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Stories like that that wraps the anecdotal around a kind of analytical strands so the book is the bright continent breaking rules and making change in modern africa, dayo olopade, thank you for being here today. Is a brilliant book. If you want to understand the continent better, you will buy it. Thank you, good to be here. [applause] thank you for attending todays session. Thank you to our moderator, doug foster and our great author, dayo olopade. Ebook the bright continent breaking rules and making change in modern africa on sale now in the main lobby. She will be signing copies just outside the auditorium for anyone interested. Thank you very much, enjoy your afternoon with the bit fast. Cspan2 providing live coverage of the u. S. Senate floor proceedings and keep Public Policy events and every weekend booktv, for 15 years the only Television Network devoted to nonficti ....
Ms. Warren mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from massachusetts. Ms. Warren i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators the presiding officer the senate is in a quorum call. Ms. Warren i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Warren thank you. I ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Warren mr. President , i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 227, s. 1557. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk calendar number 227, s. 1557, a bill to amend the Public Health service act to reauthorize support for graduate medical Education Programs in childrens hospitals. The pre ....
Answer, but we have that big mission, how many contractors do we need to deliver that mission . We have got 6 million to 7. 5 is a large workforce of contractors who help run the federal government, or deliver the services for the federal government. The goods and so forth. We need them, we have to have them, nobody wants to change. We dont want to give up anything and we are satisfied with duplication and overlap in government. We are satisfied with the difficulties in hiring and operating our agencies, we take that for granted. We have got to have these contractors. We have to oversee them. I would be glad to talk about this, i am pretty frustrated about it. I dont how we get congress and the president to Pay Attention to this. Despite president obamas promise, he did not do it. It is hard work to take the engine out of a car and grind it down and repair it. It is hard work, it is boring work. That not the kind of thing gets you ....
To publish a book about your story as a muslim in congress a couple years after 911. My First Response was i am naught sure i want to do that but i thought inclusion is important so worth telling and retelling the story. You start off exploring your ancest ancestry. You are from detroit. What was growing up like . I grow up in a twohousehold parent. My mother is from louisiana and is a great cook. Ask cooked off the table and raised us with southern rul rural louisiana values. My dad was born in detroit, but his father is from georgia. So my parents are part of the great migrationi. Leaving the south to the rural north. My dad was a doctor. He believed in education but he came up on the harder side of life. He taught us you have to fight for everything. And we would say there is no mer mercy were the weak. If you dont keep up, the world has harsh consequences. If i called him today he would tell me the same thing. We were raised t ....
Honeybees are threatened by quality class disorder. A crisis created by humans, via pesticides, harmful bugs and Climate Change. Hungry people are the most socially vulnerable of humanity. We design ourd backyard because f our trust in the holy one. We are to renew the faith of the planet. Right now the planet is poor from climate pollution. There is a greek word for house or household. It is the root for the word ecology and economics. For christians of the ancient church, it is not limited to the private home, but referring to the planet itself as the whole house. Ods home. How to be a sacred neighbor . We are a shared household where all who are born belong. Where humans and all of life live in each others lives and die into each others deaths. There is no way out or around our interconnectedness. It is the way of god and of life. The role of the epa is to regulate. At the church of the pilgrim, we are doing that, tending to ou ....