All persons having business before the Honorable Supreme Court of United States landmark cases, cspan special history series produced in cooperation with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic Supreme Court decisions. Number 759 we will hear arguments from number 18 quite often in many of her most famous decisions, are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate, very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Susan good evening and welcome to cspans history series, let marquesas. Tonight is number 10. You will hear about the 1962 tennessee reapportionment case. It was one that chief Justice Earl Warren called the most important of his tenure. This is the court that wrote brown versus board of education and we will learn wider the next 90 minutes. It began a re
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Mr. Coons mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from delaware. Mr. Coons i ask unanimous consent that the proceedings under the quorum call be vitiated and upon the conclusion of my remarks, the senator from rhode island be recognized prpb withouthe presiding officer . The quorum call is lifted. Mr. Coons i rise today to express my deep concern with the tax reform bill that the Senate Finance committee is likely to approve later this week. The latest version of this massive tax bill which will impact every single american was only released to the public late tuesday night, less than 48 hours later, the finance committee is ramming through this bill on a Party Line Vote without any hearings and without a thorough review of the bill. I strongly disagree with this process, with this closeddoor process of developing the substance of the bill which skews the benefits to the wealthy at the expense of middleclass families and with this bills irresponsible cost of 1. 7 trillion ove
[captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben would you pray with me. Holy god, receive us into your eternal presence and grant us the discernment of your direction and the peace of your purpose for the deliberations of this day. Silence, if only for a moment, all voices but your own. That we would hear your counsel and receive your instruction wut the without the echos of competing opinion or the whispers of our own selfdesire. Speak in words that we can hear whether in a still small voice of encouragement or a clarion call to action, may we receive your message for us today. Sway our hearts to your desire that in all we say and do w
Their injuries. Prior to leaving the bible study room the defendant stood over a witness to be named later and uttered a racially inflammatory statement to the witness. We now know more about what happened wednesday night at the Emanuel Ame Church in Charleston South Carolina. We now know that dylann roof has confessed to being the gunman that night, to killing those nine people. We now know that he was able to wreck that devastation with a single gun. We also know that the wife and child of one of the victims, state senator and reverend Clementa Pinckney wife and child were also inside the church the night of the shootings. They were in the church office. They heard the sound of gunshots. They called 911 and then they hid. They huddled under a desk until it was all over. We also learned today according to the affidavit released by the Charleston Police department that both dylann roofs dad and uncle got in touch with the Charleston Police department to tell them they knew who the Poli