Education committee looks at how to open schools safely in the fall during the pandemic. Members will hear from the Dallas School superintendent, the national pga president , and the pediatrics professor. Watch live at 10 15 eastern on cspan three, online at cspan. Org or listen live with the free cspan radio app. All persons having business before the Honorable Supreme Court of the United States have managed to get their attention. Landmark cases. Cspans special history series. Produced in partnership with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic Supreme Court decisions. Mr. Chief justice and may please the court, quite often in many of our most famous decisions, are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases to illustrate very dramatically the visual of what it means for different people who have helped to stick together because they created a rule of law. Good evening and welcome t
A little bit of housekeeping before we start , please silence your cell phone we appreciate it. Please remember to step up to the microphone. Before asking your question so we can enjoy the conversation and ensure this will beon recorde recorded. To buy copies of the book at the Cash Register up front. We will be doing a signing so if youre like to have a signed lineup next to the podium and please keep your chairs where they are we will have another event after this one. The reason we are all here it pleased to introduce stephen to all ofl you. A historian biographer and writer appearing in many publications including the atlantic and New York Times and washington post. In 2011 he received a guggenheim fellowship also the author of 17 books including cold warriors the codebreakers this afternoon he will talk about his new book Oliver Wendell holmes. He tells the story of one of the mosthe influential and one of the Supreme Court justices is in history and a definitive biography from t
Thank you all for making us a part of your week. I would like excuse me. I would like to thank cspan for filming us so that others who cannot be with us tonight can see it at a later date. And thank you to the abaco atoms Historical Society and their board of directors, who offered us this wonderful opportunity to partner with them as we did last year with their speaker, edith. Abigails rich history in this region inspires as everyday. Thank you. The hingham Historical Society is focused like never before on his history, to understand all voices. We currently are in the midst of a campaign for the Benjamin Lincoln house, which is our effort to purchase the home of hinghams American Revolutionary war hero. Benjamin lincoln received the british surrender at yorktown. Or as we like to tell schoolchildren, that is Benjamin Lincoln on the white horse. He is featured so prominently in the rotunda of the u. S. Capitol. Benjamin lincoln served hingham as a clerk, constable, and selectman. He a
Pursuit of both liberty and enslavement. Because just a few weeks after that first General Assembly in 1619, a ship arrived carrying stolen African People taken from angola. Here, they were sold and sold again. The first enslaved African People who were not granted the same freedoms that would be given to white land owning colonists. And here those enslaved africans joined the thousands of virginias first people, the members of the Virginian Indian tribes who would also wait centuries to have the same freedoms. So today as we hold these commemorations of the First Representative Assembly in the free world, we have to remember who it included and who it did not. That is the paradox of virginia, of america, and of our representative democracy. A full accounting demands that we confront and discuss those aspects of our history. It demands that we look not just for hundredn time 400 years in the past, but at how our commonwealth and our country evolved over the course of those four centuri
1994 federal assault weapons ban. This is two hours. All. I apologize for being late. I really dont have any opening remarks and i welcome all of our colleagues here to these introductions andill turn it over to senator feinstein. Mister chairman. As you can see we have four nominees before the committee today. Id like to welcome the majority leader, thank you for being here. We have not had a Senate Confirmed director of the atf since march 2015. And in fact, weve only had one confirmed head of the agency since the director position was subject to Senate Confirmation in 2006. So im really very pleased that members of this committee will have the ability to question mister canterbury, not only on his record but also on his priorities for combating gun violence should he be confirmed to this position. I really have been at this for so long and ive seen us experience so many endless tragedies at the hands of firearms. From parkland to newtown, from San Bernardino to sutherland springs, f