mr. lincoln to know he wasn't alone in this darkness especially after secretary stanton barred mary lincoln from the death room. he kept a moment that his heroic until 1909 when a veterans group implored him to come and speak about it on the hundredth anniversary of the president's birthday. he practiced medicine into his 90's. often without pay. he helped to the poorest children of new york. he learned to sign language to communicate with deaf children. 1932 just before franklin roosevelt was nominated for president. one of the strangest chance meetings on the morning of the assassination happened to helen moss and her sister-in-law. took a stroll down pennsylvania avenue and met john wilkes booth and shook hands with him. then they walked two more blocks to the white house to the where they meton president lincoln and shook hands with him. they were wearing those flowers in their hair that night when they heard john wilkes booth shot president lincoln. on in thelse is going world, we all still fret about our own situations in our children and our families. the young soldier named john ram

mrs. lincoln from fans -- from friends and foes. love her or hate her, there is little doubt in my mind that abraham lincoln -- that abraham and mary love each other deeply and supported each other for better or worse, richer or poorer, sickness and in health. was anry's support indispensable element of abraham's ambition. our next speaker knows more about this relationship than just about anybody. it stacy mcdermid is the author of "mary lincoln: southern girl, nor the moment." this compact volume traces the complex and often tragic life of mary lincoln and for dose stages -- of mary lincoln and four stages. i encourage you to read the book. if you want to get an instant impression, let me draw your attention on her blog about the civil war and pop culture. she drew a portrait of mary lincoln and gave a strong thumbs up to sally field's for trail of the president's life in the movie "lincoln." but her expertise extends far beyond mary. her phd dissertation on juries in the antebellum midwest formed the basis of her 2012 book publish

mr. lincoln and the black republican party. >> his weapon -- race hate. >> he accuses lincoln of being inf race mixing, in favor of black equality. he calls him a black republican. he calls him things far worse. >> lincoln did a lot of things that today seem unethical, but he never appealed to the darker angels of our nature. and douglas did. and stephen douglas should have been ashamed of himself. >> the very union itself is coming apart under the pressure of the election. down south the homes of republican sympathizers are attacked. >> the prospect of a lincoln presidency drives southerners to extremes. they prepare politically. they prepare militarily. their state arsenals are opened up, their militia companies begin to drill. >> one newspaper declares, let the boys arm. abolitionism is at your doors with torch and knife in hand. >>> slavery is breaking the union apart. what is lincoln doing? nothing. it appears he doesn't care. >> lincoln's response to all this is puzzling. silence. lincoln refused to believe that southerners would go to the ultimate extreme of attempting to destroy t

mr. lincoln. you see then he has become part of the natural landscape. lying on his back with his feet in the tree and he is reading. this drove thomas lincoln mad. abraham lincoln would read a book while plowing. he would get to the end of the row and forget to turn the horse around. his father would come out and get angry at him. beat him with a switch. i am not a freudian. the idea of parental disapproval in terms of setting lincoln off, this dreamy young man. dreaming of what? he's out in the middle of nowhere. on a small farm. he has no mentor. no guidance. no college. there was no safety net. if you didn't succeed you would die. you disappeared. there was no record of your passing. lincoln himself in his famous autobiographical sketch cuts off the discussion of his youth where he refuses to talk about it. he does this repeatedly. he cites thomas gray, and says his early life was just the short and simple annals of the poor. blocking any real inquiry from the chicago newspaper about what he was like. lincoln's father thomas was on his deathbed. young

mr. lincoln's university. as we and champaign urbana prepare to celebrate our own centennial next year, we must never forget that we were among the first of the land-grant universities created in 1867 by the act signed into law by mr. lincoln five years earlier and the only one in the original group founded in lincoln's home state. and who better to help us at this time and in this place, think about what we can learn from lincoln as a country and as man -- thanman -- george will, one of the finest minds this region has ever produced. he was born and raised in champaign where his father was on the faculty here. he attended the child development laboratory program in town and went on to graduate from the university laboratory high school. he worked for the now defunct or ,- urbana courier newspaper where i understand he had a friendly rivalry with roger ebert who worked summers in champaign. from champaign, mr. will went on to trinity college and oxford university and then on to princeton where he earned his ph

mr. lincoln's final address. he analyzes reconstruction in all of its conceptual iterations from the earliest days of the war to the end of lincoln's presidency and his life. then, in his epilogue, he cites, no less a person than frederick douglass stating how reconstruction would have evolved, had lincoln lived. it is a what if situation pondered by ackerman dish and -- medicians, but seldom in such a reader-friendly context. i was remembering when the late professor william lee miller, who was never a fan of what if's, talked about the time during the civil rights era when a student approached him and said, professor miller, what you think lincoln would have had to say about busing? bill miller looked at him and said, i believe mr. lincoln would have said, what is a bus? [laughter] nonetheless, dr. masur does it right and he has the credentials to support his hypotheses. he is the author of eight books, the distinguished presse for -- professor at rutgers, and elected member of the society of historians and the

mr. lincoln's conscientious belief that the negro is his equal, but i do not regard the negro as my equal was not one to talk about legalizing slavery in the territories so much as he wants to paint lincoln as a pro-negro politician. he is, in other words, playing the race card and playing it in the most shameless fashion imaginable. >> but the prairie lawyer is not going to be deflected from his mission to see the end of slavery in america. >> lincoln had always said that if slavery isn't wrong, then nothing is wrong. that slavery was horrendous. >> and i think it was because he hated the way his father had treated him, which is like a slave. because his father would yank him out of school, force him to go work on neighbors' farms performing all kinds of back-breaking labor. >> there is no reason why the negro is not entitled to all the rights enumerated in the declaration of independence. >> when lincoln invokes the declaration of independence here, there's no quarrelling, there's no quibbling with it. that is the authority. >> he is as much entitled to these rights as the white man. >>

mr. lincoln would have said, what is a bus? [laughter] nonetheless, dr. masur does it right and he has the credentials to support his hypotheses. he is the author of eight books, professor at rutgers, and elected member of the society of historians and the massachusetts historical society. he is the recipient of fellowships from the mellon foundation and the national endowment for humanities. he has earned the trustees award for faculty excellence from trinity, the john prize for excellence in teaching from harvard, and the outstanding teacher award from the city university of new york. he is very tall. [laughter] and three years ago, i was honored to present him with our annual abraham lincoln book award for his excellent "lincoln: 100 days." please welcome louis masur. [applause] dr. masur: my thanks to ron for that wonderful introduction. we need this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart. that is aligned with which lincoln opened what would turn out to be his last speech. it had taken him a couple of days to write that line and in many ways

mr. lincoln, would you expand on john quincy adams role and i think he was about the first person to develop the idea that of the military necessity, justification for the abolition of slavery because i believe during the 1830s they started to talk about and he warned about if they came to war the north would be able to have a military justification to come in and abolish slavery. >> because once the south had threatened the union than the north, if it saw the military value of freeing the slaves would have every right to do so. the north north in effect would have the right to override the restraints on federal contacts that were written in the constitution. so adam said that quite explicitly in the late 1830s or early 1840s. this certainly thought that lincoln had adopted that recently when he announced the emancipation proclamation. that is the kind of one lincoln the logical chain on the slavery issue that connects others. >> if there are no other questions then i'm very happy to sign books for those of you who would like to buy one upstairs. thank you so much. [applause]. >> every week

mrs. lincoln, the play was pretty good, though, right? new york all saying that, all the candidates are flawed. you don't find very much enthusiasm for hillary clinton among hillary clinton supporters and to the extend that bernie sanders supporters are excited, the more well-informed ones know many of bernie sanders's positions would be a disaster for new york, including the attacks on wall street which produces about 20% of new york state's personal income tax revenues. >> quick final thought. i'm sympathetic to the trump kids who can't vote. i think the rules are outrageous and archaic. i know others have criticized them but you should haven't to decide nine months in advance that you want to reregister as a republican. >> well, look, the rules in new york, which a lot of people consider overly restrictive, were designed to strengthen the party system. why should people, for instance, who don't belong to the republican and democratic party be able to cross over and vote in their primary? should you be able to register sooner in a party

mrs. lincoln was very into seances and spiritualism during the civil war. she lost a son in '62. died in the white house, and so she let some people come into the white house that were really pret good marginal characters, concerned her husband, but in john wilkes booth sister-in-law died in the milled of the civil war so the booth family got into spiritualism also and had a medium in common, he name was charles kolechester. i did an article in last month lazy smithsonian and it's online, and i think i'm going to -- i know -- in fact i'm well into the research on the booth, the lincolns and spiritualism. i just want to look at that, hough it operated in the civil war, when there was so much suffering and dying, people dying left and right, and a great revival of interest in these seances and the marginal characters who provedor these -- performed these services. >> sounds great, there's a book on mourning and lincoln. so, we're open for questions now. make sure their questions,. yes. >> just want to say that -- [inaudible] -- so grateful you bring this man to life, and -- always

lincoln replied, "now, mr. harding, this is not a personal matter. i desire to do what is best to the country." and so he did. stanton did a superb job as secretary of war and played a crucial war in the union war effort. the second example is that of lyman trumbull. in 1854, lincoln ran for the senate. in one of his rivals, the democrat lyman trumbull was opposed to the kansas-nebraska act and any extension of slavery into new states. on the first ballot in the state legislature, lincoln received 45 of 51 votes needed to win the election. trumbull received five votes on the first ballot. together, he and lincoln controlled almost enough votes to win the election. i should add here, this time, senators was -- were elected by slate -- state legislators, not the voters. in subsequent ballots in the legislator, trumbull and supporters refused to support lincoln because lincoln was a whig. when it appeared that a candidate was supported the kansas nebraska act would be elected, lincoln urged supporters to support anti-slavery to vote -- by voting for tru

not abraham lincoln. mr. trump: i did a retweet, it was by someone else.ey did, sending out this photograph. which was frankly fine, it was an artistic picture actually. q. was a cover of "gw " charlie: your wife is a beautiful, classy woman. why cannot you say the same thing about ted cruz's wife? trump: i do not know her. all this was was a response to what he did. it was a very minor response, by the way. >> that was a portion of your conversation. what was your take away with donald trump? charlie: donald trump is never going to apologize, never going to back away. as result, i think he backed himself into a corner. the context of that question was twofold. number one, i was welcoming him to wisconsin during saying in wisconsin, we take these conservative ideas very seriously. so now that you are here, how would you like to start your pivot toward being a different kind of candidate, by apologizing to heidi for tweeting a picture that makes fun of her looks. he certainly could have said, you know what, you are right. i need to be more presidential. let

quote, lincoln enlisted these niggers and won. mr. jefferson davis would not enlist them and lost.istory repeats itself, warned mitchell. and it seems hardly coincidental that thomas wentworth higgenson wrote his article detailing the valorous contributions of the south carolina volunteers during the midst of the spanish-american war. the heroices of the u.s. ct should not and cannot be forgotten. black soldiers assigned -- and here's a link with mark's talk -- black soldiers assigned to, quote, passfy the indians in the american west, the buffalo soldiers, were among the first to be mobilized in 1898. this was in part -- there's the scientific racism that goes in with that that many white americans thought physiologically and bilogically they were better suited to fight in the caribbean. 10,000 african-americans served. many of them to much acclaim. news of the 9th and 10th calvaries heroics along roosevelt's rough riders under the command of former confederate general joseph wheeler filled newspapers throughout the nation. booker t. washington likewise chimed in. just as he had p

mr. third place. >> what's going to happen? >> abe lincoln finished second and still won. so all i can tell you is donald trump says he's going to get 4 1,400 delegates. mr. trump, you better get 1,237 because if you get 1,236 you're in trouble. >> you're in trouble. you think if he's within 20 -- >> if he's within one. >> you don't think he can get enough unbound delegates, one unbound delegate from pennsylvania, one unbound delegate from the virgin islands to support him? >> maybe so, but i'm telling you this, there will be people like me and others trying to say you fell short and let's revote on the second ballot and i'd like to help make the argument that if you make donald trump the nominee of the party, it will be the disaster of all disasters for the republican party. again, abe lincoln finished second. it worked out pretty well for him to have won. >> are you definitely going to the convention? >> i don't know. >> you don't know yet? >> i don't know how crazy it's going to be. if trump gets 1,237 then he's done his job, he won, he's the nominee. i don't know if i'd

mr. woodward and not to bore you with his life but he was ahead of his time and issued the emancipation proclamation with lincoln and he did that early and lincoln fired him and became a tech investor and unfortunately went through the tech disaster and died poor. then we have mr. woodward that started off poor and died rich and set up a shop with goods near the embarcadero. set up i believe the city's first (inaudible) hotel and bought fremont's land as i mentioned, built the mansion and everything and when woodward retired in napa he opened up his land to the public as woodward's gardens of course but time doesn't permit. here however unless -- see a picture of the gardens on the heyday. on the extreme left of the picture the land rises. this is the end of the dune field which occupied san francisco and built the structure on the pavilion and the last of the dunes where stephens street is now. you can see on the street mr. woodward's horse tram line to bring the public to the gardens. on the right you can see a addition to woodward street. it's a mural. my son is appearing very soon in a reality tv show so eve

abraham lincoln knocked off mr. seward on the ballots to win that election. trump loses that convention, threats to run a third-party campaign, riots at the convention. clear to me donald trump is using the republican party. were he loses go back to the democrat party where he spent most of his life. >> that's absurd. >> is he going to get behind the front-runner? the winner of the convention? >> end of the day, delegates count. voters should appoint the consistently -- >> when he signed up. he knew the rules. how can you suddenly change the rules? >> we're not changing rules or asking rules to be changed. we have potentials, come off with a huge win tomorrow and the next day. i've said before. the takeaway really should be that donald trump has 2 million more votes than ted cruz. people in the united states of america want to believe the person with the most votes ought to win. >> it's the primary process at the end of the day. >> by the way, 65% of republican primary voters voted against donald trump. one tlerd -third of the vote. >> may hate the number of

mr. deutsche of florida. >> thank you, madam chairman. deputy secretary lincoln. thanks for being here today. thanks for your service to our country and thanks for being accessible to this committee. i would like to get back to talking about china, a lot of discussion this morning about tratd. i would like to shift to foreign direct investment and in particular two areas. the area of security and the area of reciprocity. through one belt one road and the asian infrastructure investment bank. china has demonstrated a significant interest and willingness to investment abroad. but the domestic ownership requirements in china and some security review that takes place, i referred to as i think an opaque security review in china continues to frustrate american investors there. socy would just like to know as they pursue more outlets for foreign investments what are our options for pursuing reciprocity? two things on that, congressman. with regard to their investments abroad, on the first part of that occasion. as a matter of fact of principle, investments, particularly in infrastructure, in various

lincoln day brunch at the hilton garden inn. 12,000 guests made for a packed house. they stood and cheered through the candidate's speech. >> we're going to win so much that you're going to say mr. president, please, we're winning too much, we can't take it anymore. >> at one point he was interrupted by a man in the audience who was quickly booed and escorted out by the secret service. trump started and ended his speech by encouraging the crowd to vote on tuesday. correct so i hope he wins please. >> trump's saying he will have the 1237 delegates he needs to take the nomination. he says there will be no need for a second ballot. live on staten island, mallory hoff channel 7 eyewitness news. >> channel 7 is your home for coverage of the new york primary. polls open this tuesday april 19th. you can get all the latest updates and information on the candidates at abc7ny ask on our mobile app. >>> 238 people dead, more than 1500 people injured. those are the grim statistics following a powerful earthquake that rattled ecuador on saturday. tonight as rescuers continue their search for survivors, people here in our area are worried about their loved ones back home. eyewitness news rep

mr. nixon. [applause] during the ambiguity fixing, c-span goes on the road to the white house were we follow c-span and c-span radio in c-span.org. >> american history tv. my recent abraham lincolnlife, and legacy, thomas carson, the author of "lincoln's ethic," and a loyola professor. this took place at ford's theater. it is about 50 minutes. >> good afternoon. my name is michael burling game. i teach at the university of illinois springfield and i bring you greetings from the holy land. when i saw this set, i was startled. when i came into the theater, i saw the title of the show that is being done tonight, 110 in the shade. i assumed it was a musical about washington dc in august.

have the portrait of abraham lincoln here, who wisely designated yosemite to be the first designated -- acquired national park, that was very wise of him. >> yes, it was. >> mr. chairman, i must say, the smithsonian family values every single part of the park services. the park services themselves are celebrating their anniversary. ms. mccollum: we have some great ones in minnesota. i wanted to take an opportunity. we met in the office and i have been doing more and more homework. i want to understand how to better -- where you see yourself going in the future, because now that we have all these surprises for the air science museum renovation. last january, they gave us permission to explore creating exhibit space in london. it is my understanding that such a venture would be done completely using private funds. but you have been talking about leveraging a lot of private funds here today for current collections and current buildings. i am concerned that congress has not been a full part of the discussion. i bring this up because at a minimum, the smithsonian is an establishment of the united states and their funds are held in the united states treasury. if t

you can have a fictional story but abraham lincoln really make things happen, and so he is included in a fictional story. mrroosevelt here has written a fictional story, but he uses actual people that existed, justice douglas, the attorney general. these are actual real people but he is telling a fictional story. we are telling a fictional story using actual people and institutions and actual facts. we are not a documentary. i know that criticism was made by a documentarian. his criticism discusses the photographic truth. we express the emotional truth of that experience. [applause] mr. roosevelt: in the middle here, can we pass the microphone to the man in the blue shirt? >> i want to thank you also. i belong to a japanese-american buddhist temple and one of the offerings in our library is a book called "rice country," and in that book, in the early chapters they talk about the jacl, but they explained it as the japanese-american league and i want to thank you for setting that straight, and in my mind allowing me to understand the mitigation that the jacl played in trying to protect the japanese-american p

lincoln from a contested convention. the notion we are a dided party t of cleveland is a wrong one. the rulehave consequences and if mr. trump can't g 1237, that what the rules say and we go to a convention and fi a unifying candidate. conventions e held to have the consensus candide that the e party can rallbehind, i justst don't think tt's donald trum li you are behind the guy in polls including "x news po"s can beat hillary. in the end, a kasich-cruz tchup, who is the winner there? kasich is much more conservati because he comemes ofas so moderate as compared toto ted cruz and donald trump. liz: pretty moderate? i've covered him for aut 20 years. >> in the and scheme of thgs. there is also the ideahat he willave much less time to get ouhis positions. people for theost part don't know w kasich is. that gives hlary a b advantage. liz: christy setr, ron chriristie, thank you to botof chk out foxx business' coveragef supetuesday. closing bell about 34 minus ay from ringing. no resfor the 2016 candidates ahead of the presidentl electi, but for the rest of , lo at your calendar. summerravel season almost re and we've got

lincoln and financial history scholar, lehrman, that we have joined with the hari frank guggenheim foundation this year in trying to engage greater public discourse in wartime studies. i want to acknowledge mr. lehrman's vision of the importance of understanding military history for aural educated systems and his work on behalf of our great institutions and it's many intellectual endeavors. thank you so much. [applause] >> i also want to acknowledge the encouragement and support of our extraordinary board chair, pam shaffler, an historian herself. pam has seen and understood vividly how the study of step to war, the conduct of military campaigns and diplomatic responses to war can play an essential part in the quest for a more peaceable future. thank you so much, pam, for all you have done. [applause] >> i also want to recognize other trustees in the audience this evening. glen louis and russell penoir and thank them for their work and i want to acknowledge the work of my colleague, our vice president and library director, michael ryan, and the administration of this prize. tonight's program will last an hour. there will be a reception following the program. in our smith gallery outside. an

mr. obama compares himself favorably with other presidents the equal of lbj, fdr and yes, abraham lincoln. don't believe that reagan tax cuts created growth and prosperity. that's a myth. we've got a few things to say about that one for you. next case, could it be republicans edging towards a trump candidacy? 16 congressmen now openly support limb and ted cruz, john boehner says he's lucifer and one says that gives lucifer a bad name. amazon firing on all cylinders and stock goes up $70 a share. amazon and facebook together, the rescuers of technology. will you look at this? trump holds a rally in california. the left riots, on prominent display you saw it. the mexican flag, who exactly who brings violence to america's politics? "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ ♪ with the devil ♪ >> the song is running with the devil van halen. why did we play that? because john boehner called cruz lucifer in the flesh. might they rally around donald trump? a political shift may be starting. for the market, it opens down in a few minutes time. remember, it was down 200 yesterday. here is the real f

mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 439 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 439 congratulating the university of nebraska lincoln women's bowling team for winning the 2015 national collegiate athletic association bowling championship. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: now, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it adjourn until 10:00 a.m., tuesday, april 26. following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date and the time for the two leaders be reserved for use later in the day. further that following leader remarks the senate resume consideration of h.r. 2028 with the time until 11:00 a.m. equally divided between the two managers or their designees. finally, that the senate recess from 12

mr. obama compares himself favorably with other presidents the equal of lbj, fdr and yes, abraham lincoln created growth and prosperity. that's a myth. we've got a few things to say

mr. kasich: here is what is really cool. some guy when i was walking into this diner in philadelphia this morning -- you know what he said? he said it's so nice to see you, governor lincoln[laughter] and findch: hit google out what he could mean by that, ok? i'm not going to take the low road to the highest office. [laughter] [applause] gov. kasich: all right. go ahead. yeah. ok. shout it out, kid. >> i myself am an immigrant. about your policy with illegal immigration, i completely agree. unfortunately, there's a problem and the problem is that for people who come in here legally with their families like my family, we have to wait many years and we are still waiting for our legalization, our green card. if you propose that we are going to help all of these illegal immigrants, which i still support with a path to legalization -- >> you can have a path to citizenship, they can never have that. >> ok. gov. kasich: that took care of that, you want to know something? there is always an element of unfairness in our lives. they just is. so we have two ways to think about it. we can either get furious and angry or we can say i'm going to count my blessings and it's the job of p

mr. trump about it? >> well, i mean the system has been around for a long time. it was good enough for abraham lincoln. i think it's good enough for whoever our nominee is going to be. so, look, this is democracy in action. both political parties use a similar system. the other piece of this is that this is a convention and i think that we're losing sight of what the word convention actually means. it is a coming together of our party members to write rules of our party, to elect officers, that's what conventions are. >> you say it's a coming together. it sounds like it's going to be a breaking apart. >> no, you know what i mean. it's the coming together of delegates to write the rules and elect officers. and that's what we're doing. >> but meantime, the democrats are making hay of this. the chair debbie wasserman shults saying they are in a civil war food fight. at the end of their convention the republican party will not be the republican party of today and will likely blow themselves to smithereens. aren't you worried about a convention where no no one ishappy. >> debbie doesn't have any room to tal

mr. desantis: at the end of the civil war lincoln addressed the ohio reg meant and he said the beauty of a free government is that it gives every individual an open field and fair chance for their intelligence, enterprise, and industry to flourish. and that was something that he could speak of first hand because he had grown up in the back water -- you start talking about places like illinois and kentucky, that was so far removed from the corners of power at that time. he ends up being the president of the united states. that would have been unheard of in a country in europe. i think right now when you look at our country, you have people who are born -- you're supposed to be able to make the most of your god-given abilities no matter your circumstances. some people are born into privileged circumstances, some people aren't. if they have the desire to succeed they need to be able to do that in america. yet, what we find now there are so many kids that are -- grow up in communities that have really failing school systems. i think the number one thing to be able to better yourself and our

lincoln bedroom. make sure you take all of your culturally specific items with you so you can get your security deposit back, mr, "what is cocoa butter?" i have to say, what it is all said and done mr. president, after eight years in the white house, we are really going to miss michelle. we really are. thank you for being a good sport, mr. president. all jokes aside, let me just say how much it means for me to be here tonight. i voted for the present because he is black. i agree with the policy that he is black. he seems black, i am good. they say, what about iraq? i say, is he still black? but behind that joke is a humble appreciation for the historic implication for what your presidency means. when i was a kid, i lived in a country where people could accept a black quarterback. about that. and black man was brought by his mere color not good enough to lead a football team. your time, mr. president, when a black man can lead the entire free world -- [applause] larry: words alone it me no justice. so, mr. president, i am going to say, yo barry. nigger.it, my it.did thank you very much. thank you. [applause] >>

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lincoln electric welding school and qualification in x-ray welding. this is quite an achievement which will undoubtedly open new doors for justin. i wish him the best of success in his future endeavors. mr. speaker, career and technical education transforms lives. america needs a robust re-authorization of the perkins act. thank you, and i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york seek recognition? without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for ne minute. >> mr. speaker, tomorrow is april 15rk the deadline for passing a budget. mrs. maloney: it's clear the republicans are going to miss it. from the start this process has been a travesty. before president obama even released his budget, republicans announced they would refuse to hold a hearing on it. they rejected the president's budget out of hand even before it was printed. a move unprecedented in this modern era. then they passed out of committee a budget that would end the medicare guarantee, take health care coverage away from 20 million americans who received it under the affordable care act, make deep cuts that harm children, students, s

lincoln bedroom. no, no, i'm just saying, make sure you take all of your culturally specific items with you so you can get your security deposit back, mrtter? i've never heard of such a thing. cocoa butter. but i have to say when it's all said and done, mr. president, after eight years in the white house, we are really going to miss michelle. we really are. thank you for being a good sport, mr. president, but all jokes aside. let me just say how much it means for me to be here tonight. i've always joked that i voted for the president because he's black. and people say would you agree with his policies, i say i agree with the policy that he's black. as long as he keeps being black, i'm good. what about iraq? is he still black? but behind that joke is the humble appreciation for the historical implications for what your presidency means. when i was a kid i lived in a country where people couldn't accept a black quarterback. now think about that. a black man was thought by his mere color not good enough to lead a football team. and now to live in your time, mr. president, when a black man can lead the entire free world. words alone do me

mr. president, the great abraham lincoln was once asked how long a man's legs should be, and he famously answered long enough to reach from the body to the ground. if you asked a major airline today how long should a man's legs be, they'd say short enough to miss the tray table. that's not way to fly. mr. president, i urge my colleagues to support this amendment and move this bill in a more consumer-friendly direction. and with that, i yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. schumer: mr. president, some of our colleagues have to catch -- the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. mr. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: some of my colleagues have to catch planes, and it takes extra time for them to squeeze into these small seats with no leg room, so i would yield back my time and urge we -- and ask that we move the vote up to right now. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the q