Rights. And i remember when president bush signed that law, he uttered these words. He said, let the shameful walls of discrimination come tumbling down. A wonderful day. And looking back over those 24 years, can anyone deny that our country has made great progress in expanding our concepts of the rights of people with disabilities, the right to be educated and welleducated, the right of people with disabilities to have independent living, to live on their own, not to be institutionalized, the right of people with disabilities to associate freely with others, the right of people with disabilities, children with disabilities, to go to school with other kids who are not disabled, the right of people with disabilities to travel freely with barriers broken do down, ramps, not stairs, buses that are fully accessible now, trains, everything accessible, every building designed in america think about that every building designinged and built in America Today is fully accessible. And we have go
This House Committee on the benghazi attack hearing about to get under way. While we have a second were going to take a chance and give you some background on todays hearing from a capitol hill reporter. Welcome for purposes of taking testimony pursuant to house rules. Chair will recognize himself and Ranking Member for purposes of making Opening Statement. Without objection the Opening Statement of any other member of the committee who wishes to provide one will be included in the record. A little over two years ago, four americans serving our country in benghazi, libya, were killed. Two of them were killed when a facility emblematic of our country was set on fire. And two of them were killed when they dared to fight back and defend themselves. And others. Sean smith, Chris Stevens, ty woods and glen doherty represented us. They represented our country, and our values. We ask them to go. We sent them, and they were killed because some people hold a deepseated animus toward us simply b
That from the political for tomorrow, were going to be joined by brian wall street is a republican strategist. Issueare the environments heading into the last two weeks before congress is scheduled to take it summer recess. Rs we are looking at race in america. Our guest will be mychal denzel smith. 30. Ill start this at 83 we will see you then. Coming up next, the confirmation hearing for the nomination met nomination for samantha bauer. Then a hearing with state department officials. He had been taken in a plane crash in 1948. Rose has literally seen her children and almost birth order disappear. In 1964, she wrote about what it is like in that summer. She said gone are the president ial helicopters that we will look forward to every week in bringing my son. I would see his children run out to him. Gone are those days. She missed that. She said gone are the days that we are said to be the most powerful family in the world. Barbara perry uses information from diaries and letters as sh
Um, others will be joining us. They had different time commitments, so well just let everyone speak when they arrive. But i want to thank all the senators who have fought on this issue so hard. I want to thank senator boxer for her tremendous work on this issue and for being a tireless partner and leader in this effort on behalf of our brave members of the services. I also want to thank senator collins for standing firmly with us since day one when we introduced the bill as well as senator grassley for being a true champion on this issue. Oh, i just thanked you. So ill say that again. I want to thank senator boxer for her tremendous work on this issue and for being an amazing advocate, an unbelievable champion for victims and someone who has worked so tirelessly from the very beginning. I also want to thank senator blumenthal, senator jeanne shaheen, kay hagan and Lisa Murkowski who have been working with us steadily on the committee from the very beginning as well. Today i want to tha