Member of congress from connecticut. This evening we pay tribute to ly Linmanuel Miranda, an extraordinarily talented composer, ly cyricist and actor. Last year we honored david mu mccull low. This year we honor hip hop score, catchy lyrics and contemporary corography, americans are learning all about Alexander Hamilton and aaron beurre and how their conviction shaped our young country. Thank you, linmanuel for making history come alive through the performing arts. Now, this evening were honored to have the democratic leader with us, and former speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. Madam speaker, i invite you to the podium to say a few words. [ applause ] good afternoon, everyone. Its an honor to be here once again. With all of you. It seems like yesterday we were honoring David Mccullough. Now a whole other generation. Thank you, senator, and ron, thank you, ron sarasin for your great leadership for this organization for so many years. And welcome to don carlson, the new board chair, th
Ladies and gentlemen, please recognize the color guards from each of the original 13 states at they are introduced in the order in which each state ratified the u. S. Constitution and entered the union. Delaware. First delaware regiment. Pennsylvania, first troop Philadelphia City cavalry. New jersey, old barracks museum. Georgia, sons of the revolution in the state of georgia. Connecticut, the governors foot and horse guard. Massachusetts, 54th massachusetts volunteer reje regiment. Maryland, Maryland Society sons of the American Revolution. South carolina, South Carolina national guard. New hampshire. First New Hampshire regiment. Virginia, the Virginia Military institute regimental color guard. New york, 9th new york field artillery, veteran corps of artillery of the state of new york. North carolina, the over mountain men. Rhode island, united train of artillery. And presenting the flag of the United States, the color guard of the 3rd u. S. Infantry regiment known as the old guard.
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] thank you very much. [applause] cokie, regular thank you very much. A quick explanation of the Historical Society and what we are trying to accomplish. We were created by a member of congress 37 years ago who was a history teacher. He came to congress and realized that there was no organization saying a things about Congress Nice things about the congress and created the society to create an organization whose responsibility will be to educate the public about the capital, capital building, the people who served here, and so forth. For over 30 years we have been doing this. With quarterly publication with books, and other ways. We were formed by congress but we are not a federal agency, we are a Nonprofit Organization and we have to raise all of our own dollars. Look to sponsor this evening are
[applause] and to now, the chairman of the u. S. Capital Historical Society and a former member of congress from missouri will offer a toast to the committee and then we will have dinner. Before i offer the toast this evening, i want to give a brief history, a very brief history, of the committee. But i want to step set the record straight first. Jim was not only the ranking member, but he was chairman of this committee. [applause] it was 226 years ago and 10 days from now that this committee was created in 1789. Its responsibility is for a clear, to raise money to pay for the government. The newly signed constitution, as we all have studied, declare that all laws to raise revenue must originate here in the house of representatives. For the first two months, that is exactly what happened. The committee drafted and considered bills to impose tariffs and taxes. But a turf battle arose. A magic, a turf battle in washington. That is unheard of. This one arose between the committee and the
I think you both have captured a couple of important points. I would like to exploit a limited but for the. Ron mentioning faith, identify the role that communities play in helping to control the spread, the arc of an illness. In the 1980s, many communities came together to complement, supplement, the work that colleagues were doing in the science to create a more immersive context in which to respond to some of the dynamics of the elements. Thet now one of organizations that has been on the front lines has been doctors without borders, and they seem to borrow some of the efforts that you were describing with paul farmers work of bringing a whole community into the work. Could you talk more about your own experiences in trying to mobilize thick power of communities in support of responding in moments like this . Well, the thing that i have most experience obviously is in hiv, because it was so pervasive. We had the anxiety of ebola, and we have had a handful of cases here. Back then we