Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to barnes noble tribeca. Have the pleasure of introducing Heather Cabot and samantha wall ravens has the discuss their new book, geek girl rising. Heather is a form abc news correspondent, angel investor, adjunct professor at columbia university, and a woman at forbes contributor. Samantha walrevens, contributor forbes, and Huffington Post and disney interactive. So join me in walking can welcoming them. This is a superexciting moment for us because, first of all, were in the same city, which we rarely are because i him new york and sam lives in san francisco, but this is the evening before geek girl rising comes out. So its a special moment for us and to kick things off just to give you a taste of the book well show you a book trailer. Lets roll the video. I think that women now understand, we are not going to get ahead unless we help each other to get ahead. I have a female manager and she is the one who handpicked me and advocates for me a
Today, use our senators for your purposes, enabling them to live worthy of your name. May the words they speak bring edification and unity as they build bridges of cooperation. Give them the wisdom to depart from strife, remembering that soft answers turn away anger. Inspire them to avoid contention in their search for common ground. Give them cheerful hearts and optimistic spirits. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President , i suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call dispensed with. The presiding officer
Much. I want to begin by thanking your chair, kathleen. Congratulating her not only on her degree but her work of many years to enable more young peope to go to college. President snyder, thank you for welcoming me here and for your service. And for doing it with such remarkable energy. I want to thank congresswoman maxine waters. And her husband, ambassador sidney williams. Maxine for her service and devotion to this district and her longtime friendship to hillary and me which means more than i can say. There are a lot of proud parents in this audience. People who are in public service. I do want to know that the senator from wyoming and his family are here because his daughter is also in the graduating class. At least two of your alumni are very important parts of your administration. I want to acknowledge the former secretary of defense, rudy deleon, and a man who is not here, tony quellen, who served in the commission for people with disabilities. I am here in two capacities. Not j
Skulduggery. He u. S. Is a diverse nation this is one of the many things makes us great, despite the legacy of the genocide of the native people and slavery. The Census Bureau and not spike lee says five years and now, why children will be a minority. By 2049, white folks will be outnumbered by nonwhites. This is happening, people. Here and now. It is time to start embracing. And no matter how one might wish it to be otherwise, we are not making America Great again by going ,ack to eisenhower, jim crow and leave it to beaver. [applause] it having now is the time to seize the day , take a of this unique moment in history, and build bridges amongst us. I am talking about gender, race, religion, and nations not walls and let us build bridges of love versus walls of hate. Sidebar number one. , i am amongst some of the greatest minds in the world here at Johns Hopkins university. People who are a lot smarter ask, can somebody please educate me, me, somebody from the public of brooklyn, new
Thats npclive. Now its time to introduce our head table guests. Id ask that each of you stand briefly as your name is announced. Please hold your applause until i have finished introducing the entire table. From your right, dylan brown, a reporter from E E Publishing; gene tighe, director of bbn technologies, and a Longtime National park volunteer; maria recio, a correspondent from mcclatchy newspapers; will shafroth, president and ceo of the National Park foundation; elizabeth bumiller, Washington Bureau chief of the new york times; the honorable john warner, former secretary of the navy and United States senator from the commonwealth of virginia. [applause] thank you, senator. Ferdous alfaruque, medical device reporter for medtech insight and a press club board member. Skipping over our speaker for just a minute, rod kurkro, reporter at E E Publishing and the press Club Speakers Committee member who organized todays event. Thank you, rod. Tom crosson, the chief of Public Affairs for