Housekeeping notes before we begin. We will have 15 minutes of question and answer after each presentation. So please line up behind the microphone to ask your questions for those here in person and for those on zoom. Please type your questions in the chat and we will ask them in real life. We do have author books for sale downstairs, so if you would like any of our books, our authors to sign your book, please visit with them over the course of the day. And then lunch is on your own and there are a ton of options here in oldtown. So if you need some recommendation, please look for our Historic Alexandria staff who will be happy to point you in the right direction. So with that, please welcome Phil Greenawalt with emerging revolutionary war to introduce our first speaker. Good morning. How . We are so grateful to have norm the mayors with us here today. Norm is a Professor Emeritus Providence College and providence, rhode island. Hes the author of the guide of the American Revolutionary
This upcoming 250th anniversary. Examining our american experiment as key. This revolution of ours created waves across the world. With its lasting impacts, felt even today. This symposium the world turned upside down the American Revolution. Its impact on a global scale. Well study the effects of this revolution that trans formed governments and the governed across the globe. Appropriate as we consider the birth of our nation, is to acknowledge the Ancestral Lands of our Indigenous Peoples on which we gather. We recognize the many tribes who moved through this region trading and drawing resources from the land and waterways. We honor their descendants today. Our community is shaped by the diversity of its people. Past, present and future. And we affirm that this is central to the values of the place we now call alexandria. I have a few important housekeeping notes before we begin. We will have 15 minutes of question and answer after each presentation. So please line up behind the micr
Their plan literally called unified tax reform. The gop leadership spoke moments ago about their unity around it. This is a historic day. This is a day that is a long time in coming. In fact, it was on this day under this dome in 1986 that Congress Took the final vote on the last overhaul of our tax code. Derek hake was there and joins us now. Garrett, the congress wasted no time getting off health care since its not going to work sayi saying they needed that for tax reform. A problem, they needed some of that savings to make tax reform fully work but some some plan now or at least the beginnings of it . Reporter right, ali. An outline. A plan to make a plan. Republicans are by and large so far lining up behind that. Most importantly in the house. The Freedom Caucus caused so many problems for paul ryan, and establish member republicans going back quite a while said he will support the outlines of the plan. The plan moves through the house, moves simultaneously through the senate and a
Discovered there will have the latest from sydney. And the price of brain drain world class universities like cambridge fear a loss of talent when britain leaves steve you know we talk to researchers and a man whos decided to vote with his feet. And heavy snowfall over the alps brings chaos to parts of austria and southern germany there have been a number of deaths and the risk of avalanches remains high. Im brian thomas thanks so much for joining us President Donald Trump has taken his case for a border wall with mexico directly to the American People in a live primetime address from the oval office the president describing a humanitarian crisis caused by thousands of the. Illegal immigrants and a vast quantities of the Illegal Drugs and trying to enter the u. S. Every said a physical barrier along the border was absolutely critical to Border Security and called on your democrats in congress to back is five point seven billion dollars plan to fund that will. Only know one certain term
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