Lawmakers walk through their starting legislative session. We will bring you live coverage here on cspan. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. You have blessed us with all good gifts and with thankful hearts we express our gratitude. You have created us with opportunities to serve other people in their need, to share together in respect and affection
Commander in chief on january 20th, 2017. Michael beschloss, author and historian, as we prepare for the 58th president ial inauguration. We were looking back at some old films and pictures, one thing thats remarkable is the consistency of the ceremonies every four years. Thats sort of the idea. The ceremony well see this week may not look exactly like George Washington taking his oath on that balcony in 1789 in new york city but the amazing thing that in a country that changed as much as ours has this is one of the very few ceremonies that is relatively consistent and one of the few times in which the nation really tries to come together under a president who is trying to unify it. What does it represent, in your mind, this peaceful transfer of power, the last time we saw it was eight years ago as george w. Bush left the white house and barack obama became our 44th president. Its one of the things that thank god we do well and probably take too much for granted. If you look at the num
Commander in chief on january 20th, 2017. Michael beschloss, author and historian, as we prepare for the 58th president ial inauguration. We were looking back at some old films and pictures, one thing thats remarkable is the consistency of the ceremonies every four years. Thats sort of the idea. The ceremony well see this week may not look exactly like George Washington taking his oath on that balcony in 1789 in new york city but the amazing thing that in a country that changed as much as ours has this is one of the very few ceremonies that is relatively consistent and one of the few times in which the nation really tries to come together under a president who is trying to unify it. What does it represent, in your mind, this peaceful transfer of power, the last time we saw it was eight years ago as george w. Bush left the white house and barack obama became our 44th president. Its one of the things that thank god we do well and probably take too much for granted. If you look at the num
H hysteria in the bay. This is a toxic organism in the water that produced some kind of neuro toxin, caused millions of fish to die, and a lot of reported illness in fishermen and water, never really figured out, but one of the stimulating factors that was described was the amount of inputs of nutrient of poultry waste that went into the water. That was kind of the first thing. But the main thing that got me into this was going to a lecture and listening to the speaker talk about foodborn infections and how these are big problems. And it was particularly a problem because many of them were drug resistant. I knew nothing about the subject. So infections, e. Coli, listeria. Right. Exactly. We have Something Like 70 million cases a year in the United States. And it is the leading cause of morbid mortality. We have all been taught, dont leave Chicken Salad on the table because bacteria can grow. But i was puzzled as to why they wouldnt be drug resistant. I asked. She said, oh, that because
People of west tennessee as the United States attorney, as the chief Law Enforcement officer for the district. Tell our viewers what is, what was operation tennessee waltz an your role in it. It was in the early 2000s in the mid 2000s in the tennessee legislature. It was a level of corruption. Among state legislators and so, the u. S. Attorneys office and the fbi before i became United States attorney, developed an undercover operation, tennessee waltz, where a Fictional Company was created. They would quote unquote lobby the tennessee legislature. Of course, they were bribing those members who had been b engaged in other activity that they should not have been eng e engaged in. So, i prosecuted those cases after they were indicted. And it resulted in the conviction of 12 members of the legislature, some that were outside of the tennessee legislature, but the main thing is it sent a signal to elected officials, Public Servants across the state of tennessee, that just cant engage in tha