All americans are aware of the third branch of government and in the last 1015 years, the third branch of government has become so powerful. Voting, health care, womens rights, pregnancy discrimination i could go on and on. These issues that 30 years ago, the executive branch would get together to put together a compromise or a bill, that is my happen anymore. The buck stops with the Supreme Court in a way that is unprecedented in our history. Given that the sprinkler is making these impactful decisions, the least the public can do is press them. Tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Tv weekend, American History is featuring montgomery, alabama. The city was the site of the , whichery bus boycott began when rosa parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus. Posted by our Charter Communications cable partners, staffs citys tour recently visited the city. All weekend here on American History tv. We are in the museum of alabama, which is a unit of the Alabama Department of archives in
You here to join us in celebrating the 250th anniversary of the appointment of John Marshall to the Supreme Court of United States. Venturening is a joint between the Supreme Court Historical Society and the John Marshall foundation. This is not the first time that those two organizations have partnered. They joined forces to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the appointment of John Marshall to the Supreme Court. The capstone of that particular evening was a rousing lecture by Justice Scalia about the importance of John Marshall to the history of the court and the history of the country. Justice scalia with a grand friend of both the Marshall Foundation and the Supreme Court Historical Society. I hope you will join me in just a moment of silence to remember Justice Scalia. Thank you. Eveningrateful this that the court, chief Justice Roberts and his colleagues i love the Supreme Court Historical Society to continue using this courtroom for its programs. It is a gift to us and we are gr
Anniversary of the appointment of John Marshall to the Supreme Court. The capstone of that particular evening was a rousing lecture by Justice Scalia about the importance of John Marshall to the history of the court and the history of the country. Justice scalia was a grand friend of both the Marshall Foundation and the Supreme Court Historical Society. I hope you will join me in just a moment of silence to remember Justice Scalia. Thank you. We are grateful this evening that the court, chief Justice Roberts and his colleagues, allow the Supreme Court Historical Society to continue using this courtroom for its programs. It is a gift to us, and we are grateful. At this juncture, normally, i would have a few remarks to introduce our distinguished host for the evening. But it seems that chief Justice Roberts is on a tight schedule this evening, we are lucky to get him here. He has asked that his introduction be as brief as possible. Since we are so grateful to chief Justice Roberts for hi
I agree with your comments about the challenges, the situation being unacceptable, saying if we arent talking about the problems, we arent addressing them. Aggressively working in the great plains area. Members of the senate a couple weeks ago who werent on the committee such as senator thune were here because of the concern that we have with regard to the conditions of the Indian Health service in the great plains areas specifically. In fiscal year 2016 i know youve only been on the job for a short period ever Time Congress appropriated 2 million specifically to help address some of these emergent issues. Despite the dire conditions in the great plains area, it took the administration several months to even figure out what to do with the 2 million in appropriated funds. I know you werent there at the time. Meanwhile, the facilities in the area have lost their medicare provider status, on the verge of losing it. Patients at the facilities are ultimately paying the price. I note funds w
People have reported weapons, fighters. Libya has a history of exporting fighters to syria through turkey. It was flush with weapons. Nato flooded libya with weapons. Uae, qatar, they flooded libya with weapons. The arms caches were liberated. They went turkey into syria. We were more encouraging of it than stopping it. Why . S a said needed to gop hes an evil man. But we called the book one of the things that mubarak, kwa dar fi i need to give him credit for that. I was talking to him about libya and talking about libya and keeping the radical jihadists down. Kind of like keeping the lid on the garbage can. Mubarak, gadhafi, assad, they were imperfect, but they kept the lid on the garbage can. They were concerned and fighting radical jihadists. We created an environment for radical jihadists to grow, embracing the Muslim Brotherhood. Its not just over there. Were completing a report and were going to be putting a book out often this as well in the near future. We not only have embrace