I know were in the greatest country in the history of the earth, your ideas matter. For more information go to our website studentcam. Org. Next, the House Judiciary Committee holds an oversight hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Survey surveillance act of fisa. Congress has until the end of the year to renew pfizer provisionpfizerprovisions. They testify and how provisions are being used [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee of the judiciary will come to order and without objection declare recess at the committee of anytime. We welcome everyone to this morning. An oversight of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. The Judiciary Committee is holding todays hearing to carry out one of the most important tasks. To ensure that the tools used by our government to keep us safe are consistent with their values and with the freed
Truck slammed into it. Its so lucky that no one was there inside the house sitting in this area when it happened. Let me show you what it looked like earlier. This is what it looked like when it arrivedch the suv was sitting on the side of the house. According to glen arden police it came down the hill. They believe the driver had a medical emergency andcould not stop his vehicle, slammed into the corner of the house and then bounced to the right where it see it sitng. Hear now from the chief of the glen arden police department. When a car hits the house you never know whats going to happen, the house could fall down. Someone could be sitting in a chair so were thankful that nobody is sitting in the house. Oh, yeah. Now, as for the man who was behind the wheel of that vehicle, he was transported to the hospital. They do believe that hes going to be okay. There was some bleeding, but they say ths he in stable condition. His mother was able to get to the scene here. Shes quite upset abou
carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger. so helms called in the political consultants who in turn helped the helms campaign to fight back. this is what theygn came up wit this ad. you needed that job because you were the best qualified, but they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gains says it is. your vote on this issue, for racial quota, harvey gain, against racial quotas, jesse helms. you were a better candidate than the minority guy that they went with. can you feel the injustice of it all? that ad was exactly what senator jesse helms needed. he won re-election to a fourth term in the senate 54 to 46%. that strategy worked, it worked well, making gant the face of affirmative action, a racial quota system that kept whites at a disadvantage ipfavor of less qualified minorities, it was potent stuff. the race baiting and the zero-sum politics, it moved people because it angered them a
This fall in Maryland Democratic primary is may 14 and a reminder all congressional news was csp now free mobile video app and watch house and senat floor debates, speeches hearings is born cspan now, wherever you get to ramp. The assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division houston park testifies now before us judiciary subcommittee and talks about the in hate crimes the u. S. Rejects claims of political bias in her department [background sounds]. The subcommittee will come to order and the chairs authorized to declare recess anytime and we welcome everyone todays hearing of the department of justice Civil Rights Division and with that we will have the pledge of allegiance with the gentleman from arizona leading is in the pledge of allegiance. Pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Without objection are calling from arizona will be able to proce
state showdown. we begin with the fox news alert and we are awaiting the white house briefing next hour where karine jean-pierre will be pressed for the president s massive $6.8 trillion tax and spend budget plan. a lot to unpack in america reports in the next two hours. i m john roberts in washington and, s sandra, weather correspondent made it to washington. i m sandra smith, glad to be with you, john. this massive new tax and spend plan as inflation remains stubbornly high and as a brand new jobs report is just released by the labor department. it did show payrolls rising by 311,000 last month. that was higher than expected and as the wall street journal references what they see as evidence of resilient economic economy. the unemployment rate meanwhile ticked up to 3.6%, that s from the record low in january. but there s still a big question on what s coming down the pike as more rate hikes could be on the horizon. so with that in mind, let s get right to it wi