Public service by americas Cable Television companies and i brought to is in 1967, africanamericans rioted in cities across the country, including detroit, to protest the lack of opportunity and the protection of civil rights. President lyndon b. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to investigate what led to the riots. Next on American History tv, a panel of journalists convened in discussed the riots, the kerner report, and how those impacted journalism. This is about an hour and 45 minutes. Hello, everyone. Ok, my name is marlo stoudemire. Im the project director of the detroit 67 project, looking back to move forward, im here today on the hacks of our ceo and staff,ve director, our and our board of trustees to invite you to a very wonderful panel today and welcome you to the Detroit Historical museum in midtown detroit, founded in 1928, and our mission is telling detroit stories and why they matter. Lookingoit 67 project back to move forward is a multiyour Community Engagement p
After a lot of soul searching this congressional interview available on our website cspan. Org. We will interrupt it for live coverage of Calista Gingrich for ambassador to the vatican. Mrs. Calistal. Gingrich is the president s nominee to be ambassador to the vatican. Mr. George edward glass is the nominee to be the u. S. Ambassador to portugal. And carl c. Rich to be secretary of state for counselor affairs. I want to congratulate the nominees and thank you for your willingness to serve. We have congressman rooney here supporting mrs. Gingrich. Congressman rooney was the ambassador to the holy sea during president bushs term. The senior senator from oregon, ron widen and an esteemed member of this committee, senator portman from ohio. Mr. Chairman, thank you for your courtesy. As senator portman knows, we are right in the middle of debating tax reform, i know a topic of great interest to many senators here. Im trying to help out chairman hatch. I will make this a filibuster free oppo
Medicares longterm fiscal conditions. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Everyone. Rning everyone here and everyone on cspan to the American Enterprise institute. Were having a discussion today about the Medicare Trustees report, the report was issued late yesterday afternoon, and is an annual report that gives some indication of not only the current fiscal status of the Medicare Program but also the longterm outlook. My name is joe antos. And i will be introducing the panel in just a second. I did want to highlight a few things that the trustees said in their report. The perhaps their biggest concern has to do with the outlook, as they said in their summary. A major concern has to do with the growth of health care innovation, which has its positives and negatives. The positives, of course, is with modern technology and modern techniques were able to cure or address the Serious Health conditions of many more people than we could have in the past, but as the trustees say, while most health
Recess will end and we will stand in her new again. I moved to senator corcoran. Care. You for the thank you. Secretary sullivan, you know how i feel about you. I appreciate the proactive approach you took. I appreciate your coming for the service as well, the funeral. I was not here earlier. I know the hiring present the reorganization was a topic of discussion and i want to talk to about that a little bit. It is something i feel strongly about. We as a senate and a house and the defense reauthorization act, we ask the local Defense Center to take on more responsibility, specifically with regard to disinformation coming from countries meant to undermine some of our basic values and institutions. Russia and china come to mind. There is an Important Role in pushing back against extremism, is question for you is there an ability to keep some of these important entities like the Global Engagement centers specifically from being weakened by a hiring freeze or by other reorganizations that
Filled in. Sen. Inhofe this meeting will come to order. First of all we all have on our minds and in our prayers senator mccain. He is going through some recovery right now and will be back this week. That will change the way we are doing business in a little bit, but nonetheless we hope he is back very soon. And our Committee Meets this morning to consider the nomination, the renomination of to bel silva selva vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. I think we have been through this round of questions. We will forgo that. Assuming you have changed your mind from last time, is that correct . Any family you would like to introduce . Gen. Selva i will do that in my opening statement. Your record is wellknown. The first two years as joint chiefs of staff has been marked by great challenges the ofionals 30 in the events crisis in the middle east and russian aggression, actions korea, nuclear and longrange missiles. Men and women continue to serve in the battle in afghanistan, the count