On may 19, a professor of law and taxation at the university of virginia law school, and a former chief of staff on the joint committee of taxation speaketh out his research and the history of the joint committee. Host the professor of Political Science at wingate university, who will discuss her research for her book manuscript about the politics of National Identification documents in the United States in the 20th century. Mission of the center is promoting research in the records of the senate and house of representatives, and advancing the study of the history of congress. This researcher talk series helps us gauge healthfully how fully that mission is being met. We do so by regularly hosting scholars who have written significant books in the history of congress. In todays much anticipated talk, we hear about one of those very significant books in the history of congress. Our guest, charles stewart, gave a marvelous talk on a book he senateored, electing the and direct democracy be
Cspan. Org supremecourt. Washington journal has focused on key battleground states this Election Year with political reporters and analysts on the ground. We examine what has changed since 2016, what Public Policy issues are motivating voters and took a look at what recent trends that can give us clues on how the state might vote in just a few days. Today we look at arizona. Joining us is chris weber, an associate professor at the university of arizona. Good morning. Guest thanks for having me. Host tell us how arizona became a battleground state, a swing state in this cycle. Guest first, demographic changes. The state is rapidly changing and was moving in a peripheral direction for the last couple of election cycles. See doesnt explain what we in terms of this particular election, where it seems to be a good amount of republican defection from ranks and republicans indicating they are voting democrat, independents are leaning toward biden and mark kelly, the senate candidate. We have
Death of a poet singer who was banned for supporting the antigovernment protests and the human cost of a conflict hospitals in the disputed region of her going to cut about the field victims of the war between armenia and azerbaijan. To the World Health Organizations announced a record one day global jump in corona virus infections nearly 339000 people diagnosed with covert 19 over the past 24 hours heres the Johns Hopkins university tracker the red number on the left up above 36000000 infections the white number to the right is the 1000000 or over 1000000 people who are known to have died but there are also a lot more than 25025000000 who have a cough it. But were going to take you through europe with the pandemic is getting worse as winter approaches france 1st of all recording more than 18000 new cases for the 2nd day running pressure growing on hospitals especially in and around paris germany that had been praised for so long for its response but it seemed 4000 new cases in the pas
Later, former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer talks about the Trump Presidency and his new book leading america. Host u. S. Seventh Circuit Court of appeals judge Amy Coney Barrett yesterday completed her two days of testimony before the Senate Judiciary committee in consideration of her nomination to serve on the u. S. Supreme court. Is thursday, it october 15, 2020. This is washington journal. Outside Witnesses Today with a full Committee Vote a week from today. The full Senate Voting the week of october 26. We will spend this first hour asking you a simple question, should Amy Coney Barrett be confirmed to the Supreme Court . If you support judge barrett the 202 7488000, if you , ifse, it is 202 7488001 you are undecided 202 74880 2 2. Wj. Twitter cspan facebook. Com cspan. We will play some of the highlighted questions from some members of the Judiciary Committee in this first hour. The reporting this morning in the wall street journal on the hearing and what is ahead in th
Representatives and a member of the advisory meeting on the records of congress, to which the legislative records reports twice annually. He is a longtime friend and supporter, as well as a source of guidance to the center through his service on the advisory committee. Matts here today to discuss hispanic americans in congress, 18222012, which was published last year. This is the third in a series that has come out of the house office of the historian under leadership, the previously published volumes being women in congress 19172006, and black americans in congress, 18702007, published in 2008. The total page count for these three volumes is 2573, and still counting. I believe there is a fourth volume in the works. [laughter] so, this series obviously represents a very substantial effort for which were all grateful and eager to hear about this latest publication and thank you so much for joining us, matt. Matt thanks for inviting me. Its a pleasure to be here. Pleasure to see so many