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My name is kristin king and im the manager here and i want to thank you all for joining us this evening. A couple notes before we begin. First and foremost, the book is available for purchase in the bookstore and will be available after the event and in addition there will be a signing. Second, we have a really fantastic fall lineup coming at all six of our busboys and books location this fall. Theres an event signup list being passed around on a clipboard, so feel free to add your name and emai...

American christianity and southern culture at the duke divinity school, and an adjunct professor of american studies at unc chapel hill. You can tell tim is a very inclusive guy, hes got an appointment at duke and unc. We are going to talk best well tonight. He is the author of blood done sign my name which was nominated for the book award. He also serves on the executive board for the North Carolina naacp. Tim can tell you more about this book than i can. I just want to say, he does a marvelous...

[inaudible conversations] good evening again. For those of you that dont know if you dont know tim tyson, a Senior Research scholar for documentary studies at duke visiting professor at christianity in a professor from american and studies of that is very inclusive and we will not talk basketball tonight. He is the author of a finalist of the National Book award and the book called the radio free dixie. In the North Carolina naacp. Tim can tell you more about this book and i can and. Doing it ev...

A couple of votes tonight and then we expect work on thursday on that g. O. P. Tax reform bill. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, prordings will resume on questions proceedings will resume on questions previously post pobed. Votes will be taken in the following order. Adopting House Resolution 599, suspending the rules and passing h. R. 3071, and agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15minute vote. Remaining electronic votes will be con...

Risks. He spoke in washington, d. C. , for about an hour. Good morning, everyone. Not much going on in Health Care Policy these days, is there . My name is topher spiro. I have the pleasure today of introducing congressman pallone who has been a leader in protecting the integrity of the medicare guarantee and medicaid program, making the nations food system safer, strengthening laws to keep our air and watter cle clean. Making health care more afwordable and accessible many and supporting initia...

This is our first time during this panel doing this pencil since 2014. We are grateful to our host at net roots nation. We will be taking questions from the folks in the room and folks online. You can tweak us to our twitter account and we will try to get your questions as well. The blogsrit of though, this panel has been about interactivity. Im going to give extreme the quick introductions about who we are and we are going to get to our questions because we think arming progressive with informa...

This is our first time during this panel doing this pencil since 2014. We are grateful to our host at net roots nation. We will be taking questions from the folks in the room and folks online. You can tweak us to our twitter account and we will try to get your questions as well. The blogsrit of though, this panel has been about interactivity. Im going to give extreme the quick introductions about who we are and we are going to get to our questions because we think arming progressive with informa...

Progressive caucus has always wee, for a number of years, have the annual progressive caucus budget that we put forth that is full of those big ideas trying to move the ball forward. Only giving us policy solutions that people are asking for but how we can help elect electorally. I will let each person kind of say whatever they want. We will have five minutes to make some initial comments. We will ask a couple questions by the panel. So first, i will go in order here that we have. I will start t...

Q and a. We are incredibly thrilled to be back, and we are grateful to our hosts at Netroots Nation. Thank you tonetroo to Netroots Nation for Live Streaming this. We are taking questions. Well be taking questions online. You can tweet at us. This panel has been about interactivity. We dont do any speeches or presentations. I am just going to give a quick introduction about who we are and we will get to your questions. We think our main progressives with information about we are they need to be ...

Charlottesville, virginia. In part two of our discussion with former neonazi Christian Picciolini, cofounder of life after hate. We decided 30 years ago, we were not going to shave our heads. We were going to trade in our boots for suits, and role in college and recruit in camps is, go to the military to get military training to recruit there. Even run for office. Here we are 30 years later with that dream or that nightmare realized was amy and we stick with jacob scott in fargo, north carolina,...