This is my last chance. How can we solve this problem do we need new laws or artificial organs the only alternative. Florence gomez is young and might look healthy but she faces big physical challenges a genetic disorder means that her kidneys barely function the 23 year old is only able to work part time. Fans will feel anguish saying im a lot more restricted when it comes to certain things. And i have to learn not to allow myself to be defined by this thing on this is after the thing i have to just carry on a flight that was. Dialysis is her only chance of survival at the moment she has to go to hospital in the swiss canton of 3 times a week each dialysis session lasts and at least 4 hours. Her mother and her brother are unable to donate one of their kidneys to her because they have the same genetic disorder. Our kidneys filter toxins and waste out of the body and maintain our fluid balance florence gomezs body is unable to perform these functions. During dialysis a machine cleans he
President bush good morning. Distinguished guests, johnmiles, lewis family and friends, i thank you for inviting us to be here today. Johns story began on a tiny farm in troy, alabama, a place so small he said you could barely find it on the map. He talked about the chickens. I did a little research. Every morning he would rise before the sun to tend to the flock of chickens. He loved those chickens. Already called to be a minister who took care of others, john fed them and tended to their every need. Even their spiritual ones. For john baptized them, he married them and he preached to them. [laughter] when his parents claimed one for family supper, john refused to eat one of his flock. Going hungry was his first act of nonviolent protest. [laughter] he also noted in later years that his first congregation of chickens listened to him more closely than some of his colleagues in congress. [laughter] john also thought the chickens were just a little more productive. At least they produced
Remarks from three former president s, george w. Bush, bill clinton, and barack obama. Live coverage is here on cspan3. Amen. This is john lewis favorite poem, invictus. Out of the night that covers me, black as a pit from pole to pole, i think whatever god may be to my inconquerable soul. In the fell clutches of circumstance, i have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeons of chance, my head is bloody, but im bound. Beyond this place looms but the horror of the shade. And yet menace of the years finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how straight the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll, im the master of my fate. Im the captain of my soul. John lewis was my hero and my friend, lets honor him by getting in good trouble. [ applause ] only the inconquerable spirit and the magnanimous soul of john lewis could summon all of us together in this place at this time. Only john lewis could compel three living american president s to come to this house of god. To celebra
He is the author of the recent New York Times bestseller callsign chaos, learning the lead. Joshua over is the constantine chair in the school of humanities and sciences. Specializing in the areas of ancient and modernpolitical theory and historical institutionalism. We as a secondary appointmentin the department of classics and currency appointment in philosophy. His most recent books is entitled there marvelous, democracy before liberalism in theory and practice published in 2017. His work focuses on the theory and practice of democracy and the politics of knowledge and innovation. I run skinner is the Campbell Research fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of International Relations and politics and director of the institute of politics and strategy at Carnegie Mellon university. Prior to the recent return to academia he served as director of the office of policy planning and senior policy advisor for the secretary of state at the Us Department of state. Her areas of expert
Get to your thoughts in just a minute. Golda, a Technology Reporter with axios, joining us on the phone to talk about this hearing that will be taking place at noon eastern time on cspan3, on our website cspan. Org, and you can listen on the go with our free cspan radio app. Committee iswhat holding this hearing and why . Is the House Judiciary Committee antitrust subcommittee. They are holding this hearing because they have been having an investigation of the Digital Markets and Big Tech Companies in the past few years and this is a culmination of that investigation. Host why are they investigating these companies . Guest they are investigating these Big Tech Companies, apple, amazon, google, and facebook, because amongst the democrats and some republicans, these there is a feeling that these companies are too big, take up too much of the economy, gobble up competition by acquiring Smaller Companies, and amazons case by both selling products and being a platform, and in apples case ru