Modi in a joint meeting of congress on june 8th. Well have live coverage of his speech on cspan. Employing people with disabilities and disorders was the subject of a hearing on capitol hill yesterday. Members of the Small Business Committee Heard testimony on the role the businesses play in creating Job Opportunities for the disabled. This is just over an hour. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] Committee Comes to order. I want to thank everyone for being here today. Before i give my Opening Statement id like to welcome here the cochairs of the conference. Chris smith from new jersey is here, and mike doyle from pennsylvania is the democratic counterpart and we thank you for your work. And when this Committee Meets its to discuss the challenges facing Small Businesses. Today, however, we get to talk about some of the truly inspiring opportunities they have been offering. Small businesses are not just the backbone of the American Economy but t
Employees that looked pornography on their work computer and a third accessed child pornography at work. The Inspector General found another employee made unwelcomed advances between female. Utah congressman is chair of the House Oversight committee. Weve come to order, without objection the chair has authorized a recess at any time. Todays hearing is entitled kmming employee misconduct at the epa. Its a topic weve addressed a few times but it doesnt seem to be getting better. We will continue to highlight this as long as it takes because in my opinion the epa is one of the most toxic places in the federal government to work and if you dont get rid of the toxicity of the employees there at the epa, were doing a great disservice to this country. Most of them are good hardworking, they care, work hard, but you have some bad apples at the epa and theyre not being dealt with and not being addressed. Well look forward to talking about this. The Inspector General has done some good quality w
I do have a couple of suggestions that you may find useful as you go out there and conquer the world. Point number 1 when you hear someone longing for the good old days, take it with a grain of salt. Take it with a grain of salt. We live in a great nation and we are rightly proud of our history. We are beneficiaries of the labor and the grit and the courage of generations who came before you. I guess its part of human nature, especially in times of change and uncertainty to want to look backwards and long for some imaginary path where everything worked and the economy hummed and all politics was wise and every child was well mannered and america did whatever it wanted around the world. Guess what . It aint so. The good old days were not all that good. Yes, there have been some stretches in our history where the economy grew much faster or when government ran more smoothly. There were moments when immediately after world war ii, for example, or the end of the cold war, when the world be
History bookshelf with the bestknown American History writers. The presidency, looking at the policies and legacies of our nations commanders in chief. Lectures in history with top college professors. And our new series reelameri filmsaturing educational from the 1930s through the 1970s. Tv and3 created by cable funded by your local cable or satellite provider. Watch us in hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. On september 24, 9064, chief justice earl war and handed a report of the president s commission on the assassination of president kennedy to president Lyndon Johnson in the oval office. The seven commissioners pictured here with president johnson and general counsel rankin concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing president kennedy. The Warren Commission work for nine months in this billing, the Washington Office of the vfw. A short walk from the Supreme Court and the u. S. Capitol. A fourth a camera and Floor Conference Room to talk to investigative jo
We set up a camera in a fourth Floor Conference Room to talk to investigative journalist philip examines, whose book the Warren Commissions work, using key phone calls, documents, and artifacts. He explains some of the lingering controversies regarding the warren report. We take a brief to her of the reef tour we take a brief tour of the or in commissions of the Warren Commissions office. It was in this room here on this floor that the Warren Commission saw for the very first time the entirety of the committee the investigations of hearing would take place down here at the time. We harvey oswalds brother was here. Much oftographs the work was done on the fourth floor. Are now on the fourth floor of the u. S. Capital historical society, where this would have been the working floor for the Warren Commission. I will show you the office of chief Justice Earl Warren. This is his desk and his chair. Are you pretty sure this is his chair . , absolutely. We have a lot of information on it. He