Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and Historic Places and up next we travel to philadelphias Independence National historic park to learn about Congress Hall. The Meeting Place in the u. S. House and senate between 1790 and 1800. Our guide is park Ranger Michael ifill. For we are standing in the house of representatives Call Congress how and was originally most of the history that is when it was but in the years that the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that we will see in a moment if the United States senate. The house of representatives each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population in our first sense of about three and three quarters million. We had 106 members of the house would sit in this room and then eventually from 16 states. And the story of philadelphia
Philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room is for the house of representatives. The second floor was the United States senate. The house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population around 3. 75 million. We had 106 members of the house he would sit in this room, and eventually from 16 states. The story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital, we are taking the new constitution and doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capital. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially announcing that we have changed our constitution, which of course, the bill of rights is a huge part of our history and will be in the future a continuing talking point in our political life. But also
1800. Our guide as park ranger matthew. We are standing in the old house of representatives a building we Call Congress hall, although originally was billed as a county courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it was. But in the years that the city of washington d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room serves for the house of representatives, the second floor of the building we will see in a moment was United States senate, the house of representatives each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population in our first census of about three and three quarters of 1 million. We had 106 members of the house, that would sit in this room. And eventually from 16 states, and the story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital is a story that were taking a new constitution and actually operating it, doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also, the bill of rights would
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When your item of interest comes up, dial star three to be heard. Speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. You can also submit your Public Comment by email. It will be forwarded to the committee and will be included in the files. I will go ahead and call roll. [ roll call ]. Clerk at this time we have a quorum and its 9 38 a. M. Can you call the second item. Clerk opportunity for the public to comment on any matters within the committees jurisdiction that are not on the agenda. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call the number listed with the access code. If you havent done so, please dial star three to line up to speak. A system prompt will prompt you to begin speaking. Please note that you have three minutes. Give me one second as i go to see if we have any Public Comments. We have one hand raised at this. I am dr. Derek kerr, a whistleblower. Later you will hear about the report related to the d. P. W. Corruption scandal. These r