This year, cspan is touring cities across the country, exploring American History. Next, look at our recent visit to buffalo, new york. You are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Right now, we are at buffalos waterfront. As part ofreating it the governors vision. Fits to revitalize the waterfront. Our waterfront sits right out there. Lake erie is one of the great lakes. The great lakes comprise about 84 of north americas freshwater. On aact we are right here great lake is something very significant to us. With our vision being to revitalize the waterfront, we have looked at it this 21 acre parcel on the waters edge and thought how do we recreated . We are in a position to recreate what the waterfront looked like at a point in time. We had a master plan that was put together that tries to recreate some of the feel of what it would have been like to live back then without taking it to the historic extreme. The eerie canal was built in 1817. Andbuilt across
All weekend long, American History tv is featuring buffalo, new york. During buffalos 1901 world fair, president William Mckinley was assassinated. Theodore roosevelt took the oath of office in buffalo shortly thereafter, becoming the 26th president. Our staffcities t visited many sites exploring the citys rich history. Learn about buffalo all weekend on American History tv. Tom right now, we are at buffalos waterfront, which we waterfront is our the river and lake erie. Lake erie is one of the five great lakes. They provide about 85 of north americas freshwater. The fact we are on the great lake is something significant to us. With our vision to be revitalized waterfront, we have now look at this 21acre parcel on the waters edge and thought how to recreate it. Where we are now is in a position to recreate the waterfront at a point in time. We have a master plan that was put together that tries to recreate the feel of what it would have been like to live back then without taking you to
Cable partners we will explore the history of the city of just over 250,000 residents. The zero short of lake erie and the niagara river, it was the western terminus of the area canal. A thriving commercial and industrial metropolis. Coming up we will explore some of the close president ial history as we look at grover here as mayor. In the assassination of William Mckinley. Will the site where theater roosevelt was sworn into office after mckinleys death. We are in the library of the wilcox home. It is not a big room but it was filled with approximately 50 people. He stood in the middle of the room. There is no photographic representation of the actual aringin swear morning ceremony. Camera on that time were on tripods. They were very awkward. Unfortunately one of the cameras was knocked into, fell to the ground, roosevelt being nervous about all of this basically asked the reporters and photographers to leave. Later we will you about the buffalo Civil Rights Movement is the homee of
Right now, we are at buffalos waterfront. We are recreating as part of the Governors Division governors vision. We want to revitalize the waterfront. It is a river and lake erie. Lake erie is one of the five great lakes. Abouteat lakes comprise 84 of north americas freshwater. The fact that we are right here, on a great lake, is something very significant to us. With our vision being to revitalize the waterfront, we now have looked at this 21 acre parcel on the waters edge and thought, how do we recreate it . Where we are now is in a position to recreate with the waterfront look like at a point in time. We have a master plan that was put together that tries to recreate some of the feel of what it would have been like to live back then, without taking it to the historic extreme. Rie canal was started in 1817 and completed in 1825. It was called clintons ditch. It was not thought to be that productive. In the end, it turned out to be quite the success story. Materials anding the transpor
This bill. I yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman from kansas yields back. The gentleman from idaho reserves. The gentlelady from ohio is recognized. Ill continue to reserve. The chair the gentlelady from ohio reserves. The gentleman from idaho is recognized. Mr. Simpson it is now my pleasure to yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. Weber. The chair the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. Mr. Weber thank you, madam chair. I rise thank you, gentleman, for yielding. I rise to engage in a colloquy with chairman simpson. I thank the chairman for including language in the committees report which would require that the army corps of engineers also look to strategy seaport designations when allocating funding for additional work. However, the president s budget for f. Y. 2015 proposes to cut the maintenance budget for the sabean natchest waterway by 35 over last year. No other area of the country, i have been able to identify, have seen such