brian: betty koed?f you had to choose a character that you have studied over the years, who would you choose? betty koed: it would probably be a tie between charles sumner, two very different people. the more i learn about them, the more interesting they get. charles sumner just seemed to be a bottomless pool of the interesting fact and passions and contradictions. endocyte know more about air, i am finding similar things about --, and did he had bad stop about what he did. brian: what makes them so interesting? betty: part of the interest for me is that there are parts that are famous and very well known. they have heard of the infamous caning. that is not the only thing they know about. the most interesting part of his career came after that. he came back in 1859 and the most important part was when he becomes a dedicated advocate for civil rights laws. he was contradictory and ordinary. he was ordinary. he was arrogant. he was arrogant and most of his colleagues hated him. he has left a lasting legac

betty koed: nine years of citizenship and you have to be a resident at the time of the election host:. for nine years? no,y koed: host: why nine years? betty koed: that goes back to the founding fathers. people who were born before there was a nation so they were looking for ways that they could grandfather into audience -- office. they would have stricter qualifications for the senate. 30 euros versus 20 years for the house so they were trying to separate the two bodies of congress. the president has to be a citizen. now he has to be born in the of -- child ofen a naturalized citizen. there might be. i am not sure about that. limit go back to the senate going back to vote -- that was religion. he was from utah and of mormon. by the time utah became a state it had to disavow itself from some of the mormon practices. there was a lot of religious bigotry against it. there were a lot of people who did not want to accept him because of the religious belief. he had been part of the religious hierarchy of the mormon church and there were a lot of people that did not accept that. a bright mo

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senate historian betty koed. she talks about events in senate history and the work done by her office. brian: betty koed, historian of the united states senate -- if you had to choose a character that you have studied over the years in the senate to write a book about, who would it be? betty: it would probably be a tie between charles sumner and everett dirksen, two very different people and two very different eras. but they are people that the more i learn about them, the more interesting they get. charles sumner just seemed to be a bottomless pool of the interesting facts and passions and contradictions. and as i learn more about everett dirksen, i am finding similar things about him, good and bad. both fascinating characters. brian: when was charles sumner in the senate? betty: he came in the 1850's and stayed until he died in 1874. brian: what makes them so interesting? betty: part of the interest for me is that there are parts of sumner's career that are famous and very well known. everybody who has visited

historian betty koed worker officee does. >> i was a newly minted senate historian. my colleague said, we have an election coming up. you will have lots of time to settle lion. house a few weeks, the decided to impeach bill clinton and we got very busy, very quickly. i had to do a good deal of research on impeachment trials. we had not had a presidential sincehment and's 19 -- 1968. they wanted to follow historical precedent as much as they could. p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a." up. think we catch we have been the invisible half the lastngress for seven years. we watch our house colleagues with interest -- at least i have interest. >> today, the u.s. senate comes out of the communications dark ages. we create another historic moment in the relationship between congress and technological advancements in communications through radio and television. gore: today marks the first time our legislative branch, in its entirety, appears on the medium of community through which most americans get their information about what our government and our country does. senat

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senate historian betty koed.alks about events in senate history and the work done by her office. brian: betty koed, historian of the united states senate -- if you had to choose a character that you have studied over the years in the senate to write a book about, who would it be? betty: it would probably be a tie between charles sumner and everett dirksen, two very different people and two very different eras. but they are people that the more i learn about them, the more interesting they get. charles sumner just seemed to be a bottomless pool of the interesting facts and passions and contradictions. and as i learn more about everett dirksen, i am finding similar things about him, good and bad. both fascinating characters. brian: when was charles sumner in the senate? betty: he came in the 1850's and stayed until he diedn

senate historian betty koed. the workerbout office does.ou can watch q&a sunday at 8:00 and 11:00 a.m. eastern here on them. the house returns today for their final week before the memorial day break. they will be working on a number of bills including reauthorizing funding for national intelligence programs and another on 911 emergency services. tomorrow they will take up the second bill of the year taking on energy and water projects. also, a measure dealing with federal oversight of toxic commercial chemicals. you can watch the house live here on an starting at noon eastern. on the other side of the capital, the senate is back at 3:00 to consider a bill on registered sex offenders and the rights of sexual assault survivors. final passage scheduled for 5:30 p.m. more on the week ahead, we spoke with a capitol hill reporter. >> we have a holiday break coming up what is the workload like for congress this week? li, congressionally speaking. leaders do you want to wrap things up before the memorial day recess, as you said. there are some adj

. >>> this sunday night on q&a, betty koed talks about various events in senate history. >> i came in june of 1998 as a newly minted historian. my colleague said to me, it's going to be nice and quiet. we have an election coming up. you'll have lots of time to settle in and read and get comfortable in your job. within a few weeks the house decided to improech bill clinton and we got very busy very quickly and had to do a good deal of research on impeachment trials. the senate, the senate leaders at that time, trent lot and tom daschle really wanted to follow historical precedence as much as they could. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a. ♪ >>> madam secretary, reproudly give 72 of our delegate votes to the next president of the united states. ♪ ♪ >>> our road to the white house coverage continues thursday from california at 4:00 p.m. eastern we'll take you live to ventura for a campaign rally with bernie sanders. then at 4:30 hillary clinton hold a rally in san jose. that will. live on c-span. >>> the heads of washington, d.c.'s transit system and the federal

betty koed, the historian for the united states senate. betty: thank you, brian. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer: for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q&a.org. q&a programs are also available as c-span podcasts. we are catching up with 20th century. we have been the invisible half of the congress the past seven years. we have watched our house colleagues with interest, at least i have with interest, and the tv coverage of members of our colleagues in the house. senate comesu.s. at of the communication's we create another historic moment in the relationship between congress and technological advancements in communications through radio and television. 50 years ago our executive branch began appearing on television. today marked the first time when our legislative branch in its entirety will appear on that medium of communicatio

senate historian betty koed talks about various works in senate history and the work her office does.i came in june of 1998 as a newly minted senate historian. my colleagues said to me, oh, it's going to be nice and quiet, we have an election coming up. you'll have lots of time to settle in and read and get comfortable in your job. within a few weeks the house decided to impeach bill clinton and we got very busy very quickly and had to do a good deal of research on impeachment trials. we had not had a presidential impeachment since 1868 and the senate leaders at that time, trent lott and tim daschle wanted to follow historical precedent as much as they could. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's "q&a." >>> and we have more from this hearing as a number of bankers, a farmer and regulator from the farm credit system testified. bankers criticized the credit system for a lack of oversight comparing the government-sponsored agency to fannie mae and freddie mac. >> i'd like to welcome all the members of the second panel. as you an see, we're in a process of having three v

betty: one of the biggest wine auctions in history, all coming ch.m the seller of william ko 20,000 bottlesvailable. jamie ritchie is calling this a once in a lifetime auction. better put your bids in now. this is bill koch's wine collection. just what is being auctioned off. 10-15 million dollar lot. we're hoping it will be the sale we've everel held. caroline: give us a sense of where the moneys coming from this money is coming from. is the chinese slowdown still coming fast and furious? jamie: the buying level has come down from asia, but still important. we have people coming over from .sia, south america we expect these three days to be very exciting and have a real global interest coming to the market. bottles could catch up to $120,000. what is really going to be the top pick? jamie: bill collected the world's greatest wines. to drink them and share them with friends. we have for those from the 1940's and 1950's. -- bordeauxs. ,ne of the great things he has , enlarged bottles. 1959 -- betty: didn't he run into controversy with fake wine bottles? against fakesaded wine bottles in the