Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. Let me say before i begin my Opening Statement that we welcome the secretary, good to see you. And we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. Theres so many of them and i wont the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so we wont come off any of your allotted time for your statement and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings arent necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself to be nominated for education secretary and was grilled pretty heavily, i thought, with my family sitting right behind me. I was accustomed to it, but they werent. But they got over it before very long. We welcome you here and were glad youre here. Yesterday i received a letter from senator murray asking me to delays todays hearings. I think the Committee Members know, i do my best to do what sen
So i think you all for being here. Andrew wheeler and i are so pleased to announce a step forward in the plan to make sure they have access more more affordable safer and clean new cars that meets the familys needs. Two and half years ago President Trump spoke with autoworkers in michigan and said that we would review and revise the last administrations unattainable fuel economy regulations. Those were making cars more if expensive and impeding safety because consumers were being priced out of newer safer vehicles. Our team of experts have jointly been working together conducting a long thoughtful and detailed actions here. The one National Program that we are announcing today will ensure that there is one and only one set of National Fuel economy standards as Congress Mandated and intended. No state has the authority to opt out of the nations rules and no state has the right to impose its own policies on everyone else in the country. To do otherwise harms consumers. And damages the am
Was so upset by the whole affair that he wrote a letter to his uncle, and in the letter he we went to bed Old Fashioned, conservative, compromised union wigs, and waked up start raving mad abolitionists. Plus, spencer crew on the great migration of africanamericans from the south to the midwest, after world war i. Workers to a lack of help prepare the mediations and supplies needed for the war effort. Began to do was figure out, where else can we find people to hold these jobs . And for the first time ever, positions for africanamericans in northern industry began to become available. There is no reason to move to the north. Because there are jobs. Tv, allcan history weekend, every weekend. Only on cspan3. Civil war authors discuss how they started writing about their topics, their process of researching, and at some of the unexpected information they have discovered. The Gettysburg Heritage Center hosted this hourlong talk. My name is tammy myers, welcome everybody. I am pleased to we
[applause] tim i am neither a historian or an author. I just draw silly pictures. Im happy to be here today to discuss, discovering gettysburg. Im just going to throw your name, and give me a brief introduction of who you are, so the folks out here can know what you are up to, and maybe tell us about the book you just published. Let me introduce first, my partner in crime, dr. Stephen coleman. Hello. Yes, we have been very pleased that the book was published by savis beatty. It is called discovering gettysburg an unconventional introduction to the town, and the battle that made it famous. I was in theater for 50 years, and as my career in theater waned, i found my interest in theater waning with it. I needed a new interest. I said, lets go see the beautiful foliage in pennsylvania. And that little altercation in gettysburg, maybe we can find out a little bit more about that. I found a hotel and discovered the battlefield guides. So, what we have done is try to come at this whole questi
States civil war. All these pieces of legislation were passed, at least in significant measure, because senators absented themselves from the United States congress. And again, because American People voted republicans into office in 1860. Creek part of the civil war . It is an outgrowth of the civil war. It is an outgrowth of the same mechanisms and processes that that burst birthed the civil war, but also features civil war soldiers. United states soldiers on the payroll, who are mustered into the union army. Again, i wasnt being entirely glib when i said yes, i think t is. Is it as central a part of the civil war story as some of the events that others will be talking about here . No, i dont think it is. I dont want to overstate my claim. That is not the kind of historian that i am. But i do think it is a very important story and its worth telling. Thank you all again very much. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national cap