Accompanying regulations, members are required to leave the camera on the entire time they are in an official proceeding. Even if a step away from the camera. While roll call is unnecessary to establish a quorum and official proceedings conducted remotely, whenever there is an official proceeding with remote participation, the clerk will call the roll to make clear who is present at the start of the preceding. At this time i ask the clerk to call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] chairwoman, this concludes the roll call. Thank you very much. Pursuant to Committee Role 7c, Opening Statements are limited to the chair and the Ranking Member. This allows us to hear from our witnesses sooner and provides all members with adequate time to ask questions. I recognize myself do for the purpose of making and opening statement. Today, as we know were examining how the covid19 pandemic is straining our Higher Education system and discussing what Cong
Will give both our authors 20 minutes to speak and we allocate 10 minutes for questionandanswer. Im also admonished to remind you if youre really enjoying yourself, that the southern festival of books depends upon individual donations. If you really enjoy what youve seen over the past couple of days, id encourage you to donate as much as you can. We are in for a treat today. I asked these two jennifer bio gentleman for bios a couple of visio. They are esteemed scholars but also some of the most modest men that ive met. I will give you a brief and iuction to them encourage you to speak with them after the session ends. Our first presenter this morning gorn. Liott born chair and american urban history at Loyola University in chicago. Books author of five including a brief history of american sports, mother jones the most dangerous woman in ride thend wild year that made americas public enemy number one. And the work he will be talking about today is let the people see. To his right is ch
The bill of rights and the debates that are echoed today. She speaks with the director of the institute for constitutional history at the New York Historical society and George Washington University Law school host its nice to be having this conversation with you. I very much enjoyed reading your book the bill of rights the fight to secure americas liberties and my first question is an easy one why did you write the book . Guest probably for the same reason that i wrote a brilliant solution. I think that american are hobbled by about the myths of the birth of the country. I think all country have ms. A mess but it is a part of hours and i think that the story is much more interesting and admirable that i was tempted when i realized a lot of people i spoke to thought that the bill of rights was part of the original constitution and it was written by the statute standing in the park. All brilliant all amazingly selfinterested, no egos and that it became instantly the most important part
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I want to say hello to those who are watching this through the lifestream and through cspan2. This is a great day to have a great conversation about Higher Education and particularly the role of historically black universities and colleges. In 1997 i worked with an educational project. A number of you know the dr. Is that public hbc you. Some of you know his private hbc. He spent time in washington, d. C. As a kennedy appointee to the peace corps. Number of you know him through his work as a pastor. In 1997 we had an opportunity to sit in the lovely room. With a donor who owns a very large and very Famous Family foundation. The head of that walked into the room. And she said, can ask a questi question . Is there a need for blackblack colleges today and doctor proctor leaned back in his seat and he said maam, if you make can i restructure the question. The question is not, whether there is a need for hbcus today, the question is, where would america be today without them. And so she nod