Sign up. Sunday night on q and e. Founder and ceo of open the books. On how taxpayer dollars are spent and the need for transparency. Last summer, we found that during a period where up to a thousand sick veterans died while waiting to see a doctor. The va spent 20 million on a high end art fort portfolio. 27 fo 27 foot Christmas Trees costing like cars. Sculptures cost like homes. By a va center that serves behind veterans. It was a cubed rock sculpture with landscaping for 1. 2 million. This is the type of waste thats in our government. Sunday night at 8 eastern. On cspan q and a. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. In 1979, cspan was as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. On the phone with us here on American History tv is lynn smith, who is an audiovisual archivist at the Herbert Hoover president ial library and museum in west branch, iowa. You made an interesting discovery recently while working w
Smith who is an audio visual archivist at the herbert president ial library. You made an interesting discovery while working with home movies. What did you find . Well, it was an interesting thing i was working on evaluating the films measuring for shrinkage and all of that. I noticed some of these black and white film had lines on each frame. I pulled it out to make sure i wasnt seeing spots as it were. As the etch code indicated they curcolor. Which to me you would see image of color in the frames. They werent. I looked for dates indicated they were early 30s, late 20s. I did research and discovered that this was an early precursor to koto chromophilm. The design of the films, the mechanics, the lines i was looking at were little tiny lenses that would trap the color when film through a camera with a filter developed and then reprojected through the same filter on a projector. And thats where the color was seen. But from the naked eye it looked like a black and white film with odd st
The presiding officer does any senator wish to vote . Does any senator wish to change his or her vote . If not, on this vote, the yeas are 69, the nays are 31. The nomination is confirmed. The presiding officer under the previous order, the clerk will report the phal no nomination. The Clerk Department of state, Joseph William westphal, to the United States ambassador to the kingdom of saudi arabia. The presiding officer there are now two minutes of debate equally divided. Mr. Inhofe i ask unanimous consent to be recognized for perhaps more than two minutes, for such time as ill consume. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Inhofe and he has been a capitol hill professional staff member for a long time. He actually was on the House Budget Committee for a long period of time. Then he was a special assistant to our senator thad cochran. This has been some time ago. Joe served as the Army Assistant secretary, then the acting secretary of the army. That was 200
STAMFORD — An exhibit of landscape paintings by Stamford Mayor Robert Schneider will open with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 8, at Headwaters Center for the
Law enforcement may not have gotten everything desired from this session, but advocates can celebrate a raise to state pension benefits and $18 million to subsidize county sheriff offices.