Women yielding political power. Im with cspan, American History on tv on cspan 3 every weekend is happy to coordinate with the organization of american historians to moderate this panel discussion. And of course it could not come at a better moment in history with the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote passed by the house u. S. And u. S. Senate in 1919 and then ratified in 1920. Here we are a hundred years later, the 116th congress has the highest percentage of women ever making up a roughly quarter of each chamber. And we have a female speakr for the second time, and we have four women so far running for president. Todays panel will look at women, the role of women and the key turning points of women in american politics. I want to introduce each of our panelists and come back through and have each of them talk about their books or the period of time theyre writing about for about five minutes and then well open up the conversation to all of you. So let me introduce you t
American history tv at cspan. Org history. All weekend long, American History tv is joining our Comcast Cable partners to showcase the history of burlington, vermont. To learn more about the citys on our current to her, visit tour, on our current visit cspan. Com citiestour. Rep. Welch it is a city that is really attractive to young people. This is the center of the vermont economy. What has happened recently is that a lot of new businesses have come in. En jerrys, artisan cheeses we have some of the finest craft breweries. Burlington i think has got a very bright future. That is so important to us in vermont because our state is largely rural, and we have enormous challenges in our rural economy. Rural america is really challenged. The strengths we have in burlington help us in vermonts try to build our Rural Communities as well. Ofhink two major parts Vermont History that really affect the state are agricultural tradition and town leading. There has been and a norms sense of citizen
Largely rural. We have enormous challenges in our rural economy. Rural america is a challenge. The strength we have in burlington helps us in vermont to build our rural communities. Two major parts of Vermont History to affect the whole state and burlington are our agricultural tradition and town meetings. There has been an enormous sense of citizen participation and activism ever since the founding of the republic of vermont. It has had the agricultural tradition, where our farmers have had the view that if we take care of the land, the land will take care of us. Even though the farms are in decline, it is not like it used to be. That ethics of being an environmental steward that we inherited, has been important to the state of vermont. And our tradition of town meeting where we talk about everything from weather to get a new school bus or firetruck to sometimes having a Nuclear Freeze initiatives on the ballot. That citizen participation has been very important to vermont. Vermont ha
Large people in the lower and middle income areas. And its not that his policies were helping them. In fact they were destroying their opportunities and chance at the american dream. But they didnt think we care, and its the old Teddy Roosevelt said people dont care what you know until they know you care, and so we have to have policies, not just rhetoric but policies that connect, and i think we can reestablish an entirely new map that puts states like pennsylvania and ohio and illinois, even illinois, and wisconsin, and michigan, back in elector to play again. Host a huge percentage of working class voters are receiving government aid in one form or another. Isnt it a tough sell for republicans to say to the voter, with whom they might have a cultural affinity, on guns or abortion or gay marriage to say to them, elect me and i will, for example, cut your disability payment. Elect me and i will create an opportunity for you to have better paying jobs and an opportunity for you to take
Cool readings and that makes sense as the cloud cover heads on down to southern california. 50s and low 60s mostly sunny and partly cloudy sky for the south bay. Good morning. We are doing pretty well for a start here on thursday. Lets take a look at 580 westbound. You can see traffic is looking good. If you are driving to the ultima past not a lot of small traffic out there. You are getting up so early see might get some sort of advantage. You can see traffic is looking very nice. Lets go to the east shore expressway. Traffic is off to a very nice start on 80 westbound. When you get to the toll plaza it is light. If you are trying to get into San Francisco early, right now is a great time to do it on that bridge, 401. Last of the 4 jail inmates that escape from the Santa Clara County jail last week is now back in custody. Chavez, the 4th man, was arrested in south san jose about 8 30 last night. He had been on the run for almost a week. There was a sevenhour standoff after deputies se