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The presiding officer the senator from alaska. Ms. Murkowski request that proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Murkowski madam president for the information of all senators, we are were working now to set up votes on several pending amendments to the bill and these votes would be after lunch today. Right now were looking at 60vote thresholds on the fischer amendment along with a boxer sidebyside. The sanders amendment and the lee amendment. I do understand that the boxer amendment is now filed at the desk and i would also ask unanimous consent that the fischer amendment number 18 be modified with the changes that are at the desk. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Murkowski thank you madam president. I yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call ms. Murkowski madam president . The presiding officer the senator from alaska. Ms. Murkowski request ....
I think it to a very large degree. Certainly the political aim and the notion of a country country, ive lived in washington and have been their most of my adult life and most people have a sense it has gotten toxic. But one of the reasons somebody clever increasingly living in to the icehouse that reflect their own economic or racial or cultural entity. End it makes it more difficult to find the of pragmatic middle. Frankly most americans on cable tv ortolan twitter they want to solve problems. They tend not to be the ones you find in the conversation. But the polarization has influenced our politics that is self reinforcing because the public is set up for approval ratings. That is the courage lowes negative bet the fact Debt Economic divide is growing but we are an enormous head rhode jihadist society but what makes us work this validity and ability to start at the bottom and go to the top. That is the greatness of america and th ....
Follow was on twitter at a booktv and like us on facebook. Facebook. Com booktv. Booktv continues now with Sylviane Diouf. She represents a history of people who escape this labor and created selfsufficiency mayors and desolate regions of the south. This is about 50 minutes. Thank you very much for the introduction, and im delighted to be here to play the role of questioner of Sylviane Diouf the marvelous new book slaverys exiles. And at the end we will have a little time for questions from the audience. Theres a microphone over there for them. So keep it in mind that would when we finish our conversation. Just remind you what was said, you can purchase for book outside and its well worth doing. I think to begin sylviane wanted to read a little passage from the book. Would you like to start that way . Actually at the end. Okay. So we will plunge writing. Actually let me just ....
Africa. He talked at the new public library. [ applause ] thank y thank you. This is a wonderful institution and gave me an event to look at this great book. It is a great book. It was a thrill to be asked to do this with greg tonight. He comes at it as a historian and i am a reader of his book and a leader of melville and that is wellfitting we should be meeting into the new york library to talk about the greatest new yorker that ever lived. I dont think anybody stands in his wake. And to talk about the much larger story that he was expanding upon in it. And greg asked me to do the honors of talking for a minute at the outset about playing out the story which i am sure many of you are familiar with and many of you may not have read as recently. I thought i would do that. And i remember seeing a document once about pablo who played bock every day and said i also do that. So it is benedicts on the house. This is the story of a man who fetches up on the ceiling of a long expedition. They ....
Small groups, families, large communities especially in the small swamp all over the south. In sheer numbers you know what to me is unique in that place in the resistance story is that they were unique in many ways. And even less underground. Also they added a special kind of a freedom. They raised their food and nobody else was. When they created a mentality to life in the white hegemony. When somebody would run away to the south which was two cities or when people would run away to the north to canada or for free blacks they all lived under the control segregated and discriminated against and there were things that they were not allowed to do. If only the maroons were and they created that alternative to life and the slavery south and in the free north. And what i conceive of that is also the fact that you know these ideals of voluntary separation, this is something that exists within the Africanamerican Community and ....