[inaudible] good evening everyone. I am the director of the wisconsin amenities council. Thank you for coming to see Amy Goldstein book presentation. Think a way for coming here today to talk about the life of the hard working people in janesville thats documented in your book. This event cannot be possible with the sponsorship of many of our friends. I encourage everyone to go to the festival website and find out more about our sponsors. The Wisconsin Humanities Council is proud to sponsor this evening. Its wonderful opportunity to supports and promote programs they use history, culture, and discussion to study Community Life in wisconsin for everyone. Tonights presentation will delight you and help us move forward in this direction. For those of you who may not know, the wisconsin book festival was created by the humanities council, an organization over 13 years before france decided to take on the task of keeping the event life. So kudos to the for having such wonderful event every year. Amy goldstein reading is presented by project which asked wisconsinite what does work mean in your life. It is to enrich statewide discussions to Public Events and language sources or projects promote sections of what works means to all of us individually and together as a group. To find out more you can check us out at wisconsin humanities. Org. Like to introduce amy with the basic idea that is somewhat profound. Many of us in this room its part of what defines individuals and connects us as members of society. Its very felt so inspired by her book. This is a profound yet inspiring it brings to light how workers, their families and the entire Community Came to terms with the aftermath of the plant shutdown. [inaudible] s book reminds us that theres more to our economic upturn in downturn then can be understood. In the midst of it all, there are real lives, real people with hopes and aspirations. In his credentials include 30 years ten years as a staff writer to the Washington Post. Much of her work focus on social policy. She is the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. A fellow of the harvard foundation. This is her first book. Before we get started i like to invite you to silence your phones and put it in silent mode. Also, if you feel this is a compelling conversation youre welcome to share your thoughts to the Media Outlets by using the wi book fast. Will be very grateful if you can do this after the presentation so we can hear it amy. Please welcome Amy Goldstein. [applause] thank you for that nice introduction than those flattering words. Thank you to the wisconsin book festival to be here thank you for coming out on a damp night tonight. Expect to be back in janesville. Madison has become something of a second home to me. I feel like im on home turf talking with you. How many of you have some connection to janesville . Either ever live there are no people. I thought this was a safe question to ask because i have not spoken anyone for that hasnt been one person in the audience from janesville. The records l. A. , san francisco, boulder colorado, lotta people who came to my first readings in d. C. I have a sense which a story about one community and the loss of work and loss of community for specifically affects a janesville ds for a period i want to tell you but my first exposure to janesville. I came to town july 26, 2011. An Exploratory Mission and lined up a few people to me. The first guy was the name of stan. An oldtime journalist in town. He was the state house borough chief for years. When i met him he had left the newspaper and was working as an education consultant and had a radio station. He had an office in the parker pen headquarters. That morning we talked nonstop for about three hours. He was from janesville in his early 60s at the time. We talked about the history of his community and what happened. Finally, he said something i hope to desk which was, do you want to see the plants. When joe town center lane turned left on donovan tribe. There was a 4. 8 million square feet of nothing going on. What surprised me more than seeing this huge closed auto point plant his what he said to me, he said i hate to see this. Well, i knew he was a tough fold reporter. He told me he was a cynic and i have come to believe him. I said, why would someone like you not want to see this . And he said his father worked at the auto plant. He remembered how proud his dad had been when he earned enough money to buy his first i thought of this tough old journalist cringed at the side of this is tell me something very powerful about the community sense of identification. For journalists like me thats what gets once juices flowing. I kept coming back for years. What was i doing in janesville that day . For a couple years i have been thinking about writing a long closeup of what happens when good work goes away. At the time, i was covering a broad social policy be for the Washington Post. The Great Recession began at the end of 2007 and kept going until 2009. I did some stories as part of my beat that i later learned where the effects what difference did it make that the u. S. Economy was in the worship it had been in since the 1930s. I did a story for the post on the southwest florida people falling out of the middle class. And seeing how traumatized and shellshocked they were. I did a story out of South Carolina what had the second highest Unemployment Rate about the strains on the private social sector like nonprofit food pantries that were slammed with more clients than they ever have the people did not have enough money to be donating. From having done this work and maybe start to pay more attention to what other journalists were or were not writing about this bad economic time. There are two strains of stories that dominated, lots of stories about the Economic Policy and whether the stimulus package was working or not working lots of coverage about those policies. A menace time went on the 2010 election there is already a lot of writing about voter disaffection and anger and what began to strike me as i did not see much writing about those and i have the sense that you cannot really understand why some people in the United States were feeling disaffected and scared and turned off unless you really understood their personal economic experiences. Jobs that they were losing her their neighbors were losing. Around this time i came across a few Foundation Study that caught my attention. A content analysis of stories about the bad economy in the first half of 2009. What it showed was most of the stories were about the stimulus package, the Auto Industry bailout, the Banking Industry and if we shouldve put money into rescuing financial institutions. There is a bar to the right that showed the percentage of stories about the effects of the bad economy on ordinary people. That was 5 of the total. That absence what was important cap. We knew the unemployment statistics but we didnt understand what it was like to work go away. So i became obsessed with telling the story. I then took a good chunk of time off of my job to find a community which i could tell the story and get to know people. So, how was it that i came to find janesville. If you are going to write a story as a metaphor was happening probably in the country, you better choose carefully. I thought about what criteria should use to pick a place. I heard about janesville a few years before when i was looking for stories about the bad economy. Somebody mentioned the small city i had never heard of just had an old general memos clamp close. I never went there at the time because it was pretty fresh in people who worked at General Motors itself were still Getting Union sub pay. There was a buffering the economic pain for a lot of people in town. So i did not shop at that time. When i began to think seriously about trying to find a place, janesville lingered in my brain. One reason is that i needed to find a place that lost a lot of jobs. This area fit the bill. 2089 federal figures show that 9000 jobs disappeared from janesville lotto jobs but beyond that i wanted to write about someplace that had not been part of the rustbelt. I wanted to look at what this had done and not an accumulation of economic decay. Janesville has gotten its General Motors plant in 1918. It started making tractors just after world war i. Started turning out chevys in 1923. Products would come and go but every time a product left the factory, General Motors sent in Something Else to replace it. It really made what happened in 2008, two days before christmas when this plant close down. It was unprecedented in this town and hard for people to get their heads around. New no place i would pick would be exactly like everyplace in the country. Seem to be a good idea to pick a community in which the pattern of job losses match those in the Great Recession. Nationally, and in janesville jobs that disappear paid well but do not require much formal education. That was true of these autoworker jobs. More men than women lost jobs. There is a sense that the kind of job loss that happened in this small city is typical of the country. That appealed to me. I had a sense that janesville would fit nicely. On that first reporting trip when i met stan someone told me i should find a Youtube Video of a speech that then senator barack obama had given at the janesville plant in februar february 2008 when he was campaigning. This was an important economic speech and his campaign for chile said his agenda. He says two things that when i discover the speech just gave me goosebumps. He said, the country elected him said this plant would be here for another hundred years. The other thing was the promise of janesville is the promise of america. And i thought, if im going to write about this i want that. It janesville also has interesting politics. In the late 1930s there was an important moment in labor history called the General Motors sitdown strike. General motors was the side of that. In world war ii when they stop making vehicles there are these ways until you have a microcosm of what was happening probably in the country before i knew much understood its politics were interesting. This was an old uniontown represented by someone elected to congress and the conservative name paul ryan. When i first showed up paul ryan was not even a Committee Chairman let alone a candidate for the Vice President s or speaker of the house. I had the sensor could be some interesting Political Tension found with this man is congressman in the state that was newly in the hands of scott walker. On top of that, i thought janesville was a cool allamerican sounding name. That was appealing. If i was going to be living for a time with the name. Those are some of the reasons why that summer i made this exploratory trip i met with the journalists who took me to see the side of a plant that had close those most interesting thing that happened in town and he did not want to see it. So how did i tell the story . The idea was that i wanted it to feel like a kaleidoscope. I wanted people from different vantage points in the communit communitys perspectives and attitudes i could trace over years, showing how job loss affected some of the families but also other people and how they thought they should respond. For instance a social studies teachers i met. Two high schools in town name for parker Pen High School in craig high school. Craig was the man who persuaded General Motors to come to janesville. So their identities are woven into these two high schools. As a social studies teacher who formed the parker closet. More kids are coming to school not having had breakfast are looking scruffier than before. She started on her own and first and then with help from others created a food pantry and a place for kids to get used jeans and School Supplies and toiletries. In the spring they collect prom dresses so girls can go to the prom. She is one whose story i trace over five years. I was also interested in a guy named bob who is running the rock county job center. He was seen a live and i was interested to see what the decisions he made. I was interested in the main banker who cofounded a Regional Economic coalition. So i follow the work the scripted. I was interested in the School Social worker whose job was to be a liaison between the School System and the homeless students to keep those kids in school. She ended up forming a relationship with her counterpart in the next town to the south, beloit to raise money for homeless teenagers. Is also interested in politicians. Tim colin, state senator all these people who are taking actions they thought were useful in a town who just lost the heart of its work. They do not all agree but thats who was all coming together to figure out what to do when the heart of the work went away. The core of my stories about the dislocated workers. Dislocated means youve lost your job and its not likely it will come back. I decided what i want to illustrate is what choices people make when there are no good choices left. I do not pick characters, people live in their lives not far from here and also characters in this book who had dual identity. I do not pick people quickly because i wanted to get to know what was happening and what was the range of things people were doing before i could figure out who might be good illustrations because they might be better than other bad choices. The first family is called the vons, they were big union family in town. One of three families and they had worked for General Motors and retired. He was one of the people i met on this first trip i made out in the summer of 2011. At the time he had another gm retiree were running the uaw local. There were no active autoworkers so they were running it in their retirement. Had had a full career and was getting his pension. As i said damn well should i get to know dave said you should get to know my son but he will probably not want to talk to. His son is mike, the shop chairman at a place that was the largest supplier factory to the General Motors plant. There is making seats and other auto parts and the seats are being delivered to the Assembly Plant three hours before they were bolted into the vehicles. If you have that type of production you can imagine what happened when gm laid off to one shift in the enclosed. They are closed as well. Mikes wife, barb also worked at lear lost her job in the summer of 2008. Mike could stay longer because after that shut down theres a skeletal crew kept on for a few months. Taking apart the Assembly Plant. His work basically consisted of this place that he worked at for 60 is getting into your. He was thinking about what he would do and he applied for union jobs but cannot find anything that was good work. His wife was back in school and he thought about retraining. After a while he decided perhaps you should go into a new program for the Blackhawk Technical College in Human Resources management. He did a lot of thinking about the ethics and to see if he could switch from the labor side to management. He made peace with it thinking if he could help people from the labor side he could do this. Then he has to tell his father. Ill let you read to find out how that goes. The second family, like a lot of people in town there a multigenerational family, had worked at the plant for 40 years in a few months and retired the summer of 2008. He was a big guy in town the county board of supervisors took the first elected position on the board of supervisors. He was also the Employee Assistance director. He knew everybody secrets a new return to him if you had various kinds of trouble. Marv retires weeks before his son matt loses his job. So marv has a Retirement Party and hundreds of people shows up. Hes feeling guilty that his son is about to lose his job. That also tries to figure out what to do next. Like a lot of people, matt was listening to his father and saying dont worry, the shutdown is temporary. It will come back. There is a huge amount of denial that went on for many years about whether this closing was permanent. So matt was helping out buddy put roofs on. He was collecting union on employment pay and hoping things would get better. He too went back to school and study to become a utility lineman. The word on the street and counselors trying to guide people said a lot of Older Workers at the utility ready to retire. This was a field that paid well and jobs open up. Samet began studying. He hasnt been in school for a couple of decades. Embarrassed to be doing homework with his three daughters but doing okay. By wintertime in his wife was doing minimumwage work got nervous they were about to lose their house. They had been getting General MotorsHealth Benefits for a while and those benefits were running out. So paying for Health Insurance would be extensive. Matt and his buddies in the same Curriculum Program go to the instructor and say, if we hangout to the spring and get her certificate will there be jobs reset the end . They asked because at this time he had a choice to make. People had worked at gm had transfer rights to other General Motors plants that were still going. Since the plant had closed people have been communing to arlington, texas, ohio, michigan, some families were moving but some are just commuting and coming home every week or month. Thats where he would not become what these people were called gm gypsies. But, he starts thinking about whether he should change his view. There is an offer to transfer to fort wayne, indiana. It was the closest transfer offer that a come along. His instructor says, if i were you, i would take the offer and run. These utility jobs are not opening up. These utility workers are working for a while longer. In march of 2010 he begins commuting to fort wayne, indiana. Hes still doing it he comes home on friday nights communing with other gm guys and has six more years to go before he can retire. Finally, the whitaker family. Jared was also gm employee and he had been there around the same time. He too thought the work would come back. He thinks it will work out but it doesnt. Eventually jared goes back to school in the same program matt had on this the utility lineman. He last about two and a half weeks. The instructor tells his students to form groups and take a 10foot tall tall practice pull into the ground of practice climbing. When jared stern comes he climbs up the pole, loses his footing, and scrapes his chest sliding down. This terrifies it. He just thinks what if i was really on a utility pole and i get hurt. How much good in my going to do my wife and kids then . So he drops out of School Starts bouncing in and out of bad pain jobs. The plant was paying 28 an hour in his cell making 12 14 an hour depending on the job. His wife is working two parttime jobs. They have three kids including two twins in high school. The girls are alyssa and casey. Theyre great kids. Their collegebound, really good girls and they were working between the five parttime jobs to help pay the bills. So, those are some of the families who stories weave through the chronology this book tells. The stories written with short chapters. Showing how things change over time for the families people in the community trying to figure out that all this good work is gone away. I wanted the book to be a closeup but also wanted to find ways to make clear that people whose experiences i was intimately chronicling were representing broader truths. Heres where my inner nerd came out. I did two projects with academics. One was a study of the effectiveness of job retraining. Data from the department of Workforce Development in the college blackhawk tech were able to look at what happened to people were laid off who had or had not come back to school thats really the dominant place people were training. We found that people who had retrained looking at what they were learning and how many were working before the recession in 2007 compared to the data we had in 2011, if theyre gone back to school there are less likely to have a job than those who did not retrain. A bigger pay drop to afterwards if they were working. And more likely to have parttime work than fulltime work. Slice and dice the data many ways. We looked at people who just finished people who were going into the fields where the jobs are most likely to exist. We cannot find exceptions to it. That was one set of nerdy work. The other thing i did while in residence at the university and i worked with a couple of academics on a one county survey. Looked at peoples economic experiences and attitudes. The survey went into the fields in the first half of 2013. About five years after the work went away. We asked things like to think that country still in a recession, 75 said yes and 2013. We asked how their personal financial situation was, over half said it was worse, 18 said it was better. We asked if you own a house what is happened to your house and value. Most people said housing values were down. I also wanted to know what was the prevalence of the job loss. So we asked has you or anyone in your home lost a job in the last five years, about one third said that was true. Then we asked about those with a job loss, whats happened. Some of those were about emotional and social effects of losing work, 75 said they had been losing sleep. 63 said yes it was a strain, but the question i found heartbreaking was one that asked you feel ashamed or embarrassed about being out of work. 53 said yes. That drove home to me how personal losing work as. Even when youre losing a job and thousands of others are losing that same work poses second worst economic worst economic time since the great depression. People were taking it very personally. We finish up by reading from a chapter late in the book. Its called nitride. Ive been asked elsewhere so give you the clue, yes, i was in the backseat. Come on, get the hell out of here a guy shouts as he burst out the door speeds walks across the lobby. Barely slowing is letting his id card to the punch clock. Friday night at the fort wayne Assembly Plant, the end of the workweek and second shift, a ninehour shift with overtime. 11 45 p. M. One guy among 1100 jammers pouring off the floor to start the weekend. Amid this matt reaches the lobby at 11 47 p. M. Wearing a knit cap, a backpack over one shoulder. Hes not running but walking very fast. A friday night ritual. He reaches the chilly night air and a coworker wishes him a safe drive. He stops next to his 97 saturn which he drives every night he wont have parks in the same spot so he wont have to think about where he left his car. He continues walking fast to a nearby 2003 grand prix already idling. In the driver seat is chris, in the backseat is al sheridan. Chris pops the trunk to toss the duffel inside and slammed it shut before he gets in on the passenger side. That store is barely close to when he gunned the engine. 280 miles to go. Four hours speeding just a little where there pretty sure they will get caught. Matt calls darcy to tell her theyre leaving same as he does every week. When chris gunns engine slept 54 00 p. M. Matt is not the only one who stays on janesville time. Thewill clock system 54 00 p. M. Chris started working in fort wayne on august 17, 2009. Chris will never forget that day. His wife and kids along to move, his family left on monday morning when he went to the plant for orientation which was during for shift. He was back in his apartment by 330 that afternoon. When the worst feelings of his life. Those three and half years ago, the grant. Had 47000 miles on honestly, there are not ten minutes from the plant about to turn onto route 114 when matt says, this is my three year anniversary. Chris doesnt miss a beat. When i can celebrate that. Matt texted darcy, happy anniversary and the reply came back has it been three years . Seems a lot longer. Darcy added a sad face. Three years which em vacations weighed in is a lot of vacation today was sunny. Tonight is clear and the stars are bright on the drive through the indiana farmland. Think well get lucky and get a double record tonights . Last summer with exquisite timing one raccoon ran onto the road and what from the left and one from the right and the car struck them both. You dont get that every week. But they do get the house alongside the road whose occupants have a flair for decorating. Tonight its lit up like christmas but in green and gold and now in western to use 34 lanes divided which they agree is a better way than the indiana toll road that some of the other janesville gypsies take. U. S. 30 gives them a chance to guess whats playing on the movie theater. The passengers turn their not to get a quick peek. At one time they went through a giant thunderstorm and they could see lightning shoot straight down into the field. No matter the season theres always the bourbon bibles church. Matts phone rings. Its the youngest calling pastor bedtime. In indiana he says about three hours okay ill let you go. I love you too. Now they stop at a truck stop call the pilot travel center. Some wait to the last sunday for the illinois line and they going to the toll roads. You know how to change a tire process, matt johnson, youre doing a good job chris. Yanks he said if youre supported. Now theyre going by gary with what remains of the still mills on the right. Lights sparkling flickering flames, kerry was known as magic city with the u. S. Steel arrived to build the mills on the south side of lake michigan. Now the population of 78000 is less than half for intent of the people who still live there are poverty. Curious a perfect specimen of what it looks like what janesville striving not to become. Chris drives on. Almost 1 30 a. M. And the grantee drives through and enters illinois, the skyway in the express rain gets clogged. Dan ryan its easy to cruise because there later than usual and most of the city christened it. The downtown skyline comes into view. Just north of chicago a red car passes with four guys inside. Thomas driving looks like oleary. Matt dozes off joining paul in his slumber. Chris doesnt like the silence. Good thing matt is awake when a little after 2 00 a. M. The text arrives on his phone from another car for the janesville gypsies up ahead. While marker 28 cup and the median. 9 miles later, no lake tickets, can afford to. The longtime mac i pulled over he told the officer the truth, he worked in fort wayne during the week and was driving home. He guessed he was a little bit excited to get there and see his family. The cop said he could understand and let them off. They pack the chrysler plant when they get to rockford he says, the home stretch. Will be in the driveway in 20 minutes. Were nearly home. Paul continues his gentle snores. The 241 janesville time chris gets philosophical about spending his workweeks in fort wayne. Funny how we count time. I count how many christmases i have to spend there. Hes coming up on 27 years on august 17, 1986. When the last day came on december 23, 2008, chris is at the plant shooting video with a digital camera. His anniversary date means he is three years and seven months to he retires, matt has 12 years seven months. When i retire i dont want to leave you there. I want everyone home. Ill bring the shuttle guy and bring it home. Paul wakes up and pulls off the interstate. Cool your jets, have a home in a heartbeat. Just after 3 00 a. M. Janesville time when chris pulls into pauls driveway. After dropping him off, chris drives up center avenue crossing the rock river where the plant stands vacant. And then to matts nice house on the north edge of town that they managed to keep because hes a gypsy. Sometimes they go through town different ways because its nice to be home and see janesville streets. At 3 20 a. M. He pulls in. Darcy has a remember to pull on the outside light. But just inside the garage door she and the girls once cried where he was leaving for fort wayne. Handsome a 20dollar bill for gas and oil changes. What time he can be here monday morning . Probably a 15 00 a. M. The usual. Thank you very much. [applause] i think we have ten minutes for questions. Im told its a good idea for you to come to the microphone. Thank you for writing this wonderful book. Ive had a chance to read it a couple months ago. Just before going to sleep because that was a good idea because when i got to the point that the High School Teacher and social worker were struggling to fulfill their vision to try to help the kids and their families, there is the reading about Business Leaders in the community and their efforts, the banker and especially diane who i suspect is well known in this room. Seeing how they were struggling in one of the richest women in the country in that community, not even sure if she was aware of what theyre trying to do but could have easily supported what they were doing. I cant remember the details, did you have an opportunity to interview diane and if she was aware of the pain going on. As i went along doing this research i came up with the phrase that there are two janesvilles overtime. There are people more affluent, democrats predominately but also republicans in town. For a place for people pretty much got along. It really was a place where people were collegial. When the work started to go away some people were keenly aware of the pain and some were not. When the social worker, when she and others began trying to raise money for housing for these unaccompanied homeless teenagers, filmmaker made a documentary called 1649. The stiffer the numbers of hours and minutes between the end of one school day and the beginning of the next. Thats a long time for a kid not to have a place to be. They began showing the film. People were shocked that these kids existed. There were Different Levels of sensitivity to is going on. Diane hendrix has during the five years im learning from 2008 until 2013, has been very supportive of Economic Development employed but not janesville. She and her husband started out about janesville was not very hospitable. They went to beloit. Her husband is no longer a live. He died tragically a number of years ago. Her money went into Economic Development. The book raises Corporate Responsibility in government responsibility. I wonder about your thoughts on that. There is one scene in the book were matt is making a hard decision to start commuting. He was trying to figure out who to blame. He cannot figure out who to blame because he felt that the company that laid him all was still paying him benefits and Health Insurance and they were going to go bankrupt a year later. He was not happy to lost his work but he understood there in a position to get rid of personnel. The federal government was paying tuition for job retraining. There are policies that were intended to cushion people but it didnt always do it. What was the understanding of the families as to why this was happening in janesville . Does this give us any understanding for the rise of economic nationalism or some form of trump is him . Thats an interesting question about the political meaning. I was in janesville on Election Night 2012 because paul ryan was on the ticket and i wanted to hang out with republicans in town. That election, barack obama won by 62 . After lesters election i wake up to see how that county voter then it went for clinton, 52 . Still democratic but the margin was thinner. It is not that people change parties but the democratic turnout was way down. I had to think about what is the meaning of the harsh experience of losing good work in a community that was not a trump boating community. What ive come to think is that the kinds of economic experiences people have, if they happened at other places that did not have such long ingrained union traditions may have had a candidate espousing changes attractive. But it was not enough to flip janesville. Pgh so, student at uw. We read your book for a Public Policy class. I love to hear that. The class was introduction to Public Policy. One aspect we found interesting was we have the idea that education is a silver bullet. However it did not make peoples lives better. The change in economy and someone who studied social policy for a couple of decades, what are your ideas towards hot how we should address to make sure workers have opportunities so they can better themselves . I think job retraining is not always a bad idea. It depends on the context. I began to see these counterintuitive findings and did a lot of talking to people about what could account for this. One possibility is that if i had data up through now people might be doing better. On the other hand, the Unemployment Rate is way down and pay is below 4 in janesville. But the pay is nothing like 20 an hour. In communities in which jobs will come back, retraining for new work is a great idea. I think bob orman had another job center ended up feeling guilty because he had been courage and his staff to retrain on what was a sound premise that turned out to be wrong. If you looked at past recessions jobs would recover after certain time. Turned out nationally and locally it took much longer. I think what i found is not an indictment of the whole notion but you need to look at the climate and the ability for people to find work if they go back to school. Your observing janesville during the rampup of the affordable character. How do you think the effects of that were felt in janesville . Does janesville as a whole or the dislocated workers feel as if it was a good thing . Are houses split . My day job at the Washington Post is to Cover Health Care policies. To tell you, the main part of the chronology ends partly through 2013. It wasnt until the fall that people can start enrolling mixture insurance exchanges. The time i was liking it predated that. Theres a clinic downtown called healthnet. Missing a lot of people still is a pretty good patient base was Holding Holding fundraisers cannot manage to get enough money to see everybody who needed to be seen. The mix of people who do and dont have insurance has changed in janesville and wisconsin even though wisconsin has not been a very supportive state and getting the word out on the Affordable Care act. There is a story this week in the Janesville Gazette same healthnet might be getting budget cuts at the local level. Because of changes in state policy regarding funding they can put into nonprofits. That is all the time that we have. Thank you very much. [applause] the second session of the 115th Congress Starts next week. The senate will welcome two new democratic lawmakers, from alabama and minnesota. Some of the issues at hand, government funding is the temporary Funding Authority runs out on january 19. Also stated the Union Address on january 30. Watch live on cspan and cspa cspan2. Washington journal, live every day with new some policy issues that impact too. On wednesday morning, Angela J Davis talks about race and criminal justice reform. In the washington examiner, watch washington journal, live 7 00 a. M. Eastern on wednesday morning. Joined the discussion. The cspan bus tour continues its 50 capital store in january with stops in raleigh, columbia, atlanta, and montgomery. Will speak with state officials. Follow the tour and join us on january 16 for stop in raleigh, North Carolina when our guest is North Carolina attorney general, josh stein