You at the next event. Thank you pj. Book tv continues on cspan two television for serious readers. Good evening good afternoon we know we had people here all over the world. Greetings, welcome. The Elliott Bay Book company. On behalf of all of the people who are staging this production today we are delighted to be celebrating the publication of Arundhati Roys new book azadi. This is been published and launched with her in new delhi. In the evening hours. I am in seattle where it is still a new day. All of you joining us everywhere around the spectrum. May even be earlier in the morning. The publication was the suspicious one. First to acknowledge all of the books publisher. In publishing this book. Haymarket is published based in chicago in the u. S. Its been around since 2001. And dedicated to social justice books. They have come around for on for the past 20 years. You can certainly got it haymarket books. Org. They are huge part of this. It is a south asian arts organization. It wa
Name it. From a qualifications point of view, she is a slamdunk. Unfortunately, politics abounds now around judges. We will see what happens in the next two days, but i am proud of the committee. Differences. Talking about the aca [indiscernible] [indiscernible] sen. Graham it is clear that they want to talk about the Affordable Care act in terms of policy. The judge will decide the merits based on the law. In my state, there has been a 30 increase in premiums of obamacare and we are down to one provider from five, so we will have a contest about whether or not obamacare is a good deal or a bad deal for south carolina. 35 of the money goes to three states at our expense, but her job will be to talk about the law and how you would apply the law to any litigation whether it be guns, health care, abortion, campaignfinance, and i think she will do a good job understanding that the role of the judges differ from that of us. Thank you. [indiscernible] thank you. Behind this mask, dick durbin
Of direct payments for Contact Tracing. House democrats move forward after negotiations with the white house failed to produce a compromise. Floor debate before the final vote. Lowey, is recognized. Mrs. Lowey im pleased to yield five minutes to the distinguished gentleman from massachusetts, from my class, the chair of the committee on ways and means, mr. Neal. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts, chairman neal is recognized. Ms. Neal thank you, madam chairwoman. I stand in support of the updated heroes act. The previous gentleman was dismissive of the idea that there is some import to this moment in terms of getting a package done. So that means expanding Unemployment Insurance, thats not important . Unemployment insurance that we might consider now which is part of the need of the American Family . A reminder, there are 26 million americans right now collecting Unemployment Insurance. Let me put this in terms of what an economist might say. If we dont expand Une
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