Media sponsor. I youve want to sponsor the book, tightrope, and supporting independent book store we have made it easy. Click the buy the book link at the bottom of your screen, and now, id like to turn things over to todays mott raider,. Im very excited for this. Its a remarkable book. At the very beginning i want to remind everybody that well be taking questions from the audience, from you, and im sure theres some brilliant questions in our audience so get those together now and in a half hour before we go well have time dedicated to that so get your questions together and ready. This is a remarkable book, and i dont want to sound like it comes to easily but it really is. Im not a original in saying this, its book that should be read by anyone who wants to know what is going on in america or what is going wrong in america today. We have heard about in the last four years mountain americans who have been left behind and thats the nicest way to put what happened to he the cohort of peo
Were elected through back channels, small party conventions. In 1968, 73 of democratic delegates through the convention had been elected this way. Less than 25 were elected in the way we normally do it. President Lyndon Johnson took himself out of the race. He was not up for reelection in 1968. This initiated a freefall in the Democratic Party between a number of candidates. One of which who was very popular was unfortunately dead by august of 1968. That was robert kennedy. He was a peace candidate. He had been a unifying candidate for many people in the party. He was assassinated in june of 1968. That is one thing lying behind the convention in august of 1968. The kennedy delegates who had been elected, pledged to kennedy. Hubert humphrey, Lyndon Johnsons Vice President had become the nominee by august. There was another peace candidate, mccarthy who had delegates like kennedy who showed up in chicago in august. It is something of a freeforall where the delegates are concerned. It is
Ticket for having its an honor to be one of the most independent bookstores. They stand for saying that first of all, i will mention as one of americas great independent bookstores this book is available and we do have books all over the country and all over the world or if you are local we do offer instore browsing and curbside pickup, tell me a little bit about this book. I knew i wanted to write a book i have lots of ideas for the books, i had to have the first book, if you dont like this i wont write any others but if you do have lots of books in my head, i wrote different proposals to the publisher and i got rejected by lots of publishers a lot of authors do another one publisher who came to me from the press and his name is Stephen Power and if it wasnt for stephen i boudin to begin because it was unheard of in the public industry, he edited my proposal and sent it back to me and literally, that does not happen, he says rick if you write this book i will publish and i said i dont
Thank you. Good evening everybody. And i want to thank the aarp for sponsoring this debate and the voters and people in the seventh district for giving me the opportunity to serve them in and congress over these number of years. Ive been there long enough so i was able to move up to the head of the Agricultural Committee and ive been chair man twice and probably the only person thats ever done that. Weve been able to do some good work. Weve kept the Committee Bipartisan which was important to me. We got the usmc a trade agreement done that people were concerned about. We made that happen and got a good democratic vote so i look forward to going back to congress and continuing the bipartisan work that ive done over the number of years. Michelle fischbach, one minute opening statement. Thank you very much to matt and aarp for putting this together tonight. Im Michelle Fischbach. I served in the Minnesota Senate and first female president of the senate and worked as Lieutenant Governor fo
Coverage, theres a link to each debate question and answer, see social media feeds on debate happening in reaction and watch our president ial debate video from the cspan video library. Next lawmakers questionse pharmaceutical of the pricing and drugs, the price increase at a rate that far exceeds inflation among other issues. This is just under four hours. [silence] [silence] welcome to todays hybrid learning, pursuant to house rules, some members will appear in person and others will appear remotely via webex. Since some members are appearing in person, let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending position, all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a facemask unless they are speaking, members who are not wearing a facemask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for those members appearing in person, you will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on a monitor in front of you when you are speak