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Held up the arms of moses so that joshua could defeat the amalachites, the greatest enemy of the jewish people. Today rabbi leonard motomky will give the memorial prayer. Rabbi William Gershon from dallas, president of the Rabbinical Association of the conservative movement will give the prayer for israel. And rabbi fred reiner, chair of the atid Legal Society of the central conference of american rabbis will give the prayer for the United States, and they will help us hold up our hands as a uni...

Substituting tonight, kate snow. Good evening. We begin tonight in iraq where there was a major show of force today in baghdad and elsewhere. Tens of thousands of veers taking up arms making it clear they will try to stop the sunni extremists who have captured a number of key iraqi cities from advancing even further. In just the last 24 hours those isis fighters have made new gains taking control of two more towns, one of them a key crossing point on the border with syria. We have it all covered...

Government buildings at york, canada. Perhaps only one government building and perhaps not the American Army after all. This provided the burning of the public buildings provided opponents of the location with an opportunity to argue for removal without having to did he mean the city. During the month prior to convening of congress in late september 1814, residents expressed fears that the opponents of the city might prevail. Washington socialite eliz a, granddaughter of washington, went so far ...

Baltimore, charleston, South Carolina, and a dozen other places are going to vote federal funds to build wharfs and other facilities in alexandria. So that money is not available. Alexandria begins to decline. As a transatlantic commercial center. Fortunately its going to become a railroad center, et cetera. Those petitions to retrocede the town or actually all of the district on the virginia side of the river, those pegs started very early. They were never effective until George Washington park...

Our full yushry committee and the house of representatives in terms of these ten hearings that weve had this year and last year . I mean, what can we take . And i want to commend the chairman and Ranking Member sensenbrenner and scott for having put this together as they have. But where do we go from here . I think the immediate thing is reform of the mens rea problem. The immediate bandaid that is necessary is a defall rule of mens rea where with none appear in criminal statutes and are a rule ...

Class jill had known and compared stories and the information about the picture, the picture had gone to boy a, who sent to boy b who sent it to boy c who posted it on the internet. Their reason for coming was possession of child pornography. Im telling this story primarily to get the idea axraus to other parents and kids that they really need to look past just a reputation, but need to look at their character. If any of those boys had just pressed delete, we wouldnt be having this conversation....

Finance, and pam is going to talk about Benjamin Henry latrobes work at the capitol. And, of course, latrobe is also the architect of Decatur House and st. Johns across the square, and so hopefully youll learn a great deal about this architectural genius this afternoon and enjoy the house tonight at the reception. Thank you. Come on, pam. [ applause ] thank you very much, bill. Your friendship over the years has meant a great deal to me as well. I want to add my thanks to the many, many thanks t...

About an hour. Thank you. Our next speaker will be pamela scott, and pam is an old friend. I have known her for many, many years, and she is, i think, the authority on the history of public buildings in washington, d. C. She has been an architectural historian here in washington specializing in the architectural landscape and planning histories of the city and i have learned a tremendous amount from her over the years. Some of her books include the temple of liberty, buildings of the district of...

Scott, and pam is an old friend. I have known her for many, many years, and she is, i think, the authority on the history of public buildings in washington, d. C. She has been an architectural historian here in washington specializing in the architectural landscape and planning histories of the city and i have learned a tremendous amount from her over the years. Some of her books include the temple of liberty, buildings of the district of columbia, designing the nations capit capitol, and the fo...

Summer recess. Members returned to the house of commons on september 1. We took a look back at the major events in British Parliament the spring, including the lead up to the Scottish Independence referendum. Hanges to the house of lords the malaysian airliner that was shot down in ukraine. Alicia mccarthy hosts the program. Hello and welcome to westminster in review, a look back at all the big events in Parliament Since easter. Coming up, the government gets a stamp of disapproval as tens of th...