Partner manager at politics and prose. I just want to thank all of you for coming tonight. Love to see such a full house. I could not be more excited to introduce three powerhouse women that will speak tonight. We will have them come up in just a few minutes but first i want to show a short video. It was produced by two of our speakers tonight and it is narrated at the incomparable alexandria ocasiocortez. His very schematic to what we will be talking about tonight and its a really great introduction to our event. Well play that and then well come back together. I took the poetry and from new york to d. C. Always brings me back to when i first started. In 2019 i was a freshman in the most Diverse Congress in history up to that point. As a critical time. Ill never forget the children in our community. It would i was so inspired to meet this new class of politicians navigating the halls of power. Its often said you cant be what you cant see and for the first time they saw themselves. I t
Pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of he house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. An interesting column in the morning post about the congressional response to the Opioid Crisis. Both the administration and congress have been good at hyping the crisis when it comes time to actually crisis. When it comes to actually taking action, nothing happens. This is appalling since most of the Opioid Crisis is the
When children look at this spacecraft, they often say that doesnt look like a space shift because we seem to think theyre streamlined and maybe they look like rockets more than anything else. But this has an interesting design and in many ways its fairly primitive. Given the job that it has to just do, it doesnt need to be freem lined on the outside because it was not going operate in the atmosphere. It would operation in the fa qume of space. I would not be subject to a strong cravetational field on the moon. Flimsy ctually fairly in some areas. Really crew modular was fairly starting. It had two windows. The alarm is strong. Head command of the craft. During the final decent to landing. They were fully suit in their space suit and they pretty much filled that interior volume in that possession with those space suits on. It was not really designed for comfort. It was designed with the purpose of landing, giving the crew so they could spend a cup of hours. And then launching again alon
Mexico, guatemala, el salvador, and honduras. She argues this supported cheap labor services, primarily benefited in, and indirectly caused a rise in ilLegal Immigration. This 40minute talk is part of a twoday symposium brought to you posted by the u. S. Capitol Historical Society on the history of immigration. Prof. Finkelman again, for those of you who are just joining us, my name is paul finkelman. I am the director of this symposium for the u. S. Capitol Historical Society. Im also the visiting professor of human rights law at the university of saskatchewan at the moment. It is a great pleasure to be here and to work with the capital Historical Society to put together this symposium in what is a very historic room. Yhere have been innumerable important hearings. The investigation of the sinking of the titanic took place in this room. Probably for most of us, this is the room where the watergate hearings took place as well. There is a sign in the back of the room which lists all of
Captioning sponsored by Annenberg Cpb narrator the region of east asia is one of ancient cultures and modern economic growth. In japan, people are much affected by natural events, especially in rural areas. Here, weather patterns such as the cold wind called yamase can have drastic impact on agriculture. In northern japan, economics and agriculture intersect as the Rural Economy has been consumed by the challenge of an ageold goal to make the country self sufficient in Rice Production. Early october in japans northeast or tohoku region is the harvest season. As a staple food, rice is as important to the japanese diet as wheat is to the western diet. For a variety of reasons historical, religious, economic, social and cultural rice in japan has meaning much deeper than simply being a crop grown on the majority of agricultural land. The tohoku region is practically synonymous with rice farming. More than a quarter of japans domestic rice output comes from this region. The village of roku