nativern that there were americans and anglo-americans, but there were asian-americans, hispanic-americansl contributing to the culture, and that the west was far more therse in many ways than places east of the mississippi where her. first of all, i will talk about books i had purchased on african-americans in the west. and then i will talk about the hispanic west. and finally talk about some of the books on native american culture. that african-americans who were in the west were brought to the west as slaves, first in texas, and to the indian territory, that the five civilized tribes when they moved to oklahoma took their slaves with them. and so african-americans have always then in the west. they did not just show up suddenly. after the civil war, more southn-americans left the to form communities in the west. they are referred to exo-duxers, from the book and -- 50 recently i bought a book that was just published on the town of nicodemus in kansas, and this is now a state park in kansas. this is one of the many all-black communities that reformed as they tried to find a new life of f

the influence of american films in china was deep in terms of the americans being involved creating its own film industry and along with hong kong as well. in terms of if you look at jazz, modern jazz jazz came to china in the 1920s. it really took off in the 1930s during the depression because american jazz workers, players putting get jobs in the state. they were playing at hot dog stands to make a few bucks. the chinese economy was healthier and so they brought a lot of american jazz players to shanghai who then stop with chinese musicologists and chinese singers and songwriters to create a chinese version of death. this has continued to this day if you listen to mandel pop or pinto pop many of the tunes were basically chinese traditional folk songs that were effectively testified and people who would work. brought into the type of chinese songbook. that influence if you go on to the radio and do a search for chinese canto pop tunes, the american jazz is still there. it's an odd form. the chinese way -- basically, they loved western. they synthesize the westerns. in a variety of movi

new american pipelines be made with american steel. [applause] we have withdrawn the united states from the job killing transpacific partnership ar. and with the help of prime trudeau, we have formed a counsel with our neighbors in canada to help ensure that women entrepreneurs have access to the networks, markets, and capital they need to start a business and live out their financial dreams. [applause] to protect our: citizens i have directed the department of justice, task force on producing violent crime. i have further order the department of homeland security and justice along with the department of state and the director of national intelligence to coordinate an aggressive strategy to dismantle the criminal cartels that have spread all across our nation. [applause] president trump: we will stop the drugs from pouring into our country and poisoning our youth and we will expand treatments of those who have become so badly addicted. [applause] at the same time my administration has answered the lead of the american people for immigr

trump: this effort will be guided by two core principles: buy american, and hire american. [applause] pres. trump: tonight i am also calling on this congress to repeal and replace obamacare -- [cheers] [applause] pres. trump: -- with reforms that expand choice, increase access, lower costs, and at the same time, provide better healthcare. [applause] pres. trump: mandating every american to buy government-approved health insurance was never the right solution for our country. [applause] pres. trump: the way to make health insurance available to everyone is to lower the cost of health insurance, and that is what we are going to do. [applause] pres. trump: obamacare premiums nationwide have increased by double and triple digits. as an example, arizona went up 116% last year alone. governor matt bevin of kentucky just said obamacare is failing in his state. the state of kentucky, and it is unsustainable and collapsing. one third of counties have only one insurer, and they are losing them fast. they are losing them so fast, they are leaving, and many americans have no choice at

hardship ona american families and on the american health care system and president trump is determined to work with members of congress to keep a promise he made to the american people to repeal obamacare with his mandates and taxes. with the onerous burden that is placed on the american people and to replace it at the same reformth health care that will lower the cost of health care insurance by giving the american people more choices in health care. more freedom. more flexibility. and also by returning resources and flexibility to the states that will allow them to reform medicaid said they can more effectively meet the needs of our most ponderable citizens. the simple fact is obamacare must go and we are now on the first full day of our effort to keep that promise to the american people. i am very grateful to the senate leadership. i will be meeting with the house of representatives this afternoon as we continue to build support. to membersas i said of the senate caucus today. if you like your obamacare, you can keep it. but the american people want change. they know we can do bette

we will transport american energy through american pipelines made with american steel. can you believe somebody would actually say that? this came at providenc and coiny when i was planning the pipeline deals. i got them done and i said folks, where do we get thi thisd they said i think it's from a foreign land. no good. makes it, who make those beautiful pipes for the pipeline? they said they are made outside of this country and i said no more. so we added a little clause but it didn't take much. he wanted to pipelines in the country, you are going to ride this deal and have it fabricated here. it makes sense. we will create millions of good american jobs also so many energy jobs. and really lead to unbelievably prosperity through the country and rick perry's going to have a lot to do with that. i want to thank everybody in the room. you are special people, in particular i want to thank the miners. these people have had a hard time. [applause] [applause] tough looking guys. not going to mess around with this group. i made my promise and i keep my promise. god bless you

we are going to cut it to 15% so american companies will invest in american operations to create american jobs. [applause] vp pence: we are going to cut taxes for every american and we're going to cut taxes for free enterprise. we are going to get this economy moving with less regulation and more american energy. i'm going to make you a promise. right after we dropped our right hands on january 20, it was official -- the war on coal is over. [applause] vp pence: and a new era of american energy has begun. [applause] vp pence: for far too long, politicians and bureaucrats in washington, d.c., have crippled our nation's economy and crippled west virginia's economy without regard for the impact it has on people's utilities bills, the impact it has on jobs of hard-working americans. right here they pushed mining companies to the breaking point and jeopardize thousands of good paying jobs and cut off a brighter future for west virginia and families. it is heartbreaking to think west virginia has lost a third of its mining jobs over the last few years alone or over 130 mines have been shut down

turn day, 10,000 americans 65. they expect medicare to be there for them just as it was for generations before. in 10 years, 75 million americans will rely on medicare for affordable, quality health care. we should be strengthening medicare, not setting our country on a path toward another unnecessary, manufactured crisis. medicare reduces poverty and ensures seniors and people with disabilities always have access to the care they need. i recently sat down with three seniors in my district at a kitchen table. and lance and grace. a told me how medicare is important to each of them i providing coverage they need at a price they can afford. if this bill goes forward wit the provision intact, robbing the medicare trust fund and damaging the program's future, it is doris, lance, grace and others like them that will be harmed. we should not be passing a bill that does nothing to improve anyone's life, and especially not a bill that ultimately forces seniors to pay more for their care. it is hard to believe we here havin

to american people expect us do better. i yield back the balance of my time. >> the republican plan to replace the affordable care act was released monday. if you like to read it, we have .inked to it from c-span.org mike pence was on capitol hill joining republicans for their weekly lunch after speaking to reporters about the proposed health-care legislation. >> we are glad to be joined by the vice president who was just at our lunch. that me turn it over to him. vice president pence: i appreciate the hospitality, the opportunity to speak to the senate. we have come to a historic moment in the life of this country with a congress of the united states has an opportunity to keep a promise to the american people by repealing and replacing obamacare. has failed, worked a hardship on american families and to the health care system. president trump is determined to keep a promise he made to the american people to repeal obama care, its mandates, taxes, and the onerous burden it has placed on the american people. and to replace i

workers,t american american families, and american dreams first once again.ay god bless the american worker. may god bless the motor city. and may god bless the united states of america. thank you. thank you. [cheers and applause] ♪ >> later, donald trump held a second rally in nashville. there he reacted to a federal judge blocking his latest executive order on immigration. here is that part of the event. pres. trump: let me give you the bad, the sad news.

these are law-abiding americans. innocent americans and they are not necessarily suspected of anything. and it is their privacy and their constitutional right. this has caused democrats and republicans here in this body and in the other body to seek the actual numbers of how many law-abiding americans are getting swept up in these searches that are supposed to target foreigners overseas. now the reason that this is important mr. president is the program is getting bigger and bigger. size of the program, the extent to which americans' communications are being collected raises obvious concerns about our fourth amendment. the question is not if the program raises constitutional concerns but when. and that gets to the heart of what our bipartisan >> >> exact numbers are classified bed the public reporting reports steady increases then net some point that the extent of thee communications it is not ifs of program raises constitutional concerns but when. added that part of the bipartisan coalition. i if it is not possible

pipelines be made with american steel. ploou( applause ) ( applause ) we have withdrawn the united states from the job-killing trans-pacific partnership. ( applause ) and with the help of prime minister justin trudeau, we have formed a council wilour neighbors in canada to help ensure that women entrepreneur individual access to the networks, markets, and capital they need to start a business and live out their financial dreams. ( applause ) to protect our citizens, i have merected the department of justice to form a task force on reducing violent crime. i have further ordered the departments of homeland security and justice, along with the department of state and the director of national intelligence to coordinate an aggressive strategy to dismantle the criminal cartels that have spread all across our nation. ( applause ) we will stop the drugs from pouring into our country and poisoning our youth, and we will expand treatment for those who have become so badly addicted. ( applause ) at the same time, my administration ha

the book is un-american incarceration of japanese americans in world war ii.and i was told by many people who i found were in these photographs that internment is the wrong word to use. why we us citizens cannot be interned. 70,000 110,000 japanese americans were picked up and sent to camps for us citizens. so that word is a lie. it is not telling the truth. we'll talk about how history belongs to a people who are victorious. but i found out that the language is the same way. the book actually, even though it is a picture book it starts out by talking about words. we have heard the words assembly camp. these were the temporary camps that were created to bring japanese americans to permanent camps. about the word assembly center. doesn't it sound like a parade ground? doesn't sound like a good time? let's go up to the assembly center so we can get picked up. so i did not use that word. obviously the word even evacuation. doesn't it have a way of saying i thank you for taking us away? i did not use that word. and another word used over the years is relocation. t

and democrat and mostly american.nd like many of you, i am worried about the future of this nation. look, i grew up in kentucky in a small town called dawson springs. my dad and grand dad were baptist preachers. my family owned a funeral home. and my wife jane and i have been married for almost 50 years. i became governor at the start of the global recession. and after eight years we left things a lot better than we found them. by being fiscally responsible, i even cut my own pay. we balanced our budget and turned deficits into surpluses without raising taxes. we cut our unemployment rate in half. we made huge gains in high school graduation rates and we found health coverage for over half a million kentuckians. we did that through trust and mutual respect. i listened and i built partnerships with business leaders and with republicans in our legislature. we put people first and politics second. the mercury love allowed a small town preacher' preacher ko be elected governor. taught me to embrace people who are differen

mandate that every american has health insurance. the house ways and means committee will take up the legislation. it meets at 10:30 a.m. and you can see it live on c-span-3. news conference with the chairman of the house ways and means committee and committee of announcing the bill. >> good morning. yesterday, the house energy and commerce committee and the house ways and means committee released the american health care act. it's the budget reconciliation legislation as part of the house republicans' efforts to repeal and replace obamacare. after years of broken promises, we are proud to put forward a plan that represents a better way for patients and for american families. and this morning, health and human services secretary tom price sent us a letter on behalf of the trump administration in support of our legislation. that's a first step on the path to fulfilling our promises to the american people. we welcome president trump and secretary price's support. we will continue to work with them to get this bill passed into law. let

build their american dream. so today, with president trump we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a simpler, fair tax tax code that americans like you deserve. this year working with president trump will deliver a tax code built on conservative principles, a tax code built for growth. bill for the growth of jobs, wages in the u.s. economy. what is that look like? the house has a plan, republican blueprint will get us there and it starts with simple fairness for all americans. in the blueprint wagering the small by eliminating special interest provision, lobbyist loopholes, handouts and bailouts. we lower rates across the board's you can keep more of what you earned. we flatten out the tax code i lower the tax brackets for americans. [applause] it's exciting. under the blueprint the tax code will be so fair and simple that nine out of ten americans will be able to file them on a postcard style system like you see behind me. it is simple, it is fair, and it includes things families count on. help he

second, trump care would beoves making americans pay more. o they removed the surcharge on the wealthy of americans, folks with incomes above $250 a year, saving them an average of $200,000 a year end it allows a tax break for insurance executives making over $500,0005 a year. the affordabl third, trump care will raise premiums and costs for older americans. it would repeal the affordable care act premium subsidies and replace them with refundable tas credits that could be worth thousands of dollars less than what was provided under the aca. under this plan, a senior without medicare might receive only $4000 a year in tax creditk and in adequate some for someone of that age. one illness or a bad break and the value of that tax credit would evaporate. it also allows insurers to charge older americans more, simply because of their age.he finally, trump care would remove the guarantee of coverage forpr americans with pre-existing conditions.ns from the it is breathtakingly irresponsible. it shifts the costs and the burdens from the rich to the p

not only the 24 million americans who stood to lose the insurance, but all americans without insurance today. it is a victory. we did listen to mr. ryan's press conference, about what lies ahead for the afford look at, which he says is the law of the land. a reminder, that law needs nurturing, not neglect. we have the response will keep this law and nurture it, keep it moving. i want to recognize the gentlelady from california, the vice chair, linda sanchez. ms. sanchez: today's lack of vote is indeed a temper a -- temporary victory for the american people. for seven years, republicans have made promises about repealing the in -- the affordable care act and today, they cannot deliver. they had seven years to come up with their so-called better way and now it turns out they have been bluffing all along. the american people sent a clear message today. if republicans want to repeal the afford look your act, and take health care way from millions of people, they do it at their own peril. if republicans are serious about wanting a better way for health care, they will work with democrats to

this will put more money in the pockets of americans who need it m older or americans who need it.aying for obamacare's failed policies on the backs of seniors was not a solution when this law was passed, and it's only gotten worse. i fully support repealing these taxes and preserving medicare for future generations. w, thankfully, because of the leadership of this committee over the last six years, we have put solutions in place, solutions that strengthen medicare to make sure it's around for the next generation and not continuing to add to our $20 trillion debt. did we get a better idea from the left when we put these ideas forward for the last six years? no. we got tv commercials with a lanky gentleman in short hair acting as if he was going to push an elder orally person in a -- elderly person in a wheelchair off a cliff. that committee needs to stick to its guns, we need to repeal this insidious law and its taxes, and we need to bring real medicare reform to this country so that it's around for our children and grandchildren without giving them the bill. with that, i'd like to

in a real sense, it stifled innovation, growth in the american economy and the american people know it. the central element of the president's vision for health care reform is to expand to a national marketplace to allow the american people to purchase health insurance across state lines and literally in some jurisdictions, and some counties, under the current system, people have one insurance product to choose from. the president and i envision an american health care economy where people literally have hundreds or thousands of health insurance products not ordered by the government but that they can choose from and have some assistance from the government through tax credits to participate. it's a choice between obamacare which was about government mandates and taxes and the heavy hand of washington, d.c., versus unleashing the power of the free marketplace and especially unleashing the power of states to innovate in ways that will improve people's lives. >> bret: you are still confident. >> we are very confident because of president trump's leadership and support in the congress, i'

they were locking up americans. americans on both sides of the barbed wire. and the courts and the american civil liberties union and other people were protecting roosevelt. roosevelt was a friend of roger baldwin, the head of the aclu and baldwin -- not represent any, many of those young attorneys quit. it is heroic work in saving japanese-american lives. as newton said for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. >> host: was a popular with the american public? >> totally popular. they wouldn't give them mortar, they wouldn't give them food. on occasion they marched on the camps. yes. it was popular. the japanese were treated as an enemy. >> kennedy, nixon and reagan, john in new jersey please go ahead. and espionage before december, spoke to the popular thing, the right thing. they were not put in concentration camps, they were put in attornment camps, there was no forced labor. lincoln suspended habeas corpus, wilson implemented german-americans during world war i. >> caller: something that had to be done. for people to rewrite history and pe

they changed it from american peace mobilization to the american people's mobilization. they didn't even change the acronym. they kept the acronym, and they started pushing vigorously for lend lease, united states to enter the war, fdr was no longer a fascist. now they could be cp-usa could be pro-american because they are allied with stalin so it was really a great day for them. the "new york times" article on the subject is titled "clergymen group opposes war aide" that's the group duped progressives. the communists showed up at the rallies saying blessed are the peacemakers; right? turn the other cheek. of course, not knowing they are communists blowing up churches and jailing priests, and far too many people especially on the religious left, herb, the great excommunist himself, i asked him when i started the book if there was a particular group that was duped more than any other, and he said, yes, progressive pastors were the biggest suckers of them all, and american peace mobilization is a good example of that. yeah, go ahead. oh, you need a microphone. >> al from m

be made with american steel.e have withdrawn the united states from the job killing trans-pacific partnership. and with the help of prime minister justin trudeau, we have formed a counsel with our neighbors in canada to help ensure that women entrepreneurs have access to the networks, markets, and capital they need to start a business and live out their financial dreams. to protect our citizens, i have directed the department of justice to form a task force on reducing violent crime. i have further ordered the department of homeland security and justice along with the department of state and the director of national intelligence to coordinate an aggressive strategy to dismantle the criminal cartels that have spread all across our nation. we will stop the drugs from pouring into our country and poisoning our youth, and we will expand treatment for those who have become so badly addicted. at the same time, my administration has answered the pleas of the american people for immigration enforcement and border securit

exposed by america's hospitals, doctors, nurses, the aarp, the american cancer society, the american diabetes association, national disability rights network, governors from both sides of the island and more of our republican colleagues in the house. this bill is not what the american people want. they have made that clear by showing how holes across the country. we can improve the affordable care act and we should. so i heard mrepublan colleagues to vote no on this bill and work with us the purpose of emotion. >> thank you, madam chairman i have a motion at the desk. >> the clerk will read the motion. >> emotion offered by represented doyle jeffries, mister doyle mister jeffrey the committee directed to chairman on request of the committee that the rule for consideration of the health care act they can order them in that would prohibit any provision of the bill taking effect until the secretary of health and human services certifies that relative to current law, its provisions and amendments result in an increase in the number of individuals without health insurance. more affordable

eastern on american history tv only on c-span 3. >> recently american history tv was at the americanistorical association's meeting in denver colorado. we spoke to professors, authors, grad students on their research and this interview is about 15 minutes. >> rebecca hunt is a member of the american historical association. and your particular area of expertise is an early medicine and denver and pioneering. more so on hospitals in america or, when did we start seeing hospitals? >> we started seeing hospitals more at the latter half of the 19th century. 11 of health care was happening at homes, a community-based or family-based medicine. as that always happens, public hospitals o

americans have opinions. you can't be married to somebody for two days and be in complete agreement on everything at every time. there is a catastrophe that has been hosted upon the american people known as the affordable care act. it hasn't been anything but. this obamacare/affordable care act has been truly does dating. -- truly devastating. we have been in a meeting with small business owners talking about how it is actually impacted them. these are folks who employ thousands upon thousands of folks. it has devastated their businesses. it creates confusion, difficulty, costs. it ultimately gets passed through to somebody. the system is collapsing. fewer and fewer insurers are willing to actually be on exchanges. and so this idea that it is somehow working in kentucky. for those of you from the national media, it does not work in kentucky. you will see our former governor yet again try to maintain some ones available by telling you it is working. it is not working. half of our counties only have a good prov

not only the 24 million americans who stood to lose the insurance, but all americans who have insurance today, and those who want to have it, it is a victory. we did listen to mr. ryan's press conference, about what lies ahead for the affordable care act, which he says is the law of the land. that law needs nurturing, not neglect. he mentioned letting it fall on its own weight. we cannot let that happen. we all have a responsibility to nurture it and keep it moving. i want to thank the democratic oneus for it unity, and point of personal privilege on new york, one provision the new , york, the empire state kickback. you can fool new yorker's some of the time, but not all of the time. they were not fooled today. it was the wrong thing to do. i want to recognize the gentlelady from california, the vice chair, linda sanchez. ms. sanchez: today's lack of them is indeed a temporary victory for the american people. for seven years, the republicans have made promises about repealing the affordable care act, and today they could not deliver. they had seven days to come up with their so-called b

i'm thinking of what we've called native americans were american indians or whatever where we've been where we've moved whole populations with long cultural history to particular areas that were undesirable and image wise and then created a cultural mindset of people who have been here all along that h they didn't belong and i have seen that all my lifetime have so-called native americans, american indians, whatever, have been pushed into a mindset that makes it almost impossible to do what you did to figure out how to work at a company like goldman sachs so i would like to hear what you have to say about that, because i kind of feel like we have co-opted the people who were here first and then excluded them by moving borders within borders. >> guest: absolutely. we have sort of put them in reservations and said you stay there and we kind of forgot about them and ignored them. we don't have to go very far to see what's happening and how we still treat them and ignore them and don't respect their treaties and land when we look what is happening in the keystone pipeline and it's going t

but providing americans access to health care is an american issue. and every one of these democrats i have just cited recognize the failures of the current system. i don't say that, mr. speaker, to try to point the finger of blame. i say it because either we believe that everything's working just great, and we should all pack our bags and head back home to the district. or we believe that there are american families in crisis that are calling on us to serve them. you can't see this map, mr. speaker, but it shows some of that crisis. in just one year, from 2016 to 2017, mr. speaker, the number of counties in america that only ,ave one insurer to choose from quintupled. i'll say that again. in just one year from 2016 to 2017, so severe is the death spiral of the exchanges across the country, the number of american counties that no longer have choices are limited to a single insurer, has increased 00%. mr. speaker, it's represented in here in color the number of counties that only have one insurer. it's here in orange. you tee south korea it in 2016. yo

>> every american will have access to the kind of coverage that they want. remember what the president talked about in his joint session? he shade that we've got to make certain that those with pre-existing illness and injury are covered, we need to make certain that we provide the states the kind of flexibility that they need to fashion their medicaid program for their vulnerable population in a way that actually works for patients, to make certain that we have tax credits for folks so every single american has the financial feasibility to purchase coverage, to address the purchase across state lines and make certain that we're driving down drug costs and to make certain that we address the lawsuit abuse that exists in our country in health care that drives up the costs for so many individuals so the plan in its entirety is one we believe will be strong, will be efficient and will make it so that every single american has access to the kind of coverage that they want, not that the government forces them to buy. >> right, and i get the idea of access, but th

we will transport american energy to american pipelines made with american steel. can you believe someone would actually say that? [applause] this came up a little coincidently when i was signing the pipeline deals. i have got them done. folks, i think it's from foreign lands. they said no good. who makes those beautiful pipes for the pipeline? i said no more, no more. we added them into the clause. didn't take much. if you want to build pipelines in this country you are going to buy u.s. steel and haven't abrogated here. does that make sense? he knows. [applause] together we will create millions of good american jobs, also so many energy jobs and really lead to unbelievable prosperity all throughout our country and rick perry is going to have a lot to do that. i want to thank everybody in this room and particularly want to thank our miners. these people have not had enough thanks. they have had a hard time for a long time. [applause] [applause] [applause] they are tough looking guys t, i will tell you what. i'm not messing around with this group. [applause] thank

by american and higher american. [applause] tonight i am also calling on this congress to repeal and replace obama care. [applause] with reforms that increase access, lower cost and at the same time provide better healthcare. [applause] mandating every american to buy government approved a health insurance was never the right solution for our country. [applause] the way to make health insurance available to everyone is to lower the cost of health insurance, and that is what we are going to do. [applause] to bring down premiums nationwide have increased double and triple digits. arizona went went up 116% last year alone. the governor of kentucky just said, obama care is feeling in his state, the state of kentucky. it is unsustainable and collapsing. one third third of the counties have only one in shirt and they are losing them pass. they are losing them so fast, they are leaving and many americans have no choice at all. there is no choice left. remember, when you're told you could keep your dr. and keep your plan, we

buy american and hire american. . [ applause ] . tonight i am also calling on this congress to repeal and replace obamacare. . [ cheers and applause ] . with reforms that expand choice, increase access, lower costs, and at the same time provide better health care. . [ applause ] . mandating every american to buy government-approved health insurance was never the right solution for our country. . [ applause ] . >> the way to make health insurance available to everyone is to lower the cost of health insurance. and that is what we are going to do. . [ applause ] . obamacare premiums nationwide have increased by double and triple digits. as an example, arizona went up 116% last year alone. governor matt bevin of kentucky said obamacare is failing in his state, the state of kentucky, and it's unsustainable and collapsing. one-third of the counties have only one insurer and they're losing them fast. they're losing them so fast. they're leaving. and many americans have no choice at all. there's no choice left. remember, when you were told

be made with american steel.e have withdrawn the united states and job killing transpacific partnership. with the help of prime minister justin trudeau we have formed a council with our neighbors in canada to help ensure that women entrepreneurs have access to networks, market and capital, they need to start a business and live out their financial dreams. to protect our citizens i department of justice to form a task force on reducing violent crime, and departments of homeland security and justice with department of state, and director of national intelligence, to coordinate an aggressive strategy to dismantle criminal cartels that have spread all across our nation. we will stop the drugs from pouring into the country, and poisoning our youth, and we will expand treatment for those who have become so badly addicted. at the same time by administration has answered pleas of american people for immigration enforcement and border security. by finally enforcing our immigration laws we'll raise wage, help the unemploye

american footprints on distant worlds are not too big a dream. millions lifted from welfare to work is not too much to expect, and streets where mothers are safe from fear, schools where children learn in peace, and jobs where americans prosper and grow are not too much to ask. [ applause ] when we have all of this, we will have made america greater than ever before. for all-americans, this is our vision, this is our mission, but we can only get there together. we are one people with one destiny. we all bleed the same blood. we all salute the same great american flag, and we all are made by the same god. [ applause ] when we fulfill this vision, when we celebrate our 250 years of glorious freedom, we will look back on tonight as when this new chapter of american greatness began. the time for small thinking is over. the time for trivial fights is behind us. we just need the courage to share the dreams that fill our hearts, the bravery to express the hopes that share our souls, and the confidence to turn those hopes and those dreams into action. fr

some americans there more real americans than others. the very concept of religious liberty the fed doesn't exist for everybody it does not exist at all. and profiling whether muslims or arab looking people it is an just describing it as politically correct it is just correct. so i wonder if we'll move from the state of caution to a state of action. we must guard our rights. for self-government to succeed it takes the free press and vigilant and informed citizenry. or else they will need to be right one again as a slow and tortuous climb back up for african-americans. i told you there is no happy ending to this story but maybe i would close by echoing the words of john lewis. get in the way. get in trouble. good trouble. thinking so much. [applause] >> we are squeezed for time issue answer to questions. >> expand upon daniel murray business career. >> he was well-to-do one of the of most well-to-do black americans in washington for sure. he never relied on library of congress salary but instead he was savvy to acquire real-estate these w

it will cause chaos tkph-t american economy -- in the american economy and 24 million americans' lives. that's a threat to the progress we have made over the last seven years. it is a threat to .6% of the american economy and a threat to the 24 million americans who stand to lose their health care. these threats are the reasons that the senate needs to come together and say -- slow down. let's work together. let's work on forming a bipartisan foundation. let's have hearings, and most importantly, let's not impose this catastrophe in a hurry on the american people. i yield the floor. i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: cobbling cobbling plld? the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the time until 5:45 p.m. today, including quorum calls, be equally divided in the usual form with 15 minutes of the democratic time being res

americans have opinions. you can't be married to somebody for two days let alone 20 some years as i been and in -- be in complete agreement on everything at every time. there is a catastrophe that has been foisted upon the american people known as the affordable care act. it's been anything but. this obamacare/affordable care act whatever it is that it goes by has been truly devastating to we're just an enemy with a number of small business owners, the vice president myself, talked about how it is actually impacted them. these are folks who employ thousands upon thousands of folks. it has devastated their businesses. it creates confusion, difficulty, costs or could ultimately gets passed through to somebody so does need to be fixed. the system is collapsing. fewer and fewer insurers are even willing to actually be on exchanges. this idea into some are working in kentucky, for those of you who are part of the national media, i'm telling you it doesn't work in kentucky and you will see our former governor yet a

as american women and , african american history. she has held academic positions at countless institutions. she has been at the university of richmond, the citadel, the current chair of history at university of texas at san antonio. she served as a consulting scholar on a number of documentaries and feature films, including steven spielberg's "lincoln." pretty neat. finally, she has also recently written a well-received children's book about harriet tubman which she will be signing after the lecture. along with her other work. please help me welcome catherine clinton. [applause] >> thank you so much. many thanks for this return to fredericksburg. i am particularly heartened that both the lecture series and my biography of harriet tubman got launched in the same year. i think it is a testament to the well-told story of a life. i'm also pleased that since 2004 , there have been more than half a dozen excellent studies of . tubman and the underground railroad including the pulitzer-prize-winning recent book, "gateway to freedom." times

to american history.t is also led many whites to confuse rural and national identities. the rural by estimation is american and white. the urban world is largely an immigrant world and black. the power of sharp and the celtic model shows we live in it era of biggs id of many americans. they have given rise to isolationism and insurgent political movements on the right and the left. the concerns have led many to retreat into the celtic interpretations of america and appalachians past. some, history and traditions are exclusive and the american past is primarily the domain of white americans. this is a demand that a dynamic region that gives us another way to look at appalachia and its place in the american story. social and of cultural formation is far more complex than the model of anglo centric -- the anglo centric model first constructed by sharp and emulated by subsequent scholars. this offers an inclusive way through which we can understand and enjoy the richness of all of our appalachian heritage. ba

buy american and hire american [applause] tonight i am also calling on this congress to repeal and replacebamacare. [cheers and applause] he he he he with reforms that expand choice, increase access, lower costs and at the same time provide better healthcare. [applause] mandating every american to buy government improved health insurance was never the right solution for our country. [cheers and applause] the way to make health insurance available to everyone is to lower the cost of health insurance and that is what we are going to do. [cheers and applause] obamacare premiums nationwide have increased by double and triple digits. as an example, arizona went up 116% last year alone governor matt bevin of kentucky just said obamacare is failing in his state. the state of kentucky. and it's unsustainable and collapsing. 1/3 of the counties have only one insurer and they are losing them fast. they are losing them so fast. they are leaving and many americans have no choice at all. there is no choice left. remember, when you were told that you could keep your doctor and keep your plan. we now kno

so, we should be honest with the american people. president trump's budget plans are nothing more than a broken promise while special interest loopholes remain intact. if you're working hard every day and still can't make ends meet, you're out of luck in trump's america. you also come before us days after trump care crashed and burned with policy proposal constantly changing in an effort to appease the right wing in its final days. i'm not certain that any person in this room, perhaps including you, mr. secretary where are could articulate the trump administration policy on healthcare other than repealing the affordable care act and taking healthcare away from 24 million people. i certainly hope, mr. secretary, that last week's failure of trump care has made clear that the american people want the aca to be strengthened. and i think working together democrats and republicans, if we look at it with open eyes, we can strengthen our healthcare system, especially in light of the news overnight that republicans have backed at trying to re

african american or american to me there are people who say i am not because it'll feel i can and american and then there are others to say i have never bend to africa as a white my connected? i am just an american so that doesn't allow the discussion. >> host: where did you come down today? >> guest: i look at myself as an african-american or black. i recognize i was born in the united states and african-american culture so as a practitioner and as a descendant of african slaves in consider myself pdf. >> national book award winning book is called steven from the beginning calling in from hampton and virginia. >> professor kendi thank you so much for your very illuminating comments. as a pertains to your about you had opportunity to read the book hidden figures the book that has taken the world by storm and eliminated the contributions of african-american women of the space race and i am wondering whether or not you had an opportunity to read that or if you subscribe to the belief that african-american women have faced a double edged sword to be both will black as well as female this is a

bradley manning, edward snowden, did they believe americans -- the american intelligence community was violating american law, they could have gone to the intelligence committee in the senate or house of representatives and brought those issues forward. they decided not to. those are treasonous activities. they had other channels where they could've brought their complaints or their concerns to be investigated in a proper manner and they decided not to do that. i share some of your concerns. an intelligence community that this not a cannot keep it secret indicates an organization that does not have proper controls in place. where i get concerned is does that mean that when james clapper comes out, former director of national intelligence, and says i know these tools we have in the intelligence community to spy on foreigners, which is our job, with a high degree of certainty tell you those tools are not used against americans. i am sorry. at this point in time the leadership of the intelligence community cannot with any type of credibility make those claims. we know it is against the la

that bill deals with every americans' welfare. every americans' welfare. every child's welfare in this country. none of them were able to estify before the committee, before the committee marks it up on wednesday. none of them were able to come to that committee and say how it will affect them or their families or their fellow citizens. none of them were able to testify as to the benefits of the affordable care act for them, their families, their children, and their neighbors. none of them will have been able to read and digest the bill. mr. speaker, last night after locking it away in a basement for days, and just as reporters were leaving to go home, republicans released the text of their legislation to repeal the affordable care act. the country has been waiting for the years republican replacement. for the republican alternative. for the republicans to redeem their promise of a better plan, to ensure the security of having health care that is affordable and available. to each american and to their families and their children. republicans have been prom