Theyre coming in this afternoon to take up a bill combating Gang Violence and criminal aliens and enhancing public safety, making it easier to deport criminal gang members. Then theyll get back to work on the bill theyve been or for three or four days, the 2018 federal spending package, amendment debate and votes throughout the afternoon. Live house coverage is here on cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Thank you, dear lord, for giving us another day. As the difficult work of appropriations continues in the congress, we ask your blessing upon the members and their staff who have done the detailed work to produce legislation for the government of our nation. May their work be blessed with success
Author Robert Mcdonald explains why Thomas Jefferson was a polarizing figure and described how his actions and writings led him to be revered by his contemporaries and led him to be portrayed as radical and unamerican. This talk was hosted by the Virginia Historical society and is about one hour and 15 minutes. Fathers, the founding Thomas Jefferson stood out as the most controversial and con town in. Loved and hated, revered and reviled, during his lifetime, he served as a lightning rod for dispute and even today, serves as a lightning rod for dispute. Few major figures in American History provost such a polarization of Public Opinion. While jeffersons supporters organize festivals in his honor, where they praise him in speeches and song, his detractors portray him as a dilettante and demagogue, doublefaced and dangerously radical. And atheist hostile to christianity, characterizing his. Elief as unamerican they tarred him with the extremism of the french revolution, yet his allies ch
[voiceover] the Us Ambassador to libya and three Embassy Staffers have been killed in an attack on the us consulate in the libyan city of benghazi. [kathleen] ive seen firsthand the sacrifice of Foreign Service families. My father was a consular officer and my mother worked right alongside him. Its done because people love the concept of serving their country and they love the idea of taking american ideals abroad, taking our values and trying to promote them in various places and also in doing so, helping to protect the interests of our country at home. [kathleen] from Benjamin Franklin, americas first diplomat, to todays professional Foreign Service, these are the foot soldiers on the front lines of americas Foreign Policy. These are americas diplomats. [voiceover] great decisions is produced by the Foreign Policy association, in association with thomson reuters. Funding for great decisions is provided by the nelson b. Delavan foundation, pricewaterhouse coopers, llp, and the Una Cha
[voiceover] the Us Ambassador to libya and three Embassy Staffers have been killed in an attack on the us consulate in the libyan city of benghazi. [kathleen] ive seen firsthand the sacrifice of Foreign Service families. My father was a consular officer and my mother worked right alongside him. Its done because people love the concept of serving their country and they love the idea of taking american ideals abroad, taking our values and trying to promote them in various places and also in doing so, helping to protect the interests of our country at home. [kathleen] from Benjamin Franklin, americas first diplomat, to todays professional Foreign Service, these are the foot soldiers on the front lines of americas Foreign Policy. These are americas diplomats. [voiceover] great decisions is produced by the Foreign Policy association, in association with thomson reuters. Funding for great decisions is provided by the nelson b. Delavan foundation, pricewaterhouse coopers, llp, and the Una Cha
Mr. Digiacomantonio also, on a more personal level, i have the pleasure of introducing the ghost of albert gallatin, who some of you have noticed is sitting behind us and he will be speaking on his personal experience and the reflection on being an immigrant. He was one of the United Statess most faithful servants as a legislator, as a secretary of the treasury under jefferson and madison, helped fund lewis and clark, was not very keen on the war of 1812, then became a piece negotiator peace negotiator, and ambassador, and on. You will hear him talk about that. And i want you to invite you for discussion after the talk, feel free to ask him questions about anything that relates to may be something that he was not directly involved in, before his death, he might have comments on current events. For now, i want to introduce albert gallatin. [applause] mr. Gallatin thank you very much. My friends and fellow citizens, it is thanks to the Historical Society and mr. William digiacomantonio,