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Are stuck. No idea when schools can safely reopen and even fewer childcare options. The devastation is enormous. And the way i see it, big problems demand big solutions. Now, i love a good plan. And joe biden has some really good plans. Plans to bring back union jobs newmanufacturing and create union jobs in clean energy. Plans to increase Social Security benefits, cancel billions in Student Loan Debt and make our bankruptcy laws work for families instead of the creditors who cheat them. These p...

That i would be running for public office. It did not interest me. College i goted married and had five children in six years. That was my life. When the children were grown, the opportunity to run for congress came along. Another woman said run and he won. Founding a path that would make history. The first woman speaker of the house. For our daughters and granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling. I could feel i did feel a real responsibility to other women as i stood on the shoul...

Candidate for president of the United States, joe biden. We also reaffirmed our values as a party, a party of resilience and hope, empathy and inclusion. Ups is a party that fires me as a young man in the city, registered voters with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in a mississippi delta, and campaigning for the United States house of representatives. Its the party that taught me that Public Service should serve the public, even when your opponents call you names like nasty or slow...

Mr. Speaker, you will never hear me complain about having to come to washington to vote. After all, it is an honor to serve the people of this great nation and our constitutional obligation to be here present to vote on the issues facing america. So the question today, are the issues that need to be addressed in the United States Postal Service . There certainly are. We all know there are. After all the usps has been on the Government Accountabilitys highrisk list since the beginning of the Obam...

We have a remarkable board of directors who work hard at doing this yearround. None of this at all could have been without the good support if everyone here at Miami Dade College and lets give them a huge round of applause. [applause] they are particularly appreciative of the sponsors. Without the sponsors and funding from foundations and governmental, we wouldnt be able to bring you all of this literary extravaganza. And of course our friends. Many of you are friends of the Miami Book Fair and ...

To stand up and say enough is enough. [cheering] box to the ballot factory floor, from her living room to the er, she makes trouble, the good time the good kind. She is a mother who cries out for sensible gun laws. The daughter who believes that equal justice means justice for all. We are america. The child who knows that black lives matter. No justice, no peace. Thehe is our warrior on front line, Challenging Authority to make the world safe. Nobody is above the law. Who makesg to be told decis...

House. Tonight is one of the annual National Heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the u. S. Capitol Historical Society and the u. S. Supreme court Historical Society. We have our wonderful colleagues from both here tonight and Jane Campbell is the new president of the capitol Historical Society. On june 4, 1919, the 19th amend was passed and sent to the states for ratification. The suffragists used the white house to bring attention to their cause. Tonight we look forward to hearing ...

Such a sweeping story . Harold we have tack till objects, images, but probably as you force us to describe this in civil war fashion, ill get that later. The hardest thing is to preserve, you know better than most, for textiles and the objects were going to discuss today, some of them are really extraordinary and n terms of how they survived. Valerie absolutely. And without further ado, lets get to our four things this evening. We have a military button, and a drum. Very interesting, and fashion...

Warren tonight we heard from the people who put their lives on the line to keep our country going. Since covid19 hit, they taken one gut punch after another. What has the covid fallout done to our babies . The Early Childhood Education Center in springfield, massachusetts has been closed for months. Childcare was already hard to find before the pandemic. Now, parents are stuck. No idea when school can safely reopen and even fewer childcare options. The devastation is enormous. And the way i see ...

Im jamie colby, and today im on the road in lawrence, kansas, on my way to the university of kansas home of the jayhawks, one of the most storied teams in all of basketball. Now, kansas is actually not where the tale of this strange inheritance begins, but through a turn of events, it does wind up here. In 1939, my grandfather, dr. James naismith passed away and left us an artifact that dates back to 1891. He was my greatgrandfather, and what he left us was the magna carta of basketball. Naismit...