Mr. Jon meacham, this book came out in august, congressman lewis passed in july, how long have you been working on this . Is a tricky question to answer, on one level it was 28 years, another level it was about six months. I met congressman lewis in 1992 during a Senate Runoff down in georgia, i was a reporter for the chattanooga times. Began kind of a running episodic about running conversation that we had over the ensuing three decades. I really decided to do it when i was standing with my family and Speaker Pelosi and congressman lewis and about a thousand other people on the pettus bridge in march and i realized watching the congressman that this was almost certainly his last trip there. I very much wanted to pay tribute to him but also wanted to hang a lantern on what had driven him to that bridge as a young man. As an example, and exemplum of how religious faith can be essential to political activists. Did he know you are working on this entity sit down with you . We talked a lot
Achieve, to participate in and contribute to society violates the equal protection clause. 81, massive victory. I thought it was very interesting her points she often made in the dissent. The Supreme Court argued in the 2007 case ledbetter versus Goodyear Tire and rubber company, the majority saitd, you know what . If you have been discriminated against in pay in your job, and you learn about it years later, you can no longer appeal for redress because you had to have come to the court at the moment the discrimination first occurred. Of course, that was a catch22, an impossible situation. If you didnt know about it, you couldnt possibly come to the court. And she addressed this, and she said comprehend she said the majority does not comprehend or is indifferent to the insidious way in which women can be victims of pay discrimination. So she called on congress to act to address really this mistaken opinion of the court, and we did in 2009, the first year i came to the senate. And anothe
Long rule of Alexander Lukashenko will his government crack under pressure from the people. Hello im terry barton good to have you with us the recent poisoning of the russian Opposition Leader alecks in the bonnie has raised tensions between germany and russia he is being treated in berlin after collapsing in siberia the German Government says he was poisoned with a nerve agent nova truck the affair is casting doubt on the future of a strategic pipeline being built to carry russian gas to germany. Construction is in the final stages yet the north stream to pipeline might never be completed because of the diplomatic storm over the poisoning of alexina valmy it is what you know not all over 100 companies are involved in this project half of them a german backlash against the project would hurt them to perform for an hour or so but it would be wrong to assume that whats happened will not have any consequences after this point. Must go denies the allegations of an avowal nature and to hit
Members of congress and others. Forward, march. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Ready, step. Halt. Forward, march. [indiscernible] [indistinct speaking] ladies and gentlemen, [indiscernible] please, rise. [indiscernible] march. Ard, gentlemen,nd [indiscernible] Speaker Pelosi good afternoon. It is an official, personal, and very sad honor to welcome our colleague, john lewis, back to the capitol, to welcome his family and his many friends to acknowledge his sacred life. Please stay standing for the invocation by reverend, dr. Granger browning jr. , ebenezer a. M. E. Church. Let us bow our heads in a word of prayer. Eternal god, our father, i come