And how the influence of partisanship is growing. The national Archives Center for legislative archives hosted this event and provided the video. Well, it seems that the rain did not dampen any determination for you to attend todays research top. So, thank you for braving the elements. Richard mcculley, the historian at the center for legislative archives will sponsor of the series, Todays Program is the third Researcher Top this year, next month we pick up the pace a bit on may 19th, with at the university of Virginia Law school. And a former chief of staff with the joint committee on taxation, well speak about his research and the Committees Record in the history of the joint committee. And on may 26th, we host a professor of political science at litigating university who will discuss her research for her Book Manuscript about the politics of national identification documents and the United States in the 20th century. An important mission of the center is house of representatives, an
Test Test Test Test Test Test it turns out it used to be very common, not just the famous cases of nathaniel banks but very common to have multiple ballots for elections and real honest to goodness fights. Ill come back to that. Then when i started, coincidence, Denny Hastert was speaker of the house when i started this project and fast forward to the present, although maybe this might be a little more for some of you, this would be more pleasant, others of you, this would be a more pleasant picture, but when i started the project, if you were to fast forward to the president , you would see quite a different story. You would see almost a Kabuki Theater Set of performances for every house of representatives every two years where somebody leading the Majority Party would nominate someone for Speaker And Someone from the Minority Party would nominate someone for speaker, there would be a vote and surprise, surprise, all the D Vote for the d and all the R Vote for republican and whoever h
Bit. On may 19th Georgia Yen a professor of Law And Taxation at the university of Virginia Law school and a former chief of staff of the joint committee on taxation will speak about his research and that committees records and the history of the joint committee. And on may 26 we host a professor of political science at Wingate University who will discuss her research for his Book Manuscript about the politics of national identification documents in the United States and the 20th century. An important mission of the center is promoting Scholars Research in the records of the senate and the house of representatives and advancing the study of the history of congress. This Researcher Talk Series helps us gauge how fully that mission is being met and we do so by regularly hosting scholars who have conducted research in House And Senate records or who have written significant books on the history of congress. In todays much anticipated talk we hear about one of those very significant books o
Starting to come around. Bidens formercovid adviser, andy slavitt, joins me on that. Plus, Senator Chris Murphy on the challenges of working with republicans on anything. And with Voting Rights under threat, we remember the leadership of Bob Moses trying to register voters in mississippi. Anyone is arrested and then taken out of the jail. Then, the chances that they are alive is just almost zero. When All In starts right now. Good evening, from New York. Im chris hayes. Today, we saw what should be a normal scene in washington in the posttrump era. With a new administration that has been very intent on restoring normalcy, norms, and conventions of governing. It was a bipartisan celebration of a Landmark Piece of civil Rights Legislation. Truly, a great and important piece of legislation. The americans with disabilities act. It was held in the White House rose garden. Um, president Joe Biden signed a proclamation honoring the 31st anniversary of that landmark legislation, which was sign
Thank you all for being here today. We have assembled members of the select committee and conducted our first hearing. People put their lives on the lines for the united States Capital men and women who work there there was riveting testimony as you can possibly imagine we are thankful for their testimony. It sets the tone for the work of the committee but also shows that there is significant work that we have to do over the next few months. Let me thank the officers who committed themselves to testimony. It was important that we talk to the rankandfile officers. Several have had opportunities to talk to the leadership in the Capital Police and metropolitan police this was an opportunity we felt necessary to plan out these individuals that had arrived January 6th had to endure. So we had to hear the testimony this morning so many of the challenges that theyve had to endure but in addition to that i want to thank the members of the committee for their participation. Everything was on po