Thank you. Listen, madam chairman and members of the Democratic National committee, the Resolutions Committee met on and approved 30, 23 resolutions which were a combination of message resolutions and members of resolutions. Among those considered and resolution in support of marriage equality, a commemoratingmitte those murdered in charleston, affirming thatn black lives do indeed matter. , in addition we passed some commemorative resolutions, and if it is one thing ive learned over the years i have been a member and a member of the Resolutions Committee, is that we consider these resolutions about dnc members who have passed between our meetings, and we talk about them at the committee because there are folks who knew them, you the contributions they made, and loved them and learn from them. But we do not often do that with you. It comes off as a litany of names, but these names in fact do matter. For example, we passed a resolution commemorating the biden. D career of lowbo like Vic
In the House Chamber when hes giving his state of the Union Address and shout out you lie when in fact he was telling the truth. When you try to undo a policy that has helped hundreds of thousands of young men and women come out of the shadows, and go to school and go to work, and you vote in favor of that, then youre no different from the guy who yells out that immigrants are rapists, that they bring crime and drugs to this country. And so you cant try to separate yourself from the stick you come from. And no one should try to distance donald trump from the republicans in congress. They are one and the same. He is just an offspring of what we have seen over the years coming from republicans in congress. And so its time to change, because if youre a bystander, youre allowing things to happen, and for many people, including me, this becomes very personal, because donald trump and republicans in congress are talking about my parents, and about me, and its time for us to stand up and say
We think a lot about animals as biomedical models. Its important to know how we are treating animals. So i want to talk a little bit of the history of fixing life and this is something with the new editing tools, these are new on the scene in the last three years, they are cheaper, theyre quicker and easier to use and a lot of people have wondered if we have the capacity to now modify a lot of organisms, should we do it with humans, should we do it before theyre born in maybe the same met metaphor before the cow . What hes basically saying, you know, as oppose the sterilizations, the way we segregated people that we didnt want away from society, now we are able to do this and now seemingly sterile mocular level. And hes also bringing the point that im going reiterate with another person, the idea that we sometimes assume that biotechnology is the most effective tool for social problems and i really want to interrogate the idea with you tonight because im not sure that it is. Another pe
Is with the middle class laid bare, with a more precarious position than we realized in the early 2000s. Theye lost a lot of what had. Middleclass Home Ownership was down after the recension recession. Business ownership was down. Middleclass incomes fell not just in the recession, but in the recovery. It only stabilized in the last couple of years since then. They maybe going up again, finally. Be going up again, finally. When we think about the frustrations they are feeling now, it is not just because the recovery and recession were bad. Things were pretty bad before that. A pretty terrible economic decade for most americans and we did not realize that as much because they were spending money they did not have and now they have to pay it back and stop borrowing until we see a situation where it debt frustrations are boiling over. Host were talking about american middle class, the numbers are on the bottom of the screen. You can also participate on social media. Mike is in chicago. We
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