This hearing is called to order. Welcome. 50 years ago, exactly what each week from today, at approximately 9 30 am, two astronauts, sitting atop a rocket the size of a navy destroyer, packing 7. 5 Million Pounds of thrust, took off from Kennedy Space center in florida. Roughly 1 Million People had gathered on the ground to watch this historic event. Including half of the United States congress. These three astronauts, as one of the newspapers put it at the time, carried with them the hopes of the world. The year was 1969. The year before i was born. The astronauts were Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin, and michael collins. And the mission was apollo 11. Armstrong and aldrin went on to make history a little more than 100 hours later. When, with more than one third of the earths the earth watching or listening live, they became the first humans to ever set foot on the moon. The apollo 11 mission would go on to make history again. A little less than 100 hours after that, as the First Mission
Line is 202 7488001. For undocumented immigrants, we have set aside a special line for you, that line 202 7488002. You can post your thoughts on social media. Send us a tweet, tweet, cspan. Org cspanwj, or a message on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. They were reporting last night and online this morning, the headline was immigration raids writein new york, they that federal immigration authorities attempted raids and at least two neighborhoods in new york city on saturday according to a person familiar with the matter one day prior to when President Trump had said immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would begin National Roundups of people illegally in the u. S. In new york city they went to residences in harlem, the harlem section of manhattan and the brooklyn sunset park neighborhood. They were rejected people at residence because they didnt have lawrence but they planned to return at least two sunset park tomorrow, meaning this morning, according to that person. You can read m
Narrator during the advance on rome, enemy transportation planes are harassed from the air. It dives on the roadblocks from 6000 feet, releases bombs, and pulls out at 1500 feet. The target area is obscured by dust from previous bombers. [gunfire] [explosions] narrator target, motor transport. Stopping from and out to two of 8000 feet, destroyed 30 enemy motor transports confirmed, 36 damaged. Target, highway north of rome. 8 36s on an Armed Reconnaissance Mission should up a truck convoy. Shoot up a truck convoy. [gunfire] narrator on another mission near the mouth of the tiber, the bombers again attack motor transport. Several trucks and planes. [gunfire] [explosion] narrator target, motor transport near costa lana. Each carries bombs. It stops during the run. [gunfire] narrator target, a bridge southwest of bulimia. Two waves of mitchells aimed a bomb loads at the realm right rail lines linking southern italy with the north. Target genoa. Mitchells carrying 200 pound bombs. Extremel
Senator schumer great. All right. I want to thank our great, great speaker, nancy pelosi, and all of our friends from the house for joining we Senate Democrats here on the steps. And we are gathered because this is a critical day for the future of health care in america. Today in new orleans republican attorneys general supported by President Trump and his department of justice will argue in court that millions of americans should lose their health care and all the protections included in the a. C. A. The stakes cannot be higher. Imagine you are a parent and your child has cancer. A deadly form. There is a treatment available, but the Insurance Company says no. You cant have that treatment. Or we are cutting you off. What is donald trump, what are our republican friends telling that family . That you cant get health care . We have nothing to put in its place . Shame on them. Shame on them. The stakes cant be higher. The faces you see behind us are faces of americans. Millions of americ
The committee on the judiciary subcommittee on the constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will come to order. Without authorized to declare recess to the subcommittee at any time. I welcome everyones attendance herein t here and the hearing, Voting Rights act, Shelby County v. Holder. This is the sixth an verniversaf Shelby County v. Holder. Normally what i would do, id give an Opening Statement of five minutes and the Ranking Member would give one of five minutes. Miss clarke, one of of witnesses, has a 3 40 train, which would have been easy to accomplish were it not for the house of representatives schedule. Well go straight to her statement, and go back to the traditional i talk he talk, panel. Miss clarke is the president and executive director of the committee for civil rights law under law, one of the nations leading civil rights organizations. She previously worked for seven years at the naacp Legal Defense and Education Fund where she helped lead the organizations work i