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CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings January 25, 2014

Please be seated. Lt. Governor ivey, speaker hubbard, president marsh, distinguished guests, members of the alabama legislature, chief justice moore, justices of the Alabama Supreme Court and my fellow alabamians. The poorest county in the United States of america is located just 73 miles from where we sit tonight. If we were to drive a little over an hour from this historic hall we would find ourselves in Wilcox County where the Median Household Income is below that of any other county in this nation. 11thousand of our fellow alabamians live in Wilcox County where the Unemployment Rate is chronically in double digits and consistently ranks above the national average. Everyone in this room knows alabama is one of the poorest states in america, where one in four children live in poverty. Nearly 1million of our fellow alabamns are dependent on food stamps. The statistics are sobering. The facts are indisputable. Never ending cycles of a need for jobs, better job skills and better educati

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CSPAN2 The New Democrats And The Return To Power Book Party January 19, 2014

My feeling is we could go on for an hour or two or three more, but were not going to was we have to stop, and i want to thank you, kenneth walsh, for a wonderful presentation. Thank you. Very interesting to us, and is we will look forward to reading your book. Thanks for having me. [applause] thank you, everyone. Commonwealth is now now adjourned. And ill do some books now, right . [inaudible conversations] wed like to hear from you. Tweet us our feedback, twitter. Com booktv. Booktv attended a book party for democratic leadership counsel al from, author of the new democrats and the return to power. Mr. From talked to guests and made informal remarks. Its about an hour. Look at this crowd, okay. How are you . How are ya . I cant tell you any secrets. Yeah, basically. Thats all right. But you know what . [laughter] but we dont have any secrets, right . Yes. [inaudible] im doing my best. Youre doing great. Working out all the time. All right. So you will be very pleased. Tomorrow morning

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CNNW CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield March 7, 2015

That there are protections in place to make sure all the hard work done by the so many lives sacrificed are also preserved. Youre also going to hear from the president of the United States, who will be here in selma, 2 30 roughly, eastern time here from selma, right here at the foot of the Edmund Pettus bridge. He will be bringing with him the first Lady Michele Obama and the president is bringing his daughters, sasha and malia. And we expect that one of his messages will be to really challenge the generations of his daughters and other generations, that they will have their own marches and their own fights to fight and his message will be that the struggle the fight continues. Also during our programming today, youre, of course, going to hear from the man who was just 25 years old who is the most recognizable image of bloody sunday john lewis, congressman john lewis, is here. My conversations with another civil rights foot soldier, reverend andrew young. Youre going to hear the extrao

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Wilcox Co teen murder suspect charged in Selma murder

Wilcox Co teen murder suspect charged in Selma murder
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How an Alabama Town Staved Off School Resegregation

How an Alabama Town Staved Off School Resegregation
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