sentence. per tradition, there will be a democratic response. gretchen witmer will be responding to the president s speech. she will have a live audience. the spanish-language response will be delivered by veronica escobar. 202 is the area code. 748-8920 for democrats. republicans, and others, 748-8922. the state of the union is. your job is to finish that sentence. women inthe democratic the house will be wearing white. you can see the picture. wear white to celebrate the anniversary of the 19th amendment. they will attend the state of the union. marsha blackburn tweeted out we are just a few hours away from the state of the union. looking forward to having navy seal david goggins join me. tennessee is lucky to have such a strong military community. leonard inall is smithville, tennessee. the state of the union is what? where the president can lay out his measures for the future and keep america great again. i think he has been the best president of the u.s. ever had. why
Later, 43 people were dead and 7000 have been arrested. President lyndon b. Johnson said send in 5000 troops and Property Damage was estimated at more than 30 million. Affected areas still bear the scars today. Are lingering questions about how far depart detroit has come in addressing the issues that led to the writing. Rioting. We are joined by professor heather nan heather and thompson and we will be live for the next two hours taking her calls, tweets, and facebook posts. Can we start with definitions in the sense that we hear this event that took place described as a riot, would you describe describe it as such or is there a better way to define what happened . That term connotes chaos and suggests everyone showed up and destroyed the city for no reason and it suggests how we should understand how what happened and the impact of it was. We prefer to think about it like a rebellion because all of the energy and anger act and activism that went into that moment had long been predict
Later, 43 people were dead and 7000 have been arrested. President lyndon b. Johnson said send in 5000 troops and Property Damage was estimated at more than 30 million. Affected areas still bear the scars today. Are lingering questions about how far depart detroit has come in addressing the issues that led to the writing. Rioting. We are joined by professor heather nan heather and thompson and we will be live for the next two hours taking her calls, tweets, and facebook posts. Can we start with definitions in the sense that we hear this event that took place described as a riot, would you describe describe it as such or is there a better way to define what happened . That term connotes chaos and suggests everyone showed up and destroyed the city for no reason and it suggests how we should understand how what happened and the impact of it was. We prefer to think about it like a rebellion because all of the energy and anger act and activism that went into that moment had long been predict
Were live at the Senate Veterans affairs committee, where the success tear will testify about preventing veteran suicides as the committee looks into what congress can do to prevent them. Senator Johnny Isaacson chairs the committee. John tester is the top democrat on the committee. This is live coverage on cspan 3. We call this hearing to order. I thank all of you for coming today, especially our witnesses. We have a number of members on the way, but were in the interest of your time were going to get started. Todays hearing is about the issue of suicide. This month in america is National Suicide e Prevention Month across the kocountry. Suicide is a terrible, terrible, terrible loss of life. John will remember when we came in as a committee our first bill we passed was the Suicide Prevention bill. Passed this committee 990. It will ask to give us a report on the progress on the implementation of the act but its a very important act. And in august of 2014 i held a hearing at Georgia St
Of time were going to go ahead and get started. Todays hearing is about the issue of suicide. As many people in the room know, this month in america is National Suicide Prevention Month across the country. Suicide is a terrible, terrible, terrible loss, and wasteful loss of life. And preventible loss of life. I think john will remember when we first came in as a committee three years ago, our first bill that we passed was the clay hunt Suicide Prevention bill. It passed this committee 990. And we asked the secretary and the other members of the v. A. Here today to give us any report they might have on the progress of the implementation in terms of clay hunt act. But its a very important act. In august of 2014, i held a hearing as a member of this committee. It was a field hearing on the issue of suicide. The reason i did was because in that year, the months leading up to august of 2014, georgia va hospital in decatur had three suicides, two on campus. Some from mishandling of available