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Who are freezing can admire your shorts and tshirts and silently curse you. Speaking of the tucson festival of books, we have bill minor here today, one of the visionaries. Give him a round of applause. Very much a volunteerdriven effort a group of people bill and many others who made a big impact on the community. If you want to be part of that, i hope you will consider becoming a friend of the festival. A tax deductible donation that impacts this event and were moting around the country. Let me introduce the panel. David maraniss author of many books, he was won several wards prince of tennessee about al gore books about sports in the 1960s, and other political books as well. So please welcome him. [applause] if you are political aware and not living under a rock you know about mark levitch and his book this town that caused a lot of stir and conversation. Number one New York Times best seller followed up with a collection of his fantastic articles over the years called sitcitizen ci
Andrei cherny formerly of the Democratic Party. [applause] dot everybody can say that in arizona and get applause. But the book readers are what we call the base. [laughter] dot thank you for that. Currently the ceo of aspiration. Com. Who are freezing can admire your shorts and tshirts and silently curse you. Speaking of the tucson festival of books, we have bill minor here today, one of the visionaries. Give him a round of applause. Very much a volunteerdriven effort a group of people bill and many others who made a big impact on the community. If you want to be part of that, i hope you will consider becoming a friend of the festival. A tax deductible donation that impacts this event and were moting around the country. Let me introduce the panel. David maraniss author of many books, he was won several wards prince of tennessee about al gore books about sports in the 1960s, and other political books as well. So please welcome him. [applause] if you are political aware and not living u
Behind the worlds favorite board game. Mary will sign a copy for you thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] you are watching booktv and cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the tucson festival of books, the seventh edition. My name is ron barber and i will be your moderators this afternoon. [applause] i want to thank, and communications for sponsoring the venue and thank the nation for sponsoring this session and you might be aware already there is a table at in the mall for the nation so hopefully you will stop by. Presentation will be 55 minutes including questions and answers. We did like you to hold your questions until the end. We will have a 15 20 minutes session for q a. Immediately following the session the authors will be autographing their books. That is sponsored by the arizona bookstores and books are available for purchase at this location.
The committee is considering a proposal to reauthorize the trade facilitation is your is your microphone on . The trade facilitation and trade enforcement functions of the United States customs and Border Protection and other agencies, seven titles. Title i considers the trade trade, facilitation and Enforcement Mission of cbp. The import health, and safety mission. The import related protections of intellectual Property Rights missions. Title v establishes new requirements for cbp to combat evasion and antidumping and countervailing duty orders. Additional trade enforcement intellectual Property Rights protection requirements primarily for agencies other than cbp. Title iv and seven contain miscellaneous provisions. Thank you, mr. Chairman. The senator 70 questions regarding this . I dont have a question. I apologize. I want to say thank you to the chairman for the level of Playing Field that including the language of that and your willingness to Work Together to keep this through the