Philadelphia. Originally thats what it was. But in the years the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capitol. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that well see in a moment was the United States senate. The house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population at our first census of about 3 3 4 million. We had six members of the house would sit in this room and eventually from 16 states. The story of the u. S. Capitol is the story of where were taking a new constitution and actually operating it, doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capitol. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially annou
Together. I do want to Say Something real washington journal live every day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. At h the entire program cspan. Org. Well fulfill our 40yearplus commitment to cover the u. S. Congress. You live to the floor, next. One bill on the house agenda today. Apprenticeship opportunities. And now live coverage of the u. S. House on cspan. Heaven ane you thanks for giving us another day. Bless the members of the peoples house with focus and purpose as they gather these few days before thanksgiving. May their efforts give true cause for americans to gather to give thanks. As infections continue to spread in hospitals nationwide and hospitals nationwide are pressed to their limits, look with with mercy upon your people. May we all, together, be mindful of the part we can play in addressing the spread of coronavirus. May all that is done be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to section 4a of House Resolution 967, the journal of the last days pr
Democracy itself was at stake in this election and then she went on to mention these essential values rule of law human rights democracy she did that 4 years ago as well but it was quite interesting because there was a difference when she offered her congratulations in that statement to donald trump she said on the basis of those values we wont work closely together here she didnt consider such conditionality or this kind of a warning apparently necessary but essentially listed the topics where shes hoping to Work Together something that she also mentioned quite in phatic leave was she could graduated kamel harris Vice President elect who no matter what your politics are i mean it is just a fact this was really a historic moment for the United States 1st woman 1st person of color to you know when as v. P. In an election in the United States a big moment wasnt thats right and the fact is that the chancellor is generally quite restrained and understated but that moment was really a perso
Larson an account of the worst year of the war after he becomes Prime Minister may 10 of 1940 really the day of the german invasion and then basically what it was like to stand alone against germany in june of 41 or the russians are in a war and obviously by december of 41 the United States is in a war but its an extraordinary book. Its a wonderful. About a guy that i consider literally the greatest person in the 20th century and the supreme ordeal. And then ive also been reading, i just picked up the greatest story by the name of gene edward smith, great dr. For her. I have read is either phase grant and eisenhower. Eisenhower is by far the best eisenhower biography ever written and thereve been some good ones but he died in 2019 so right now i just got into what may have been his best book on fdr something called which americans historians chooses the best book of the year so its been around for a while and one of those books thats been sitting on my bookshelf and i just have not got
Although originally it was a county courthouse of philadelphia. But in the years that washington, d. C. Was being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room is for the house of representatives. The second floor was the United States senate. The house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population around 3. 75 million. We had 106 members of the house he would sit in this room, and eventually from 16 states. The story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital, we are taking the new constitution and doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capital. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially announcing that we have changed our constitution, which of course, the bill of