Rep. Pelosi good morning, everyone. I just came from a speak out on the east lawn here of the capitol on behalf of Voting Rights. Two bills, one introduced by john lewis, Voter Empowerment act. Another introduced by terry sewell to advance the Voting Rights in our country to correct the mistakes made by the Supreme Court on that score. I always, always, always quote Martin Luther king in so many ways, but in this score he said, the ballot, the ballot, the ballot. Legislation, legislation, legislation. Your life, your life, your life. Went on to say no one should underestimate the power of this method. We must continue to gain the ballot. So my statement there was, we would hope that we could get a Voting Rights bill passed in the congress. Members like to show up for the unveiling. The Republican Leadership likes to show up for the unveiling of the rosa park statue or to go to selma, alabama, for the 50th anniversary and come home and do nothing. Actually the day we unveiled the statue
Rep. Pelosi good morning, everyone. I just came from a speak out on the east lawn here of the capitol on behalf of Voting Rights. Two bills, one introduced by john lewis, Voter Empowerment act. Another introduced by terry sewell to advance the Voting Rights in our country to correct the mistakes made by the Supreme Court on that score. I always, always, always quote Martin Luther king in so many ways, but in this score he said, the ballot, the ballot, the ballot. Legislation, legislation, legislation. Your life, your life, your life. Went on to say no one should underestimate the power of this method. We must continue to gain the ballot. So my statement there was, we would hope that we could get a Voting Rights bill passed in the congress. Members like to show up for the unveiling. The Republican Leadership likes to show up for the unveiling of the rosa park statue or to go to selma, alabama, for the 50th anniversary and come home and do nothing. Actually the day we unveiled the statue
Welcome to the National Press club, the place where news happens. My name is andrea edney. Im part of the breaking news desk at Bloomberg News and im Vice President of the National Press club. Before we get started i would like to remind everyone again, please, to in our inhouse audience to please silence cellphones if you havent already. For our viewing and listening audience follow along on twitter using the pressclub. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. Any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. Now, i would like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. We have jamaal abdul allen, senior staff writer at diverse issues in Higher Education. We have jerry weller, former u. S. Representative from illinoiss 11th district and president of t
Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the gaithersburg book festival. My name is mark corpsman, im ab state legislator from district 16. Gaithersburg proudly supports the arts and humanities. Were pleased to bring you thiss fabulous event thanks in part to the generous support of our sponsors and volunteers. A few announcements. First, please silence your devices. If youre on social media today, and we sure hope you are, pleasc use the hashtag gbf. Your feedback is also really valuable to us. Surveys are available here at the tent and on our web site. Youll be entered into a drawing for a 100 visa gift card. Our author will be signing books immediately after this presentation, and copies are on sale in the politics prose week tent just to your right book tent just to your right. This is a free event, but itbo does help the book festival if you buy a book, and the more books you buy, the more books the festival sells, the more publishers will want to send their authors here to speak wit
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