Of the action is taking place. It is on wall street. The coffeehouse, the scene that. Showed first, is behind us we are looking in the direction of the hudson river. Congress, despite the significance, the First Congress has generally been treated as an convention. R the the government the constitution outlines, thats what it was, and outline, spurring fullgrown from the document. It did not. It took two years of creative and sometimes twofisted down and dirty politics to accomplish the job. That job was creating the institutions of government, henry, whoat patrick may have been referred to once or twice later on, referred to as the crazy machine of government. That is what these men are doing in federal hall. In the First Congress gathered in new york, march and april of 1789, two months . It took more than one month to get a quorum. Everyone who showed up on time, in looting James Madison, was in a blind panic that not enough people would show up to make a congress. In their letters
Later, Senate Budget Committee Chair mine ensy talks about proposed changes to the budget process. Cspan, washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you and coming up Tuesday Morning National Journal hot line editor talks about 2016 and the chance the democrats will retake the majority in the house in november. The vise president for women and Families Action Fund is on to discuss Hillary Clintons and Donald Trumps family care and child leave policy. Be sure the watch cspan journal live at 7 a. M. Eastern. Join the discussion. Tuesday, president obama speaks at the United Nations general ass assembly in new york city. This is expected to be the president s final visit to the u. N. As president. The Smithsonian Museum of africanamerican culture opens doors to the publ llic saturdayd we will be live for the outdoor dedication ceremony. Speakers include president obama, michelle obama, former president george bush and laura bush. Watch the Opening Ceremony f
This is aljazeera america, good morning. Live from new york city, im randall pinkston. The picture this morning may be a bit clearer when it comes to the crowd of republican candidates running for president. They had a lengthy debate with the clear target being the front runner donald trump. You ran up mountains of debt, as well as losses using other peoples money and you were forced to file for bankruptcy not once, not twice, four times, a record four times. Why should we trust you to manage the finances of this nation . Im very concerned about having him in charge of the nuke weapons, because i think his response, his visceral response to attack people on their appearance, short, tall, fat, ugly, my goodness. That happened in junior high. The candidates touched on several issues, including immigration, iran, planned parenthood and of course the political legacy of ronald reagan, his president ial library was the backdrop of the debate. Like the debate, there was a warmup before the m
Pack of his car here at madison avenue and east 80th street when another car hit him. Police say the car with two people inside initially drove off but cops tracked them down on the Upper West Side, on west 71st street. They say the victim was taken to the hospital with leg trauma but is expected to survive. As for the two people in the car that hit him, theyre two men in their 30s and they are now in custody and police say charges are pending. Reporting on the upper east side, andrea grymes, cbs 2 news. A commuter alert. The jersey turnpike just re opened moments ago following yesterdays fiery accident. Police say debris on the roadway led to the a crash and theres new video of the moment of impact. This is video taken yesterday afternoon. Mattresses fell on to the turnpike. And an suv swerved and hit the tanker which slammed into the guardrail and exploded. And another drive shot cellphone video and felt the intense heat. As we pulled up, i opened the sunroof and put my hands tot tak
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