It was designed to display the bill of rights, and it opened in 1936. Only the bill of rights occupied the case. We had to wait until 1952 to bring all three founding documents together. The story of how the declaration and constitution came to the archives is the one we never tire of hearing. Now i would like to introduce jessie krantz, historian of the National Archives. She became the first historian in 2013. She was previously with [indiscernible] with the center for legislative archives and has been with the agency since 1999. Please welcome jessie krantz. [applause] jessie thank you, david. I am very happy that steve could be with us today during American Archives month to talk about his new book american treasures. It shows not only the important record created by other federal agencies but also the record that we as a National Archive has created ourselves. In writing his book, he discusses several different sets of records, but the nearest and dearest to my heart is that recor
On twitter and facebook. We will get to these stories this morning in the morning he news sites as well. News this morning of a horrific plane crash in the black sea near sochi in russia. Russian military plane carrying performers scratches off of sochi. That is the site of the 2014 winter olympics. 92lane carrying 19 people people crashed. The the news crash report from bloomberg this morning. Open phones here on washington journal this morning. Some of these stories closer to home in the Washington Post writing about donald trump and the fate of his foundation. Plans to dissolve charity. Timeline unclear amid investigation. They write that president elect donald trump plans to shut down his charitable foundation. There is actually some reaction from democrats on that as well. The hill reporting, dems salm trump over Christmas Foundation announcement. They slammed trump for the Christmas Even announcement that he would dissolve his charitable foundation. National Committee Call his an
Rural omaha. When i was a kid, everybody in my town got buffed out in the summer to walk beings. How many people know what that is . How many people know what detas sling corn is . I will not explain, i am not a geneticist nor biologically equipped to explain how is advanced. Ation i was on twitter trying to explain what detassling corn was and how you end up with mixtures of seed corn. I referred to corn as as bisexual and i set off a debate on twitter. I will not explain in technical terms what it means to be that corn needs to be detassled, what but you want cross pollinated corn so you predesignated male and female roles. Rows. A lot of kids in the eastern part of the state have been shipped out to the fields in the work. Fields in the summer to detassle corn and it is ugly and painful work. You meet up at the local junior high or the local elementary out toand get bussed wherever you are going to go. You are taking the corn that has male and female parts and you are removing the m
Supported us too, but i think the lesson from that is we have got to ratchet that down somehow and i know that is a constitutional problem and the court also have to test that again. We have gone way too far on having political money raising as a free speech issue. I dont think it really is the way it has morphed into the way it is now. It takes the candidates out of the game in many respects and gives the ball to these outside groups. In terms of the daytoday operations and your job, as you leave, what would be your suggestion for how to change the process here on capitol hill . Rep. Ashford well, you know, it is i come from a nonpartisan state. We dont do this. It is so different. We dont have we dont really have a rules committee in the traditional sense in the congress. Bills come out of committee and move to the floor. I know that can be done in the congress. It is not done now. I think a much more free flowing processing of legislation is the best way to go. Any movement we could
We are all frightened for our children. We are disgusted by this orgy of handgun slaughter. Your neighbors in ohio, california and wisconsin, and all over america, your neighbors are just like my neighbors. They want the killing to end they wanted now to end and they are watching what we do here today. It is said by my opponents, the opponents of this bill, guns do not kill, people do. People have bad instinct in them, but without guns, those instincts often do not result in killing. With guns, those instincts all too often do. The people of america know there are no magic pills to end the violence, but they also have the good common sense to know that waiting periods work and they want the simple, common sense restraint of the brady bill. Bill what did you hear there from the 1993 clip in terms of his leadership on an issue like gun control and obviously his developing oratory style . Mr. Kane that is the Chuck Schumer, the man of the house, and back then, he was really pretty policy