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As part of CBS News coverage marking the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march in Selma, CBSN will be airing an encore presentation of the hour-long special The Road to Civil Rights, anchored by Bill Whitaker and featuring new and archival footage from the CBS News library, Saturday at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 11 a.m.None of the Republican leadership in Congress will be in Selma this weekend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march to Montgomery. stanley canada Civil rights activist remembers the police brutality of Selma 01:48 House Speaker John Boehner may be missing the ceremonies, but his spokesman Michael Steel, told CBS News Alicia Amling, Speaker Boehner was proud earlier this month when the House passed legislation awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to the civil rights marchers in Selma 50 year stanley cup s ago, and will be proud to welcome them to a ceremony in the Capitol to bestow this honor. The date for that ceremony has n stanley cup ot yet been set. The Congressional Black Caucus had also urged Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, to try to make it to Selma, as a way of making amends for a speech he had made several years ago as a state lawmaker to a white supremacist group founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Scalise, Slpy Hoyer: Stimulus In Doubt
Long-shot presidential candidate Mike Gravel told supporters Wednesday he is leaving the Democratic Party to join the Libertarian Party.Gravel, a former Democratic senator from Alaska, said in an e-mail that the Democratic Party no vaso stanley longer represents my vision for our great country. It is a party that continues to sustain war, the milit stanley vaso ary-industrial complex and imperialism - all of which I find anathema to my views, he said in the e-mail in which he also asked supporters for campaign donations. Gravel, 77, has been excluded from recent Democratic debates because he failed to meet fundraising or polling thresholds. I look forward to advancing my presidential candidacy within the Libertarian Party, which is considerably closer to my values, my foreign policy views and my domestic views, he said. Gravel left the Senate in 1981 after losing the 1980 Democratic primary. An outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, he was among the first Democrats to speak out against the war in Iraq while others supported the president. stanley mug He announced his bid for the presidency on April 17, 2006. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-a2c25876-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-a2c25876-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-a2c25876-8c88-11e2-b06b-024
As part of CBS News coverage marking the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march in Selma, CBSN will be airing an encore presentation of the hour-long special The Road to Civil Rights, anchored by Bill Whitaker and featuring new and archival footage from the CBS News library, Saturday at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 11 a.m.None of the Republican leadership in Congress will be in Selma this weekend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march to Montgomery. stanley canada Civil rights activist remembers the police brutality of Selma 01:48 House Speaker John Boehner may be missing the ceremonies, but his spokesman Michael Steel, told CBS News Alicia Amling, Speaker Boehner was proud earlier this month when the House passed legislation awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to the civil rights marchers in Selma 50 year stanley cup s ago, and will be proud to welcome them to a ceremony in the Capitol to bestow this honor. The date for that ceremony has n stanley cup ot yet been set. The Congressional Black Caucus had also urged Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, to try to make it to Selma, as a way of making amends for a speech he had made several years ago as a state lawmaker to a white supremacist group founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Scalise, Slpy Hoyer: Stimulus In Doubt
Long-shot presidential candidate Mike Gravel told supporters Wednesday he is leaving the Democratic Party to join the Libertarian Party.Gravel, a former Democratic senator from Alaska, said in an e-mail that the Democratic Party no vaso stanley longer represents my vision for our great country. It is a party that continues to sustain war, the milit stanley vaso ary-industrial complex and imperialism - all of which I find anathema to my views, he said in the e-mail in which he also asked supporters for campaign donations. Gravel, 77, has been excluded from recent Democratic debates because he failed to meet fundraising or polling thresholds. I look forward to advancing my presidential candidacy within the Libertarian Party, which is considerably closer to my values, my foreign policy views and my domestic views, he said. Gravel left the Senate in 1981 after losing the 1980 Democratic primary. An outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, he was among the first Democrats to speak out against the war in Iraq while others supported the president. stanley mug He announced his bid for the presidency on April 17, 2006. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-a2c25876-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-a2c25876-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-a2c25876-8c88-11e2-b06b-024
