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The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Markey thank you madam president. Madam president , when the new Congress Opens theres a choice as to which issues we should start to work on. Would it be infrastructure jobs, clean energy jobs, minimum wage increase for all of america . No. No, that is not what the new majority decides to bring up. No. Instead, it is a canadian oil export pipeline. So next week, i am going to offer an amendment that the senate will consider that asks whether we will ...

Not bad for a beginner. Was worseing business than learning to play golf. Get a comfortable stance, line your sight. Aim at 6 00. Squeeze the trigger, dont pull it. Practice, they said, and youll be as expert as the coast guard instructor. That guy could put ten shots of agh a hole the size quarter. Well, if he could do it, maybe i could learn. Learning a lot of other things. A month before after my appointment to the United States secret service, i reported to the Treasury Building in washingto...

Values, the kurds themselves, are the largest minority population in the world. Without a country themselves. Therefore, the same question would be posed for them. Not sure it would be long. The message the Committee Received from the government is that they desperately need equipment, what is the government response for that . Can i throw it back at you and ask what specifically they requested . Machine guns, we saw that. They wanted armored vehicles, things like that to assist them. Request to...

Washington journal continues. Host we are back with congressman walter jones, republican of North Carolina from the Armed Services committee. What is your assessment of the isis strategy so far . Is it working . Guest let me say that one of the worst mistakes i made since i have been in congress was too vote to pass the aumf, authorization of military force, to give president bush the authority to go into iraq. Host in 2002 . Isst yes, maam, the reason we have a constitutional responsibility and...

Watch us in hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. Each week, reel america brings archival films that tell the story of the 20th century. This is a 1953 Treasury Department film which shows a new recruit learning to protect the president , added to the duties of the secret service after the assassination of William Mckinley in 1901. The secret Service Director retired after a security breach. In one, a man made it into the east room of the white house before being stopped. [gunshot] ...

All immigrants, but really focusing on the irish, the biggest and most identifiable group. They are also in the crowded cities and so forth, so they stand out and generate an enormous opposition. Lets we get into that, back up a little bit. Because we are net not just talking about the irish today, because the nativist response to the irish generates actually existed before the irish got here. You can find early versions of it in the 18th century, and you also find a goes of it since that time. ...

Regulator doesnt guarantee success when you transition to high technology. I want to follow up a little bit, if its okay . Go ahead. You go and i have a question for marla after that. All right. Sometimes its easy to blame congress on funding issues. But i also think when we started the process of next didnt gen there was a lot we didnt know. Theres been a sense we are ready to do nextgen. Its a matter of funding. As we have gone through the panels at an industry level, we recognize, boy, we nee...

The United States has the best air Transportation System in the world. Its kind of interesting, one thing that you emphasized, in all the work we do, and we all sit on a mutual Advisory Boards and technical committees and working groups and everything else, i think especially when you look at a board like i think folks kind of come in from a much more kind of performance based and outcome based objective as opposed to a lot of other groups where its something that is something that prompts them ...

Dancing. Here he is with burroughs, the naturalist. Skating with his grandchildren. To plant a garden together they plant a garden together. His first car. That is his wife. He began with an idea that most people thought would not work, but he made it work. The tools he used were common sense, ingenuity, and perseverance. Along with the natural instinct for knowing how to put machines together and make them run. He was born into a world of limited horizons. The farm that might have been his heri...

For knowing how to put machines together and make them run. He was born into a world of limited horizons. And though he left the farm that might have been his heritage, he never lost his love for the land and the everlasting cycle of seed time and harvest. What he accomplished helped men put the burden of work on machines and broke the barriers of space and time. Of isolation and distance. His life was a paradox. While his mechanical genius helped to change forever the lives of people ever where...