there's one law school for african-americans in the american south in the 1930s. that's howard university. right? there are no -- there's one dental school. right? there's two medical schools. one in nashville and one in washington, d.c. and all of the other graduate programs you can imagine are outside of the south. and so again, this is a very instrumental process that the naacp is engaged on in terms of this assault on segregation. other things we should keep in mind in terms of what's going on in terms of organizing and mobilizing, the naacp has a brilliant organizer by the name of ella baker. if you don't know this name, you should look her up. you should hit wikipedia, whatever way you can find this source. in the late 1930s, early 1940s, she is working for the naacp and instrumental in helping them expand the vitality of their branches. she's the director of branches and her job is to go into places that have more chapters of the naacp and figure out how to revive them. one of the things she discovers is there's lots of local leadership all across the ameri

there's one law school for african-americans in the american south in the 1930s. that's howard university. right? there are no -- there's one dental school. right? there's two medical schools. one in nashville and one in washington, d.c. and all of the other graduate programs you can imagine are outside of the south. and so again, this is a very instrumental process that the naacp is engaged on in terms of this assault on segregation. other things we should keep in mind in terms of what's going on in in teterms of organizing and mobilizing, the naacp has a brilliant organizer by the name of ella baker. if you don't know this name, you should look her up. you should hit wikipedia, whatever way you can find this source. in the late 1930s, early 1940s, she is working for the naacp and instrumental in helping them expand the vitality of their branches. she's the director of branches and her job is to go into places that have more chapters of the naacp and figure out how to revive them. one of the things she discovers is there's lots of local leadership all across the

and on the flipside, the new deal is creating new spaces for african-americans and southern americans in particular r to push for civil and economic rights. right. civil and economic rights and again, to use roger wilkins can' phrase to push for and aspire for that inclusion into the the mainstream of american life. and so the new deal is very essential in that regard, and also seeing the continued fight against lynching. this is an issue since the beginning of the 20th century as we well know. it is still an issue in the late 30s and 1940s and african-americans are still facing the threat of racial terror throughout the united states. and there is going to be some push back against this, and the pushing for, and the edadvocacyf the national legislation, and the anti-lynching legislation, and also some other areas of the pushback in the terms of a african-americans trying to assert the rights and assert the rights as citizens of the country, and for instance in the 1930s, moving into the 1940s a series of don't buy where you can't work boycotts. all right. so the segregation combined

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eastern and on american history tv on c-span3. annexed, historian john taylor discusses the political alliance between harry truman and kansas city kingpin tom pendergast in the early 1930's. pendergast became a significant figure through his use of strong-arm tactics. mr. taylor is a history professor. the kansas city public library hosted this hour-long event. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

on american carnage, american -- american crisis. he used that language and used those ideas. i think that some of trump's populist appeals, primarily to voters, i think there are real echoes in the wallace 68. year the summer of that his appearance on cbs's face the nation. >> the people know the way to stop a riot is to hit somebody on the head. >> when somebody goes out and begins to loot and built -- bernie building down, that is a good way to stop it. if you let the police knock , who wasin the head assaulting a policeman or a person on the street, i think they would be getting out mighty like if somebody hit him in the head. that is what ought to be done. would take what was necessary to prevent what happened in this city. when you do that, you're going all races people of in this country because it is not a matter of race. as a consequence, we do not feel safe in the city of washington dc. host: robert married. -- mary. >> that is a very significant margin. richardthe winner, nixon down to little more than 43%, making him a minority president. he was a significant begin

protecting american workers, the american middle class, and the american dream should not be a partisan issue. and i'm deeply concerned with mr. ring's appointment to the nlrb, if confirmed to the five-member board, the majority of the agency charged with protecting workers vice voices will be stacked with voices that undermined workers rights. i think workers should be treated fairly, but not at the expebs of our -- expense of our nation's workers and the middle class. we need nlrb members who will stick up for american workers and the american class. mr. ring will not be that kind of nlrb member, and the administration and the majority are actively preventing seating someone who will stand up for workers. i will be voting against mr. ring's nomination, and i urge my colleagues to do the same. thank you, madam president. i yield the floor. a senator: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. mr.sullivan: i have 14 requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. the presiding office

the american art effort during world war i was really comprised artist.ef the american expeditionary forces were the american troops that went over to france in 1918 to participate in the war. out of something called committee of public information. this was part of the world mobilization effort. the idea was to give that emotional component to telling the story back home. of course we had photography, which was in the immediate sense of what was going on. artwork is a different perspective. it really gets more of an intimate and emotional component to the story. that is what the purpose of the was.ur program the artists where professionals triggers before the war. they created illustrations for newspapers, books, magazines and other publications. were commissioned as captains in the army corps of engineers and went over as soldiers. they really were artists who became soldiers. they had free reign to cover what much of the experience of the soldiers was. they could go to the battlefield and cover behind the lines. big try to capture the full soldiersa aef experience. the mers -- the

many americans, i was aghast. the president seems to live in an alternative reality. he says things that are patently false and he thinks just by saying them they become true. the amount of 1880- -- 1880-degree turns, name calling and blaming, you watch the presidented the president this morning and the -- you watched the president this morning and the way he acted it is so unbecoming of a president and democracy. we believe in truth. people may vp different value systems, but to just make up things as they go along and without a blink of the eye and contradict things that he said that are exactly the opposite a few hours, a few weeks ago is not who any president of any party of any i'd lollingy -- ideology should be. what the president said this morning is embarrassing to america, democracy, and to any american who prizes truth. one of the things the president said this morning was that, quote, he's decided not to be involved in the russia probe but may change his mind. that is why it is so good this morning, mad

theas really comprised by -- artists, the air american the american expeditionary forces people they went over to france to participate in the war. this was part of the warm-up lies asian effort. the idea was to give that emotional component to telling a story back home. we had photography, which was giving an immediate sense of what was going on. gives more of an intimate and emotional component to the story. that's what the purpose of the combat program was. they were professional illustrators with the war. they created illustrations for newspaper books, magazines and publications. they were captains in the army corps of engineers and went over as soldiers. they were artists who became soldiers. they had free reign to cover much of what the experience of the soldiers was. to theuld go battlefield, they were behind the lines, but there try to capture the full range of the soldier experience. perhaps the well-known test the most well down -- perhaps the most well-known -- here's perhaps the most well-known of the artists. he had little fear in covering the combat side of the war. he

kind of an american exceptionalism argument. america is different than the rest of the world and lack of radicalism was part of that difference, which this course is designed to try to refute. what i am going to do today is not try to cover all of the types of extremism in your readings this week. i am going to just pick just one of those types, and that is anarchism. i am picking anarchism for a variety of reasons. one is as a historian i am appalled by the use of the word narchist in the press whenever there is a riot, and in my old hometown of berkeley, the term was used widely. that the protesters were narchists. and, what they were doing was equating anarchism first with just vandalism. no ideology in particular, which is wrong. nd, also equating anarchists ith destructiveness. and, indeed the folks they were covering, the news coverage, were doing destructive hings. they were trashing stores and things like that. anarchists of the type i am talking about did do violent acts, at least some schools of anarchy, but those acts

american non action american action or both forms of intervention is because of the general presumption that the united states has a responsibility to be involved in every conflict everywhere in the world in the basic reality is the united states has relations with governments in every part of the world and having relations with governments in every part of the world the united states is involved in every conflict in every part of the world in either through its actions or its in actions the united states is going to be blamed for the outcome so the question is ok what is the best policy for the united states to follow is it a policy of action in action or some combination of the two and calibrating that policy has been the challenge that american foreign policy makers have faced ever since the end of the second world war and that explains the consistency in american foreign policy now if we were to look at the current administration and see a radical break with that consistency the radical break might need to disown a responsibility for all these conflicts and there was a lot of concer

to the american people. what wonderful companies these are and wonderful employees they are. i would like to go over the specific positive changes to our tax code that occurred under the tax cuts and jobs act. a middle-class family in south carolina will save thanks to the tax cuts. the child tax credit was doubled and i want to give credit, the reason it was doubled because of the great work of our u.s. senator tim scott working with ivanka trump kushner and this was to make child friendly, family friendly and looking out for persons who are single-parent households and the child tax credit was doubled from $1,000 to 2,000 making it easier for new families to provide for their children. the bill removed the mandate that required you to buy to buy or pay a penalty. .eople are not being pen liesed this standard deduction doubled to $24,000 for married couples filing jointly. this makes it simpler for couples to file their taxes because they will use the standard deduction and won't itemize. corporations that

i think, also, it is the coming together here of african-american, native american, and anglo-american people that created a rachel cauldronnd -- a racial that boiled over in the 20th century, particularly in the race riot. many people will say that is not the proper name for it, many people call it the race massacre. it was an assault by 10,000 armed whites on the wealthy, well-to-do black community of tulsa called greenwood in 1921 on the night of may 31, june 21. it is the most massive assault by white americans on black americans. those kinds of things were happening in florida, arkansas, and other places at the time, but nothing to the degree and drama, and complete destruction of a very, very wealthy, well-to-do community of successful and prosperous in aan americans living certain kind of autonomy here in oklahoma. and then it was covered over, that history disappeared. , in a lot of ways, we have disappeared our national narrative altogether. we don't really want to think about our fans and -- our founders and slavery, we don't want to think about the broadest of the genocide o

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americans love the american way of life to earn some money and lead a comfortable existence in the one nine hundred sixty s. this train is unfulfilled for most black americans but times are changing. and one hundred fifty three the civil rights movement stages boycotts and nearly a thousand department stores and restaurants. the financial impact causes business owners to re-evaluate how they operate. the king is given a friendly reception at the will of her tell even though he's not accustomed to such service. hello hello it is martin. king have someone two of his best people to washington andrew young and wyatt t. walker. and. for years king has been building a team of trusted individuals and strategists who sometimes risk their lives for the movement. young plans nonviolent protests while walker organizes them on the ground and both advise king on his speeches. all three men have learned how to use the media as a tool for mobilizing the public. king appears on television nearly every day. he's already jotted down a number of months for tomorrow's speech now he wants to fine tune it w

job is just the the rest of the american population that is interested in american history. the same time you are doing the collection, you are still a working historian who does writes books. i want to show the audience your "the virgin d vote," it came out of your work people mithsonian, looking at this, for this work, prieze won a research for 2017. on?t is this book based >> based on diaries of young men and women from the 19th century diaries, ed reading letters, correspondence and looking at objects from seeing how ents and they mix public, political lives and engagement with election and with private, personal lives and hunt for adulthood and and the way the public political world and were e personal world mixed up together. >> young people couldn't vote 21, what made of them interested in politics? >> interest and legal same ipation are not the thing, right? people who could never work, women, african in much of the country could never vote, but deeply interested. old, 14 year ears olds, politics is public ulture, central entertainment culture. no football, no movies

or mexican-american. or americans of mexican descent. and she said, i feel very uncomfortable because i would never call them mexicans. well, what do you call them? what do you call people? it is their nationality, you know? but there is this degrading, you know, degrading of mexicans, so i think this latino hispanic , you throw in cuban exiles who are anti-revolution, very conservative, ted cruz, that -- marco rubio. texasu have, let's say, counterrevolutionaries from el paso southern texas who left mexico because of the 1912 revolution. and they are very conservative. a lot of them are republican. and then you have south americans who are usually from a lotor middle classes, of peruvians here in the bay colombians, venezuelans, but is not who they are talking about when they say latino immigration. they are talking about mexicans. we have to be clear about that -- in this book, i will have a ande chapter about the war occupation of mexico. because it was a brutal war. it is always passed over, if it is included in history books at all.

his opponent was an american, worn and raised in cleveland, ohio. he was a member of the kansas statehouse, and was of south asian descent. his campaign latched on to that st fact and decided to campaign on being anti-immigrant. they had released and promoted materials that called his opponent "just another turban topper," and billboards started to pop up throughout his district contrasting the two candidates. wills like "true americans vote for pompeo." there was public outcry in both instances. pompeo refused to condemn the billboards and refused to fire the a that promoted the bigoted materials. was elected to congress, the bigotry did not stop. he even gave a speech on the house floor, calling american muslims complicit in the boston marathon bombing. this bigotry is literally award-winning. there is a group called "act for america." it is the largest anti-muslim hate program in the country. they gave him in 20 16 the eagle award. he was the recipient of the highest honor of the largest anti-muslim hate group in the country. furthermore, he cont

they were 7% of the american publish and and owned 90% of american slaves. one of the first questions that i pass on to students and this is also a transition to the contemporary movement how is that the owners were murdereds but the planter class mindset persist. i i guess i want to ask blaine the first to think about what was the planter class mindset and what was it that folks were up against when the value of black lives and issues of black resistance and black freedom and what were they up against because the planter class died so who were they and what were their mindsets? >> well, except that most of them did not die. these people who own slaves fore the civil war and around charleston are talking about the mass majority of white population. three out of four white trust tony and families own slaves. it is a pretty high number and essentially what you see in charleston after the civil war is the planter class still there sitting on the sideline as african-americans and northern whites would come down for reconstruction and as they are dominating the p

he was mexican american. he was presented to the public as the spanish catcher because becauserovidence club, to present him as an actual mexican american identity. to make him spanish, that is acceptable because he is european. those are the kinds of stories that we can learn about how race categories were being used and manipulated to place latinos. one last example, he is latino, actually not latino, but he explains the story of latinos in baseball. one of the best african-american players suffered exclusion in told860's and 1880's, "sporting life" magazine, had i not been so dark, i might have passed as a spaniard at that time. here you have an african-american who understands how baseball is being manipulated in the u.s. it is not just the dominicans who just arrived or the cubans who defected. they are all connected to a longer story. susan: what is life like for latino baseball players today? adrian: many of them are still going through that experience, because coming out of the dominican republic, com

money better than the american people themselves. my friend, the democratic leader, said so right here on the floor a few weeks ago. this is exactly what he said. there are much better uses for the money. really? on average, a family of four earning the median income will save about $2,000 on their taxes. i don't think a middle-class family will have difficulty finding good ways to use $2,000. they certain will i don't need a bureaucrat to do it for them. maybe they need a new washer and dryer or refrigerator. maybe it will help them make a down payment on a second car. maybe they'll use it to keep up with rising health costs, since obamacare has utterly failed to keep costs down for american families. whatever they choose, i'm glad the republican tax reform is letting hardworking parents keep more of their own money. but my democratic colleagues obviously disagree. they're rail laying to take back -- to take back -- that family's money so they can spend it themselves. they're so out of touch that they scoff at a $2,000 tax cut, $1,0

better jobs, better wages, and a better future for the american people, we believe the american people deserve a better deal. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair now recognizes the gentleman from maryland, mr. brown, for five minutes. mr. brown: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, there's a civil war in syria and a humanitarian crisis that the united states simply cannot and should not ignore. today, there are some 2,000 u.s. soldiers and marines on the ground in syria who spent the past several years engaged in the fight to defeat isis. that fight has been largely successful. yet, troops remain in syria to prevent a resurgence of isis. u.s. forces are engaged in hostilities against isis not in the syrian civil war. congress was informed in 2015 that our forces in syria where there pursuant to the aumf enacted in 2001 in response to the attacks on 9/11. . although u.s. ground forces aren't engaged in the war, our farce vs. engaged syrian forces and its regime. last year a u.s. navy f-18 shot plane in the ar collective self-defense of our coalition partners. the use of for

she argues that american political leaders leveraged gender norms, masculinity and femininity, to americanize florida, setting a precedent for u.s. policy in many subsequent frontier zones further west. they used white women's presence in florida to justify violence against seminole peoples and to generalize death rationalize -- and to rationalize that they labored tohite women create homes and families there, the building blocks of permanent colonial settlements. they were indispensable to the settlement of florida, a process that displaced indigenous people and enslaved people of african descent. this mini script was the winner of the 2016 society for historians of the early american s mary kelly prize. note, laurel and i were students together and we were part of an american studies writing group in which we offered to each other the kinds of intellectual community, generosity and integrity that made us seek our academic careers in the first place. she often reminds me to approach my research with joy and confidence. when that doesn't work, she provides me with homemade baked goods. as a r

for joining the american war board the heaviest cost and in the end for the americans to then blame bug and put sanctions on it i think this is the greatest travesty of justice i think. you know it is something which is inconceivable that the u.s. for its failure no one has done. but how damaging would it be though how damaging well it will be done i mean for pakistan unfortunately i cannot make situation as. strong right now. the country is actually going through an economic crisis so american sanctions would be damaging but i mean is this justice is it fair is this. country. and when it thinks it doesn't need it anymore it just the way i think it's very immoral right mr han we're going to take a short break right now when we're back we'll continue talking to member of pakistan's national assembly and leader of pakistan movement for justice discussing tensions where that can stand and how this affects to power balance in the region stay with us.

it he free african-americans? do this was one of many policies that led and peoplencipation in slavery were breaking their bonds. they were leaving slavery. they were refusing to work and andng towards union lines making slavery untenable on the ground. so in very many ways, they freed themselves or at the very least put things in motion. they put a problem in motion that the government was not going to be able to solve. they made it impossible to do anything other than move towards emancipation. >> that is a good way to end. thank you so much. thank you dr. masur. [applause] thank you all. i'm the executive director of the cottage. thank you for coming to the cottage and we hope to see you again really soon. take care. announcer: this week is the 50th anniversary of martin luther king jr.'s assassination. onn us for live coverage c-span and american history tv on c-span3. on c-span tuesday at 1:00 eastern we're live from the university of memphis holiday in with taylor branch and then on wednesday at 4:30 p.m., l

had been freed but no african-american virtually no african-american certainly in the south had not known generations of slavery so at some level we are fighting the same battles that we've been fighting before and it's not because we're failing now it's because of the prevalence of the of the both the discrimination and i think the dehumanisation of african-americans so when african-americans now are talking about economic equality of course we're talking about equality of opportunity and when we're talking about equality of opportunity that means a number of things giving us access to the educational resources the financial resources the ability to apply fairly for jobs the ability to to keep jobs without discrimination and it's actually very hard i think in this society that has really been built on the subjugation of african-american people and society is now reckoning with that problem to get short term gains in economic advancement when we're really dealing with such a hard problem having said that a number of african-american people men women have really moved into the middle

americans love the american way of life to earn some money and lead a comfortable existence in the one nine hundred sixty s. this train is unfulfilled for most black americans but times are changing. in one hundred fifty three the civil rights movement stages boycotts and nearly a thousand apartments stores and restaurants. the financial impact causes business owners to re-evaluate how they operate the king is given a friendly reception at the will of her tell even though he's not accustomed to such service. hello fellow added martin king has some and two of his best people to washington andrew young and wyatt t. walker. for years king has been building a team of trusted individuals and strategists who sometimes risk their lives for the movement. young plans nonviolent protests while walker organizes them on the ground and both advise king on his speeches. all three men have learned how to use the media as a tool for mobilizing the public. king appears on television nearly every day. he's already jotted down a number of months for tomorrow's speech now he wants to fine tune it with wal

that a majority of americans, including 50% of white americans, leave that hiring more racial minorities in the media will improve the quality of news in this country. that is part of why we are here on this special occasion. to reflect on and commemorates the kerner report. and to recommit ourselves to a free press that represents all of's and reconnects are divided democracy. lesson to thethe 21st century. we must build a media that holds up the mirror to our society. it allows all of us to see ourselves reflected in the mirror. together, we can strengthen the perspectives of our news media and the foundation for our democracy. i believe that we can build a better america by building a better media that reflects and respects the whole of america. tonight and we will hear from we will hear from some of my heroes and sheroes. journalists, artists, media luminaries who will share their insight and their wisdom on the subject of media and journalism, diversity and democracy. two kickoff tonight's discussion, please join me in welcoming richard prince to the stage. [applause] mr. prince: go

and disabled americans. now, the same week that the congressional budget office predicts this republican majority and their tax scam bill will lead to the return of trillion-dollar deficits, we will consider a balanced budget amendment that's been subject to no hearings and no markups. even for this record breaking closed republican congress to attempt to amend our constitution for only the 28th -- only 20th time in our nation's history in this manner quite frankly is stunning. so mr. speaker, i'm going to ask my colleagues vote no on the previous question. and if we defeat the previous question i will offer an amendment to the rule which uld amend the bill to exempt social security, medicare, and medicaid, vital pillars of our social safety net. i'll just say to my republican friends on the other side of the aisle, you know, who go home to their constituents and regularly talk about how great social security is and how great medicare is and how important medicaid is, if you really believe it, you're going t

for helping the american for joining the american war board the heaviest cost and in the end for the americans to then blame bug and put sanctions on it i think this is the greatest travesty of justice i think. you know it is something which is inconceivable that the u.s. is for its failure and of honest on. but how damaging would it be though how damaging well it will be damaging i mean for pakistan unfortunately i could amik situation is not strong right now. the country is actually going through an economic crisis so american sanctions would be damaging but i mean is this justice is it fair is this hollow. country. and when it thinks it doesn't need it anymore it just costs the way i think it's very immoral mr han we're going to take a short break right now when we're back paul continue talking to a member of pakistan's national assembly and leader of pakistan movement for justice discussing tensions what i'm gonna stand and how this affects to power balance in the region stay with us.

i am the executive director of the american historical association, and is the american historical association, through its national history center, that is sponsoring this event. this is an effort simply to provide historical background on important issues that are coming before the congress. it is not an effort to lobby anyone to take a position on any side of a particular issue. but we think that it is really important to know the historical context. that's what we're trying to provide today. i want to thank particularly the mellon foundation which has provided a grant that helps us with the cost of this. and that is much appreciated. and let me begin by introducing patricia graham. who is going to be our first speaker. she is the charles warren professor of history of education at harvard university. she is someone who has spent much of her life in education but also much of her professional life in public outreach and actually public positions. she has taught at indiana university, harvard, redcliffe -- radcliffe institute, columbia university. her specialty is the history of education. s

americans love the american way of life to earn some money and lead a comfortable existence in the one nine hundred sixty s. this dream as unfulfilled for most black americans but times are changing. in one hundred fifty three the civil rights movement stages boycotts and nearly a thousand apartments stalls and restaurants. the financial impact causes business owners to re-evaluate how they operate. the king is given a friendly reception at the will of her tell even though he's not accustomed to such service. hello hello andy martin king has summoned two of his best people to washington andrew young and wyatt t. walker. and. for years king has been building a team of trusted individuals and strategists who sometimes risk their lives for the movement. young plans nonviolent protests organizers them on the ground and both advise king on his speeches. all three men have learned how to use the media as a tool for mobilizing the public. king appears on television airing every day. he's already jotted down a number of months for tomorrow's speech now he wants to fine tune it with walker and

the american people want this. if we get a special second counsel and limit the amount of time they can look at this, and pick someone from the middle of the country and run this investigation, here's your time, i believe when they reach their conclusions there is a bretter chance that the american people accept their findings. but if this is the same old thing, i think that is much tougher. no one likes it. no one -- no one wants these things to happen but i see no other approach and hopefully provide the closure. i would say, mr. sessions and mr. rosenstein, do what everyone else in this country needs to happen. let's get the facts to the american people and let's get moving. mr. zeldin: thank you to you for your remarks and leadership on this issue and great pleasure to introduce general scott perry of pennsylvania known as congressman general scott perry of pennsylvania. thank you for being here tonight. mr. perry: thank you the gentleman from new york. mr. zeldin: i should say sir because i'm outranked by the

i believe in american ingenuity, american enterprise, american leadership. i believe america must lead the world in solutions to this generational challenge. but how can we expect mr. pompeo to lead the department of state in bringing greater peace, security, and prosperity to the american people through international engagement if he does not believe in u.s. leadership? he does not believe that the united states is necessary for solving global problems, especially global warming. mr. pompeo has too much to apologize for, too many statements to retract or explain, too many controversial positions to defend. and of most concern are mr. pompeo's past statements suggesting that he values military force over diplomacy even when diplomacy is a real option. while negotiations with iran over its nuclear program were underway, he argued that military strikes on iran were prefrpbable -- preferable to diplomacy and that, quote, it is under 2,000 sorties to destroy the iranian nuclear capacity. this is not an insurmountable cask for the coalition forces. just a few wee

worker, the american consumer, and the middle class. after all, that's what we were elected to do. i yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call:

into an agency that works for the american people. it puts the american people first. these bills will improve the ease and efficiency of filing taxes and retrieving information. we also establish an independent office of appeals to ensure taxpayers receive a fair and impartial review of disputes that may arise. most of all, we guarantee that customer service goals are set by the i.r.s. and ensure the i.r.s. are accountable for meeting them. that's not all, mr. speaker. in today's world, the value of privacy cannot be understated. the i.r.s. continues to face serious cyberthreats that are becoming more and more advanced. it's necessary the i.r.s. stay ahead of these threats. mr. speaker, today we're faced with an incredible opportunity to modernize the i.r.s. and put the american taxpayer first. so i urge my colleagues to support this bill, h.r. 5438, and other bills that are before the house. with that i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina yields back the balance of his time. all time having now expired on this bill, the ques

we know the african-american women had pretty much been a model. they are voting for the democratic party. the issues that the democrat party has well fit more in line. they are single heads of households and unmarried which is not something that is necessarily by choice it's by chance. that is my first question. relative to the republicans you know the party has a glorious history. up until the 1960 election. and then going forward they switch and become republicans. the literally split personality. but the gop i think is sustaining severe damage present trumps rhetoric has been not with the republican party and what they should be proud of. it has been divisive. it has gone along done let -- gender lines. they are going to pay a price for that. i think a new generation of republicans aga i c have to do some party rebuilding because that country's demographics have changed such that no president will win an election going forth with just white votes. brown and black people will be the majority. that is part of why we see all of this racial tension

/american war up to about the eve of world war ii, looking at these cartoons to look at the american foreign policies. berryman drew most of his pending drawings much larger than they appeared in the newspapers. here you can see one original drawing and as you can see it is much larger than it is shown in this washington evening star. this is a cartoon he drew in 1912 welcoming congress back into session after the 1912 elections. >> berryman is well-known for his cartoon. the story is president roosevelt went down to mississippi to sell a portrait dispute and while he was there, he was on a hunting trip. it was a several day hunting trip, the press covered it and he was unsuccessful. he was not able to find a bear and kill a bear. his aids did not want the president to be embarrassed by not having a successful hunting trip. one of them tracked down this old bear and in ccapacitated th. the president turns over and says hey, you can shoot this bear and the president says no, i will not shoot that bear. berryman took the old bear and turned it into this cute, cuddly teddy bear. it beca

concerned that americans were reading less, the american library association and the american book publishers formed a nonprofit citizens organization called the national book committee in 1954. the committee's goals range from encouraging people to read in their increasing leisure time to improving income and health and developing strock and happy family -- strong and happy family life. in 1957, the committee developed a plan for national library week based on once people were motivated to read they would support and use libraries. with the cooperation of the american library association with the help from the advertising council, the first national library week was observed in 1958 with the theme, wake up and read. national library week was observed again in 1959, and the american library association council voted to continue the annual celebration. when the national book committee disbanded in 1974, the national library association assumed full sponsorship. this marks six decades this year. the honorary chair is not only a best-selling author but also the principal dancer at the american b

media, a very important showcase for asian-american artists and storytellers. this year's theme, "culture in every sense." we'll talk about caam as well as the festival and its big attractions, including a world premiere of "bitter melon," a sort of dark comedy along the lines of "home for the holidays" set in san francisco. then, we'll hear from the creative forces behind a unique documentary film, "drawn together: comics, diversity and stereotypes," revolving around three comic creators. and our finale will be the caam fest finale, an art performance, the fascinating "aunt lily's flower book: 100 years of legalized racism," written and produced and performed by the legendary team of brenda wong aoki and mark izu. all that on our show today. well, let's go right to the top when it comes to talking about caam and its festivals. with us is a returning guest, the festival and exhibition director, masashi niwano, a bay area native who has been associated with caam for almost a decade and is also an active filmmaker. and also with us is the writer and director of a

preemptively to defend american troops there. after a lengthy cabinet meeting theresa may fail to shed much light on london's course of action on syria really stressing a need to coordinate with allies meanwhile the german chancellor gives a firm no military strikes against a massive. good stunt with an even to end its kind inciting weakness on my. home. not to need to tie looking. u.k.'s foreign secretary is no doubt russia was behind the screwball poisoning after a un watchdog confirms the substance used in the attack that despite investigations not confirming russia as the source of the nerve agent. mike nominee to be u.s. secretary of state promises to get tougher on russia saying that the country is not exceptional like the united states. will have the full story on those headlines for you dot com straight ahead those sophie co has a top adviser to turkey's president talking the crisis in syria and much more stay with us. welcome to. the syrian war and the threats of american airstrikes are adding up to the tensions in syria

a member of the first american bible society, and then elijah bow was the president of the the american bible society. and what is known as the ordination ser the tiff cat, and it was signed by francis as bury who is the first methodist missionary or the bishop the to come over to america, and why this is important in our exhibition is that as bury was approached and george washington and spoke to him about the e emancipation of freeing the slaves as far as back of our first president. and so we have have a waxed sealed paper signed by francis as bury. and so the artifact complicates the story as we walk through, and now here you have bibles within the collection of the museum of the bible and we have cherokee, chippewa, and bla blackfoot and various translation, and not all of them were translated into the complete bible, and we have gospels and the psalms and sometimes the complete bible was tra translated to reach the indigenous people, and this is all produced by the american bible society. it is three of many that came out in the missionary work. >> and then as we said earlier the

and i -- americans. more jobs coming to this country rather than being set up some place else. >> neil: nevertheless, had you expressed some concern about the president's tough trade tact vs. the chinese particularly on tariffs. do you think that jeopardize dyes the gains you had from the tax cuts. >> i am concerned about tariffs. we all know the chinese have been stealing our intellectual property for years. and whatever we can do to turn that around is a good idea. >> neil: maybe the approach he is taking is working? >> but, we have got a lot of agriculture exports. much of it goes to china. many of them from farm states have voted overwhelmingly for the president. whatever we're going to do on trade, i would like to see it wrapped up by late summer so we can get back on message on tax reform. >> neil: you talk about tax reform and everything that's going on, sir. it seems to be i don't know if battle is too strong a term but difference of opinion from house colleagues to senate colleagues. paul ryan h

. >> up next, american university's daniel dreisbach, talks about the american constitutional republic and judicial system and including the book's income on due process and the separation of powers. this talk was part of the symposium hosted by the museum of the bible in washington, d.c. it's about 45 minutes. >> hello, everyone. our second session is the bible and the founding of the american constitutional republic with daniel dreisbach. during the founding era, no book was more authoritative than the bible. it featured prominently in 18th century political culture, shaping the founder's political salt and rhetoric. this presentation will examine the founding appeal to scripture and answer fundamental political questions and to inform an emerging tradition. daniel is of the university of washington, d.c. where he earned american university's highest faculty award scholar teacher of the year. his research interest includes constitutional law and the intersection of politics law and religion in american public life. his most recent book is reading the bible with the founding fathers.

the real decision of americans because up to now we don't know how americans decide. in syria and the three leaders talking very much in the same language as to what they want to achieve for syria now that's not always been the case do you see turkey changing its policy towards the kurdish population in syria as a result of these talks. as you know in the beginning in turkey and russia and iran at all. in syria now after the americans. attitudes in syria and leaving turkey along and turkey has decided to do on his strong on so on and also you know now cooperation between turkey and russia is so big as a nuclear power plant. and also four hundred systems now that the decisions or attitudes of americans throughout syria and turkey. make makes you know it took this policy is very close to our russian flawlessly they're a turkey changes and changed its mind about the most crucial thing for tricky now in syria not the surge or are there things about the appeal why dear why p.g. tourist and. you know all tourist in syria should be clear from the. country i think this is thr

[laughter] we are also unleashing american energy and american energy independence. we are now an exporter of energy. --are doing -- think of this 10 million barrels a day. nobody thought they would see this. 10 million. in fact, it will now be 10.6 million. we are cracking down on unfair trade deals. we are taking strong action to secure our border, stop illegal immigration, and restore the rule of law. and we passed the biggest tax cut and reform in american history. more than 5 million workers have already received a tax cut bonus, a pay raise or a new job thanks to these really massive tax cuts. millions president trump: millions more are getting higher take-home pay. no one has been more energized like tax cuts than american manufacturers. presidentday is the of the national association of manufacturers. j simmons. thank you, jay. for 20 years, their organization has surveyed america's manufacturers all over the country. it is a great organization. seenhave never before the levels of optimism that our tax cuts as delivered. is that a correct statement, jay? it i