[applause] thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us for this book talk. Brick by brick, building hope and opportunity for women survivors everywhere, by karen sherman. What a powerful title, right . Each word of the title has power within its own self, and i think that you will see that illuminated today during the conversation that karen will have with barbara. Im marjorie san, im manager director at ascend at the as spend institute and its my pleasure to step in for my boss, ann mosley, the executive director of asend and also a Vice President at the as spend institute. U fortunately she had family emergency today and is nose able to make it but she was heavily involved in the planning. It was her honor to host the book talk because she has known karen as a very close friend for many, many years and if you know ann, you know that personal and professional relationships and commitments are really important to her. So only an emergency would have kept her from open
Each word of the title has power within its own self. I think you will see that illuminated today during a conversation that Karen Sherman will have with barbara. I am the managing director of the Aspen Institute and it is my pleasure to step in for my boss, and mosley, who is executive director and Vice President at the Aspen Institute. Unfortunately she had a family emergency and is not able to make it but she was heavily involved in the planning. It was her honor to host this booktalk because she has known Karen Sherman as a close friend for many many years. If you know her you know her personal and professional relationships and commitments are important to her. Only an emergency would have kept her from opening this up. Thank you for being here. Im not going to spend a lot of time on introductions because you have the bios in front of you and it is important to get into the conversation. I am honored to be able to introduce her because ive known her work for a number of years. The
Everwhere. By karen sherman. What a title, right . Each word of the title has meaning within itself and i think you will see that eliminated today during the conversation that karen will have with barbara. I am Marjorie Sims managing director at the Aspen Institute and sly pleasure to step in for my boss pam mosley who is the executive director of aspen and the Vice President at the Aspen Institute. Unfortunately she had a family emergency today and is not able to speak she was heavily involved in the planning and it was her honor to be able to host this book talk because she has been a very close friend for many years. If you know ann you know the personal relationships and commitments are very important to her so only in emergency would have kept her from opening this up. Again thank you for being here and im not going to spend a lot of time because you have the bios in front of you and i think its important to get into the conversation that i am honored to be able to introduce karen
Whether to amend that with a bigger proposal because we all know a bigger proposal is necessary, but ive decided were going to go on and vote as soon as the senate can get permission to vote on the bill that came over from the house, send it down to the president for signature and thus reassure the people around the country that we can operate on a bicameral, bipartisan basis quickly. Second, we will not leave, the senate will not leave until we have passed yet another bill and clearly, that will have to go in two steps. As i indicated earlier, First Senate Republicans and the administration are going to try to reach an agreement on what we think is best for what could best be described as phase three. Then the senate being the senate, we will sit down with our democratic counterparts and see what we can agree to. We will not leave, the senate will not leave town until we have processed yet another bill to address this emergency. With that i will be happy to take a few questions. Repor
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