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other. have every right to , throughhemselves or throughritten their vote. i don't think anybody doubts that we're gonna treat them fairly. that, i think what we'll do is we'll just recess until further notice. >> the week ahead in congress includes votes by the full on representative tom price to head the health and human services. steve mnuchin, to be treasury secretary. and senator jeff sessions to be attorney general. senators get to those nominations, however, we expect final confirmation vote on education secretary nominee, betsy devos. recently spoke to an education reporter to learn more. >> andrew ujifusa covers federal policy for education week. the status of the betsy devos nomination for education secretary in the
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senate? >> so very early this morning, move her a vote to nomination to another final vote senate next tuesday. that vote this morning went 52-48. that's basically along party lines. onwe expect a final decision her nomination early next week. >> and it sounds like two senators are going to be voting against her. alaska and maine. are you expecting any other senators to vote across party what are you hearing about the likely outcome of the nomination? with we have been checking senate republicans. so far, since they made those othercements, no republican senator has come out against betsy devos. rightthe vote count holds now, it would be 50-50. that means that vice president mike pence would hold the tie-breaking vote. that means that betsy devos
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confirmed as education secretary. >> andrew ujifusa covers federal policy for education week. you can follow him at edweek.com. his twitter handle, politics k12. thanks so much! can watch live coverage of senate confirmation debates week on c-span 2 and c-span.org or listen to the free c-span radio app. this weekend, on american history t.v., on c-span 3, this at 6:00 eastern, on the civil war. and historian, on abraham lincoln's views on immigration and his efforts to quote the inman-american vote early his career. >> one in 10 immigrants joined the union military as soon as they arrived. optimistics
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calculation, even with the dead, wounded, captured and missing subtracted, was a net gain for the military and for the country at large. >> then at 8:00, on lectures in college rhodes professor mckinney describes early civil rights efforts to segregation during world war ii. >> the new deal also creates spaces for african-americans to start to push for civil and economic rights. civil and economic rights. it gives them, again, to use phrase, that' human space to push for and aspire for that inclusion into mainstream of american life. onsunday afternoon at 4:00, reel america, the 1958 information film "communist propaganda." >> they accidentally dropped
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rockets over florida. this report gives us every ground for questioning the accidents inf general. since it claims that approximately 70% of the officers and enlisted men of the are psychoneurotic. >> and at 6:00, on american thefacts, the museum of american revolution is scheduled to open this spring in philadelphia. artifactsiew of the discovered during its construction. >> when we got them pasted we see it says success trifana. what is that? you have to go to the newspapers. how urban archaeology the primarying of record, secondary record, the artifacts. really fun about it, that we just weave it all together. >> for our complete american schedule, go to c-span.org.
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