On washington journal. Republican of arkansas in the member of Natural Resources committee in the house. Also a supporter of was being called the trees act. An effort that was made more public by President Trump supported at the dominos World Economic forum. What does this act propose. This is an act, to put the tree across the globe. By 2050. Trees. Trillion it is a whole lot more though, our biggest full that we have, as far as mitigating climate issues, and will meet utilize those for us and keep from sustainable and working in active, really have the best tool that is out there that is widespread, natural and is very economical to have this carbon atmosphere from the forest. You come to us as a forrester yourself. The only graduate of yale, with the master of four street there. This mustve been sort of like music to your ears when you heard the president getting behind this effort. It. It is something that is near and dear to me. If you look at the planet, theres about treat 3 tril
Also stealing this line from another friend of the museum, doctor, dr. Nyberg. Potentially, there is only one thing you can learn from the world war. That thing would be dont forget to get your flu shot. [laughter] so, ladies and gentlemen, do remember that, also, we did get the wonderful thing called daylight savings time because of world war i in the United States and other countries around the world. Also, a nice little psa. Do not forget saturday into sunday, we will fall back and you get one extra hour of sleep. Maybe it means you get to enjoy even hardier this evenings dinner. Now, i am so pleased to introduce our next speaker. Dr. Nancy bristow is a distinguished professor of history at the university of puget sound where she specializes in 20th century American History with an emphasis on race, gender, and social change, and serves on the Leadership Team of the race and pedagogy institute. She is the author of 1996 is social engineering and the great war and 2012s american pand
They publish lots of different local books. He had the distinct privilege to publish Abraham Lincolns bestselling book. A lot of people do not know that he wrote one. When lincoln ran for the senate and lost to Stephen Douglas, they had their famous debate. There were a couple of people from newspapers transcribing the debates, writing down shorthand and then a couple of days later, they would print it in newspapers. That way, people who did not attend could read about what happened. For most people, the story stopped there. This is breaking news. Lets move on. Lincoln, after he lost the senate race, he worked hard to gather those newspaper transcript. He worked hard. There are at least nine surviving letters of him gathering these newspaper transcripts. He cut them out and pasted them in a scrapbook. You can still see it today at the library of congress. He is making these tiny little edits in pencil. If one paragraph is not accurate, he is cutting it out and putting a different parag
He met to learn abandon trends across the globe and hear about possible solutions. Please come in and take your seats. We are ready to begin our hearing. Good afternoon, everyone. And thank you for attending todays hearing on global efforts to counter antisemitism. I would like to this our distinguished witnesses for joining us to offer their expertise and recommendations and i would also like to thank senator manchin and his office for securing this room for us today. The International Commission on religious freedom is an independent bipartisan u. S. Government advisory body created by the 1998 religious freedom act. Or irfa. The commission monitors the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad, using International Standards to do so. And we then make recommendations, policy recommendations to congress, to the president of the United States, and to the secretary of state. Today as were gathered here for this hearing, ucerf is exercising its Statutory Authority under the
Watch American History tv and be sure to watch museum week all next week at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan3. We continue our look at Election Integrity and security. In this portion, panelists discussed various ways to regulate and protect users online data for being targeted for political advertisements. Georgetowns Law Institute hosted this forum. Okay. So were reconvening for our fourth and final panel of the day. New challenges in election oversight and regulation. For those who didnt see me at the top of the day, i run our institute for Technology Law and policy here at the law school and were really thrilled to be hosting you all today. The conversation so far have surfaced many key areas of challenges. Somebody was saying that theyre feeling a little depressed and we need to try to get the energy up on the final panel of the day. Issues from fragmentation of political discourse and new pathways for misinformation, to voter suppression, to the technical challe