No. I had never thought about that question before, but i do know, looking into this little autograph book you have when you are very little, and you ask your grandmother and mother to sign it, and they would say, what do you want to be when you grow up . I remember, looking back, and when i was maybe in second grade, it was flight attendant, or which we called stewardess at the time, or ballerina. That was, sort of, my notion of what women could be. So, no, it never occurred to me, certainly, never, to enter into politics, or to the front in center. I dont really have anyone that is young, that was female. We so, our did you first become involved . I come from a long line of politicians. My grandfather, in the new York State Assembly. A father in the new York City Council, then the president. I am an only child, and close to both of my parents. So, we would have sunday breakfast, and we would have elections of, who is going to be president of the day. So, you would say, you know, i wi
A public service. My name is Kathleen Johnson and today i am with the healths historian matt when you ski. The date is 2016. We are in the house are turning studio and we are pleased we spoke speaking with for a presented from new york. Thank you very much for coming today. Very excited to be a part of this project. So this project that we are working on is to recognize and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the election of Jeannette Rankin to congress. The first woman. So we have a bunch of questions that we wanted to ask you today. First, of when you are young did you have any role models . No. I had never thought about that question but i dont think so. I mean, you ask her grandmother mother and father to sign it my notion of what women could be. And so it never occurred to me, certainly never to enter into politics to be front and center. I cannot think of too many role models when i was really young that were female that change along the way it gratefully. How did you first bec
Introduce the matt atkinson. Matt is a native of houston, mississippi, and received a ba in history from the university of mississippi. He has worked at Petersburg National battlefield, National Historical park, Manassas National battlefield and Vicksburg National military park. Hes currently employed as a ranger slash historian at gettysburg National Military park. And he will be presenting to you about the fallen leader Earl Van Dorn. [applause] this is the adjustment period, right . Where you find out what the mic is like. Or like Hank Williams said, one time, in 1952, my good friend down in georgia, his daddy saw him and Hank Williams stepped up to the microphone and he blew in it. And he says, well, boys, this works. Lets see if i do. [laughs]. I appreciate you all having me again. Its good to be back in i have an impossible task, i will go ahead and tell you, ive got 13 pages of single spaced notes on Earl Van Dorn and ive got 45 minutes. And ive got a man standing in the back. T
Provider. Host and representative joe barton, a republican of texas, is the chairman emeritus of the energy and commerce committee, he joins us on the communicators to talk about some of the Telecommunications Issues facing congress and the fcc. Congressman, if we could start with a couple of breaking issues in the last week or so. Number one, i want to get your thoughts on the comcast Time Warner Cable merger and whether or not congress will end up playing a role on that. Guest well, we really havent had a chance to study it much at the committee level. I think we will have a hearing on it. Im sure the chairmen will have a hearing. On the surface of it, i would think the congress would be generally receptive. We would want to look at any local issues where there was a market dominance, disproportionate share of concentration, but i think overall we would tend to be receptive. Host the other issue i wanted to ask you about, tom wheelers comments regarding the Net Neutrality ruling. Fcc
So this law is going to work. And for the sake of our economic security, it needs to work. [applause] and as people in states as different as california and kentucky sign up every single day for health insurance, signing up in droves, theyre proving they want that economic security. If the Senate Republican leader still thinks he is going to be able to repeal this someday, he might want to check with the more than 60,000 people in his home state who are already set to finally have coverage that frees them from the fear of financial ruin, and lets them afford to take their kids to see a doctor. [applause] so let me end by addressing the elephant in the room here, which is the seeming inability to get anything done in washington these days. I realize we are not going to resolve all of our political debates over the best ways to reduce inequality and increase upward mobility this year, or next year, or in the next five years. But it is important that we have a serious debate about these i