All right the title of this session is confronting crisis and change state and local politics. There are few routes that help prepare a future president to serve in the white house when the time comes, one way is to serve as a u. S. Senator. Of course, several have gone that route. President coolidges predecessor, Warren Harding, of course, being one of those. This service certainly has its advantages as a senator. One has to develop relationships with. Congress know how to effectively advance legislation, learn how to comport oneself on the National Stage and certainly have an awareness of foreign policy. A second preparation for the presidency to serve as a chief executive. Whether that be as a mayor or as a governor. From jimmy carter to ronald reagan, two very different president s and many. Weve certainly had plenty of governor president s as well. Calvin coolidge, as weve heard throughout our sessions, was perhaps the most prepared president in u. S. History. Indeed, he was elect
Quorum call ms. Stabenow mr. President , i would suggest an extension of the quorum call. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Ms. Stabenow i would suggest suspension of the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Stabenow before asking unanimous consent, and we will do that as soon as its appropriate to do, i just want to stress again why we have been on the floor this afternoon, and that is that we know that we have bipartisan support, not only for the Childrens Health Insurance Program, but for the Health Centers where they get their health care, which is community Health Centers, and that we can address this without pitting children against children through the unanimous consent in the amendment that im offering along with senator brown and senator casey, and in addition to that, there are Critical Issues that normally get done before the end of the year that did not relating to rural hospitals, ambulances, other issues that relate to preg
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All right. I think well get started. Good afternoon. Thank you all for coming. Thanks for cspan for coming. My name is mark schmitt. Im the director of the Political Reform Program here at new america and all i want to do is welcome you to this discussion on race and solidarity in the United States and the future of solidarity as a way of thinking about thinking about race. This discussion was organized by ted johnson who has been a fellow in our National Fellows program and also a fellow in the Political Reform Program. His work on the complexity of black voting behavior and Political Attitudes has been eyeopening to me, and, you know, tremendously important. Hes now a fellow at the Brennan Center for justice which is an organization that as you can see, the signs here, its occasionally here. We often do things in partnership with the Brennan Center which is a wonderful organization and ted is bringing a bit of a of a nonlegal beyond legal, i guess he would say, scope of analysis to t
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