the talk of american intervention but how others viewed american intervention. i have written lots of notes about the first world war and one of the pleasures is you can rewrite the book several times. you have the benefit of coming back to it with more distance at having read more. three or four times i have written about this process. byt i have been impressed coming back to this most recent book is it looks different from what i previously imagined. going back to the 70's and 80's when i first worked on this, a book by patrick devlin called too proud to fight. influence me. who wilson from quite early on from 1915 on the kind of scenario that was being resented , inson to buy his advisers 1950 wilson is setting up a scenario where the u.s. is coming into the war and defeats germany or helps the general -- helps the allies to defeat germany. the u.s. becomes nicely positioned at the piece conference. wilson replied when he read that runs along with my thought, there other things people could 1915, heas early as there was no15 chance of the public supporting hi

they see american culture as something to preserve and as the source of american exceptionalism. now, the problem -- i argue in "special providence" that the kpichs of these four schools has contributed to american success, and i believe that. but there is a recurring problem, which is that the jacksonians are so numerous, and when roused so politically powerful, that you can't really have an american foreign -- an effective strong expensive american foreign policy without jacksonian support. also when they really want to do something, it's very hard not to do it. difficult and costly. so the question has always been how do you get the power of jacksonian political support behind foreign policies that can also command support from hamiltonian, jeffersonian or wilsonian elites? and i think we're seeing in our country today a moment when that gap is wider than ever and has created a real crisis in american foreign policy. i noticed that -- one of the things i noticed when president trump took office is that something that happened very early is that a portrait of andrew jackson was

educated african-americans come in contact with uneducated african-americans. you need someone who can write to sendorganize ways your grievances higher up the to send yourand reports to african-american to make clear the abuses that are existing. efforts to arm themselves in france to protect themselves from racial attacks by white soldiers. when we start thinking about a different impact the war would have on american society namely the impact on the civil rights movement, i would urge you not to think about african-americans waiting until he got home to participate in civil rights protest. situation, there were many units that organized and protested while they were in uniform. the fact they were behind the lines gave them the time and ability to do this. they are ready to go. they are already politicized and ready to join the naacp, which they to enlarge numbers. contested and is what you might expect. two examples of activism on the part of american soldiers was going to be contested. example comes from another , adier's letter collection white soldier fro

american workers. but mr. speaker, it's really the long overdue benefits of those who are not living in the rich suburbs in washington, d.c., that take center stage for me and my fellow north dakotans. citizens there file claiming the standard deduction. that means the vast majority of my constituents will see their deductions nearly doubled if they do nothing else. and obviously with the doubling of the standard deduction it will likely inspire more north dakotans to claim this simple deduction. mr. speaker, this huge benefit combined with greater job opportunities and simpler and less expensive filing costs and of course a generous family tax credit will put more money in the pockets and less anxiety in the hearts of middle-class north dakotans. supporting this reform package is easy for me because it's right for north dakota and i thank chairman brady for his outstanding work. mr. neal: mr. speaker, i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentlelady from washington, a very successful business woman

tv,n american history historian james holland talks about american and british artillery production between 1941 and 1943, after german forces invaded soviet territory. he is the author -- the author of several books on world war ii. the national archives posted this event. it is about one hour and 10 minutes. >> 75 years ago, europe was engulfed in the war that had already lasted for three years. the allies pushed back but there was yet no end in sight to the conflict. james holland tells the story of those crucial years of world war ii in his new book, the allies strike back. volume two of his war in the trilogy, following the rise of germany.

president donald trump, the american people have a leader who has boundless confidence in the american people and the capacity of the american economy to grow, expanding create jobs and that enthusiasm and that unity gives us great confidence as we move forward in the house, move forward in the senate and negotiations in december. before christmas president trump is going to have historic tax cuts on his desk and be able to sign them into law. merion more on my exclusive interview with vice president mike pence. coming up we are discussing why he thinks tax reform will help american families and also we are getting to other issues. stay with us on that but first take a look inside air force two. i got a chance to set up their as they landed. it was pretty exciting. more on that interview exclusive right here on sunday morning features, next. ♪ at lincoln financial, we get there are some responsibilities of love you gotta do on your own. and some you shouldn't have to shoulder alone. like ensuring your family is protected, today and tomorrow, no matter what the future brings. see how

i think the american view of the war as more americans became fixated on it was difficult for the american public to pick out what was most essential about the war. this was one of the things that was jarring for people living through this experience. you understood there were humanitarian programs, but at the same time, massive uses of firepower, brutality, and american at its best all happening simultaneously. >> let's hear from rocky point, new york. caller: thanks for taking my call. my question is -- what would happen if we decided to use nuclear weapons in the war? would it have ended the war or would we have had to use too many of them or would it have started another world war? would other countries protest that and say this is not right and join forces? >> you talked about the exhibit at the archives and the incredible amount of armament that was drawn upon. what was the impact on north vietnam in particular? prof. nguyen: i can tie those two questions together. that last scenario, the people's republic of china and the soviet union would have definitely gotten involved directly h

and american workers. it will empower the people of ahead who want to get and it will lessen the power of washington, d.c. vote for freedom. ahead and it vote for prosperity. vote for this rule and this bill. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i'm very pleased to yield one minute to the distinguished gentlewoman from connecticut, my good friend, ms. delauro. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from connecticut is recognized for one minute. i rise in strong opposition to the rule and to the republican tax scam. the biggest economic challenge of our time is that too many people who play by the rules are in jobs that do not pay them enough to live on. wages are not keeping up with rising costs. too many families today struggle to make ends meet. they have the rising cost of health care, of childcare, of housing, and meanwhile big corporations, milli

world war i american art. i have talked about this painting a lot and i would say it is a thrill for me to finally see it in person. the thing is it is the motive that he feels compelled to continue to paint. here you see the planes crashing, the german soldier actually surrendering to his unit. he has other scenes of men falling to their death. you can tell those men are wearing gas masks. he writes a lot about the suffocation he feels when forced to wear a gas mask for hours. and the devastation that he witnesses in french villages. these would be experiences that haunted him for the rest of his life. they come home and are able to share their experiences. they use either writing or art to make sense of them. as we know, there will be a significant number of men who don't make it home, and so one of the things we will see the united states do is create over seas cemeteries to house the people who died in france. only 30% of the men who died in france are housed in these cemeteries. the government gave famili

the american public has been asking. i think it is ironic today is the seventh anniversary of republicans being elected to the majority in the house and moving to the senate. and now we have a president who has pushed to make sure hard-working americans get to keep more of what they earn. three points i want to make. myn i was 20, i started first small business. small business creates more jobs than any other thing in america. in this bill, you will get lower taxes, 25%. the lowest it has been in 40 years. were spot businesses, more jobs. second, every single american will keep more of what they earn. the standard deduction, instead of the first $6,000 you earned tax three, it is $12,000. for families and couples, the first $24,000 you earned, tax-free. you get to keep it. you can determine what is best to adapt. we're going to bring the money sitting overseas back to invest in american businesses. bill goes intos effect, i believe you are going to hear from businesses saying they want to come back to america. of what wa

frank: don't you think that the organized conspiracies of american stalinism represents a threat to american civil liberties? mr. hays: no. i do not. i think those people are under the surveillance of the fbi. i do not think they are potential spies. i trust the fbi and i trust the law. what you are telling me is we have the right to violate the laws in order to get communists. what you are saying is a totalitarian government would be safer than a democratic government. frank: i want to say, i am for decency. let's make that clear. mr. hays: i know you are. >> unlike you are both for decency, but let's go back to the state department. don't you think that senator mccarthy's message might be justified and the house un-american activities committee might be justified because of a failure on the part of department of justice? of fbi knew of the existence him. mr. hays: you cannot base your whole policy on the fact that he was found guilty. one man. frank: don't you think that the has failedtment because of the policies -- procommunist policies? mr. hays: -- of north korea by the communist. fran

this bill makes the american worker, the american family, the american farmer, the american small businesses, and the american economy winners once again. i urge all of my colleagues to vote yes on the tax cut and jobs act. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman reserves. the gentleman is recognized. mr. neal: 28,000 people will use the student loan interest deduction in missouri number 8 claims nearedly $33 million in deduction. with that i'd like to yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from california, medical man, dr. ruiz, and congressman, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for wo minutes. mr. ruiz: thank you, ranking member neal, for the opportunity to speak on this bill. the fact is, i do want to simplify our tax code. and i do want tax reform. a tax reform that relieves the burden on our middle class, our seniors, our -- seniors, our veteran, and our students. let's just see how this bill fares with the middle class, senior, veterans, and students. so my middle class constituents in california will be double tax

i only use american express cards. but what happens when you go to a place that says we don't take american express? you just walk out? i walk out because there are alternatives. i mean, the reality is that we can meet the vast spending needs of our customers. there are other options that i have. and it certainly is in my interests to take advantage of those options. does your wife--? is she allowed to have a visa or mastercard or your children, they can't have one either? well, i think you know my wife is very independent. okay. she has decided on her own that she only carries our products. now, what's very, very important is i study the competition intensively. we do have people in the company who have other cards, who test them, who use them, so we can find out what's happening in the marketplace. and i think that's very important. today, going forward, what do you think the biggest challenge for american express is? i think what's really exciting, what's happening in the marketplace right now, is the convergence of

now, i put hope in the american people. this bill puts hope in our american people. . because we trust the people. that's the start of america's comeback. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the chair reminds all members to address their remarks to the chair and not to the perceived audience. the house will come to order. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. neal: thank you, mr. speaker. always an honor to introduce the very capable democratic leader, the gentlelady from california, ms. pelosi. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california is recognized. mr. neal: for one minute. ms. pelosi: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding and thank him for his superb leadership as the top democrat on the ways and means committee. i commend him and all of his -- our fellow democrats on the committee for standing up for the middle class in our country and fighting for the truth in what is in this bill. mr. speaker, this vote today is a defining moment for our country. our

on behalf of the american people, i want each and everyone of you, both american and japanese, to know that your service and commitment helps keep us all safe, strong, and free. i also want to express our gratitude to the family members and loved ones who sacrificed so much to make your service possible. they are absolutely incredible people and it is not easy. gratefuls profoundly for all you do. home starting to do josh i will tell you, you are reading and seeing, really, really well. the stock market is at an all-time high. [applause] unemploymentmp: back in the united states is at a 17 year low. [applause] almost to money and jobs have been added since a very, very special day. it was called election day, november 8. 2 million jobs. [applause] president trump: that is a lot of jobs. we have dealt isis one brutal defeat after another, and it's about time. [applause] it is trulyump: inspiring to see american airmen , and japanese -- [laughter] president trump: you have a generalrine here, kelly, four-star. did anyone ever hear of general kelly? where is general kelly? he is something

at least new england americans. in 1772, bostonians publish their votes and proceedings which condemn the british for threatening to impose anglican bishops on america. so did 1775 engraving which i put up here. paul revere titled "america in distress," or "a certain cabinet junto" which appeared in "the royal american" magazine. the engraving shows a king and his ministers reviewing -- it's on the table there -- a bill for the total abolition of civil and religious liberty in america. so once again, here's paul revere showing that kind of genius he had for propaganda and for sort of ratcheting up the rhetoric, as he did in that wood cut on the boston massacre. it was he who labeled it a massacre. you can see as well here that in the minds of many, many americans, religion and politics go together, right in the king and his ministers have an intention to do what, to suppress liberties. not merely civil liberties but religious liberties also. because they are integrally related to one another. so let's turn to some m

means to be an american. my search put me to william "offord's marvelous book plymouth plantation, he was the longtime governor of them is plantation. he wrote this wonderful book about the journey from england to holland on the mayflower to the new world. and the first few decades here. i got interested in the subject. journalist, i started trying to find out more about it. because i was in the happy position of being a senior editor at the wall street journal, i could indulge my interest by writing an occasional article on thanks giving, which i did. when i retired from the journal, after writing the book on north korea, i decided to turn to thanksgiving. thanksgiving and my interest in the subject really covered many of the same things i had covered as a journalist at the wall street journal. i was able to pursue my interest in politics, religion, economics to a certain extent, and in american culture. -- i seeg except for this book as a totality of a lot of what i have learned over my career. >> it's also

framework, and the american people will carry forward american leadership in combating climate change no matter how evil the continuing influence of the fossil fuel industry in congress. mr. president, i yield the floor, and i note the absence of a qoar. the presiding officer: -- of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. barrasso: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. barrasso: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, the senate finance committee is working this week on tax cuts and jobs act, a very important piece of legislation. the country is looking forward to having passed. this a republican plan to give tax relief to the american, just like the name of the legislation says, it actually addresses both issues, tax cuts and jobs. first of all, the legislation will cut the taxes for american workers. one of the biggest cuts in the plan is that it roughly doubles the standard deduction that people take. r

[applause] >> this is an exciting day for the american people, an exciting day for the american economy. we stand here as representatives of families and small businesses and farmers all across this country who have spoken, who have told us, they want tax relief. i want an opportunity for a better life. today, we are proud to stand and excited to stand and give them hope for a better tomorrow. we all have the chance to travel around the country. i was recently in north carolina and i heard a small business woman, she came up to me and she said, if you are able to get tax reform on the president's desk, i will double my business, home -- double the number of employees. we heard those kind of stories over and over. we want people to have larger paychecks. small business owners told us, we would like to pay our employees more, we would like to be able to increase their paychecks, but it is a tax burden, the health care costs. today, we are standing for them. this is why we run for office. this legislation is progrowth, pro-family, because we want a plan that will reward hard work, respect

because the american people are counting on us, because we told the american people this is what we're going to do if we get this majority, and guess what, we're doing it. >> hear, hear. >> all right. thank you, everybody. appreciate it. >>> coming up at 2:30 eastern. and if you'd like to read the republicans' bill, you can go to c-span.org/congress and that will take you right to our congressional chronicle page where you can read all 429 pages of the proposal. in the meantime, nurlds h.r. mcmaster will join white house press secretary sarah sanders today at the white house briefing. she'll be previewing the president's upcoming trip to asia, and that is scheduled for 1:30 eastern today. and president trump is leaving for asia tomorrow. on the way, he'll stop in hawaii to visit pearl harbor and the usa arizona memorial. the president will then head to japan, and from there he goes to south korea where he'll be visiting u.s. troops at camp humphreys and address south korea's national assembly. then the president will be nb vietnam to attend the asia-pacific economic cooperation meeting

with this bill, there's relief for real american families. there's relief for american workers. and there's tax relief for hardworking job creators of all sizes. and with this bill, we will grow our economy by delivering more jobs, fairer tax, and bigger paychecks to americans of all walks of life. that's especially true for low and middle income americans who are just sick of today's broken tax code. its impact on their jobs, their lives, and their paychecks. under the tax cuts and jobs act, that's going to change. it's going to change right now. for a middle income family of four making $59,000 a year, as the speaker said, this bill delivers tax cuts of nearly $1,200. for that main street business making $52,000 a year, working day and night and weekends, a tax cut of over $3,000 for that main street business. that's your money. you earned it. you deserve to keep it. you should be able to use it for whatever you want. that's what this bill will do and that's why the tax cut and jobs act has president trump's full support. this is it, america. this is our opportunity to make ta

it is not good for american people, american families, american workers or american businesses, or american children. it will be borne by future generations. floor -- ilo and want to implore to the chairman and our friends on the other side of the aisle. we need something that is fair and that fosters economic growth, that signifies the tax code and reduces the deficit, not make it larger. we need a tax reform bill that is fair and fiscally responsible. let's do tax reform right. think you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, if i could say one last quick thing. sitting next to you -- you have been a great advocate and in a blur of bipartisan compromises in the past. thsis man sitting next to you, ron wyden, he has crafted not one but two major tax reform proposals in the last several years -- not one, but two. with his leadership and hopefully the support of peter here, we can doin this. let's hit the pause button. >> i agree, we can do it. we have not been able, so far. >> a good day in the united states senate is hopefully a good day for the country, as we think about the opportunities to lower

unions and american workers. in the trump administration, workers have been under repeated attack. since taking office, president trump has signed several laws sent to him by the republican congress, laws that directly undermine the wages, benefits, health, and safety of american workers. in just ten months, they've rolled back rules designed to make sure that federal contractors don't cheat their workers out of hard-earned wages. they have delayed safety standards that keep workers from being exposed to lethal cars againic materials many they gave financiers more time to cheat hardworking americans out of billions of dollars in retirement savings. the list goes on. this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government in washington is supposed to work for the people who sent us here. so why is it that the federal government seems to be working against the interests of 150 million americans who work for a living? well, there's one reason, money. money slithers through washington like a snake. its influence is ev

jobs and american workers. with this tax reform legislation, we can ensure that it does not stay that way. the american people deserve a tax codem that works for them ad not against them, that grow their paychecks instead of shrinking them and expand the opportunities and eliminating them and that's what we are going to give them starting .oday >> the senator from georgia. it needs preparation and we are lucky the majority leader mitch mcconnell was where he is at the time he is. the tax issue was going to central issue in a drop in the proper timothy's public to come to a high-tech system and he also picked a man to be the chairman of this committee who brought years of experience in the united states senate andd concussions. so the tax code is by no means compassionate and was only complex to make it simpler and fair for family and chose. what we tell you something there are a lot of disappointed people overseas right now because they've been because their taxes were lower than ours we are out of luck. the am

for american jobs. this is an opportunity to do something that is hard to do and it only gets done once every 25 or 30 years. this is the moment. it is time to do this. we'll have a debate on the floor that lets everybody make every reasonable amendment -- reasonable -- not that it might be reasonable to do it, but reasonable in that it deals with taxes. and you figure out some way to pay for it. so you reduce something here, add something there. that's what this debate will be. we've talked about this for years and intensely for months. it is time to get the job donald trump and i the presiding officer: the senator from south dakota. mr. thune: mr. president, i don't need to tell anybody that american families have had a tough time in recent years. weak economic growth, stagnant wages and a lack of opportunities have left many americans struggling just to get by s. -- get by. but a fine point on that, mr. president, during the entire years of the obama presidency, there wasn't a single year where the g

and the bottom line is we believe in ordinary americans. we believe that if you invest there and you give people the opportunity to work in good jobs, to earn good wages, and to really make sure that they have dignity, respect and can save for the future, can send their kids to college, that ultimately that builds our economy. and so i'm really honored to be doing this special order hour with my good friends and colleagues, and we're going to do a little bit of back and forth here. i want to yield to my friend and colleague, mr. gallego, and ask him to talk a little bit about what we're hearing. is it true? is it hypocrisy? what do you think about those ebts and deficits? mr. gallego: thank you, my good friend. mr. speaker, we know the republican tax plan is a massive, unconscionable giveaway to millionaires and billionaires. we know that it will blow up the deficit and do nothing to raise wages or create solid, middle class jobs. what we don't know, mr. speaker, is how much the g.o.p. tax proposal will personally benefit donald trump. that

president, we want to be an american company. we're hearing that all of these days, we're hearing it more and more, we're hearing it -- frankly, i'm hearing it every single day. people are coming in at levels that you will be seeing over the next short period of time. you're seeing it in so many ways. youp oar seeing it when you just look at what's happening with the stock market. and look at the enthusiasm indexes, which are the highest they've ever been. the business enthusiasm in this country is at record levels, and we're hearing it from everything from tax reform, which is really spearheading it, and yet i think it's really a feeling for our country that people haven't had in a long time name see what's going on with regulation. they see the tax move and that's going to happen, and i really believe we'll have it done before christmas. i consider that to be one of the great christmas presents. and not just the reform and not just the tax cuts but we will be creating jobs like you have rarely seen in this country. so we never

and american leadership happened. the united states of america said, we're not going to return home. we're not going to be terrified by these threats. we are going to insert ourselves right in the middle of these threats. and a pledge through article five of nato, an attack upon one is an attack upon all. think of taking that pledge when the soviet union was astride half of europe. we decided we were going to stand for people who needed to live in liberty and freedom. i had the great joy of being trained by madeleine's father. she'll tell her own story. but the korbel family would not have survived without the united states of america. the threats are multiple. we can talk about specific tactical and strategic responses to them. but the core has to be the united states has to be confident enough to say that with our leadership we can solve the problems that we face. there is nobody else to do it. anybody else who tries to do it will not do it on the basis of our values. and if we don't work from our values, our intere

to more of an emphasis on european-american experience itself. again we are tracing voices and looking for documents that tell us in the words of the people themselves, or in their own objects, what that experience was like. one of the interesting questions and material that actually relates to this is how would people get into this part of the country which would have been at some distance and before trains. they would have come up the missouri river, as lewis and clark did in their own boat. the steamboat came along in the 1840's for sure. this is a captain's wheel from an early steamboat on the missouri river. we have in our collections a set of letters by a woman whose name is lily hayes. this particular letter from 1874 is one of my favorites. she writes, "i waited with trunks packed for three weeks. at last the vote came in sight boat came inhe sight and we started on our perilous journey up the river. this missouri river is unlike any river you could dream of. it is very broad and in some places shallow. the channel owing to the sand and w

a sell out of american interest. they went voting for joe mccarthy. i happen to be the recipient of the vote and i appreciate it a big deal. >> the other side of that coin is that you were the recipient of all the protest vote in wisconsin.

and some, i assume are good people. >> against african-americans. >> look at my african-american over here. look at him. are you the greatest? >> against a judge with mexican ancestry. >> this judge is giving us unfair rulings. now i say why? well, i'm building a wall, okay? and it's a wall between mexico -- not another country. >> he's not from mexico. he's from indiana. >> in my opinion, he's of mexican heritage and he's very proud of it. >> against a muslim gold star mother. >> if you look at his wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say, she probably -- maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say, you tell me. >> claiming there were very fine people on both sides in charlottesville. >> you have some very bad people in that group. but you had people that were very fine people, on both sides. >> and, of course pushing the birther myth against president barack obama. >> i would like to have him show his birth certificate. can i be honest with you, i hope he can. if he can't, and if he wasn't born in this country, which is a real possibility. i'm not saying it happened

we have listened to the american people. and as this moves through committee there will be more , input. this is the most important issue that we pass tax reform and have it to the president's desk this year to sign. this is critical for economic growth. it is critical for jobs. it is critical for our country. and i am confident we will get it done. thank you, all, and it's great to be with you here today. [applause] >> thank you so much. that is wonderful news. i appreciate it. we look forward to being active with the administration. the administration has cut more regulatory burden than any other administration in the past, and we really appreciate all of the hard work that the president and his team are putting in in that regard. i know you are all eager to begin exploring this year's franchise expo. i want to first be in a position fv productions for their hard work and for their continuous dedication to franchising. i will ask secretary mnuchin and our other speakers to join me to help cut the ribbon for the expo and th

the american people are counting on us. we told the american people we'll do it if we have a majority. we are doing it. appreciate it. [applause] >> melissa: so that was republicans revealing the new tax plan and joining me to break down is joseph perry. tax and business leader. and former leader under president trump. seth, was the baby the cutest part. did you see the baby. everybody was going wild for it. and it was tough to focus on the details. but we'll get back to the details here. what did you think of the way they rolled it out. >> it was astonishing like them describe the dog by talking about the tail. the biggest thing is it 2 trillion to corporations and reducing 35 to 20 authors. and you heard no one talk about that in the press conference. they talked about middle-class families who get hundred says much and not the wealthy corporations who get billions. >> melissa: i can't imagine why that math comes from when you talk about corporation getting millions. and they are made up of employees. and the company itse

what do the american people want? that is to have that viewpoint how does this hit the ground in youngstown ohio? all of this complex high-minded. what happens to the average family? in the people asking those questions with that pension? to have that person at the table. >> so as you ran against nancy pelosi. it is better than what people thought. honestly i have no intention to do that at all. for what needed to be done and said we're all of the same team helping our party in the direction to create a new model. for the economic system generally. and we're starting to move in that direction and they will start to see as more is more as the responsible party. >> that is a very practical way to think about it. >> you tend to see things as they are. >> we will be sure to check in how this project is going. up next a leading expert with ronald reagan with the similarities between the former president and donald trump and working-class republicans. next. it's the ultimate sleep number week on the only bed that adjusts on

as the british and the american forces built naval fleets, the americans build fares at whitehall. the british built them on the river that lake champlain flows into to the north. these two fleets would clash on october 10, 1776, where benedict arnold's navy fleet gave the british all the good handle on that first day of what when turned out to be a three day running gunbattle, the. length of the lake wouldtely, arnold's fleet either be sunk, surrender or scuttled as he made his way back down towards the protection of a guns at crown point. the spirit of the mission was successful, as the commander of the british invasion force got down tours ticonderoga, took a look at the american defenses sore and decided that, being late in the season and the northeast with winter coming on, he did not want to get involved in a protracted siege of ticonderoga. he returned to canada. ings would result i in him be replaced with the gentleman johnny burgoyne, the famous british general who would come back down lack champlain -- lake 777,plain in the summer of 1 press through the american defenses

american jobs for american workers at a high american wage. this is what this is bringing, not the status quochlt we keep hearing presentations about returning to something and predictions. this is what investorser saying we could do. i look not through that but through the people i know will be working tomorrow in my district because they are going to have the ability to take this wage. as they demonstrated, these are the same workers because of this tax reform they are going to have dollars in their pocket and they are going to make the determination. in pennsylvania it's estimated that this is going to create 39,673 jobs across the state. that's pretty significant growth for a state like pennsylvania. these are numbers. these are the facts. so those who are watching something like this are going to be all impressed by the rhetoric. look at the facts. look at the opportunity. most importantly compare to what we've been. compare it to where we've been to the promise of where we can go. if you want to get stuck in the past, go back, put that w

for american jobs. this is an opportunity to do something that is hard to do and it only gets done once every 25 or 30 years. this is the moment. it is time to do this. we'll have a debate on the floor that lets everybody make every reasonable amendment -- reasonable -- not that it might be reasonable to do it, but reasonable in that it deals with taxes. and you figure out some way to pay for it. so you reduce something here, add something there. that's what this debate will be. we've talked about this for years and intensely for months. it is time to get the job donald trump and i would yield the floor, mr. president. -- it is time to get the job done. and i would yield the floor, mr. president. ms. stabenow: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. ms. stabenow: thank you, mr. president. i am actually going to speaker a moment about something other than the tax provisions. i have to say with my friend from missouri, we may not agree on the tax provisions, but we do agree on wha

in alabama, i participated in recommending an african-american judge and i've had african-american judges before -- >> we're talking about this administration, though. of all of the u.s. attorneys that have been nominated or confirmed, how many have been african-american? >> one in alabama that i knew and i believe he's been confirmed. >> of all the fbi agents nominated around the country, how many are african-american? >> i do not know. >> would you get that for me. here's the gist whof what i'm saying. for a lot of people who objectively look from the back, like i do and many people where i live, the question is whether we're going towards inclusion and diversity or whether we're going back. so i applaud the president for his approach to the opioid epidemic which everyone in this room is concerned about. we're losing over 100 people a day. but your decision to reverse the crime division goes back to the cuff crack on crime, and i believe you said you want our attorneys to approve the big sentences, but in the opioid crisis, we're treating it as a mental crisis. is it as opposed to who t

many mexican-americans and african-americans, and japanese-americans, particularly after pearl harbor in december of 1941 support what was known double v campaign. it was victory a broad but also victory at home for first-class membership in american society. you cannot win abroad without also winning at home. you could not fight for american democracy overseas without fighting for equal citizenship on the home front. this became a fundamental principle for many mexican-american, african-americans, and other folks. there were some successes. in civil rights during the war. franklin delano roosevelt, president during the initial years of world war ii signed executive order 8802 that banned discrimination in the work place and called for fair we have black and brown veterans returning to their old lives expecting equality. there are responses to this and racism and discrimination and lack of opportunity and the entrichementen entrenchment not just of jim crow segregation against african-americans in the deep south, but also jim crow and what we might call juan or jamie crow against mexi

and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american people. welcome to the wonderful world of blood donation i come here every three weeks to get my transfusion to be specific i receive immunoglobulin that my body gets and support is that it cannot produce itself around the world giving blood is seen as a symbol of generosity knowing does this because it helps people it's just that one of the side effects is that it. applies more. to put the. me on your car immediately. half of all plasma based drugs today come from private companies and are produced from paid plasma the smallest compromise of their own murder car and. one of the risks of a donation in it then is proof that the frequency of pathology is much higher in paid donations and it. if i was lying when i. was over two years old he will go in the money using the drills and who runs the blood business. to. load. in the stories that shape the weight with god so now close to being wiped out in syria the country's civil war rifles move towards finding a political solution to the longstandin

family physicians, aarp, american academy of pediatrics, american college of physicians, osteopathic association, psychiatric association, march of dimes, sis six fibrosis, american cancer society, multiple sclerosis a society. it goes on and on and on. who oppose this, who opposes. why? because they'd was going to affect people losing health insurance and other people seeing rate increases and we have heard this. at least 10% here. the bottom line with the this is that people still get sick whether the health insurance or not. walking to the emergency room. we have connect the number walking in that cannot pay, which is a stabilized at the small group market in my state, small business association has stabilized last five years and we have seen things stabilize or bow down in the larger markets because they're not paying for folks that are walking in without insurance and cannot pay this reverses that and i would have to say in michigan right now 97% of our children, moms and dads can take their kids into the doctor and that's a good thing and we are seeing a 50% reduction in people

that's an american veteran. [applause] on this veterans day we honor those who served with tributes and promises kept, but as our veterans understand better than most we also ought or their -- we also honor their service by ensuring that the men and women serving in our armed services today have the resources and support they need to defend this nation on this day. our veterans will be glad to know president trump has already taken decisive action to make the strongest military in the history of the world, stronger still. this president has already signed the largest increase in military spending in nearly a decade and before this year is out, we will enact the largest investment in our national defense since the days of ronald. reagan. and under president donald trump i will make you a promise. we are going to rebuild our military. we will restore the arsenal democracy and give our soldiers sailors, airmen, and marines and the resourcesn and training they need to accomplish their mission and come home safe. tha

economy, american workers and american businesses for generations. but we need your help. president trump and i need your full and unwavering support. to pass text cuts and tax reform, and to to so this year. you are here today as a member of this counsel because you are uniquely influential, men and women who lead companies of enormous consequence. in our economy, community and country. and halls of government, before you leave town, i want to encourage you, sit down with your employees, suppliers, other, leaders, in your community, and let them know what you heard here today. if you share our convictedtion - convicttion that now is time for historic tax relief for american people, go tell somebody. the people that work for you. especially those people that supply your company. your vendors and sou suppliers,d take the opportunity to speak to the people that represent all of those people that work for you. and let them know that now is the time for us to do all that we and, to set politics aside, and embrace this historic opportunity to pass meaning

that was the american contingent. and the second contingent left from glasdpow and from english ports, portsmouth sailed down, , crossed into spain, and then got into the straits of gibrail -- gibraltar. so you had one group coming from -- the atlantic group coming norfolk, who went into morocco. they did landed three places. you had the british group and french never knew until the very last moment that the british were involved in this invasion. it would have been it would have , been a lot more bloodier, and lasted a lot longer had they known the british were part of the torch plan, part of the torch invasion. the reason for that, if you cast your mind back, is because the british had just destroyed the whole mediterranean french fleet, approximately nine months earlier, worried that the french fleet would somehow be used against them, either by the vichy french or by the germans they destroyed the fleet. , you had literally thousands of french sailors who were killed by the british. so they didn't know. so that gr

this is american life now for 50 years. and so that little incident of quitting the swimming team, and i did not quit the swimming team because it that he excluded me. i grew up in segregation. i'd seen it all the time. i would be here all day talking to all of the incidents. but i knew that he was compromised. and so that is what it ended up amounting to. >> what was your parents life like in 1940s chicago? >> my parents are two very exceptional people.i'm going to write about them in the future. my father was black from the south, taught himself to read and write, my mother was upper-middle-class white from ohio and daughter of a contractor and had her masters degree from the university of chicago. they were very different. once you get to know them, you saw that probably was my father was better read and spend more time reading and then my mother. but they for them, life was, they were exceptional people in that they knew and had no illusions about the fact that there were going to have to fight. and they did it without

for the american taxpayer, the gigantic tax code is not a dream but a nightmare for most americans. this has helped the powerful and thehe well-connected but has hut the american workers and american industry and it hurts americans ability to compete with the rest of the world so the bill unveiled today takes a real giant step forward to make our tax code is simpler, fairer and more competitive. it catches us up with our major trading partners have been lowering business tax rates while we have stood still and keeps us uncompetitive. it gives us an opportunity to export more when we are competitive in the global economy. this bill will also help bring back jobs and create new ones. it will boost american wages by promoting economic growth and incentivizing investment. theo centerpiece of the legislation is where it ought to be, in the center of our population, middle-class ameri america, so it has middle tax class tax cuts. the average middle-class family of four would see a tax-cut of morean than $1400. this is an increase in the child tax credit of $650 above the thousand dollars