CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings June 22, 2024
The american dream. What does it look like when it does not work and when it does . When i think about a time when it did not work, i will never forget the experience is my mother had growing up in poverty in eastern arkansas. She was one of eight kids, three of whom died in childhood. Not child earth, childhood. Her father died when she was 10. There was no educational opportunity. There was not social security. She chopped cotton, picked strawberries. When my dad met her at the age of 17, he said her hands felt like the bark of a tree. She gave me the energy i have today to be standing in fr...