States, before the historical events we spoke to several new members about what brought them to congress and what Life Experiences and influence have shapeded them here are four of e new members Teresa Leger Fernandez is a democrat representing mexicos Congressional District she studied lawn and worked as an advocate for tribal issues in her state she help division in the clinton and Obama Administration she is one of 13 new democrats in the house. I read somewhere you grew up with seven siblings is that correct . I have five older brothers and i was the first little girl so you know how much i was adored by my father and then i had a baby sister but i come from one of the huge northern new mexico families my father had 14 siblings who worked the ranch, worked the farm 17 generation new mexican honor european side and of course you have a lot in our marriage with her indigenous with her brothers and sisters. What are some of the memories you have what sticks out in your family. I had s
House Recording Studio and we are very happy to be with former representative Barbara Kennelly of connecticut. And this interview is part of a project were doing to recognize and celebrate the 100thanniversary of Jeanette Rankin the first woman elected to congress. Congress. The first question we wanted to ask you is if you had any female role models when you were young and what drew you to those particular people . A lot of role models, to tell you the truth. My father was state chairman for 32 years, Democratic State chairman and he was National Chairman to the administration of kennedy and johnson. So i had the good luck to meet many women and men, of course that were in politics and chase wood house was a congresswoman from connecticut. And she was quite special and of course i did get to know her and ella grasso, as you know, was the first woman elected in her own right and i dont think she ever gets enough credit for that and she was of course i knew her very well. And what in pa
foley from florida said it was the worst experiences in his life. in order to get the single vote they needed to get the fast track through the house to allow the trade agreement, someone is paying attention to politics, they would say look we do not have broad societal support for full speed pedal to the metal liberalization. maybe we should slow down and listen. you can watch this and other programs on my booktv that org. good afternoon. i am here with gail collins. i don t think i have to introduce gil collins. she is the columnist for the new york times now while many other points of her career, which i want to get to during this conversation, i m going to leave sometime at the end for questions. i wanted to say this panel, i titled it, it s called dancing backwards and it comes from a quote, i don t know if you remember bill ruckelshaus, he was in the nixon administration, and his wife was also a policymaker and a woman of some influence patchy said it occurred to me
Edward J. Stockton of Bloomfield, Connecticut passed away on May 4, 2020 at Hartford Hospital, at the age of 89 of natural causes. “Fantastic” was his word, whether he was telling of a truck-stop tuna melt or a complex economic plan for the state of Connecticut. He was the epitome of an intellectual populist. If […]
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