Desk. Every single senator in the Democratic Congress and in our caucus here in the senate is cosponsoring the for the people act. Senator merkley, senator merkley and my companion bill the h. R. 1, for the people act, but it is very deep in the leaders legislative graveyard. Over the course of the last year, as the for the people act has languished, tens of millions of dollars were spent, much of it in secret, to influence the policymaking process. Almost half a dozen states passed new laws restricting voter rights. The u. S. Supreme court gave the green light to political gerrymandering, and President Trump has with his own properties dozens of times funneled millions of taxpayer dollars into his own pocket. Yet, the Republican Senate is silent, sigh length as silent as our democracy faces a crisis like none we have ever seen in our lifetimes. We can draw a Straight Line from the crisis in our democracy to more than 300 bipartisan bills buried in the majority leaders graveyard. The b
A Nonprofit Organization that knowledgeromote the and appreciation of the achievement of american independence by supporting advanced studies, presenting exhibitions, Public Programs, advocating preservation, and writing resources to students and teachers. During the siege of charleston in 1780, British Forces captured nearly 6000 men, seven of whom were generals. This was the largest number of prisoners taken during a single occupy charlestown became the key prisoner depot for the british in the south create what were the dates of these captured men . South. Eased what would the fates of these captured men . I am pleased to introduce carl borick to answer these questions. He is director of the Charleston Museum in chow said, South Carolina, the author of two books on the revolutionary war in South Carolina. Charleston, s. C. , the author of two books on the revolutionary war in South Carolina. Won the 2003ense roger award from the South Carolina Historical Society for the years best b
Every building, every street, with just 100 robots in a matter of about two weeks and theres not a human being driving them. All they are doing is wandering around and mapping and this is assuming they are not being run over by cabbies or. The switchblade is a fire and forget weapon. This is where were going in terms of shooting and then not thinking about it anymore, and one of the problems of this is who is responsible . If this thing makes a strike on a target that we would consider to be illegal, who do you blame. You cant punish a robot or at least you cant pun tish in any way that it will consider punishment for violating the laws of war. You cant force a robot to feel bad about what its done. You know, in theyre you can punish the commander who released the weapon. You could punish whoever made the decision to ship it to the theater. Could you punish whoever wrote the software for it, but the history of military prugsz would indicate thats not going to happen. Even the perpetrat
Join the cspan conversation like us on facebook, follow us on twitter Andrew O Shaughnessy takes a look at the role British Military leaders played in the American Revolutionary war. Most notably, he discusses general Henry Clinton who served briefly as commanderinchief of the british army. His defeat at the battle of Sullivans Island in january, 1776 marked the first time during the war that american troops successfully defended against a british sea and land invasion. This event from the New York Historical society is about one hour and a half. Thank you very much, i am very grateful to gregory and alex castle who did the logistical arrangements to be invited to the New York Historical society. This is a wonderful collection one of the great historical societies, one of the organizations that ive enjoyed a relationship with in the last 15 or so years thanks largely to you and trustees and former trustees like digg guilder. It has been wonderful to watch just how much it has progresse
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