american capital. all right.let me leave schafer shear and consider how missionary diplomacy should reconfigure some our understandings of the early republic most generally, and even broader than the early republic itself. missionary primacy adds new depth to barlow's argument in a government of sight that the girl early of the federal government was often hidden from a general public. questions of a strong state. weak state. in the newest variant, the imperial. excite historians of the early. most of these look back to british historians. michael braddock, john brewer. patrick o'brien who speak of the rise. the fiscal military state. for example, max eddings, a revolution in favor of government influentially that americans use this tradition as the underlying rationale for their own state. similarly, max new map of empires exposes the long tail of late 18th century british imperial and gautham rao has argued in the william mary quarterly that the early united states governments quote imperial aims and practices

of american life. our american revolution actually by and large was a conservative revolution. but i believe the 1960s and '70s are our french revolution. i think if you had to pick a corollary in the american experience to the french revolution, you would pick paris. and none more so than these three figures. who, in my view, were worthy or depending on your view, unworthy inheritors of margaret sanger's views. that is margaret kinssy and masters and johnson. the pornification of american culture. the complete transgressive attack on traditional or christian moral and ethics understanding. by the way, broadly defined. you know, america, after the work of kinsey and masters and johnson, categorically was never the same again. and their direct impact of their researched study, but above all, advocacy, unethically, by the way, in my personal view, had a direct influence on, immediately, on what would come after them in american culture. for instance, and i'm using just one example, but alfred kinsey insp

the american people. and the leader set forth all the impacts in the short term of a government shutdown. it will impact government workers. our military families, all the small businesses and farmers and communities that are are waiting for this disaster aid. it will impact our community health centers and the ability to deliver health care that is affordable and accessible. and it will rise the costs of everyday items. whether that's childcare, to the groceries anti-price you pay at the supermarket -- and the price you pay at the supermarket. what for? because elon musk, an unelected man, said we are not doing this deal. and donald trump followed along. so here we are once again in chaos. and house democrats are going to stand together and make sure that american families' voices are heard here. because we shouldn't even be in this situation of being on the verge of another shutdown. this is the sixth time in two years that the g.o.p. has led us to this crisis. and it's all about a smokescreen for what

death" -- favorite american.".e marquis de lafayette. the purpose was him expressing gratitude for a country that symbolized freedom. lafayette knows the benefits the u.s. enjoys are the result of institutions founded on the rights of man and the principle of self-government. the centuries past have shown what it takes to live up to our shared values and fight along side for peace and freedom. we have demonstrated camaraderie in the face of great danger. the statues are on display this week in the rotunda to commemorate the relationship between france and the united states. a great source of information -- inspiration, reminding us to stand united and remind true to our nations' shared history and mission. god bless america. and viva la france. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, mr. chuck schwab, executive director of the american friends of lafayette. [applause] mr. schwab: thank you very much. first and foremost i want to thank speaker jefferies and speaker johnson and leader jeffries for hosting the event. i want

, middle-class americans and every day americans who aspire to be part of the middle class that has been out of this legislation. why would you do that? why would you eliminate funding for community health centers? that impacts the heartland of america, urban america, rural america, small town america, appalachia. why do you cut off funding for that? that's why we are opposed to this legislation. why would you cut funding for nutritional assistance for children in america, for seniors in america, for veterans in america? why would you do that? this bill cuts funding for nutritional assistance that had previously been agreed upon and that's why we are opposed to this legislation. this legislation actually cuts a program that was designed to help children and their parents detect cancer, cruelty is the point. why would you eliminate that program? we are going to fight for the children of america. so the reasons are too numerous to articulate, but with my magic minute, i could do that, but we've laid out the challenges with this bill, the phonyness in claiming that extreme maga republicans

the american family using the part the house to stand for the whole american family. i can think of no one better to help us understand how we've lost and how we can regain the american family spirit. then my friend timothy goeglein, the vice president of external and government relations at focus on the family here in washington, dc. tim is a family man himself, a long time public servant, an author, an art lover and a patriot. and what is more, tim is a man studious meaning full of loving zeal, is studious in the of the american dream. and i'm very pleased to welcome to the podium now mr. timothy goeglein. jack paar once said with an introduction like that, i should say thank you and good night. thank you, matthew. i very appreciate it. and i very much appreciate all of you spending part of your day with us. of course. welcome, c-span. i've been a fan of c-span since it went on the air and i've been a fan of hillsdale my my entire life and very grateful to focus on the family we are, you know, people who work together, institutions ministries that work together. so

going american businesses in creating american jobs and supporting american consumers and increasing our country's economic security. in america's economic future however, also depends on the tackling the challenges across the border to affect equal economies around the world. including the american people in the u.s. economy. also the pandemics pretty and no matter what we do at home, without addressing critical gaps in the global health infrastructure to strengthen the global preparedness preparation and response for the future could make it natively impact many economies the significance. so the aftermath of the covid-19 pandemic it, i worked with health ministers to take actions like launching the pandemic fund braided and what was set up and skill in record time and out allocating desperately needed resources in response for proposals to support countries across the globe into making america's safer more secure pretty climate change is another example. we see the destruction from the hurricane season in the united states of latest reminder of the need for action in a home our ac

an american pretty much done nothing. now, exactly ten years later, north korea, south korea, according to the truman, within a week, ground troops are being sent. this is a new transformed nation and that american involvement does transform this civil conflict into something much bigger, which then subsequently gets transformed in something even bigger in sort of october, november, december, when the people's of china then also intervenes. so there is an escalation of what the korean war is over course of 1950 from the civil conflict into the united states, being at war with the communist regime of china and so thank you all for being here morning and thank you for including me in this conversation usually the question of when a war that the united states is involved when it begins for the united states. it's an easy question, right? when was the war declared? the thing about the korean war is not only did truman not seek a war, a very action going forward, but he also to even call it a war. and so, you know, at a press

i think that the american people do want an american first foreign-policy. i don't think in america first foreign-policy is isolationism. when americans are concerned is the entanglement abroad overextending ourselves and not having a clear defined goal. when you look to ukraine, this is something that is very frustrating that does award event happened in the first place. president trump state department in the last two years of his administration, we focused on deterring russia from evading. we provided that lethal laid. we produce more sanctions or more actions against russia dan in the administration since the ronald reagan administration. we are very focused on deterring russia from evading. we do have to look comprehensively at why we have that deterrence failure and almost every major theater around the world because if we do not tell ourselves hard truths, if we don't learn the lessons of why we had these massive deterrent millions around the world, we will repeat them. when you look at, ultimately, how does russia and ukraine and, it'd see same way a

the american people will reject it. and house democrats will work hard to stop it. questions? reporter: can you talk about the gavel jobbingying we are seeing within your caucus. seems like younger members are challenging the way things previously have been done here. mr. jeffries: democrats have been in the midst of a generational transition standing on the shoulders of speaker pelosi, steny hoyer and jim clyburn and other longstanding members we continue to reveer. and as we prepare to organize for the 119th congress as often has been the case in the past, committee leadership clalings emerge. and we also made clear that house democrats continue to value the experience that many long-serving members of the caucus bring to the tainl as -- table as evidenced by the fact earlier today unanimously by acclamation without any contest, richie neal was confirmed as the top democrat on the ways and means committee. maxine waters was confirmed on the top democrat on the financial services committee. rosa delauro was confirmed a

of h.r. 10545 american relief act of 2025. this bill provides continuing appropriations to keep the government and operating through march 14, 2025. when the house appropriations committee disban this process of drafting bills for fiscal year 2025, we had to work quickly to put the house in the best posture as possible. we voted our bills out of committee and succeeded of passing them on the house. unfortunately the house does not act on its own. i am sorry to say whether we like it or not our colleagues have input into the process. to date, the senate has yet to pass a single fiscal year 2025 appropriations bill across the floor. as time has gone on, we have had reached the deadline of december 230 meaning another extension is necessary. this bill extends government funding through march 14 which will grnt congress the needed time to reach a final agreement on our f.y.2025 spending bills and give president-elect trump to participate. this is never ideal but congress has the responsibility to keep the government open. the alte

that should not enter into how we craft a bill that serves the american people and american workers. it is unfortunate the way that this process has worked out. you know, we want to and we really need to rely on each other. we need to rely on each other to keep our word when we have an agreement, that we keep that agreement. said this as well yesterday. i think all of us know here in the congress that the only thing that we have is our credit built and -- credibility and our word. that is what allows us to move forward to trust one another to move forward on legislation that helps and serves the american people. i yield back. . . the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields. the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. cole: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cole: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to reiterate a point i made earlier. i know my good friend from connecticut and i may disagree tonight on this particular instance, but i think it's a broad -- as a broad principle we probably do agree

prize for advancing american ideals. we shall be hearing more and from them both after we refresh tissues with the delicious dinner provided by the geniuses at ridge wells catering. now joining me here are my friends larry and penny. larry is the president of hillsdale college. i often observe that hillsdale college is the liberal arts college in the. this is true. this is true. but while true it is also a woeful understatement, because hillsdale is much more than a college. it is the incarnate of a salubrious and fruchter fine idea about the vocation of our humanity. i am proud to say hillsdale has been an important in many of our recent endeavors, not in bill mcclain's dazzling history of the united states. land of hope. an invitation to the great american story. and i'm delighted that bill could be with us tonight. and this brings me this brings to the third reason for our celebration. the next step in our battle to change the controversy in america and education and indeed to change the self and increase the confiden

the rescue mission was prepared to safeguard american lives, protect american national interest, and the crisis has continued. it was my decision to attempt the rescue operation. it wasn't my decision to cancel it when problems developed in the place -- it was my decision to cancel it when problems developed under the placement of the rescue team. the responsibility is fully my own. i did the aftermath of the attempt we continue to hold the government of iran responsible for the safety and release of the american hostages that have been held for so long. the united states remains determined to bring about their safe release at the earliest date possible. as president, i know that our entire nation feels a deep gratitude that i feel for the brave men that were prepared to rescue their fellow americans from captivity. as president, i also know the nation shares not only my disappointment that the rescue effort could not be mounted because of mechanical difficulties, but also my determination to persevere and bring all of our hostages home to freedom. we have been disappointed before. w

i don't think it is absolutely necessary for the functioning of american politics that every american be able to recite the constitution. that is a high bar, it is hard. i do think we want to have some general familiarity with the kind of system creates and the kinds of demands it makes of us. i think generally, americans actually do. you will find constitutional premises, constitutional logic making their way into all kinds of areas of american life. a couple years ago a few friends of my son were arguing out.. one said i had the right to free speech. he was like, nine years old. i thought, that's a start. there are other things. but we do have a sense that we are rights bearing. we do have a sense -- that sense very often extends to what other people owe us. that is just natural. it will be better if we knew about what we owe one another. that demand increases as our involvement in politics increases. it would be good if members of congress were familiar with article one of the constitution. which it often seems they are not. at mount vernon they have george washington's copy of the

for embodying the american dream and helping americans which there is also, i want to honor a good friend of mine that is not here today. and army veteran from new jersey, the longest serving senator that i served with. frank is remembered as a tireless advocate for consumers in public health and safety. bonnie, thank you for being here to except the metal on his behalf. grace embodies an essential truth about america. we are a nation of immigrants where everybody deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. she made her -- she made life better for thousands of farmworkers putting food on our table, all of them. protecting them from extreme heat, securing overtime pay, she shows what it means to be a champion for dignified work. when i ran the first time in 1972, the u.s. senate, she was organizing farmworkers in the state of delaware. guess what? i won. thank you for all you do. over four decades, and on and off the screen, michelle yeoh has shattered stereotypes and glass ceilings to enrich and enhance american culture. herbals transcend gender, culture, and languages. from marshall

we have stood up for american values and american leadership. so, i would like to talk today about what the department has achieved in the last four years. i would like to focus on a few key areas. renewing our alliances and partnerships, meeting the challenge of the prc, rallying the free world to stand up for what is right and ukraine, and supporting israel's right to self-defense, and preventing full-scale war in the middle east, investing in our capabilities, taking care of our people, and defending our values. first, we know that our unmatched network of alliances and partnerships is one of america's great strategic advantages. our allies and partners magnify our strength. they project our power and they deepen our security. and of course, credit reagan understood that -- president reagan understood that. as he said in 1983, the starting point and cornerstone of our foreign policy is our alliance and partnership with our fellow democracies. so, here is a start military fact. our allies and partners are huge force multipliers. in today's wor

american. audi you think that makes them feel? -- how do you think that makes them feel? host: i'm going to play senator bernie sanders for you. he talked about his thoughts on how the democratic party is abandoned the working class. take a look and i will get your reaction. >> 60% of our people are living paycheck-to-paycheck. how do we not talk and fight for raising the minimum wage to a living wage? in the state of missouri, a conservative state, they became one of the many states to vote, i think 50%, to raise the minimum wages. how is it in congress and the senate, we have not brought a minimum wage bill to our floor? the affordable care act is a stopgap measure read it's not addressing the real health care crisis in america. why aren't we saying yes, health care is a human right, we will take on the insurance companies and the drug companies. we will pass the proactive make it easier for workers to join unions. we will expand social security. we will demand that the billionaires start pay

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that's the equivalent of 20 million americans, more americans than served in world war ii.urageous fighters are but of college age in america. what a striking comparison. young israelis heeding the call of duty fighting for their families their people and their homeland. while the pro-hamas apologists on so-called elite campuses across america are in a paroxysm of blood left ÃÃ calling for genocide with signs saying final solution. chanting death to israel and chanting death to america. we know what it must look like but i want you to know something, those views though given airtime by some radical democratic members of congress those views do not reflect the views of the american people. the american people stand firmly behind you and we are already seeing the majority of the body in which i serve the united states congress fight back and turn the tide. let me repeat, america is firmly behind israel and the jewish people. this goes back to our nation's founding. in 1790 america's founding father george washington wrote a letter to the jews of newport rhode island expressin

never see the situation where the american people were the greater appreciation from the left wing americane press played a pivotal and ultimate role in the election of joe biden to 2020 by covering up the scandals around him, they tried it again in 2024 they will with the same level of hostility more hostile than ever and quit covering up kamala harris and it backfired. i will show you how it happened. donald trump 85% negative after someone shot him in the head and other person almost killed him and they did nothing but attack him for two years, meanwhile with, here's 76% positive coverage, what happened they took a pull at the start of the campaign and they found trump's positive was that 41%, his negative was 51%, negative 14, when it was all said and done his positive was 44%, his negative was 54% that is a negative time, donald trump went up in the polls not down and then there's more interesting data gallop took another pull at the american news media themselves to ask if they were trusted, the trust factor in the news media after 85% negative on donald trump 31% trust factor the low

[applause] we see the impact of american culture across -- african-american culture across american culture, from music, entertainment, fashion, arts, and so much more. student exchanges between our countries are essential and must increase. students in both countries can be better understand one another if they know the country. if they visit the country. educated in the other country. and increase connection between us makes a big difference. be all in on africa means making sure african voices are heard at the tables that matter most. under my leadership the united states we brought in the african union as a permanent member of the g-20 economies. we insisted on more african representation among the leaders of the international monetary fund and other world financial institutions. we have also pushed to ensure the developing nations do not, do not choose, have to choose between paying down unsustainable debt, and being able to invest in their own people. we are using our own voice to increase autoafrica's presence in the u.n. security council in the united nations. that should happen. ca

over 200,000 americans have died under biden, and think about that, 200,000 americans have died because of his failed border policy and twice as many as vietnam, and this has to end and it will on january 20th. american people are fed up and they rejected his agenda, and instead of listening, he's not only just looking at the border crisis he's selling off the wall. and that wall will be back president trump day one, it's a deterrent, the american people demanded it. the border crisis didn't happen by accident. it's a direct result of joe biden's actions. one day, on that day he dismantled every single border security measure that president trump went into place and the consequences have been devastating. for 40 years joe biden put america last. he put your safety last, he put the border last. and when he came together and passed hr2, the strongest border security bill this country ever seen, biden ignored it. refused to act. kamala harris, the famous border czar even said on national television she wouldn't change a single thing. the truth, joe biden created the crisis no matter how mu

but we focus a lot on american energy and american energy independence. there's four words i talked about often. that is produce, deliver, utilize and export. we are blessed in this nation with abundant resources that we need to produce more of. because using natural gas as an example, we have an abundance. we can't even measure the amount of natural gas we are blessed with in this nation. and utilizing that natural gas has helped us lower our global carbon emissions. the carbon emission in the united states has gone down because of the production of natural gas. but if we produce more, we're going to need to deliver those assets, whether it's liquid fuels or gas, or electricity down power lionels. transmission -- lines. transmission lines. that's the delivery component. we've got to deliver that resource, whether it's electricity produced at a nuclear power plant, or when it's natural gas or fuel oil or liquid fuels gone to the refinery. we need to produce more. we need to deliver it to where it can be utilized. we need to utilize it to create the electr

that evening, he delivered statement to the american people. took the form of a prayer which he read on national radio. almighty god, our sons, pride of our nation. this day have set upon the mighty endeavor a struggle to our public, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity humanity. lead them straight to the cruel, give strength, their arms, starkness to their hearts, stood fastness in their faith. the normandy invasion left hitler's armies trapped in a vise, fighting an expanding anglo-american canadian force in the west and the soviets red army in the east. the allies began to tighten vise by 1945. time was running out for the german and japanese forces. the year before the allied had pushed deep into japan's pacific empire. by autumn of 1944. the liberation of the philippines was underway and american bombers had begun a devastating fire bombing campaign. japanese cities from bases in the marianas. in some of the bloodiest fighting in the war, marines landed on the island of iwo jima, midway between the maria

jobs and american businesses and american industries. >> he wanted to stop paying for the defense ofngtime allies, the germans and the japanese have been free riding and freeloading off the united states. >> and if i'm president, they're going to pay the full burden of their own defense. >> he rejected international commitments, demanded a border wall. and he summed it all up with one big slogan i believe in a foreign policy of america first, buchanan's america first stance translates into opposition to foreign aid, lower taxes, trade protectionism and immigration restrictions. >> fide 92. >> to the shock of the political establishment, his message resonated. >> patrick buchanan right now being welcomed by a throng of supporters, he earned nearly 40% of the vote in new hampshire. >> did i not tell you we would make history? >> bush would win the nomination easily. >> here we go. >> but buchanan would eventually win. the argument for the party's future. >> my friends, we must take back our cities and take back our culture and take back our country. >> in 1996, buchanan won the new ham

fill roster spots that would have gone to american athletes or american students.occer championship. but is that worth it, for a soccer team to make the final four? these institutions we created for the benefit of americans, to build a winning program the right way, to develop american players in your own backyard. the same analogy applies to engineers or anything else in america. do that and we will truly enter a new golden age. -- ceo joins me now. thank you for being with us. let's talk about what vivek had to say. i know vivek, i like vivek, i think vivek is brilliant. i take his point of what he's saying when it comes to a very specific, perhaps and -- as he and elon tweeted, 0.01% of engineers needing to be brought from across the world. but i think his indictment was too sweeping. >> good evening and merry christmas. vivek does not mince words. what you will notice about the tweet, which i encourage everybody to read, it's been heard around the world, is he does not mention american culture once. what he's talking about i think is the anti-american, subcultu

the american people, the u.s. service members, the veterans, and most importantly, our gold star families who are present here today deserve better. they deserve your candor, commitment, and transparency. with that the chair now royces the ranking member, mr. meeks. >> thank you, mr. chairman. let me first say to you that it has been a distinct honor, privilege and pleasure of working with you. we've worked together now for over four years. two years of which i was the chair and two years you were the chair. really there's been no difference. our relationship only intensified. we worked collective together on behalf of the people of the united states of america. you're a man of integrity, you are a friend. it has been an honor and a privilege to serve with you and to continue to serve with you. we know as you stated, you're not going anywhere. you will still be here as a member of the united states house of representatives. i appreciate the fact that we've always, even when we disagree, as we will disagree on this

americans believe fundamentally they do not question it is a part of their idea of american we should possess this continent and most of them did not think for a second what that actually meant for the indigenous occupants of the west. thanks. thank you. thanks, leslie. a great talk on a very neglected topic that needs a lot more exploration. i'm just curious in research, did you encounter any evidence that john pope developed personal relationships with native americans the course of his life as his as his views evolved on native american treatment? yeah, it's an excellent question. he's not quite like and oliver otis howard in this way howard is actually someone who kind develops a relationship with chief joseph of the nez perce during that conflict and pope tended to in his kind of post bellum career, he headquartered in saint louis. he stayed kind behind the lines. he rarely actually went out into the field. he rarely actually went out and met with soldiers. he left that to his subordinates. he becomes a kind of a an office commander. we can kind of say. so i don't know that he ha

[cheering] calling every american today so i'm asking to join me. [cheering] am asking you to stand with me to build a movement that home and abroad for the promise of america, freedom, justice, equality and opportunity for all. [cheering] thank you all so much. [cheering] [cheering] >> in her own wor, directo of national intelligence the pack conference. government overreach and remove from the voting ballots. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome congresswoman and author her new book josie covered. ♪♪ ♪♪ thank you so much. aloha. such a critical time. our democracy under attack. the perpetrators of this attack are those who in the name of saving democracy are destroying it. everyone of us who cherish and freedom to be alarmed by those driven by hunger for power actively undermining all that we stand for. in washington doing all that they can keep us, the american people having the freedom to choose who want to be our next president so terrified we the people they make what they think is the wrong choice. saving us from ourselves destroying our d

american rifleman to run away. and it's a lot easier to kill the enemy while they're fleeing, as opposed to while they're firing on you. so all of this, again, you look at the british military in the in the war of independence, they were a little bit more flexible. they were a little bit more adaptable than perhaps we thought during the bicentennial or even if you, you know, watch watch films like the patriots or something like this. so i just wanted to share this with you. i found this all in the archives. i was just on a research fellowship in august in washington at the side of cincinnati, 80 in d.c. and this is a comment from an officer in butler's rangers who fought in the war in central new york in 1779. d he's described living the the way that lalists and native americans and british soldiers interact together ctically on the battlefield when a party of continentals essentially shows up and surprises are this mixed war party under the command of loyalists, the native ameran first kind of scatter. they're a l

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that's the wrong approach we are americans first we need to be solution oriented peer the american peopled donald jump i work my heart out to oppose and i went every state but we lost the election peer now let's think about how we have a better message going forward spewing okay lim get your response then to she says democrats should not try to find common ground with trump. she said surprisingly large amount have intended to find common ground. and crock-pot cabinet picks she calls are tone-deaf to epitomize and effectuation with bipartisanship for bipartisanship sake. she says you should be doing it hear, hear response? >> we have to look at issue by issue. known as saying that we should work with republicans or donald trump if there is any proposal that cut social security are if there is of opposable to politicize the justice department are a proposal to abolish the department of education peer of course democrats will oppose that with our values peer but if the president has a good idea to bring manufacturing back or to cut wasteful defense spending or to make our food system safer a