Thank you all for coming out. My name is joann and i am the for common cause maryland. Im not sure how many of you are familiar with common cause but we are a nonpartisan Grassroots Organization dedicated to upholding the core values of american democracy. Chapters,er 30 state over one million members threat the country. Common clauses one of three groups helping todays event. I also want to give a special thank you to all the groups who took different actions like filing amicus reefs and supporting the movements in a number of ways. A special thank you to all the volunteers who came out early and are hoping out today. With common cause maryland, to one of the two most gerrymandered in the country. The worst in the nation for how we draw our congressional and district lines. We cannot rely on elected officials to fix the system. It is time for the Supreme Court to create ground rules that based safeguard our right to vote. Today we are joined by a number of speakers who are going to hi
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Wisconsin book festival, i wantk you for coming to see dave levitan for his book, not a scientist. This is the 15th anniversary of the wisconsin book festival. So many authors, so many attendees and so much time has gone into giving us 16 book festivals, and i just really want to say thank you to all of you for coming out today and having come out for 15 years. I also want to say thank you to Madison Public Library for taking this event on when it was unsure whether someone would and for giving us this beautiful space to keep putting on events for the public in madison and from anywhere you came from today. I also want to thank the Madison Public Library foundation. They do all of the private fundraising that keeps these events free and open to the public. This is our fifth festival here at Madison Public Library, and all of our events have been free. We care deeply about that, and we hope you do too. I want to say a huge thank you to all the sponsors. I also would ask you right now to
So many others and so many attendees and so much time has gone into giving us 16 book festivals and i really want to say thank you to all of you for coming out today and having come out for 15 years. I also want to think to medicine Public Library taking his event on when heas was unsure whetherr not someone would and for getting us this evil space to keep p putting on events for the public in medicine and from anywhere you can from today. I also want to think the madison Public Library foundation they do the private fundraising and keep these events free and open to the public. We have been doing this is our 25th festival here the mass Public Library and all of our events have been free and we care deeply about that and hope you do too. I want to say a huge thank you to them and to all the sponsors have helped put on the specimen from the year. I also would ask you right now to please silence your cell phones. That goes for dave, as well. [laughter] and probably me but the architect.
Lawmakers walk through their starting legislative session. We will bring you live coverage here on cspan. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. You have blessed us with all good gifts and with thankful hearts we express our gratitude. You have created us with opportunities to serve other people in their need, to share together in respect and affection