Again, another day has passed, nothing has happened, no incremental progress, no compromising. To some it might just be one day, but to too Many Americans and other dates fighting for your help or how you will pay your rent or how you will feed your kids is a brutal and terrifying thing. Whats oneor more day to an average american . It might be a a day closer to e rent being due, without having the money to pay it. It might be another day with insufficient Unemployment Benefits while bills pile up. It might be another day closer to possibly needing s. N. A. P. Assistance or help from a food bank. One more day could being constrain testing supplies dont pick up as many cases of covid19 so the carriers can isolate and protect others. One day today means for one of my staffers it was moving day for his oldest daughter in college, but because she couldnt get her test results back quick enough that experience which is an exciting one for a young person could not happen. These are not simple
Artifacts featured in their joint publication. In this, they discuss objects relateded to the july 1863 draft riots in new york city. This conversation took place online due to the coronavirus pandemic. The New York Historical society provided the video. Good evening, everyone. Im delighted to again have the opportunity to talk with my good friend and professional colleague, Harold Holzer. Before we get started, i want to remind you, you can ask questions anytime during the program by using the q a button at the bottom of in my case, top of your screens. Well get to your questions after our conversation. And now lets turn our attention to some objects that help us describe the civil war. In the history museum, objects do a lot of heavy lifting and standing in for larger historical narratives beyond the characteristics that define the object itself. So, lets just talk for a moment about the book, civil war and 50 objects, which inspired this program. Harold, tell us about it and how did
Barr will be testifying before the House Judiciary Committee about his job performance. We will begin our conversation with all of you on that. What do you think about mr. As attorneyrmance general . If you agree, 202 7488000. If you disagree, 202 7488001. You can text us at 202 7488003. Twitter. S on join us on the phone is todd ruger with cq roll call. Remind our viewers why this hearing is taking place. Good morning. This is basically something that used to happen all the time and does happen all the time. Its an oversight hearing you have the house which is the closest representative to the people of the United States in the government and they get a chance to bring in a Trump Administration official and have him sit there and answer questions. Its going to take about four or five hours to go through all the members of this committee. They get about five minutes to ask him. This is something that congress does routinely that allows them to get accountability for the Justice Departm
Feel as little as possible. Lets see how this works out. At the time when we have unemployment figures breaking all records, when we have 10 times theunemployment claims in illinois that we did a year ago , 10 times the unemployment claims in the commonwealth of kentucky that they did a year ago, we leinstead are hearing from the republican side of the aisle the problem with our economy is not unemployment. Its the fact that people who are unemployed are being given too much money. Right now we have a federal benefit package worth 600 a week. That was enacted in the cares act on march 26 that expires in three days. 600 a week federal supplement over the state payment. What republicans have suggested is to cut that 600 federal supplement to 200 and then they turn and say well, but we want to do is to compensate the worker with 70 percent of what they were hurting when they were laid off. Theres a real serious problem here that they are not disclosing to the american people. Back in marc
John lewis will be lying in state at the u. S. Capitol all day today for the public to pay their respects. Well be streaming this live all day on our website at cspan. Org. Wednesday night on American History tv, beginning at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Congressman john lewis, the 17term democrat from georgia recently died at the age of 80 and will be buried on thursday. Before joining congress, he was influential in the 1960s civil rights movement. In 2019, congressman lewis gave the keynote address at a ceremony to honor arthur ashe. Watch American History tv tonight and over the weekend on cspan3. Cspan has unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the Supreme Court and Public Policy events. You can watch all of cspans Public Affairs programming on television, online, or listen on our free radio app. And be part of the National Conversation through cspans daily Washington Journal Program or through our social media feeds. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Pu