Herbert hoover president ial library and museum in iowa. We are here today to talk about one of the most remarkable transitions in American History, the president ial election of 1932, and hoover and roosevelt, their long relationship before and after their presidencies. This was a period of incredible trauma for the united states, the Great Depression. The two of them had known each other for quite some time. During world war i, Franklin Roosevelt was the assistant secretary of the navy under woodrow wilson. Do you want to talk about what hoover did during world war i . Thomas sure. Herbert hoover was the head of the u. S. Food administration. The Food Administration had to essentially provide food to the soldiers going to europe and hoover was able to provide the necessary food by getting americans to voluntarily reduce consumption by 15 . He did this by appealing to american housewives to sign pledge cards where they would hooverize, which meant every day of the week, you gave up a
We can and hold these families in our prayers. Thank you. Back live now on capitol hill where the House Appropriations committee is returning from its lunch break. They continue work on 2021 a spending bill. Live coverage here on cspan2. Mistaken at the best of times. They are unconscionable in the midst of a pandemic. I want to remind my colleagues that foodstamp spending is a powerful anti recession tool and has previously been estimated that for each dollar spent from benefits a dollar 70 is generated in economic activity. Let me say thank you again to chairman bishop, Ranking Member and their leadership and other areas of the bill. Their strong investments to ensure the continued availability and safety of the nation food supply as well as language designed to protect the health and safety of workers in our meatpacking plants and our poultry plants as well as the farmworkers who are out in the field every single day. I thank you very, very much that all of the attention youve paid
Their roles. The decision could change the direction of the party as we know it. Lets begin with jessica dean who joins us on the hill with more on this Power Sharing Agreement. Reporter the big thing here is democrats will now take control of the senate committees. When youre in control, youre setting the agenda. That means thing in joe bidens agenda that they wanted to get ahead, President Bidens agenda they wanted to push ahead like Merrick Garlands nomination for Attorney General can now move forward. Youll remember there has been a holdup on some of these nominees including Merrick Garland who is the nominee to be Attorney General because republicans maintained control of these committees, because they had to operate off the last congress because they didnt have this agreement in place. Now that democrats will take over these committees, that means democrats are going to have a much easier time getting things on the table. Theyre going to hold control. We expect now that someone l
There wasnt anything about testing. I thought it was an incomplete address. The address i would have liked to have seen would be the president and nancy pelosi saying we have come together, we are in control, we will pass an important measure to help people affected by it tomorrow to really instill confidence. I dont think it was awful. I think he did what he had to do, but i dont think it does not appear to have been terribly reassuring. Host congressman gallagher, your take and will the house move forward today with some sort of joint bipartisan measure . I would like to live in that alternative reality where people are working together and not politicizing the crisis. I support the idea of an extension of the travel brand van in europe. It is unclear why the u. K. Was not was exempted per dino they are part of schengen exempted. I know they are not part of schengen. We need to scale up our ability to test all over the United States. We bought ourselves time with the travel ban again
Bipartisan legislation for coronavirus emergency relief. Doug luzader has the latest on that from washington. Reporter we may see some bipartisan action from Congress Pretty quickly today as the virus has now surfaced in just about every state. Reporter with store shelves around the country looking thin, and public spaces looking more and more empty, congress will now try again to intervene. Subject to exchange a paper. Reporter a relief deal could include free testing, paid sick leave, and other benefits. Washington will soon be something of a ghost town. The smithsonian will shut down after today. The Supreme Court has closed to tourists and so has the u. S. Capital capitol with the Visitor Center largely deserted. Reporter yesterday was the worst stock loss. Its going to bounce back very big at the right time. Reporter despite changes in coronavirus test kits, u. S. Health says the test kits will be on track. Its not going to be months, its going to be a week or so. Thats a failure