And the brooks still worth reading. Thank you for your time and good nights been a good afternoon. I want to welcome you on the half of humanity tennessee to the southern festival of books. I want to particularly thank our key sponsors, Metro National art commission, and chrome content, tennessee art commission, vanderbilt university. This session is entitled dreaming america. We have a panel of three authors and three books and our first we will read some, but im going to reduce the authors first. I will begin with amra sabicelrayess. She grew up in bosnia. After surviving ethnic cleansing and more than 1100 days under the serbs military siege she immigrated to the United States in 1986. By december, 1999, she earned a ba from Brown University and later obtained to master degrees in a doctorate from Columbia University currently, shes a compass a professor eric on the egg working on understanding how and why societies fall apart and what role education plays a rebuilding decimated cou
Cspans q and a. The house ways and means subcommittee has been examining limits but on the deductions of state and local taxes under the 2017 republican tax bill. Fromearlier today we show you the first part of this hearing while the senate is in recess. Farming communities, schools, First Responders and housing values. Before i begin my Opening Statement id like to yield to the chairman of the full ways and Means Committee for his opening remarks. Thank you chairman thompson and i want to acknowledge you and the other members of the subcommittee for indulging me with time to speak in this important hearing. The leadership of this committee and the working group is invaluable to congress. I want to take a couple minutes of time to express my appreciation to the witnesses who come to share their testimony today. Its a rare occasion that we can hear from hardworking folks make up our state and local governments. As former mayor of springfield until your firsthand of my experience as to h
Emergency management. Confirmation votes on two of the nominees are expected at 11 a. M. Eastern today. And now through live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, who is given our lawmakers diversities of talents by the same spirit, use us for your glory. Lord, protect our nation from evil, prevent the weapons formed against america from prospering, for you remain our refuge and fortress. Continue to be the strength of our lives as we remember the many times you have preserved us in the past. Lord, open our eyes to the unfolding of your providence. Open our minds to your truth. Open our lips to speak your wisdom. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for
Immigration. Were sick and tired of the bodies showing up. Announcer how this town became ground zero for Migrant Deaths. Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. Right now, the u. S. Border patrol is holding more 15,000 people every day, including an estimated 2,000 unaccompanied children. The Detention Centers where theyre held have become notorious for their squalid conditions. Two centers making headlines are the clint border station in west texas and the ursula station in mcallen, texas. Lawyers and doctors who have visited these two centers say theyre dangerously overcrowded. Dr. Dolly lucio sevier, a pediatrician in brownsville, texas, visited the ursula children. Afterwards, she wrote in a medical declaration that the conditions there, quote, could be compared to torture facilities. Dr. Sevier joins us from her office in brownsville. Thank you for being with us. We certainly appreciate it. Can you give me a little background . Why do medical professionals get calle
investigations into him factor into any of the thinking heading into 2024? no. dana: let s bring in kellyanne conway former senior advisor to president trump. one other sound i want to play from jill biden. it s joe s decision and we support whatever he wants to do. if he is in, we re there. if he wants to do something else, we re there, too. dana: all right. decipher. that sounds like a spouse worried that her husband is growing resistance within his own party including among independents. 64% say they want hunter biden investigated and hear words like china, ukraine, money and want to know what happened. those are countries very much in the news and very much in the crosshairs of americans positively or negatively and also what happened to the pow wow they were going to have over christmas? they were going to get together and discuss the 2024 race, that s what we were told through the reports. also i thought the first lady jill biden missed a great opportunity to