Of books that you may not know about of the lines. We are pleased to be at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia this week, and we are joined by the president of the university dementia is the coauthor of this book, the spirit of compromise, white governing demands it and campaigning undermines it. President , are we a politically compromising nation . We were created in compromise. A lot of people think of the revolutionary war, which separated us from our mother country, but if you recall, i know you werent there then, but if you recall it historically speaking our Founding Fathers crafted a compromise that created the constitution. They were as polarized as any set of americans who had been throughout our country and history. There were a pro and anti slavery and yet they compromised. So, yes, we were founded in compromise. Today compromise has become more difficult than ever before. What do you mean when you talk about the uncompromising mindset . Well, we live in an era t
Was, i suppose youd call it adventurous. But this thing ruined everything. [laughter] we go far and wide, find the best writers that we can ask and bring them to albany. Its like bringing the world the a particular place. And i dont think i cant think of any other organization, even some of the better known ones in major cities that have such a regular flow of creative talent coming through and at no cost to the public. With our open door policy. We bring the literary world to albany. So all these people whose names, faces and dates, events you see are people who have come from far and wide to read to the general public here. And weve had somewhere, my most recent count now has gotten us up to at least 10 or probably 11 Nobel Laureates across the years ranging from Toni Morrison who actually used to teach at albany to most recently a South African writer, and along the way, i dont know, people like the nigerian writer, wally, or the caribbean writer derek walcott, or the irish poet, se
When there were riots and federal property at stake, we were able to take care of it by the use of local police. And the fact is that arsonists should be held accountable. People carrying guns should be held accountable. People who engage in criminal activity should and must be held accountable and taken to trial. But whats happened here is this is just caused such enormous political division. And its all about being able to you see some of the ads. You see cities burning, call 911, biden and they have my picture in the background, you know. And if its rape, dial one, if its anything else, its going to take seven days. Come on. That is all about trying to come up with a bizarre law and order 2020 campaign thing to try to scare the devil out of the American People. And whats happened is look, mike, when the president decided he had to walk across from the white house through a group of peaceful demonstrators to an Episcopal Church to hold a bible upside down, which i dont know how often
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Good morning everybody, welcome everybody to todays hybrid hearing. Pursuant to house rules some members and witnesses will appear in person and others will appear by zoom. I know you are familiar with zoom by now. Let me remind everyone of a few points. First, the house rules require that we see you. Please have your cameras turned on at all times. Second, members appearing remotely who are not recognized should remain muted to minimize background noise and feedback. Third, i will recognize member verbally, members retain the right to seek recognition verbally. In regular order members will be recognized in crd for questions, lastly if you want to be recognized outside of regular order you may identify that in several ways. You may use the chat unction to send a request, you may send an emailed to the majority staff, or you may unmute your mike to seek a condition. We will get gin the hearing in just a moment whenhey tell me they are ready to begin the livestream. The committee will c