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[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] each week, American History tvs american artifacts visits historic places. The National Museum of africanAmerican History and culture open in september of 2017. The museum has quickly become one of the most visited in the nations capital, with capacity crowds almost every day. Up next, the second of a twopart look at the museums history galleries. We tour the era of segregation 18771968, and hear the story of africanamericans after the civil war. At the end of the civil war, African Americans who were releas ....
The speaker the house will be in order. Pursuant to the order of the house of january 4, 2021, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. With time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Quigley, for five minutes. Mr. Quigley thank you, madam speaker. And now mr. Speaker. By rejoining the Paris Agreement, President Biden has promised the world the u. S. Will retake its position in the fight against Climate Change and be true to its word to meet our commitments to reduce Greenhouse Ga ....
Look at some of the unique features when they built this facility. Right now we are in the baggage room. A lot of the original stuff is still here. Original construction, none of that has changed. We have the scales that are original. This would have been the passenger and Light Commercial freight area. Your passenger freight, anything you were traveling with would come across here and be weighed just like what you have on the airplanes today. Your commercial freight would be done on the scales up top. One of the cool things you will notice as we go through the building is the construction of this building. This was built by railroad engineers, built to last. Realize that this building right now is over 100 years old. As we go through the building, keep in mind, this is a room that is unique. It is important to our history. This room would have been called the colored only room. This is where segregation took place. It has been ....
I want to commend to make this happen. Certainly a for effort. Ive listened to zooms, my own kids. Everyone is leaning in and really trying to make being in a place where 97 of our schools are opening in Distance Learning, theyre really trying to work. I would say that there are definitely some challenges that have not cooperated and my heart goes out, at one point, asked the remaining 30,000 students who opened in Distance Learning but yet, they big challenges in Northern California and other parts of the state but everyone is leaning in to make this work. I hear teachers with great content. I think this is really hard. Nothing about this that is easy but i have to commend those students and educators and school staff and families who are just leaning in, trying to make the most of the situation that were in. ....