League stronger, and it might have served to educate American Public opinion. If by the time the 30s hit, would you have had the same isolationist sentiment . I mean, there was a lot of sentiment in europe for peace. There was this huge peace ballot in britain in the 1930s, where i think half the Adult Population voted in favor of peace. But wanting peace doesnt necessarily translate into isolationist. It might be that failing to join the league formed isolationism in a way that didnt happen in europe. You can want peace but still recognize that you have to be engaged in the world. I doesnt know. And you can argue, and i think historians are now arguing that even in the 1930s, the United States was not as isolationist as we might think. If you look at what the United States is doing, its still involved a lot. And its particularly involved on its own doorstep. The Good Neighbor policies in the 1930s, and the United States is still very concerned about whats going on in the pacific. Ther
A few thunderstorms come tomorrow for sure, just good oldfashioned rain today and thats what we need exactly. A few showers around the district. The heavier stuff is off to the north near frederick and Northern Maryland. This is where theyve seen pockets of the heavier or more moderate rain i should say so this is where the rainfall totals are going to add up about a half inch today. So how long does this stick around . Well much of the activity for today is going to be through the morning and early afternoon. A rain chances are not gone for the evening but things will start to taper off a little bit. 2 20 a lot of the steadier light showers push off east of 95 and areas west you can get a little bit drier with just some spotty showers, its warm out there youll be surprised how comfortable it is when you head outside. Southerly winds that are rather breezy are pushing in some nice warm air so were headed to the 60s today. This is 5 00 at night, still into the mid 60s. With those southe
The majority of the paris attackers had western passports. With those western passports, they could get into the United States without a visa. This bill has strong bipartisan support and i believe will address the problems identified. This people will also a force high risk individuals who have been to terrorist hot spots to go through a more rigorous screening process before coming to america. It will strenten intelligence information sharing with our allies, which is lacking and crack down on passport fraud. It will also force visa waiver countries to ramp up counterterrorism screening of travelers. But this is just the beginning. Over the coming weeks, we will introduce a slate of new bills passed on the findings of the task force to keep terrorists from crossing our borders. This will include enhancing the security of the visa process. Developing a National Strategy to combat terrorist traveling, improving information sharing here at home and helping foreign partners address securi
Of the Homeland Security Committee Chairman michael mccaul. Chairman mccaul son of a world war ii veteran is currently serving his sixth term representing texas tenth district which covers from austin to houston. In january hell enter his fourth year as the chairman of the house Homeland Security committee. This committee has oversight of the department of Homeland Security ensuring its able to carry out its core mission of protecting the American People from terrorist attack. He also serves on the committee of Foreign Affairs working to our National Security abroad. Under the chairmans leadership, the committee has made quite the mark during the 114th congress. This year the committee has passed 55 bills, 25 of which came from freshman members. 40 bills have passed the house, almost half from freshmen. And seven bills have become law. All told, it accounts for 10 of public law this year. This is the result of the leadership and teamwork of chairman mccaul and his committee. He also es
Framers of the 14th amendment were actually taking about, you cant get to a lot of these decisions. That is not the way the court has determined to construe the 14th amendment. Thank you for another important episode. I wonder if the timing and the nature of tonights case and others related to it, if it really isnt kind of representing the cleaning up of the failed postcivil war reconstruction business. Im wondering how much time was wasted between then and these cases which occurred. Douglas it is a great question. I think certainly we continue to grapple with these issues today. Certainly, it is a neverending process, one we have to continue to keep working at to figure out how to make our democracy real. Ted it is not just our democracy, but the principles of the declaration of independence, the gettysburg address, the 14th amendment, the concept of equality. We have never been a very perfect country with respect to living up to those ideals, and i think a lot of it is that the just