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Mr. Carper mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from delaware. Mr. Carper mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Carper thank you mr. President. Well mr. President Congress Says here we do a lot of oversight, oversight thats focused on what is going right and also what is going wrong in our government. Theres a lot of each actually. That oversight is critically important work. Sometimes overlooked but cr...

Because they are earned in the view of these people, rightly or wrongly. To a significant degree, wrongly. And significantly antielitist, that theres a wisdom in the collective that the elites often are combating. He wrote, and i thought this was quite a remarkable statement, the tea party is jacksonian american aroused, angry, and above all fearful backed by the new american demography that threatens its interests and scorns its values. They view obama as a sort of, having a conscious strategy ...

Americans dont like that fight. Regardless of whether they agree or not. You got that. You got a government thats earned distrust of the American People, and thats what the pop pewist uprising is about. People are fearful of the government. The most damaging thing taken place in the last year is not the fight over the budget, but the nsa controversy, the irs controversy, all that, which is not only been dismissed by the government, but defended by the president saying that, well, thats just them...

Traditions, how do you resolve the differences in what role does the difference between the traditions play in assessing the original meaning of the constitution . Well, like Justice Clarence thomas i take the view that the declaration of independence has relevance to the interpretation of the constitution. I know thats a controversial issue that many of my colleagues would exclude the declaration of this not having anything to do with the interpreting any of the bill of rights or whatever. And ...

An idea whose time has come looks at the political battles involved in passing the Civil Rights Act, 50 years ago this summer and regarded as one of the most significant legislative achievements of the moment. Todd burnham spent years at the white house as Diplomatic Correspondent Dan Los Angeles bureau chief, now National Editor of vanity fair. And david ship hells waking from the dream tracks the history of the Movement Since the death of dr. King. David chappell is professor of modern America...

Can you tell us they realistically are like and how long a site is active or on a. Slide 12 also has as well. While you are looking for that, my mother grew up there and is from scranton. Back then they used a turnaround and pile up the refuse from coal. So if you look at our drill patterns, my mother refers to it as this dumb. Theres no question that it was disruptive or there is no question that there were a lot of trucks. And theres also no question that one of the largest environmental probl...

Looks at the political battles involved in passing the Civil Rights Act, 50 years ago this summer and regarded as one of the most significant legislative achievements of the moment. Todd burnham spent years at the white house as Diplomatic Correspondent Dan Los Angeles bureau chief, now National Editor of vanity fair. And david ship hells waking from the dream tracks the history of the Movement Since the death of dr. King. David chappell is professor of modern American History, taught in arkansa...

Now from the Annapolis Book festival, a discussion about the Civil Rights Movement with dave chapelle, and Juan Williams. Thank you all for coming to our panel and the Civil Rights Movement. Im the chair of the Humanities Department here in at the school. I would like to ask you all sign out of any cell phones are and Electronic Devices of the panel isnt disrupted. I would like to start by acknowledging yesterday was the 46th anniversary of the estimation of Martin Luther king. If we could all j...

Back to the kids. Is there a generation of 8 or 9yearolds capable of doing what those kids did then . Particularly, wrarches to the common core, force feed confidence in the generation coming up, are we losing any way of them in the history, the culture that they are going to need to question are deemphasizing citizen in the core curriculum in the United States. You could turn it around and say, if youre in my generation and benefited, i think the breakthrough in birmingham in 19633 opened up do...

Carnage at, yet another u. N. Schoolhousing refugees in gaza. The third time they have bombed the u. N. Run school. The state department was appalled by the disgraceful shelling outside the school. There can be no question of the state identity . No, absolutely, no. There was encouraging news about an american doctor infected with ebola. I cant think of a better place in the world, other than Emory University hospital, to care for this patient. The plane has picked up the second ebola patient to...