Prof. Balcerski welcome everybody. It is me, your professor. Im excited to offer an election on the political culture of the antebellum congress. The outline, we start with a review of the party system. I will introduce a concept to you of nautical culture and compare that to something we have encountered before, Political Parties. The bulk of the lecture is going onbe presenting new evidence the antebellum political culture. I have three major areas as evidence to talk about today. Tobacco culture, political honorships and a fares of affairs of honor. Like we often do in the class b are going to start with the image on the screen. Im going to ask you to tell me what you see. This is Lady Washingtons reception from 1861. Take it in. Who can point out something you see right away that strikes you . Lady washington is on a platform. Prof. Balcerski how high do you think she is . Off the ground . Like a foot. Prof. Balcerski thats a good piece there. What else . Everyone is dressed up fan
State legislators have told me, i, i told them, why do you take the medicaid money . They said because we dont want to leave any federal dollars on the table. And that is the biggest influence that i can see with legislators. Now some with political aspirations have not done that because they have said, ive got future political aspirations but, but, within a couple of years, they go after that money and i can tell you that louisiana did not take the medicaid money until the new governor got in. It was the first act that he did. That weve been leaving and millions and millions of federal dollars on the table. States, highway funds, why do they invest in highways before they invest in Higher Education . Why do they invest in medicaid before they invest in Higher Education . Why did land grant universities get created . Federal government gave lands under Partnership States would have to do following things which would create the greatest Public University system in the world which result
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A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from delaware. Mr. Coons mr. President , are we currently in a quorum call . The presiding officer the senator is correct. Mr. Coons i ask unanimous consent the proceedings of the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Coons mr. President , as we come to the close of the 113th congress id like to speak for a few minutes about why i think we should be optimistic about the future and what we can and must do to take advantage of the opportunities that lie ahead. Mr. President , despite economic slowdowns throughout much of the world, among developing and developed nations alike, americas economy continues to steadily grow. Just last friday we got great news that our economy created more than 300,000 jobs in the month of november. That marks 57 straight months or nearly five years of positive job Growth Numbers and for the First Time Since bill clinton was president of this nation weve averaged more
Environment, and probably lots of others, but those are things that Everybody Knows that he has worked hard on. Throughout the years tom and i have served side by side in washington for the good of our home state. For three terms we worked together in the u. S. House of representatives. It was here in the senate our shared commitment to give Rural America a voice at the policy making table was sown. And for many years we worked together on the Senate Agricultural committee looking out for the millions of americans who choose to work and earn a living in Rural America. We worked together to advocate for Rural Infrastructure and investment, access to health care, Housing Technology and transportation. For the last three decades we have served alongside one another here in this distinguished body, the United States senate, an institution that both of us hold near and dear to our hearts. Although some of our silver tongued critics over the years may have described toms views as a bleeding