Stretch the department spending. When it comes to Law Enforcement, your arrival at the department at a critical time of needed leadership is welcome. Since our hearing early this spring, with the departments lawenforcement chiefs, we have seen the departures of the atf director and the dea administrator. I hope you will Pay Attention to these Law Enforcement agencies. To ensure that they faithfully execute their duties during this time of change. As an example, the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms and explosives has a rule pending that would impose burdens burdensome and unnecessary regulations regarding firearms lost or stolen in transit. However, the atfs own statistics indicate this number is insignificant and should not be a cause for concern. It certainly does not warrant such encumbering regulations. Oversight and accountability should remain a top priority for this committee. I have consistently expressed my displeasure to your predecessor regarding the departments resis
Terrorists. The British Elections were held on thursday. Prime minister David Camerons conservative party won a majority, eliminating the need for a coalition government. The Prime Minister spoke to the media on friday following a meeting with the queen. Prime minister cameron i have just been to see her majesty the queen and i will now form a majority conservative government. Ive been proud to lead the First Coalition government in 70 years and i want to thank those who work so hard to make it a success and in particular on this day, nick clegg. Elections can be bruising clashes of ideas and arguments and a lot of people who believe profoundly in Public Service have seen that service cut short. Ed miliband rang me this morning to wish me luck with the new government. It was a typically generous gesture from someone who is clearly in Public Service for all the right reasons. The government i led did important work. It laid the foundations for a Better Future. And now we must build on t
They loved each other. Their nanny was still in prison. When jimmy carter was elected president , she went back to prison for a period of time. They had to have the president be her parole officer in order to bring her to the white house. She came to the white house. She was cleared of the charges. I interviewed Rosalynn Carter for the book. She says it was a racially motivated mary says she didnt meet her lawyer until the hearing. There were strange things surrounding her conviction. She was at the white house. They love her. The staff at the white house were suspicious because she was brought in by the family. But i loved her story because you just couldnt make it up. The president was her parole officer, which is hard to believe. Brian where is she now . Kate she lives in georgia and she babysits for hugo, so she is still a huge part of the carter family. I set up the interview with mary through the carters assistance. They consider her one of her own. Brian how often over the years
This class is about one hour. Professor thompson remember, we set the last couple of days focusing on how they were using the bible to make arguments on slavery. We talked about these texts already. Im pointing you to them again to highlight why they matter, but also become on last one as a way of talking about what will happen within the africanamerican experience, particularly as they read scripture for themselves. The genesis nine account is what it is generally referred to it is actually the curse placed on cain. We talked about the completed stories and the curse of ham. We did not talk about because the reader does not pull it together something known as the great dispersion, the power of babel text. It is often used to talk about why you have different races of people. Im adding that in. The generous 11 account and the tower of battle is a way that you can understand difference the different races that exist. Ephesians text, which is a whole household code, both for husband and
He was such a skinny guy they kept giving him ice cream to eat. Its incredible he remembered what the eisenhowers were like. The dying breed of person. I wanted to take should be to these people. Tonight on cspans q a. Each week, American History tvs american artifacts takes you to museums. Opened in 1829 philadelphias eastern state penitentiary operated as a prison until 1971. We visited to learn about the history that coined the term penitentiary and tried to reform criminals. Host my name is nick, a tour guide at eastern state penitentiary. Today, we will spend the next hour looking to this beautiful building. This is today an estate of stabilized ruins. This is after 142 years used as a prison, which when it first opened in 1829 was considered experimental. It was a brandnew type a prison. It was so unlike anything else tried at the time. They did not want to call it a prison. They invented a new word penitentiary. The root is penitent. This is the first attempt at the humane treat