Jumping into this conversation, its a little bit of a different kind of conversation that we usually have, but lgbtq life in the Faith Community and Jewish Community, lets just say to start out by talking about what your experience has been in the Jewish Community yourself. Maxine . Well i am going to date myself but i am twice blessed, being a lesbian and being jewish, it was very difficult because i didnt come out until graduate school. Because i didnt think being [null] had anything to being jewish. So i had no role models. I had no one to model myself after, and i didnt think i could be jewish and be [null] , until i met somebody in graduate school at the same seminary that i attended as a communal professional spending nonprofit studying nonprofit management and my first woman lover was there at Hebrew Union College and i thought oh my god, the heavens opened. You mean talk about intersectionality, here were two permanent parts of myself that became integrated. And rabbi zalman .
8 00 p. M. Attorney general Loretta Lynch and she is there on the picture in the left in the Washington Post story. She vowed to use the full resources of the federal government to investigate the orlando mass shooting. Oh, boy. How are you . I know youre good. I see you here. I have seen this program and i know that it is sponsored by women and focused on women and talks about the power of women. So i know youre great. [applause] thank you for that kind introduction and for the work you do to provide opportunity in advance the cause of justice. Im excited to be here today with all of you. All of you, advocates, allies in the cause of equality and i want to thank the first lady, Michelle Obama and the council for convening todays event and honoring the power of women. And for ensuring that womens issues are seen for what they trulyr american issues. [applause] i know you have had outstanding speakers today. I heard you had some good names. Everyone who has been here has dedicated thems
Questions in writing. Without objection the committee stands adjourned. Live coverage from the Senate Intelligence committee at 9 00 on cspan three. The latest on the mass shooting in orlando. We start with remarks by president obama. After meeting with his National Security council. Updates from attorney general loretta lynch. The Homeland Security Committee Takes a look at the issue of visitors overstaying their pieces. Visas. House Committee Meets to vote on censuring the irs commissioner for alleged misconduct. The state departments envoy for libya testifies later about efforts to establish a unity government in libya. The Senate Foreign relations committee. Also on cspan three. After the surrender at appomattox the nation faced challenges in reconstruction. American history tv is live from Gettysburg College in gettysburg pennsylvania. For the annual Civil War Institute summer conference. Topics that confronted our newly unified country. The return of the confederate veteran. The
Penalty of not being able to reenter . Are there thoughtful disincentives we should consider . People that overstay as time goes on the numbers get whittle down. They are subject to the threeyear to tenure bar of getting a visa to come back. That information goes to state and they have to go to state and apply and state their cases. Once they depart the United States or are removed, it has been difficult to come back in unless they deal with the wafer and there are procedures to do that. I do not know if making them into a criminal act would change behavior of people who would stay here. Are individuals who left 60 days late consider the same as individuals you caught 60 days later and put out . That is a different behavior. I believe it would be the same. Do you feel that those disincentives are adequate . I think people that will stay here permanently will try to stay here permanently. It will be difficult to come back in once a person leaves that has been identified as an overstay.
Reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school or in a house of worship or a Movie Theater or in a nightclub. And we have to decide if that is the kind of country we want to be. Is atively do nothing decision as well. Amy the orlando gunman used a semiautomatic weapon that would have been prohibited under the assault weapons ban that expired over a decade ago. We will spend the hour looking at the massacre in orlando, speaking to local officials in florida, a longtime patron of the pulse nightclub, and the first openly gay imam in the United States. We will learn how i been loving nation, australia, passed sweeping gun control legislation after a massacre in 1995. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Vigils are being held across the country following what has been described as the deadliest mass shooting in modern American History. At least 5