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To have beens said feeding your information straight to the feds. Now abc seven news 00, on your side. Kellye the shawl neighborhood in northwest d. C. Dealing with another deadly shooting, this one happening in broad daylight feet from a metro stop. That makes six people shot in that area and barely over a week. Roz plater has the developing story. Today shooter is still on the loose . Roz yes, shooter or shooters. I got an email from the police in the past minute telling me about the car they ...

A session but pressure mounts from neighboring countries angered by the non binding referendum. Catalonia remains defiant on holding sundays independence referendum despite moves against it by spain which has declared the poll illegal. Over three quarters of a million cases of cholera and more than two thousand dead in yemen as a British Aid Agency declares the countrys outbreak as the worst ever on record. And a london bus to a taking in the sights of alleged nigerian Money Laundering property ...

Held a hearing to examine congresses internal Sexual Harassment policy Committee Member Jackie Speier spoke. This is an hour and 40 minutes. For purposes of todays hearing titled preventing Sexual Harassment in the workplace. The hearing record will remain open for five legislative days so members may submit any materials they wish to be included. A quorum is present so we may proceed. At the outset i asked for unanimous consent that committee on ethics chairwoman susan brooks and ranking matter...

Committee on housing demonstration for the purposes of todays hearing titled preventing Sexual Harassment in the workplace. The hearing will remain open for five legislative days so that members may submit any material they wish to be included. Legislative days so members may submit any materials they wish to be included. A quorum is present so we may proceed. At the outset i asked for unanimous consent that committee on ethics chairwoman susan brooks and ranking matter ted sit on the dais in qu...

Proceed. At the outset i asked for unanimous consent that committee on ethics chairwoman susan brooks and ranking matter ted sit on the dais in question today. Without objection that is approved. I also asked unanimous consent that representatives Jackie Speier be sitting on a panel of witnesses. Without objection so ordered. I would like to thank all of our witnesses taking time out of their busy scheduled to be with us on this very serious issue. I commend speaker ryan for bringing this import...

Measures. One of which was the socalled straight repeal bill, which is the bill that was sent to president obama back in 2015 in which he vetoed. At the time, all of the republicans in the senate had supported that bill. This time there were numerous defections. Seven republicans ended up voting against this bill and sending it to defeat. After that, the senate voted on a democratic motion to commit the bill to the Financial Committee for further amendments. And now were really in sort of unchar...

Charles sumner and benjamin wade. And they really drove the agenda and pushed the Lincoln Administration to not only prosecute the war more vigorously but also to have a reconstruction after the war that was one that was not so lenient toward Southern States and was going to ensure that Political Rights were extended to africanamericans. Well, so the war ends in 1 1865, but how do you get from 1865 to the first africanamerican members of congress . Because its not doesnt happen right that day. D...

Happen right away. The role of the radicals becomes more assertive after the end of the war. After lincoln was assassinated, president johnson takes over and has an even more lenient view than lincoln of how the Southern States are going to be readmitted, and he is pushed constantly by the radical republicans. In a short time, roughly for five years, they pass a series of constitutional amendments and also laws that bring about the equality of africanamericans in the south and that starts with t...

Order to reach an agreement on how much to spend, why the disparity between what the president wants, what the senate has approved, and what the senate has oked o. This may 22, well be talking politics, t. S. A. Security, and u. S. Vietnam relations. The president in vietnam today for the start of a weeklong asia trip, but we want to begin with a discussion on the state of black america, based on a report issue this had past week that shows team economic disparity between whites and blacks in ou...

It will be. 1 rally is where we are. A lot of this is about the u. K. If you look at the polls over the weekend, we saw the shift against leaving the European Union. The state crowd over there is winning the day. We have heard this over and over. Dont rely too heavily on the pole over there because in the past they havent been the most accurate in scotland and other things. More than a trillion dollars investment and trade, there is the potential for some big time market fallout from the exit co...