Welcome ladies and gentlemen forhe robert c. Byrd center congressional history and education. I am the director here at the bird center. Thank you for joining us as we celebrate Constitution Day. Constitution day, as im sure many of you know, was yesterday. We are belated in celebrating, but thats ok. Before i get started i want to take a minute to recognize the passing of Cokie Roberts. Many of you were here in july when cokie and Steve Roberts very graciously came out and participated in an advent an event. We had a wonderful dinner afterward. To say that our thoughts and prayers are dedicated to them. As we are Getting Started here, i want to general i want to gently remind you all to silence your cell phones. I would like to thank four seasons books for your support and organizing the book signing thats going to all ats call. This will be a similar format from what we normally do. Wonderfulve a reception. I want to recognize mr. Tom mosess three daughters, meryl husbands. Nd their
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Trail, part of cspans battleground states tour. Host Camila Dechalus is a reporter with cq roll call back from a trip to the u. S. Mexico border and extensive reporting in cq and cq weekly. Cqs darkness on the edge, desperate conditions at the border for asylumseekers. Tell us about the trip. How long were you there . Guest i was there for about a week. We first went to the mcallen sector, the Rio Grande Valley and then el paso and we studied what was happening, how customs and Border Protection was accommodating this increasing flow of migrants arriving to the border to seek asylum and also those crossing unlawfully into the u. S. And examining some of the policies the Trump Administration enacted in these months. Host had you been down to the border before . At least in a professional role as a journalist . Guest no, but the last two years i covered immigration policy on capitol hill. The policies that lawmakers from both parties have tried to put forth and try to accommodate and mit
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Many of you were here in july when cokie and Steve Roberts very graciously came out and event on thein an stage to help us raise money for our Internship Program and we and we had a wonderful dinner afterward. They could not have been more generous and considerate. I just want to say that our thoughts and prayers are dedicated to them. As we are Getting Started here, i want to gently remind you all to silence your cell phones. I would like to thank four seasons books for your support and organizing the book signing that is going to follow tonights talk. This will be a similar format from what we normally do. We will have a wonderful reception and a book signing. I want to recognize mr. Tom ss three mose daughters and their husbands. They have helped us with this Wonderful Program this past decade and a half. They have carried forward his legacy of activism, which is more important. Working together, we have brought u. S. Senators, policy scholars,egal esteemed political scientists, and