they will tear down the statute of abraham lincoln, george washington,, jefferson, desecrate the most beautiful pieces of art, and they represent our country. we can't let it happen. over the last four years david purdue has been one of the toughest fighters for america first, america first agenda in washington. david saw this. did you see last week? china does not like me too much, they pay us billions and billions. that never happened, billions and billions of dollars in tests and they these valued their currency -- de valued their currency. the happiest people in the world are the leaders of china. the second happiest are the leaders of iran. in the next four years we would have been on a footing like nobody ever and now we are giving it away. deal said, we will not with you unless you get rid of the america first policy. you know what the democrats said? they said, yes, we will do that. can you believe it? [booing] that's when i realized what a brilliant name that is. we came up with plenty of good ones, haven't we? some of them i won't use because some are now friends of mine. bu

jefferson wrote this 14 years after he wrote the declaration independence is to be gained by inches. we must internally press forward. it takes time to persuade men even to do what is for their own good. my point is that we need to step back and say these things take time. we have got to take small steps to get there. to think we have spent trillions of dollars on these wars, and the war in afghanistan is going on 18 years. i think it is just ridiculous. wars andlso that these our foreign policy has caused us to have more enemies than we would have had. they have done more harm than good. >> in the congress of the united states come in the house, even with the reforms nancy pelosi has pledged to accept based on my counterpoints in the problem-solving caucus, there is too much power into few hands done forlittle getting the american people. >> watch that on saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span and c-span.org. listen with the free c-span radio app. takesn the new congress the hill in january, it will be the youngest, most diverse class in history. >> north dakota senator heidi heitk

occurred to any other president of the united states from george washington to john adams to thomas jefferson to james mattis, to james monroe, to abraham lincoln, to ronald reagan, to george w. bush to barack obama to incite a violent insurrection against the union. you are right, we've got no precedent for that. and so they think that is somehow a mark in their favor. that is a score for them that this senate has to be the first one to define incitement of violent insurrection against the union. and so, the gentleman puts it on me. he says inciting a president for committing incitement to violent insurrection against the union is a new raskin doctor bereaved tried to convince them that there are well-known principles and elements of incitement which we have talked to you about at nausea. and this is an intrinsically inherent stacked based judgment. but if that is the raskin doctrine that a president of the united states cannot incite violent insurrection against the union and the congress and i embrace it and i take it as an honor. most law professors never even get a doctor named after the

. >> i haven't committed anywhere yet, but i am applying for the jefferson scholarship at uva to pursue public policy. brian: there are 104 students in this room. we're going to try to get to as many as possible during the next hour and asked them about their experience. thank you very much. question to start out. i want to ask you what this week was like and who you met that you will always remember and why. >> my name is joseph, and i am a delegate from west why. virginia. brian: who is the number one person you will member from the week with mark >> lb secretary tillerson. -- that would be secretary tillerson. i had the opportunity of introducing him as a fellow eagle scout. i want to into the foreign service sunday. i am going to remember his message. he said you can only learn when your mouth is shot and when you're listening to other people. i think that is very important, especially in today's political climate. brian: over at this table, who wants to tell us who you are memory the most and why? >> i am the other delegate from west virginia. i want to emphasize that this week has

like they are doing everything, the abolish the police people want to say the washington monument, the jefferson memorial should be renamed. it is another escalation that cal has been silent on. i think that there can be a process. i argued against a mandate to rename every monument without any public discourse. that is not the right way to go about it and it is not getting to a point where we are ready to erase history. >> so you would listen to the possibility? sen. tillis: it should be up to the process of the communities and the people who served that they have a verse -- voice and what goes through here. not people in washington mandating it. i assume from your comments that you are against elizabeth warren's amendment to the national defense authorization act. mr. cunningham: i do not know exactly what that is. sen. tillis: rename everything over the next three years. mr. cunningham: i think we need to rename fort bragg. it is about so much more than a name, it is about having a conversation about our history and how we got to the place we are and the institutional and systemic racial barr

the america of thomas jefferson, a little patience and we shall see the "the letter q: queer writers' notes to their younger selves" -- the reign of witches will restore -- restore government to its true principles. america of tom pain. he said the mind, once enlightened, cannot again become dark. we showed you hour after hour of real-time evidence demonstrating every step of donald trump's constitutional crime. we showed you how he indoctrinated the mob with his orwellian propaganda about how the election he lost by more than 7 million votes 306-232 in the electoral college which he described as a landslide when he won by the exact same margin in 2016, was a landslide victory for him being stolen a by a bipartisan conspiracy, fraud and corruption. we showed you how 61 court and 88 judges, federal, state, local, trial, appellate, from the was court in the land to the united states supreme court across the street and eight federal judges he himself named to the bench all found no basis in fact or law for his outlandish and deranged inventions and concoctions about the election. in the

it is home to both liberty university and thomas jefferson's retreat. with the help of our comcast cable partners, we will explore lynchburg's rich literary life and history. on saturday at 5:00 p.m. eastern, we will visit the and ann spencere -- the house, to hear on how this on it brought -- how this poet brought the renaissance to lynchburg. associatedcer was with the harlem renaissance period. the harlem renaissance is how harlem comes to lynchburg. unfortunately, there were a whole group of people associated with that period of time that people do not know about. p.m.ncer: sunday at 2:00 eastern on american history tv, an interview with jerry falwell junior about the origins of liberty university, its impact on lynchburg, and the role evangelicals play in politics. >> in spite of trump's am pleasantly the best president for those and really i think will end up being one of the greatest presidents. >> them, a conversation with a person who is grandfather hosted a tennis camp in lynchburg for young african-american athletes, including arthur ash. , m

they ask where is jefferson davis' desk because they've heard the story there is a chop mark on the desk that was imposed by a union soldier when they captured washington and the soldiers was chopping the desk until his commander said, stop that. we're here to save the union, not to destroy it. invariably a teacher will ask a senator, what would you like for us to take back to our students about being a united states senate. my reply is always the same -- please suggest to your students that they look at washington, d.c., as if it were a split-screen television. on one side are the confirmation hearings and the tweets. and on the other side you have democratic and republican senators working together to strengthen national defense, national laboratories, national parks and the national institutes of health. please remind them of what a remarkable country this is, the strongest military, the best universities, producing 20% of all the money in the world for just 4% of the people. tell them we're not perfect, but as our constitution says, we're always working to form a more perfect union.

jefferson wrote this 14 years after the declaration of independence. the ground of liberty is to be gained by inches. we must be content with what we can get from time to time, and eternally pressed forward for what is yet to get. it takes time to persuade men, even for their own good. so my point is, we culturally need to step back and say look, these things take time. we've got to take small steps in order to get there. >> my big thing, to think we spent trillions now on these wars, and the war in afghanistan is not going on, 18 years. i think it's just ridiculous. i think also, these wars and our foreign policy has caused us to have more enemies than we would've had. it's done more harm than good. >> in the congress of the united states, i believe, in the house of representatives, there's simply, still with of the reforms that nancy pelosi has pledged to accept, based on my counterparts in the caucus, either there's just too much power in too few hands with too little getting done for the people, and i fear that's not going to change. >> watch conve

. >> from a virtual tour of monticello with thomas jefferson interpreter phil barker. >> i served 40 years in public service yet i often thought if heaven had given me a position to my great delight it would have been upon the small spot of ground well watered and near good market for the produce. gardening is one of my greatest delights. >> this weekend on american history tv on c-span3. >> c-span has unfolded covered of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic with white house briefings, updates from white house and congress, and our call in

the second promise he made, i'm going to clean up ethics in jefferson city. do you know how many bills were introduced since he has been attorney general? two dozen. you know how many he testified on? you know how many hearings he went to push for those bills? zero. do you know how many ethics proposals he presented and testified and lobbied for, to clean up of the lobbyists getting unlimited gifts in jefferson city? that would be zero. those were the two promises he made. as to the human trafficking, i've got to mention this. he went down to springfield, putting a badge around his neck, i've got to mention this. tvon't recall ever doing around a search warrant, but he did. and they had a big search warrant and he said it was the biggest sex trafficking case in the state. zero felonies in missouri have been filed from that search warrant. zero. mr. hawley: we shut down 13 businesses in southwest missouri. we rescued over 10 young women who had been brought here from china, through california, in an organized east asian crime ring. we have sought permanent inj

what do you think of thomas jefferson. do you like him. oh good. he was at meijer slave owner. are we going to take down his statute. you know what, it is fine. you are changing history and culture and you have people and i'm not talking about some but they should be condemned to totally prevent have any people in and that group other than neo and white nationalist. and they were treated absolutely unfairly. and in the other group also, you had some fine people but you also had trouble makers and using them, with the black profits and with the helmets and the baseball bats. you have a lot of bad people in the other groups. >> you are saying. [inaudible]. >> there were people in that rally. if you look, there were people protesting very quietly. the taking down the statute of robert e. lee. i'm sure in that group there were some bad ones. but the following day it looked like they had some rough and bad people. white nationalist or whatever you want to call them. might you have a lot of people that group who were there to innocently protest . and legally protest . don't know if y

chronicles the leadership of four of the first five presidents from virginia, george washington, thomas jefferson, james madison and james monroe. and on sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on afterwards, former cia director john brennan speaks about his life and career in his fight"undaunted: my against america's enemies at home and abroad." he is interviewed by new york times reporter julian barnes. what book tv this weekend on c-span2. -- watch book tv this weekend on c-span2. ♪ are up435 house seats for election in 2020. according to the cook political report, only 91 house races are competitive. in the wyoming at large district, republican liz cheney is running for her third term against democrat lynnette grey bull and constitution party candidate jeff hey get -- jeff haggitt. moderator: we will interview the candidates and what we hope will be a thoughtful exchange. we are using distancing and there are no live audience -- there is no live audience. three -- candidates the four are with us. all of the candidates have been briefed on the ground rules for tonight's debate. libertarian candidate ric

efforts to slow down the spread of the virus with director drew harris of thomas jefferson university. watch c-span's "washington journal" wednesday morning at 7:00 eastern. join the discussion. >> as the federal government continues to work on the coronavirus economic aid package, governors from across the country have been providing updates on how the states are responding to the coronavirus. here are what some of them had to say starting the governor andrew

was not thomas jefferson an extremist? "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." so the question is not whether we will be extremist, but what kind of extremists we will be. will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists will we be extremists for the for love? will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice? i had hoped that the white moderate would see this. maybe i was too optimistic. maybe i expected too much. i i guess i should have realized that few members of a race that has oppressed another race can understand or appreciate the deep groans and passionate yearnings of those that have been oppressed, and still fewer have the vision to see that injustice must be rooted out by strong, persistent, and determined action. i am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it. they are still all too small in quantity, but they are big in qu

because this democracy wasn't just built by george washington or thomas jefferson. it wasn't perfected in the 18th century when the ink dried on the four original pages of the constitution. it was shaped by women like abigail adams who i named my first daughter after. it was strengthened by suffragists like sow -- sojourner truth who worked tirelessly. who used emancipation to call for freedom and a voice for all, women, black, white, you name it. it was formed by illinoisans like ida b. wells who demanded that women of color have a place at the forefront of the suffrage movement. it was forged by women like mary livermore who channeled her frustration over women's inequality into action. spearheading chicago's first ever suffrage convention 150 years ago and marking illinois as a leader in the fight for women's rights. our democracy was sharpened by the group of illinoisans who traveled to washington, d.c. in 1913 joining thousands of other women in their march down pennsylvania avenue. protesters who were vilified, berated, jostled and tripped and even jailed but

we want things quickly and yet jefferson wrote this 14 years after he wrote the declaration of independence. we must be content what we can get from time to time and press forward what is yet to get. it takes time to persuade men. even to do it is for their own good. my point is we need to step back and say look, these things take time. we have to take small steps in order to get there. >> my big thing, to think that we have spent artilleryons now on these wars and the war in afghanistan is going on 18 years, i think it is just ridiculous. i think also these wars and our foreign policy has caused us to have more enemies than we would have had. they have done more harm than good. >> in the congress of the united states i believe in the house of representatives is systematically still even with the reforms that nancy pelosi ,as pleverage pledged to accept there is just too much power and too few with too little getting done for the american people and i fear that is not going to change. >> watch conversations with retiring members of congress saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span and c-span

. >> we would go on our apps and devices and yet jefferson wrote the 14 years after he wrote declaration of independence. he said the ground of liberty must be gained by inches. wemust be content with what can get from time to tom and eternally press forward. it takes time to persuade men. why point is that we culturally need to step back and say look, these things take time. we have to take small steps in order to get there. >> to think we spend billions on these wars and that the war in afghanistan is going on 18 years. i think it is just ridiculous. these wars ando our foreign policy has cost us to have -- caused us to have more enemies than we would've had. of the unitedress states, i believe in the house of representatives there simply is, still even with the reforms that nancy pelosi has pledged to accept based on my counterparts and my problem solvers caucus, there is too much power in too few hands with too little being done for the american people and i fear it will not change. >> watch, conversations with retiring members of of congress tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span and c-s

jefferson once said i would consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man with the government to be held to the principles of the constitution. the only anchor ever imagined yet imagined by me and by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution. i would submit to you that we are adrift. but if we hold true, if we have faith that the ship of state can survive truth, the storm shall pass. i yield back we now castable on the witness question and once that vote is complete, i would ask that the senate stand in recess subject to follow the chair. >> thank you. >> without objection. >> so ordered. >> the question is shall it be in order to consider in debate under the impeachment rules, any motion to subpoena witnesses or

then efforts to slow down the spread of the virus with population program health of thomas jefferson university. watch c-span's "washington a.m.al," live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. senators went to the floor to discuss the house passed a package that is endorsed by president trump. here is what they had to say starting with senate majority leader mcconnell. der. mr. mcconnell: as the global outbreak of the new coronavirus continues to grow, its impact on american families and small businesses is continuing to scale up. school closures are challenging both parents and teachers. child care closures are complicating family life even further. main street small businesses and their employees are grappling with an unprecedented situation where their local leaders are effectively winding down their businesses for a period of time through no fault of their own. major industries that our nation relies on have seen business virtually dry up overnight. again, not due to any business decision they made but because of appropriate directives from public health experts. and,

president thomas jefferson wrote -- and i quote -- "the most sacred of the duties of government is to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens. this is the job of the department of justice." and i think it's worth reviewing the mandate and purpose of the department of justice to determine whether senator sessions is the right person for this special and unique position within the united states government. the judiciary act of 1789, the same act in which the first congress created the federal judiciary, congress also created the office of the attorney general. in years thereafter, congress empowered the justice department to handle all criminal and civil suits in which the united states has an interest. the department of is the largest law office in the world and the chief enforcer of our nation's laws. the attorney general has to be the people's lawyer. upon taking the office, the attorney general swears an oath to -- quote -- "protect and defend the constitution of the united states." and more than almost any other officer of the united states government, it is the job of t

what we need to operate with here is the truth, and close with thed ofs of thomas jefferson, the people know the truth, we won't make a mistake. why i heard about what the department of oakland security put out today is not truthful and it's hard with that kind of information to do the right thing. so i want to thank my colleague for giving me this much time and being patient with me, and we'll be back here in ten days or so and we'll have a chance to recould notice at the and see if can pull victory out of the jaws of defeat. thank you. >> our live coverage of the savannah book festival starts sass morning at 9:00 eastern and includes robert latus with the book, future war, preparing at the global battlefield. >>> in the week he news briefings republic' and democratic leaders in the house discussed the school shooting in parkland, florida, and answered questions about how congress should respond to gun violence. >> 'll hear from nancy pelosi followed by house ser

you'll hear a lot of talk about arapaho and jefferson counties in terms of whichever candidate in the presidential race wins those counties, they have a much easier path to winning the state of colorado. i'll be looking closely at the number of republican votes that are coming out of el paso county and douglas county and mesa county on the western slope. another swing county that we pay attention to is larimer connecticut which is northern colorado, home to colorado state university. then we'll be looking at, um, as far as democrats, we'll be looking at boulder and denver and seeing, you know, if they're getting their numbers the way they want to. and the democrats have paid considerable attention to the southwest corner of the state, um, la plata county, home to durango, so we'll be looking to see if they're banking lots of votes in the southwest corner of the state as well. >> check out c-span's campaign 2012 web site where you can watch the candidates on the campaign trail as well as their latest ads and web videos. also check our social media section to see what the candidates, re

also representing jefferson county, jeff strainer. excuse me, jeff, thank you. [applause] now, imagine 55 of these guys walking in a courtroom saying these laws are unworkable, therefore, we can't enforce them, please overturn them. the lie that law enforcement loves the gun laws has been debunked by the gentlemen. i'll ask the sheriff to say a few words. >> thanks, john, appreciate it. [applause] great to be here with atf, one of my favorite events. you know, the slogan that they used to have a couple years ago was come to atf, enjoy your freedoms while you still can and enjoy them. i laughed at that always thinking it was funny, but it's no joke anymore. we do have to secure our peoples, and, you know, it's great to be here with second amendment loving and law-abiding citizens, you know, ones at the states want to make criminals. that's what the laws do, turn you into criminals. i'm with you guys, and glad to be here with you, and i want to tell you just a little story. i went to vacation up to montana, and we were staying in glacier national park years ago. w

on saturday night at nine eastern it is the jefferson jackson dinner lie from des moines, iowa. speakers include bernie sanders, martin o'malley, hillary clinton, and lincoln chafee. sunday evening at 6:30 p.m. republican carly the arena will hold a hometown meeting. the wisconsin book festival from madison featuring interviews with nonfiction authors including mary norton and her book on the english language. david on the city of detroit and evan thomas on being the. sunday night at nine on afterwards, john danforth on how he thinks a sense of religion can lead to out of politics. on c-span three cia historian on espionage and intelligence gathering tactics during the civil war and why so few historical documents exist. sunday morning at ten am, on oral histories civil rights leader julian barnes who passed away in august in a 2002 interview on civil-rights career growing up in a segregated south and his work on student nonviolent courting committee. get our complete schedule on c-span.org. >> this is quite unusual for me but i want to thank all of you for your friendship, your

there are standing rules adopted by the first senate in 1789 upon the advice of thomas jefferson. there are standing orders. sometimes we set rules by passing a law such as the budget act. sometimes we establish a rule by unanimous consent or by agreeing to a new precedent. taken together, all of these represent the full body of the senate's rules and procedures. these rules of procedure have several things in common, not matter how they were established. the authority for establishing and changing each of them comes from the same place: article 1 section 5, of the united states constitution. every one ever them can be changed by 67 votes following rule 22 of the senate except that standing order may be changed with 60 votes. one other thing these different forms of of rules of precedent have is that the latest change supersedes whatever rule or precedent was established earlier. so if the senator from texas persuades a majority of us to overrule the chair today that decision governs the senate forever, until it is changed or unless it is changed. so there's no real difference bet

and just -- throw it away has extended to statutes of our founders like thomas jefferson, and mahatma began did ghandi. it even applies to parts of our culture like "gone with the wind." they want to do away with "gone with the wind." online you can dial up any movie, "done with the wind" is part of it. that happens to be the one that hattie mcdaniel was the first african american to win an oscar. this is again what's going on right now. like so many american families, i watch with shock and dismay as to how many are setting aside critical thinking in favor of an emotional mob that moves closer and closer to a total cultural revolution. -- cultural revolution takeover. we shouldn't have expected anything less from the party, the democrat party, as they continue to run toward socialism and proudly embrace the communist beliefs. remember, we've seen this before . mao knew that he needed to destroy our four olds -- old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits. the communists in china needed control of the history has stopped in 1966 and the communists here in america need it today.

i believe, i look to thomas jefferson's quote for inspiration on foreign policy. peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations ending tangling alliances with none. i think america should stop acting a the world's policeman and take care of our orders and secure our country first. i do believe in a strong national defense but the optimism word is defense, not offense. we don't have the machine any to continue the wars. we're wasting over a trillion since 2001 on just on bombs. i think our money could be more wisely spent here at home. >> moderator: todd akin. akin: it is important to have a tore run policy to start with. you have to so have basic principles and guidelines and perspectives where you want to go as a president in terms of foreign policy. that needs to include iraq. it needs to include afghanistan. it needs to include a whole lot of other countries as well and the problem is we haven't had that. in fact what it seems like the weak and vacillating policies we have almost punished our friend and helped our enemies. right off the bat we decided t

i think the key, jefferson likewise describes the constitution as chains. they're are certain essential facts of the government must perform. the 1st and most fundamental is protecting the national security of this nation, the overarching concern that goes to the very 1st responsibility of every member of the government. more broadly when it comes to how the human spirit achieves. the incredible potential of everyone. every issue we think about and talk about the should focus like a laser opportunity. we should you the impact of the least off among us young people, african-americans, hispanics, people struggling to climb the economic ladder. i try to view issues through the lens of my dad. ifif my dad was to wash dishes today make it $0.50 an hour how would it help or hurt all of our focus and what you understood so powerfully is why we created environment where we are in shane human liberty and allow people to create business and expand that enables people like my dad to move up the economic ladder. one of the things we're looking at just looking at median

over 25 years ago when i was judge executive in jefferson county -- and that's a position that is the head of the executive branch of county government -- ernie was the director of the louisville jefferson county crime division. louisville is the capital. that was not the case however in those years and we in the county government had to coordinate and work with officials in city government. this louisville jefferson county crime commission was one of the best examples of cooperation between city and county government back in those days. that commission was the first of its kind to bring police officers and social workers together on behalf of kids. just one innovation ernie came up with back then was to make a if i were card phos as many kentucky kides as possible and send that card home for the child's parents to use to assist investigators in the awful vent the child ever went missing. ernie's work in kentucky established him has a national leader in his field as early as 1981. at that time no nationwide organization existed to share and distribute information on missing children.

there is about going on between john adams, thomas jefferson, john marshall behind-the-scenes that really is the story of the case. personal stories that are engaging. >> 9:00 p.m. monday night. landmark cases executive producer. >> senate foreign relations committee chairman and white house deputy spoke syria, russia, iran, and other foreign-policy challenges. >> good morning. >> and architect of the iran nuclear agreement review act , we want to talk about that is what is next. first, some hotspots. we need to start with situation in syria. we are pres. obama and and the un this week talk about unmanaged transition. a very different tone than he took previously. is there a shift? if so, does it strike you as a smart thing to do? >> i don't think there is any question, but they're continues to be in evolution. to consider that you will deal with isis and leave aside in place is something that creates quite a conflict. if you look at what is happening, we had a hearing yesterday and see the tragedy of what has occurred during the tenure. [laughter] 140,000 people were killed, 4 million we

i'm at the jefferson iowa dairy queen doing, you know what. that's some tweet but in this dairy queen story you have the perfect metaphor for the senator from iowa. early riseer, driven, open to change, never afraid to mix it up. for this lover of dairy and his home state it makes perfect sense. the people of iowa are lucky to have him here fighting on their behalf. here's to another 99 counties. here's to the 12,000 vote milestone he crossed last week. and finally, mr. president, on an entirely different and sad matter, there was never any doubt when our colleague from tennessee was nearby. six feet, six inches tall, deep, booming voice, magnetic personality that lit up any room he was in, fred thompson may have towered over the senate in a very literal sense, but he was one of the most down-to-earth guys you'll ever meet. he was a true gentleman with a kind heart. and this senator who lived life to the very fullest, the first in his family to ever attend college, never forgot where he came from. now, in a weird twist of fate, it turns out th

it is perhaps embodied in thomas jefferson's famous quote -- were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or a newspaper without government, i should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. so just two weeks ago, a man with a shotgun, a man who had made known his threats against this paper purposely entered the building which houses "the capital gazette" to kill people. let me take a moment to mourn those lost and to thank the first responders who first appeared on the scene literally 60 seconds after the first 9/11 call. location means everything in so many areas. this day two weeks ago, the fact that there were rurnl rurnl police officers down the street from "the capital gazette" offices down the street at the time the shooting started most definitely saved lives. according to the annapolis police chief timothy altemeyer, within two minutes, the annapolis police department, the anne arundel county sheriff's department rushed into the offices and into the newsroom to apprehend the gunman. state and local law enforcement presence including

she was accepted to jefferson medical college in philadelphia where she earned his master's degree in microbiology, she was the first woman to graduate from jefferson in its 125-year history and the first student to complete graduate work there. after teaching several years at temple medical school, she was the first woman hired by dupont to work in the central research department in will imagineton where -- -- wilmington. she met a scientist of nearby fairfax. sonny and gil fell in love and a few years later were married on memorial day 1957. together they raised two wonderful sons, victor and jonathan. and during this period sonny became more and more involved with local community groups and political organizations. her commitment to public service was a hallmark of her life. she was a skilled and forceful advocate, a tireless campaign organizer and relentless fundraiser for community groups and campaigns alike. when she saw a need, she would fill it, whether it seemed doable or not. when people felt like delaware needed a more active advocacy organization, they were concerned about

there is more, how about thomas jefferson? one of the most brilliant minds our country has ever produced, he said this. we have already given one effectual check to the dog of war by transforming the power, letting him, the dog of war loose from the executive to the legislative body and jefferson didn't just believe that these were important words in the constitution. when he was president and when he was being pressured over a dispute with spain over the boundaries of the louisiana and florida he wrote to congress stating considering congress alone is constitutionally invested with the power of changing our condition from piece to war, i thought it was my duty to await their authority. or how about alexander hamilton, many americans have heard more, the play hamilton being such a hit for the past few years. what did hamilton say about this? he said congress shall have power to declare war the plain meaning of which is it is the peculiar and exclusive duty of congress to change that state into a state of war. abraham lincoln w

lwcf has helped us to preserve land within the george washington and jefferson national forest and along the appalachian trail. these efforts help support unique wildlife habitats and provide new access for hunting, fishing and other outdoor recreation. this combination of the parks bill and permanent funding for the lwcf, the great american outdoors act ensure that we'll continue to make these important investments in conservation in our parks for years to come. in closing, i want to thank my colleagues, again, for supporting this historic legislation with an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote and a piece of legislation that is supported by the administration. my hope is that the house will move quickly on this. and what better present to our nation than to have this legislation signed into law hopefully by july 4. as we all know, at a time of significant division in our country, the fact that this body was able to come together and pass this bill with over70 votes -- with over 70 votes gives me a little bit of hope. i'm, again, proud of my colleagues to help step up to restore our national

it's jefferson who said the real test of whether we succeed is whether the laws reflect the will of the people. but instead we see the laws in this chamber being constructed solely, uniquely and unfortunately for the most powerful and wealthy among us rather than the people. gerrymandering, where voters choose their politicians, where voters should choose their politicians but instead politicians choose their voters. that's a deep and powerful corruption that has extensive impact on the chamber that's just down this hall. we have seen what happened in north carolina where 47% of the states popular vote in house races won 23% of the seats. similarly, in pennsylvania the election before last. and the supreme court threw up its hands and said we can't do anything about this even though the pennsylvania supreme court understood it's so important to fairness of equal representation, and took it on and solved it. this bill sets up independent commissions across the country so that the districts for representation are drawn fairly. and then there's voter suppression and intimidation. if you be

let me conclude by repeating thomas jefferson's warning. we must not allow this abuse of fundamental constitutional rights to break up the very foundations of society. madam president, i yield the floor. mr. barrasso: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. barrasso: thank you, madam president. as i come to the floor today, americans all across the country are paying attention to the multiple scanldz scanldzs plagug the -- scandals plaguing the administration. we're seeing it in all areas of the country. my hometown newspaper, "caspar star tribune," had a headline today, "trio of troubles related to the obama administration." because what the american people are seeing from the obama administration, people are seeing a high level of incompetence and a very low level of transparency. so here are just a few of the headlines today in "the washington post." "criminal probe of i.r.s. launched." criminal probe of i.r.s. launched. just below that, "leak probe, phone records uproar ends holder's respite." that has to d

we have watched as mobs have dragged statues of washington, jefferson, and grant through the dirt. and in many self--styled intellectuals say we should discard the basic principles they fought for. one of the key pillars of our nation is a rule of law. in civilized society, the same laws need to apply to everyone. at times, our nation has fallen short on this score, particularly for all the years when black americans were completely denied the equal protections of law has been to our great shame. this has been central to the cause of civil rights. there is a reason the 14th amendment insists on equal protection of the laws. and yet, in recent months, local leaders have violated this basic tenet as riots rocked major cities, we saw politicians decline to act. they seem to fear far-left critique more than looting and chaos. and we saw the uneven application of other rules like when mayors cheered on mass demonstrations but continued to prohibit religious gatherings. that is the rule of law in jeopardy. of course, the last example is also a first amendment issue, and the freedom of ex