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Good morning. I thank all of you for being here today good morning, today we are examining our nations history of Voter Suppression. As well as the obstacles that many minority communities continue to face to this day. And in exercising their fundamental right to vote. Tomorrow we will be holding a ceremony to honor our dear friend and colleague and our former chairman, Elijah Cummings. We will be remaining in disappearing room after him and commending everything he stood for. Todays hearing is also part of our effort to honor his legacy. Protecting the right to vote was one of the most important issues. If not the most important issue he fought for during his decades in Public Service. We are holding this hearing in february during black historymonth. It was black americans whose voices were stifled, blocked in sile ....
And never stopped speaking out because he saw the best in us. He believed in us even when we didnt believe in ourselves. And as a congressman, he didnt rest. He kept getting himself arrested. As an old man, he didnt sit out any fight. Sat in all night longen the floor of the United States capitol. I know his staff was stressed. But the testing of his faith produced perseverance. He knew that the march is not over. That the race is not yet won. That we have not yet reached that blessed destination. Where we are judged by the content of our character. He knew from his own life that progress is fragile. That we have to be vigilant against the darker currents of this countrys history. Of our own history. Where there are whirlpools of violence and hatred and despair that can always rise again. Today we witness with our own eyes, Police Officers kneeling on the necks of black ameri ....
Could die every day in december. Health experts are on edge fearing another surge in cases as we head into a holiday weekend. Right now more people are flying now more than ever during the pandemic. Lets get right to alexander. We just got news that the fda has rejected an unproven treatment for the virus. What are you learning . Reporter pamela, its called oleandrin. The fda rejected it as a dietary supplement citing significant safety concerns. The fda made no misrepresentation of using it as a treatment of covid19. Thats despite the fact that the my pillow ceo mike lindell who has his stake in the company has been touting it as a possible therapeutic saying he even went to the white house to discuss its use with President Trump over the summer. All of this as we are seeing dire new predictions about how this virus will spread across the country. The stunning total 410,000 american deaths by new years. These predictions have be ....
Knowing it would hurt goldwater in the november election . That is something that occurred to the goldwater people at the time. I have researched this for my book. Effective that afternoon, rockefeller rehearsed that speech and they had no idea that it was going to yen rate the response that it did. Might have been naive on their part but the notion that rockefeller, you know, in advance planned this to show up, if you will, the quote extremists mood is over reaching. How did richard nix on thread the needle to appeal to the more mainstream socalled chamber of Congress Republicans and the goldwater wing . Conservatives had been chastised. Chase ended is a better word. Gold condition water had lost overwhelmingly. People wanted to say the Republican Party was dead, conservatism was dead after 64. Two weeks after that ....
If you will, the quote extremists mood is over reaching. How did richard nix on thread the needle to appeal to the more mainstream socalled chamber of Congress Republicans and the goldwater wing . Conservatives had been chastised. Chase ended is a better word. Gold condition water had lost overwhelmingly. People wanted to say the Republican Party was dead, conservatism was dead after 64. Two weeks after that Lyndon Johnson won, a gallup poll found an almost dead heat among americans who identified themselves as liberal or conservative. There was always that lark element that thought of itself conservative. Nixonts skill was to thread the needle, to be just conservative enough happy to 68 was a turbulent year a fairly moderate stoliberal wing. It was a tightrope act the book available at cspan. Org. Pat tree arkan ....