Ms. Pelosi thank you for accommodating the floor schedule. Sadly as you know today marks the fiveyear anniversary, five years since 20 beautiful children and their six extraordinary teachers were gunned down at sandy hook elementary school. Our hearts are shattered and our resolve grows stronger five and their names and the 90 americans who lose their lives to gun violence every day and the 120,000 americans who have been killed by guns since newtown, we will never stop fighting for commonsense gun violence prevention. As we saw with last weeks concealed carry bill, republicans want to make this awful problem even worse. How can it be when people were converging on washington and around the country to observe the fiveyear anniversary that was observed here by putting forth with stiff competition, one of the worst gun bills that they put forth. We had for a couple of hours on saturday in church a interfaringt service and the stories of the families and the Collateral Damage that happens
Alexanders office where the republican lawmaker talks about his Public Service and the stories behind some of his political momentos. Then a look at a reconstructed blacksmith forth on wheels built over the course of two years using 19th century plans from the national archives. After that artifacts from the American Revolution from a knew museum in philadelphia set to open in early 2017. And later, a look at the civil war medical history at the Maryland National museum of health and medicine. The cspan cities tour visits Historic Sites across the nation to hear from lickal historians, authors an Civic Leaders every other weekend on cspan book tv and American History tv on cspan 3. And this month with congress on the summer recess the cities tour on cspan each day at 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Today we head to key west, florida, and visit the earnest hemingway house, learn about the cities jewish history and talk with the author of a book titled, quit your job and move to key west, the comple
They were sort of sparked by a cartoon that was in the dinner program, which looking at that today is a pretty racist cartoon. They got into president roosevelt said im not waiting until 10 30. I want to give a speech now. He gave a speech ripping into senator foraker. He ended up responding. They ended up not serving all the courses ort entertainment because it was so biting. Because it was so ferocious, they ended up realizing they had to get rid of the off the record that year. People had to write about that. Thats probably the single most surprising event of any dinner. George condon International Dinner historian, thank you very much for being with us. Surely. Coming up, a hearing on on thursday president obama will visit new orleans. Hell also deliver remarks, live coverage on cspan gets underway at 5 00 p. M. Eastern. Also take your phone calls. Florence harding once said she had one hobby and that was warren harding. She was adept at handling the media. Despite hardships, scand