The programs youre watching. Tonight on cspans American History tour going west. First to st. Louis to visit the museum of westward expansion. Then a look at the expedition led by William Clark and mary lewis. And well speak with an author who wrote a book about the lewis and Clark Expedition. After that, first Transcontinental Railroad. After that journeys along the mormon trail, the pony express from the National Historic trails Interpretive Center in casper wyoming. Next a tour of the museum of westward expansion. Our tour guide is a historian with the National Park service. Were in the museum of westward expansion which is the main museum here at Jefferson National memorial. It tells the story of the settlement of the American West during the 19th century. Were actually underground directly below the 630foot stainless steel arch. Originally there were going to be surface buildings that would have housed museums and restaurant complexes and things like that but the National Parks se
Did you make any commitments . We are above 2 . We are one of only four countries. Estonia, greece, and britain in the european union, and america, four out of 28. We have stayed above 2 even at a time when we have one of the biggest budget deficits anywhere in the world. I think that is important. I think it is worth looking at what the declaration says pretty what is remarkable is there has always been the 2 pledge in nato, but it has never been set out as clearly as this. It is very clear what has been signed up to. It makes a differentiation. It says those meeting 2 should aim to continue. Some year after year have not been spending 2 . It says allies whose current proportion of gdp spent is below on this level will default any aim toward [indiscernible] an aim to move toward the 2 within a decade. I would argue theres a lot that has been achieved. Proper Training Missions that will go to countries like jordan and georgia and iraq. Here an important breakthrough in terms of getting
With each one of you to try to craft a longterm piece of legislation to guide our nations farmers and ranchers and give them the certitude they need. My home state is the home of over 48,000 farms, and we have over 1 billion in farm exports a year. So this is a pretty big deal to us. Im honored they gave me an opportunity to be here and work on it. We strongly prefer to keep the usda food safety and Inspection Service catfish inspection program. In addition, the setting of target prices, which are vital to many alabama farmers. I also support giving the livestock industry relief from the troublesome mandatory country of origin labeling mandates. The negotiations we face will be tough, and i am certain that not any conferee is going to go home with everything they want. But its important that we be responsible stewards of the taxpayers dollars by maintaining the programs that are working and reforming those that dont. I believe we can work through these differences in a timely and bipar
So i got the impression theyre going to the world series was the single most exciting thing that any human being could do. Ive always ate to go to the world serve. Of all the things i wanted to do, going to the world series was the most important thing to me. I never got to go. I had all these other wonderful experiences. I was sent to the olympics in 2000, and they went to the soccer world cup in korea and japan and lots of other important global sporting events. I was delighted to go to. But the one thing that bothered me was the world series. It so happens that almost exactly 10 years ago, 2003 season was coming to an end, a very good friend of mine, a guy named Keith Blackmore was a Sports Editor called me up at home. I was living in england. He said, have you been following whats going on in baseball . I said, have i ever . Because what was happening as the 2003 season was coming to close was that the two teams that have the most momentum going into the playoffs period with the ch