kansas state university was right. those are insights of the value of a man who wants a lifetime appointment to niceties of c pre-and court the highest court in the land. the questions we have raised about his judgment and his values goes to the heart of whoe we are and what we want to be. we want the supreme court figurw for corporations and employers could do it on to exclude the opportunities of common people like the truck driver to have his day in court or be treated fairly? that's what it comes down to. the fundamental question of areas and justice. i'm sorry because i love the senate and i spent a good part of my life there but we haveea reached his mom. this effort to fill the course of this nation with republican a appointments even at the expense of violating senate traditions that are over 100 years old that has brought us this moment. some have said the nuclear option was used by senator mcconnell when he stopped america garland. what we are facing today is the fallout. mr. president i yield the floora >> '

kansas state university -- kansas state university professor after working there for many years is diagnosed with cancer and has to go through bone mario transplant -- bonemar row transplant and said she is afraid to go back to work because of the influenza. they said come back or you will be fired. she was aired fired and judge gorsuch said that kansas state university was right. those are insights into the value of a man hon wants a lifetime appointment to the united states supreme court, the highest court in the land. the questions we have raised about his judgment and his values go to the heart of who we are and with a what we want to be. do we want the supreme court to continue to be a voice for j -- for the corporations an corporate elite and employers? do we want to exclude the opportunities of common people like that truck driver alphonse maddin? that's what it comes down to. it is a fundamental question of fairness and justice. i'm sorry because i spent a good part of my life here and i'm sorry that we reached this moment. but this effort to fill this nation's court with republican

kansas state university -- kansas state university professor after working there for many years is diagnosed with cancer and has to go through bone mario transplant -- bonemar row transplant and said she is afraid to go back to work because of the influenza. they said come back or you will be fired. she was aired fired and judge gorsuch said that kansas state university was right. those are insights into the value of a man hon wants a lifetime appointment to the united states supreme court, the highest court in the land. the questions we have raised about his judgment and his values go to the heart of who we are and with a what we want to be. do we want the supreme court to continue to be a voice for j -- for the corporations an corporate elite and employers? do we want to exclude the opportunities of common people like that truck driver alphonse maddin? that's what it comes down to. it is a fundamental question of fairness and justice. i'm sorry because i spent a good part of my life here and i'm sorry that we reached this moment. but this effort to fill this nation's court with republican

employed by kansas state university diagnosed with kansas and a uested a transfer due to flu outbreak that could compromise her health and judge orsuch talked about showing up as an essential job function. and that the rehabilitation act should not be used as a safety net for employees who cannot work. i think her request was an extension, not a forever. wo women among others, that he found no reason to be supportive of. he could find no legal precedent, no, nothing, that would give him the ability to make the decision that was within the law and humane, even hough he was in the dissent. and then in planned parenthood association of utah versus hebert, the governor of that state again he dissented against the court's majority impacting women's health to decline a full review of the case. in which the governor stripped funding. ither party and he deficient yated from court practices and governor hebert's decision. other women, he continued to show hostility towards women's rights and institutions that discriminate against women. his record indicates that. let me finish with this commen

he ruled against a assistant professor at kansas state university that was fired after 15 years on the job because she needed more time to recover from breast cancer. to her,oo accommodating it was asking too much of the university to give her some more time to recover. in cases involving employee compensation, he has ruled over 90% of the time for the employers. d1 out of 23 cases he has side with the employers. we cannot afford a supreme court that will tip the scales of justice even further in favor of the wealthy and powerful. of ouray i see members union and dedicated service employees serve their communities. people like mental health workers, teachers, social workers, bridge inspectors, public safety officers -- i see their work, and it means a lot to them and their communities, such as you. if you put in an honest days work, serve your community, and really listened to the concerns and struggles of hard-working americans, then you would know corporations are not people. >> [applause] patrick: we don't need another corporate flunky on the supreme court. >> [applause] heard a lot

he ruled an assistant professor at kansas state university, grace wong, who was fired after 15 years on the job because she needed more time to recover from breast cancer. it was too accommodating for her -- to her. it was too much. she was asking too much of the university to give her some more time to recover. in cases involving employee compensation, he has ruled over 90% of the time for the employers. 21 out of 23 cases he has sided with the employers. we cannot afford a supreme court who will tip the scales of justice even further in favor of the wealthy and the powerful. every day i see members of our union and dedicate the public servant employees serve their communities. people like mental health workers, teachers, social workers, bridge inspectors, public safety officers. i see their work and it means a lot to them and it means a lot to their communities and their neighbors such as you. if you have put in an honest day's work, served your community, and really listened to the concerns and struggles of hardworking americans, then you know corporations are not people. [cheers

and the governor has now declared state of emergency. >>> so a kansas state university student really, really likes a particular brand of soda. >> claire daniels took her love of dr. pepper to twitter. saying she needed to have a dr. pepper fountain. of course who doesn't need one. she needs this installed in her house. probably be cheaper than what she was spending daily on the beverage. >> guess what, imagine her surprise when she came home from class and there was a dr. pepper fountain in her grunt yard. it is six feet high. hold five gallons of the soda. >> the company says it was inspired by the communication major's great tweet. i would be inspired by that too. former co-anchor, in oklahoma city is obsessed with diet dr. pepper. thinking a holiday, birthday gift. >> get your sugar high. five gallons. 36 two-liter bottles. >> i need that for la croix, sparkling water. >> see a woman around campus. running nonstop. >> that would be her. >>> clear coffee is here. how does it taste? >>> plus, just 241 days, not that we're counting down until the newest "star wars" movie debut. your

he earned his phd in military history from kansas state university. he retired to tucson in 2015. he is the author of dozens of books, including "fighting for in theam" blacks frontier army. it is in sale in our gift shop following the lecture. we are excited to welcome dr. john langellier. join me in a round of supplies -- round of applause as we welcome him to the podium. [applause] john: i feel like a telemarketer. [laughter] i will send you every month a book that i have written that no now.ants if you sign up thank you for allowing me to be here. it is a wonderful opportunity to come back to what we at kansas .tate call western kansas some of you call it colorado. it has been a pleasure. this is a magnificent facility. we certainly want you, if you are not members, before you leave, the doors will not be join.ed until you there is no such thing as a free lunch. i will attempt to make 21st-century technology work for a fellow that still lives in the 19th century. my topic is the buffalo soldiers . the emphasis is on the buffalo soldier experience in colorado. "do you think i w

at kansas state university, professor charles rice is using climate modeling to help anticipate climate effects in the great plains and to help the region mitigate and adapt to those effects. in wisconsin, victor cabrera, assistant professor at the university of wisconsin madison dairy science department says that higher summer temperatures and increasing drought will interfere with both livestock fertility and milk production. and dairy cows could give as much as 10% less milk. secretary perdue's own department of agriculture predicts that by 2030, climate change will cost the u.s. dairy sector between $79 million and $199 million per year in lost production. south dakota state university professor mark cochran is working with the forest service to better understand how a changing climate is affecting our forests. professor cochran reported that forest fire seasons worldwide increased by 18.7% due to more rain-free days and hotter temperatures. secretary perdue could travel to iowa, and there he would hear from jean takle, professor of agrinomy and geologic and atmospheric sciences who

grace weng, preffesor at kansas state university facing a bone arrow transfer and was given six months off. she was supposed to return to the classroom at the end of six months but there was a flu epidemic on campus and she said i'm afraid to go back and i'm vulnerable having gone through a bone marrow transplant and said if you don't return, you are fired. they said that is a reasonable decision by kansas state. i don't think it was. nlrb versus community health services, his dissent and argued that workers who were unfairly locked out would get a wind fall by keeping their wages from second jobs. i won't go through the list of cases. we have read them all and do paint a troubling picture of judge gorsuch and his values. there is a clear pattern in these cases. judge gorsuch claims to support neutral philosophies but somehow time and again they lead him to the same outcome, the worker, victim and consumer lose, the corporate elite win. he doesn't want to follow the law but change the law. federal judge john kane came here and testified and supported him. he said, judge gorsuch is the

. >>> all new at 7:00 a kansas state university student is a big fan of dr. pepper. dr. pepp. december she company asking them if there was any way she could get a dr. pepper fountain installed. this young lady says she drinks about to three cans a day. dr. pepper gave her 1200 cans for free. my goodness they are paying attention to those tweets. time now 7:51. coming up, tomorrow is easter sunday of course and you know it used to be an easter basket was a fairly simple thing chocolate bunnies some peeps, maybe a handful of jelly beans but things have changed and there's a new trend toward bigger and b details on this right after the break. >> ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ that's life. you diet. you exercise. and if you still need help lowering your blood sugar... ...this is jardiance. along with diet and exercise... jardiance lowers blood sugar and a1c jardiance is also the only type 2 diabetes treatment with heart- proven to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death in adults with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. jardiance can cause serious side effects, including dehydration.

the kansas state university in 2013. grace wang, a longtime assistant professor at kansas state university, received frightening news in june of 2009. her doctors diagnosed her as having leukemia. without aggressive chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, she would die. she had to spend six months in medical facilities, during which time she was on a paid leave of absence. but she made sure her work got done. she prepared the instructors who were stepping in for her, including by sharing her teaching materials, lesson plans, and silabi. even while she was hospitalized, she consulted with the substitutes through phone calls and e-mails. in january, after her six-month ordeal, professor huang was looking forward to returning to, but there was a severe outbreak of swine flu on campus and her physicians warned her that due to her compromised immune system, she should stay away. so she informed university officials that she would need some additional leave, hopefully a short time, but potentially as long as the entire seme

from kansas state university and taught 15 years at the command and general staff college at ft. leave inworth. so you've had a lot of military history. why are you particularly interested in world war i? >> that's a good question. i grew up on the battlefields of the american civil war and that was a period of the civil war with trenches and for some reason that just stuck with me. and when i was 4 years old my parents gave me a world war i play set. and i was building a period that i was going to study, it's really an era that's not very well done in american history, so you're able to plow new fwround. >> we're hoping to do a little of that and interest more people in coming to this museum and reading your books and learning more about this important period in american history. we talked already about general black jack pershing. over your shoulder is one of his battle flags. would the american effort have been successful without him? >> he is the right man at the right time. generalship changed dramatically. the scope and the scale meant you are no longer going to be the grea

professor at kansas state university diagnosed with cancer facing a bone marrow transplant she was given six months off for this important operation. this was to return to the classroom at the end of six months but there was an influenza epidemic on campus and she said to the people at the university i'm afraid to go back. i'm very vulnerable having just gone through a bone marrow transplant and they said if you don't return to the classroom, you're fired. it was judge gorsuch that wrote the opinion that said there wasa reasonable opinion by kansas state. i don't think it was but it's a reflection on his values and the dissent contorted the authority and argued workers that were locked up whether a windfall if they received full back pay almost like keeping their wages from second jobs. i won't go through all the list of cases we have heard them all and they do paint a very troubling picture of judge gorsuch and his values. there is a pattern in the cases. he claims to support natural velocities but somehow time and again they lead to the same outcome, the worker to the victim, the consu

fester kansas state university diagnosed with cancer facing a bone marrow transplant she was given six months off for this amazing, important and dangerous operation. she's supposed to return to the classroom at the end of six months but there is an influenza epidemic on campus and she said to the people at the university and afraid to go back. and they said if he don't return to the classroom, you're fired. it is judge gorsuch who wrote the opinion that said that's a reasonable decision by kansas state. i don't think it was, but i think it's a reflection on the values. nlrb versus community health services distorted precedent authority and mandate workers unfairly locked up at fullbacka. keeping our wages. i won't go through the list of cases. we read them all. they paint a troubling picture of judge gorsuch and values. judge gorsuch supports natural philosophies and time and again lead to the same outcome proved worker, victim and consumer. the corporate elite wing. it's also repeatedly shown he does not want to follow simply the law. he wants to change it in some cases. john king ca

bill: randolph roth, history professor at ohio state university. thanks for being with us. roth: thank you very much. >> join us tomorrow for a the centennialg commission from the national world war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri. the ceremony includes a retelling of the american debate over whether or not to join the world war i conflict. president woodrow wilson signed a declaration of war against germany in 1917. more than 400 million american joined.women that is tomorrow on american history tv on c-span3. this weekend on american history tv, pulitzer prize-winning historian talks about how the founders, particularly john adams, found education and viewed slavery, and how they persevered in the face of hardship. here is a preview. >> i do not think we could ever know enough about the revolutionary era. i do not think we could ever know enough about the founders. we have to see them as human beings. history is human. when in the course of human events, human is the operative word. history is not about dates and memorizing quotations. it is about people. b

bill: randolph roth, history professor at ohio state university. thanks for being with us. prof. roth: thank you very much. >> join us tomorrow for a ceremony marking the centennial commission from the national world war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri. the ceremony includes a retelling of the american debate over whether or not to join the world war i conflict. president woodrow wilson signed a declaration of war against germany in 1917. more than 400 million american men and women joined. that is tomorrow on american history tv on c-span3. searcy's ministering cities across the country exploring american history. visit towill cap chico, california. agriculture in california in general is extremely important. it is the number one industry in numbernia, we are the one state in the nation in terms of agriculture.

an assistantnst professor at kansas state , who wasy, grace wong fired after 15 years on the job because she needed more time to recover from breast cancer. [booing] >> it was too accommodating for , too much, asking too much of the university to give her some more time to recover. employeeinvolving compensation, he has ruled over 90% of the time for the employers, 20 one out of 23 cases he has sided with the employers. courtnot afford a supreme who will tip the scales of justice even further in favor of the wealthy and the powerful. every day i see members of our union and dedicate public service employees serve their communities, people like mental health workers, teachers, social workers, bridge inspectors, public safety officers. it means a work and lot to me and it means a lot to their communities and neighbors, such as you. an honest days work, surge her community, and really listened to the concerns and struggles of hard-working americans, then you know corporations are not people. [cheers and applause] anothern't need corporate flunky on the supreme court. [cheers and applause] l

jess received the bachelor of science in industrial arts from illinois state university and a masters of science in industrial education from indiana university in bloomington, indiana. after teaching at the university, jess moved to jackson, mississippi, where he taught industrial arts at a high school, the only black high school in the city at that time. while teaching at linear, jess became intervening plaintiff in a lawsuit that sought equal pay for black teachers in jackson. after teaching in jackson, jess attended texas southern university law school. jess left the law school before receiving his jurisdoctorate but was able to return to mississippi and pass the mississippi bar in 1953. beginning his law career in vicksburg, mississippi, jess confined his practice to cases involving divorces, deeds, land titles and other practices that did not agitate white members of the bar. however, after the brown vs. board of education, after the topeka ruling in 1954, jess felt compelled to defend the civil rights of african-americans. in the fall of 1955, the conditions and hardships endur