Divide. A virtual author event hosted by the bookstore in new york city. Welcome tonight, i saw comments, thank you so much. We work on this, we are very happy to have her tonight. Id like to share a little bit about the history. Its founded in 1927. Union squares active place, gradually going to 40 bookstores. So surrender. Now run by the owner, nancy, i want to thank all of you for your support. An update in the store two weeks on this. Tonight we are excited to have with us julian, celebrating release of the book, burning down the house. Julian is a stephenson 1941 professor of history and Public Affairs university and a political analyst. His most recent book, the history of the United States since 1974, coauthored by our moderator. The best book in congress. Awarded the New York Historical society, the Guggenheim Foundation in america. They will be joined by crews. A political, social and urban suburban history of the 20th century america. Focused on conflicts over race, religion,
It is a little light to be here and ive learned so much from you through the years. I love the book because it has your voice, its compassionate, brilliant, wise, grounded and provocative. Thank you. How did you come with this legendary career from axis to the highest part of the legal power to writing a book about forgiveness. I wrote a book 20 years ago about responses to Mass Violence and at that time my Conciliation Commission had just started and it was so intrigued by the development of an institution to deal with horrific violence and oppression. And i wrote a book and i called it between forgiveness finding an alternative to the two different responses to horrific acts and ever since that time they said why between, why cannot it forgive itself. Magically and thats what made me write this book. The law does forgive at times, you talk about examples of how right now the law can be forgiving. Tell me about this example. It may seem surprising since one of the most fundamental com
Similar to one that received 53 democratic votes in the u. S. Senate only two years ago and the spending reduction saket serious start toward reducing our deficit and protecting our National Security. Abs president a balanced offer from the president this is our best option and Senate Democrats should take up both of these measures immediately. The president has a choice mr. Speaker, he can support these measures or be responsible for reckless spending and the largest tax hike in american history. And i yield back. Thank you mr. Speaker, what is unbalance sd the republican package that we see on the floor today. We already talked about the numbers of the republican plan b tax proposal which compared to going over the fiscal cliff and the senate alternative would actually provide millionaires with a 50,000 tax cut on average while 25 million American Families will actually see a tax increase of 1,000 on average, including, mr. Speaker, some of our soldiers on the front line in afghanist
Quorum call mr. Casey mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from pennsylvania. Mr. Casey thank you, mr. President. I would ask the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Casey thank you very much. I rise tonight to speak about emergency Unemployment Compensation, we know by the acronyms around here, people refer to Unemployment Insurance as u. I. , but what were talking about here in the real world are literally millions of americans affected in one way or another because theyve been out of out of work, unemployed for long periods of time. By one estimate, the number of americans who have been out of work for six months or longer and many of them many of these individuals have been out of work for a lot more than six months. But when you put that you draw that line of six months or longer, its more than 4 million americans. So its a big number and ill talk a little bit more about the pennsylvania impact, the and walk through some of those numb