pertaining to our government. Amy says it helps. I have learned so much from the social media. I can adjust my opinion to include new facts. Ive change my mind is some because of conversations with people online. One more from saul. A lot of people do not care about the research, it hurts, they end up spreading false information. That is a sampling of the discussion on our facebook page. Here is a poll. Different wording, but same idea, this is from surveymonkey from october, asked whether social media does more to help, promote democracy and free speech or does more to hurt it. 51 surveyed in the late october poll said it did more to her democracy, 45 said it did more to help. Large majorities among hispanics and
Archived. Thats cspan. Org history. During world war ii the United States Army Air Forces formed a group of africanamerican military pilots, they were known as the Tuskegee Airmen. Next, Jeremy Paul Amick, author of together as one legacy of James Shipley joined by the now 94yearold mr. Shipley to talk about his wartime experiences. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this event. Its just over 50 minutes. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Kansas City Public Library. Im Deputy Director carrie kucagn, were so happy youre here tonight. I want to let you know tonight is our final program for 2017. Can you believe it . Its kind of bittersweet. Anyway, if youre new here, if youve never been before, please pick up our program. And you can sign up and you can be on our list for all of the programs we have coming up in 2018. And we have programs both here and at Central Library two or three times a week and wed love to have you come and wed love to have you sign up. And wed l