Shop now or anytime at cspanshop. Org. Watch video on demand any time online at cspan. Org try a timeline tool that uses markers to quickly guide the interesting highlights of key coverage. Good evening and welcome to tonights chair. What a pleasure it is to welcome a Live Audience hike into the auditorium. [applause] for the first time in almost two years and of course for those of you streaming the programm tonightl. , welcome to you as we. It is our plan to change our current plan is to offer remaining programs and you can go to our website concerning the venue. As part of the Evenings Program one of our oldest chancellors village whove been with us many years and we are grateful for their continuing generous support. This might be a good time to encourage any of you might be inclined to make a contribution is a continuation of the program depends onf this individual supply and you can do this by going to our website, how you may contribute. Speaker this evening is author of like girls subtitled five women h who made aviation histo. In cincinnati graduated from northwestern university, the boston globe. As a newspaper reporter, the one many awards and has written for the New York Times in the magazine and washington post, among others. Hes spoken on public radio more than a decade including npr all things considered. Hes written two books most recent of which like most in the third schedule april title Paradise Falls the true story of the catastrophe. Two assessments mentioned from offers who have spoken recently and you may remember one, if you like the bows in the boat, almost everybody did like them, he would love like girls. This gory researched and written with an irresistible a lot of characters and a similarly flowing evaluation writing this is more than history, its a powerful story for our times, adventure, tragedy and heroes to who will air. Heart stopping novel but the story is all true and conspiring. Some of you may remember schedule part of the 2020 but that was canceled because of the pandemic. We look forward to having him for two years now, it is a special pleasure to welcome keith obrien. [applause] [applause] thank you for the introduction, i appreciated. You did have two years to work on it so i want to say thank you for coming out tonight and the university of washington, thank you for the lecture series and allie heber who worked at the university for two years hes been trying to make this might work, it was on and off. We are going to leave this or a moment and we will go to live coverage of congress, the senate is cackling for whats expected to be a brief session. No vote today. Live coverage of the senate here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The parliamentarian will read a communication to the senate. The parliamentarian washington ddz, june 23, 2023. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable tammy duckworth, a senator from the state of illinois, to perform e