Served in congress. Prior to the mid20th century, many served as territorial delegates and commissioners as opposed to voting representatives. Archives hosted this event and provided the video. Historian at the center for legislative archives. Thank you for attending todays talk on this last day of july. This is the last talk in the series until we resume in september. For those of you in attendance, our guest hardly needs an introduction. Matthew wasniewski is the historian of the u. S. House of representatives and a member of the advisory meeting on the records of congress. Friend andgtime supporter, as well of us as well as a source of guidance to the center through his service on the advisory committee. Matt is here today to discuss hispanic americans in congress, which was published last year. This is the third in a series that has come out of the house office under his leadership. The previously published volumes being women in congress 19172006, black americans in congress, 1870
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committee who join us tonight both as a member of the committee and later in the hour as a presidential candidate. we will separate those two things out. excellent. the new staffer, new staffing at the committee, i think we are the first people able to report that. i don t know if he knows that s public knowledge. we will just made it so. we ll get into it with him. thank you, rachel. we re going to get straight to the news of the day but i want to alert you no you that we re going to end the hour with a very important footnote to the story that begins the hour. we re going to show you video of bobby kennedy asking questions in a congressional hearing when he was a committee staff lawyer which the attorney general is now pretending is unprecedented. the news day began with the attorney general refusing to show up to testify to the house judiciary committee. it s not just the attorney general now who is refusing to testify to the house judiciary committee. now president
questions for eric swalwell, a member of the intelligence committee who join us tonight both as a member of the committee and later in the hour as a presidential candidate. we will separate those two things out. excellent. the new staffer, new staffing at the committee, i think we are the first people able to report that. i don t know if he knows that s public knowledge. we will just made it so. we ll get into it with him. thank you, rachel. we re going to get straight to the news of the day but i want to alert you no you that we re going to end the hour with a very important footnote to the story that begins the hour. we re going to show you video of bobby kennedy asking questions in a congressional hearing when he was a committee staff lawyer which the attorney general is now pretending is unprecedented. the news day began with the attorney general refusing to show up to testify to the house judiciary committee. it s not just the attorney general now who is refusing t
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