some elected transmission, the rights of american mass culture, and the reception of american mass culture in europe between the end of the civil war than 1820s. well, it starts at the end of the civil war and begins at the question of how bob asher at civil words you reconstruct them put the country back together again. of course, many historians look at the political systems. they look at how a national political structure gets reassembled. but we argue is in addition to this, one needs to take into account how a culture or how many cultures get perfect together again as part of the reef formation the united states. the united states becomes a real interesting entity because it is growing by the compounds. it's increased immigration and americans are confronted with the real challenge in terms of its process of reconstruction. how really to u.k. people of different backgrounds, north, south, not just people from different ethnic backgrounds, sometimes from the united states. how do you get people to imagine that's what american mass culture gets real interesting because american mass cul

but some native americans in montana say they don't have equal access. they filed a lawsuit against county and state election officials asking for satellite voting on their reservations to begin 30 days prior to election, just like everywhere else in the state. >> there's a law out there for almost anything that we want to do. and one of the laws is the right to vote. and all we're trying to do today is see that the state government, you know, helps us enforce that law. we want the secretary of state to stand beside us and say this needs to be done. >> election officials say they don't have the budget to set up those sites. also at stake, the potential for native american voters to change election outcomes. this controversy reaches beyond montana to other states, south dakota, arizona, we're talking about some gangt -- significant reactions. wajahat ali, many native americans have to drive this far just to cast a ballot. >> they are very empathetic and outraged. turtle heart, said, many of the more remote indian reservations are without a car to reach ap

american life the american exceptional american exceptionalism testimony to america's exceptionalism american exceptionalism the united states is indeed exception america is exceptional what makes us accept this except. some may disagree. but i believe america is exceptional. and part because we have shown a willingness through the sacrifice of blood and treasure to stand up not only for our own merits self-interest but for the interests of all. i agree america is exceptional but what's exceptional about my country is that. we do exceptionally bad things we do it well. we do it often. we do it and no one else can. taking action and doing things without accountability that other nations cannot get away with. the standard of international norms when we ourselves do not adhere to that same standards it's something many of us take pride in your self appointed right to dominate destroy. and take control. only that's not what it's called here it's called american exceptionalism and it's been around for a long time. the original meaning of it of course comes from the u.s. communist party wh

"the african-, americans: many rivers to cross." blackse first time arrived on this continent to the second inauguration of president barack obama. a conversation with dr. henry louis "skip" gates, jr. coming up right now. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. "the african americans: many rivers to cross" is the latest contribution from dr. henry louis "skip" gates, jr. airingies begins tomorrow night on these pbs stations and there is a companion text of the same name. we will start our conversation by taking a look at a clip fro "the african americans: many rivers to cross." >> i asked been much of my life searching for the stories of the african-american people. our first notation of anthony them as antonio the negro. i have always wanted to tell their history. five centuries in the making. history and i have traveled around the country and across the globe to chronicle it. receive wealth inherited from the slave trade question mark but people changed american society. >> i will start in a

all established by american young man. and we have, i heard recently that russia, we have now surpassed russia in the exportation of oil. we will not have a deficit in a few years. we will always be the same people. these young members of congress, the senators, they remember -- they do not remember senator mccarthy. people lost their jobs. it was a reign of terror. the american tho people. we are the greatest people of the world. look at us -- facebook, google, apple computer. we're not broke. we are far from broke. give the affordable care act, chance, there are 88,000 people in virginia that do not have health insurance. house died ofr mtyy cancer and her husband was left with bills. host: similar views reflected by one of our tweeters, saying "move on, congress. " remember when senator obama said raising the debt ceiling was a failure of leadership in the president?" so when the rest of the world starts loading the number - -the - the money to pay for th a.c.a., then answer me how to stop spending and borrowing? larry

the largest coalition of american indians, the american council of american indians is on record strongly for changing the name as a drogue toffee name, as defined in the dictionary i want and they represent 150 trins, the vast majority of federal tribes, and two thirds of the native-american population. >> now -- here's how it's usually posed, should they changed name, or does the name redskins offend you? i'm a third-generation washingtonian. used the name all my life until the indians, the american indians raised my consciousness to something i veteran of the civil rights movement, did not know. so when people hear that it's derogatory, they wonder, are they saying i'm a racist? and since i'm not, i -- i go into denial. therefore i deny that this name is derogatory. but if we have a fencef to advocate people about why it's derogatory, and to make them understand that it is not for us to decide what is derogatory. it is for those who receive it. >> understood, but congresswoman, as larry pointed out, native-americans have real problems. in fact, listen to what one virginia tribal chief

if you were calling the shots who would you prefer the american people or the american deaths or well some of the american people own u.s. treasuries so it's not like all of our debt is owned by the chinese there are some americans that own those bonds but whether it's inflation or default the american people are going to suffer in the short run i think they'll suffer more through inflation than through default i mean ideally we would not obliterate our deaths by inflating them away i think our our restructuring is much better than inflating and i do believe that u.s. bond holders are going to be asked to take a pretty big haircut whether it's in a restructuring our or through inflation but there's no way right if you're if you own u.s. treasuries and you're a foreigner i mean if you're in russia and you owe us treasuries politicians are going to put the interests. of a russian bond holder ahead of an american voter so our foreign creditors are really low down on the totem pole of getting their money paid back i mean i would be surprised if we defaulted just on the bonds held by forei

the american -- look, the american people are paying attention to obama care, and the american peoplehis is good. this guy, ted cruz, he appeared at the values voter summit today. and continued slamming obama care. >> we've seen an explosion of federal government power, none more important or significant or dangerous than obama care. the country is engaged in a national debate about the enormous harms obama care is causing, all of the millions of americans who are losing their jobs, being pushed into part-time work, losing their health insurance. >> i wish ted kennedy was still here on stage to straighten that guy out. we should point out that only 14% of americans have a positive opinion of senator cruz. although cruz sees the world differently. he is attacking the nbc news "wall street journal" poll. take a look at this. >> if you seek out liberal obama supporters and ask them their views, they're going to tell you their liberal obama supporters. that's not reflective of where the country is. >> you know, these poll numbers should erase all doubts about where republicans think the a

to cross-talk american exceptionalism i'm joined by rodney shakespeare in london he is the co-founder of the global justice movement in phoenix we have david burchell he is a former deputy assistant secretary of state and in moscow we cross the marks he's a senior lecturer and researcher at moscow state university right gentlemen cross-talk roles in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i encourage it rodney if i go to you first in london do you like the term american exceptionalism and is it a good thing or a bad thing. well it's inaccurate the usa is a courageous loosely. exceptional it spends forty percent of the world budget and with the undeclared spending it's nearly fifty percent. if you take a year say nine hundred fifty it's been involved in war for every single year and then the undeclared wars is does the assassinations in the top throwing in favor of fascist regimes in south america it's got a program for future wars against any independent islamic state it says all options are on the table which means it will use atomic weapons against countries which hav

when people stand up and say, i support the american indians, the first americans, you're not really supporting it. you're paying lip service. you're paying lip service. that's all you have been doing for all these years ever since columbus landed on these shores, and you broke treaty after treaty after treaty, both sides of the aisle. i've been with eight presidents and they paid lip service. they paid lip service. the president is going to have a big first american conference, the fifth one, and now all they tell them again, be quiet, take your blanket and your half a beet and go home. for those that talk about the minority, this is the first minority. yes, i get a little emotional about this because i have 10 american native grandchildren. i have two beautiful american native children that's given me those 10 grandchildren. and i had a wife that was in fact one of the first americans and i'm proud to be associated with that. we should vote yes on this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from idaho reserves the balance of his time. the gen

an exceptional american exceptionalism testimony to american exceptionalism american exceptionalism the united states is indeed exception america is exceptional what makes us earth is accept. somebody disagree. but i believe america is exceptional. in part because we have shown a willingness through the sacrifice of blood and treasure to stand up not only for our own narrow self-interest work for the interests of all. i agree america is exceptional but what's exceptional about my country is this we did exceptionally bad things we do it well. we do it often. we do it and no one else can. taking action and doing things without accountability that other nations cannot get away with. this standard of international norms when we ourselves do not adhere to that same standards it's something many of us take pride in your self appointed right to dominate destroy. and take control. only that's not what it's called here. it's called american exceptionalism and it's been around for a long time. the original meaning of it of course comes from the u.s. communist party which in one thousand twenty se

american politics and american foreign policy is that we're americans we can do whatever we want we're not subject to any international law or international rules that apply to other countries. we can spy on other countries governments and even allies but most of all our own people americans. an exceptional man named edward snowden told the world this but not to many countries and most americans don't seem to mind. the american population is you know the government is very effective propaganda so you know president obama called for this independent review of n.s.a. activities. but the director. of the board that's doing this independent investigation is james clapper the defense national intelligence. the five people on this board all have relationships with obama. so americans are ok with being exceptional at least most of them when you go through public school when when you go through universities you're taught certain perspectives about the united states that somehow set it apart from the rest of the world not that the united states is simply one nation among many nations on the pla

lost faith in the american project. i mean, that's just how i would sum it up. and it's understandable. i mean, the tunnel multiof the civil rights era, watching your own countrymen and country women beat african-americans in the street and beat civil rights activists in the street, and watching on television the horrors of vietnam, you know, a war that lyndon johnson himself never wanted, that the american people never wanted. i mean, those two seminal events so enrage liberals, and understandably so, that they begin to question the basic fairness and decency of their own country. and i argue that american liberals in sum, not all, begin to have a more radical critique of american society than what franklin roosevelt had or john kennedy had. instead of, you know, piecemeal reform they, you know, today want more radical approaches to, um, to change america for the better. and, you know, and so when middle america feels that their country is being demeaned and attacked, and their own values are being demeaned and attacke

of the american people own u.s. treasuries so it's not like all of our debt is owned by the chinese there are some americans that own those bonds but whether it's inflation or default the american people are going to suffer in the short run i think they'll suffer more through inflation than through default i mean ideally we would not obliterate our deaths by inflating them away i think are our restructuring is much better than inflating and i do believe that us bond holders are going to be asked to take pretty a. big haircut whether it's in a restructuring our or through inflation but there's no way right if you're if you own u.s. treasuries and you're a foreigner i mean if you're in russia and you owe us treasuries politicians are going to put the interests of a russian bond holder ahead of an american voter so our foreign creditors are really low down on the totem pole of getting their money paid back i mean i would be surprised if we defaulted just on the bonds held by foreigners but not on those held by american

that is the american people. while we are relieved we have not defaulted, and why we are relieved that the government shutdown appears to be near its end, hopefully not resurface, sequestration continues to be a weight on our economy, and more important, a weight around the next of the american people who desperately need their government to function and for a long-term solution to be found that keeps them out of this day- to-day jeopardy about whether the programs and services upon which they depend and for which they pay will or will not be there in their time of need. i'm going to focus primarily on sequestration, but we know that annualration is a 10 doses of bad medicine. it is not only what has happened so far. it is what could happen over the next nine budget cycles if we don't fix it, fix it now, and fix it once and for all. if you want to understand what sequestration means for pursuing our own clearly identified and carefully planned national agenda, i would offer you just one example of many, and that

for all americans. know the president has made 19 different -- 19 different delays in obamacare and his given 1,200 special waivers. and today as the exchanges have opened and have had glitch after glitch after glitch, we are saying it is an issue of fairness for all americans to make certain that we address these issues. we also are wanting to make certain that we address the out of control federal spending and that is why we continue to say please meet us, work with us, talk with us, let's negotiate and get to the point where we can fund the federal government and do it in a way that is respectful of the american people. >> thank you, marsha. a senator who has been putting good solutions on the table is rand paul from kentucky. >> i've always said it was a dumb idea to shut down government but you have to realize, why are we here? because we're not passing individual appropriations bills. had we done our job, passed appropriations bills in the senate, we haven't brought up any of them. if we'd done ou

we saw one of the most incapable leaders and american history leading the american force around here. really started at the top with president madison a brilliant leader but as commander in chief he was having his problems. part of it is because he believed so strongly an a weak executive and did not believe the president should be seizing powers as a military leader. said he was perceptive to washington's vulnerability and directed the secretary of war john armstrong to take steps but he was incredulous and could not imagine they would even bother themselves with washington. reseal little village of 8,000 people with the capital which still had a way between the breezeway between the white house and the senate but mostly farmland, the cows grazing, the woods, a few nice house is but not any type of prizes for the british. he called it a sheep walk. very little was done. the british lee and in august 1814 with the army troops. they do a masterful job of complete the faking out the americans. it is remarkable there were mower militia available band british troops. despite their lack of

-- american families. the past several years, repeated uncertainty and brinksmanship manufactured here in the capital have done the opposite. hurting families and businesses across our country. a massive drop in the stock markets during the 2011 debt limit debate to the of the $4 billion loss to the economy during the chevrolet -- shutdown, the missed opportunities to address real challenges, washington's dysfunction has attracted from the progress in the area that matters most to families -- and the economy and jobs. living wage jobs. the families live in my neighborhood are worried about holding onto a living wage job if they are so fortunate as to still have one. they are worried about how to afford to send their kids to college and whether kids will have a big debt and no job when the graduate third they are worried about retirement. and the families who live in my neighborhood -- it like working families across this nation -- are disturbed and angry to see our government lurching from crisis to crisis

it's an american issue. at some point the gridlock in washington needs to end and we need to take advantage of the opportunities we have to reinvigorate this critical sector of our economy. and that's why i urge my colleagues to defeat the previous question today so we can consider the make it in america manufacturing act, legislation i've introduced that would facilitate the creation of unique public-private partnerships, bringing together federal, state, local and regional stakeholders to have enhancement strategies and deliver targeted resources to strengthen the manufacturing sector which has proven vital to our country's economy. it would provide small to medium-sized manufacturers the resources they need to retool and retrofit their operations and train their work force in order to transition to the manufacturing of clean energy, high technology and advanced products. and it would enhance the competitiveness of the industry, including through increased exports and domestic supply chain opportunities. m

united for change, and president of the american center for american progress, tom perello is with us have you with us here. bob, you first. this misinformation campaign has had millions of dollars thrown at it, has it worked? your response. >> well, to some extent, yes, of course it's worked. my first reaction in watching those clips is imagine how popular the affordable care act would be if it was called boehner care. it would be down somewhere around 15%. but putting aside the people in the street and some of it is quite amusing, two underlying realities. first, you have a lot of people in this country, the sort of representatives of the old america who don't like barack obama and would oppose anything he had anything to do with, and they have sent a bunch of wacko birds from gerrymander districts to congress who created the mess we're in. secondly, the affordable care act or obama care is going to last for a long time. i think it's going to be a big success. 80% of people don't want to shut down to get rid of it. about 60% don't want it defunded. they're wary of it, they heard the

american people also. because lots of people in washington love to focus on politics. it is the game of this town, but what matters more than any politician in washington is all of the people across this country who are hurting right now and getting in the mail a notification that the health care they are relying on for their care, parents' care, children's care, that it's being canceled because of obamacare. president obama promised the american people that obamacare would lower your health care insurance premium. every person across this country has seen exactly the opposite. seen premiums go up and up and up and everyone who clicks on obamacare sees the premiums going up and up and up. president obama promised if you like your health insurance, you can keep it. we know that statement was false. people all over this country are losing their health insurance. 15,000 ups employees got a notification in the mail because they were losing health insurance that they wanted and they liked. that is happening all

to cross-talk american exceptionalism i'm joined by rodney shakespeare in london he is the co-founder of the global justice movement in phoenix we have david burchell he is a former deputy assistant secretary of state and in moscow we cross to mark's lowballed he is a senior lecturer and researcher at moscow state university crosstalk rosen a fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i encourage it rodney if i go to you first in london do you like the term american exceptionalism and is it a good thing or a bad thing but it's not. the. exceptional it spends forty percent of the world. and with spending it's nearly fifty percent. if you take a year say nine hundred fifty it's been involved in warfare every single year and then the undeclared wars is does the assassinations in the top throwing in favor of fascists regimes in south america it's got a program a future wars against any independent islamic state it says all options are on the table which means it will use atomic weapons against countries which have no atomic weapons it supports the end of this expansion of the zi

better protections for americans with insurance a new marketplace for americans without insurance, new tax credits to help folks afford it, more choice, more competition, real health care security, not just for the uninsured or under insured but for all of us because we pay more in premiums and taxes when americans without good insurance visit the emergency room. we get taxed. and since we all benefit, there are parts of this law that also require everybody to contribute. they require everybody to take some measure of responsibility. so, to help pay for the law, the wealthiest americans, families that make more than $250,000 a year, have to pay a little bit more. the most expensive employer health insurance plans no longer qualify for unlimited tax breaks. some folks aren't happy about that but it's the right thing to do. just like in massachusetts, most people who can afford health insurance have to take responsibility to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. and employers with more than 50 employees are required to provide health insurance to their workers or pay a penalty. again, b

that is unacceptable to the american people. we cannot let down the american people. we cannot let down the republican congress. we cannot let down the road. time for reasonable men and women on the republican side of the aisle to step forward and tell the speaker that regardless this is what they are enabling. it was to pass the bill to extend government open and operating again. senate ascribed the reasonable. that if thatg comes to fruition houston a craft would be willing to put up with a significant number of votes? know what the senate will produce. disagree, what they are willing to do is try to come up with solutions even though they may disagree. they are open to different or new ideas. new and openo any ideas. we do not want them to risk our livelihoodamerican in order to discuss these new ideas. let's keep our economy going. the newcuss all of ideas and come up with some common sense solutions. impression because they were saying they are good conversation and maybe there were some reasonable ideas that were percolating. they will come out and do something

american politics and american foreign policy is that we're americans we can do whatever we want we're not subject to any international law or international rules that apply to other countries. we can spy on other countries governments and even allies but most of all our own people americans. an exceptional man named edward snowden told the world this but not to many countries and most americans don't seem to mind. the american population is you know the government is very effective propaganda so. you know president obama called for this independent review of n.s.a. activities. but the director. of the board that's doing this independent investigation is james clapper the defense national intelligence. the five people on this board all have relationships with obama. so americans are ok with being exceptional at least most of them when you go through public school when when you go through universities you're taught certain perspectives about the united states that somehow set it apart from the rest of the world not that the united states is simply one nation among many nations on the pl

i would argue the entire american people. the 5 million who live with this disease today, 15 million who are carriers today, and all the rest of the american population and live in fear of their family being struck next. he was against nih having the tools it needs to stop all summers? nobody. no one has come for and say that they oppose those investments. so your commitment is shown by what you do what you choose not to do in sequestration is no accident but a choice. it was a choice from the first day began and remains a choice until we stop its ten year run of bad medicine. what stands in the wake of getting rid of sequestration. it is easier to what the secretary and the congressman and heavier spoke about, the well-to-do the work of the people rather than engage in political brinksmanship for self -- hopefully in their mind self-serving political gains. get rid of the sequestered and engage in long-term serious budget planning that reduces the burdens of cost from care and invest in innovation which is the driver of our

does not make any sense to send american arms, american planes, or american troops to aid syrian rebels muslim brotherhood, for goodness sakes. we should stop it. [applause] in the future, i see less and less conventional wars. i don't see the possibility of how 100 million radical jihadist art defeated and the have to be contained and we have to defend ourselves. make no mistake, we should actively defend ourselves. the ultimate answer i think is that the rest of islam that is not radical has to police radical islam. [applause] the islamic republics see us as invaders and infidels. they will never accept us through force of arms. somehow, they must be made to that they must root out and destroy the sadists and killers amongst them, the ones who distort and contort religion to justify killing of civilians and children. islam needs to remember and re- create the good in their history. eastenturies, the middle was home to cultural and intellectual centers of ancient world. math and science flourished in the middle ages. tolerance and sophistication were the norm at one time in the middle

i also read, the american people are angry. let me tell the american people, mr. speaker, i share their anger. excuse me. i'm angry too. as governor mcdonell said, this makes no sense. this is no way to run a government. we've taken the republican number. mr. cantor says he wants to act quickly. mr. lankford says he wants to act quickly. we will support acting quickly. let's do it. let's just do it. open the people's government today, not slice by slice by slice by slice over the coming weeks and months but today for the people, of the people, by the people. open the government today, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from north carolina, ms. foxx, for five minutes. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. chairman. -- house n, our republicans remain committed to a bipartisan solution to reopen the federal government for the american people, and we continue to act in good faith to find an agreement with senate democrats to do just that. but to build a bipartisan compromise, the senate needs to come to the table

and the answer is, very simply, buy american, buy american helicopters. if they need helicopters -- and there is a question whether they do, if all they're going to use them to perform is drug operations and there is reliable information that the helicopters will be, in fact, used for drug smuggling and sales and illegal operation -- but even if there is a legitimate need, even if there is a credible reason, buy american. i expect mr. estevez will be confirmed today but i want to say to him, please, as one of your priorities, figure out a way to end these purchases from russian or american exports. you owe it to the american people to find a way to buy american and keep faith with the brave men and women who will use the equipment that you will help purchase with taxpayer dollars. i know you take this responsibility seriously and i hope that you will bring that seriousness of purpose to these issues because they are important not just to the military and not just to taxpayers but most especially to the brave american women who wear the uniform of the unit

it is a story of african-americans, african-americans who crossed the color line. to cross the color line meant in fact at the time these were called representative negros, this is what african-americans called themselves who did this, they cross the color line, did something people were not supposed to do, african-american lawyers came to court in an era where there are no black judges, and it your job is to convince a group of white americans in the year of jim crow to decide in favor of your clients, when the entire court room is a deeply prejudiced institution, these are americans who crossed the color line to speak to white people, and at the same time people thought that they were supposed to be representative negros which meant they were supposed to be white like the rest of african-americans. the book is about the demand, of black people who break through a barrier that hasn't been broken through in -- it be like the larger society, and the rest of the race. and they represent the rest of the race at the same time and i talk about how these lawyers struggle