About congressional operations during the coronavirus outbreak. Also, cq roll calls jennifer the coronavirus. Host President Trump signed the second of likely to be three coronavirus aid packages passed by congress, the third topping 1 trillion will get initial consideration in the u. S. Senate. Good morning and welcome to washington journal for this thursday. We continue our conversation hearing from you about the governments response to the. Oronavirus pandemic your lines are the same they have been the last couple days. Mountain and pacific, 2027488001. And medical professionals, 2027488002. You can send us a text. That is 2027488003. Make sure you tell us your name and where you are texting from. On twitter we are cspanwj and it is facebook. Com cspan for your posts. Legislation passing in the senate 908 yesterday afternoon and quickly down to the white house. This is the reporting of usa today with the headline in the papers. A measure to ensure paid sick leave to ensure testing f
Westover you need to get out of the hole you have been living in for a while. [laughter] her book has just celebrated 100 consecutive week on the New York Times bestseller list. It is number one. [applause] Michelle Malcolm milken is down there. Im assuming that a lot of people are familiar with the narrative and thats why you are still here at the last lecture on the second day but we thought we would go through some of her story because its so gripping and it starts in idaho and actually it is such a beautiful setting and a lot of beautiful memories that you still have. Yes. It was a Beautiful Mountain that i grew up on but i still have fond memories to be on the mountain and playing on the mountain. It is incredible we had this entire farm a lot of wonderful things that could happen i guess i was the original free range kid. [laughter] there was a lot of wonderful things about it. Then there were some difficult things but the setting, the scenery. Is not even nature works nature wal
Cart prizes, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant and fellowships from the mcdowell colony, the tunyan review and the wisconsin state for creative site for creative writing. She lives in miami beach with her partner. Please give a warm savannah well only to jaquira diaz. Ms. [applause] hi. Thank you so much. Im so happy to be here. And its wonderful to see all you book lovers here, and thank you, savannah, for your southern hospitality. I also want to thank the savannah book festival and everyone who made this event possiblene including sponsors, bookellers. Lets give booksellers. Lets give it up for the indie booksellers in the room. I love yall. Thank you for all you do, for loving books, for supporting ordinary girls. Because of you im here, so thank you. I want to open with just a little piece that opens the book, ordinary girls. It functions kind of like a prologue but not really. Its just a very short. Girlhood. We were the girls who strolled onto the blacktop on long summer days
Tonights big who served, and and counsel to the house energy and commerce subcommittee and Commerce Consumer protection as a member of president clintons task force on healthcare reform. Thanks so much. So what were going to do is start with a conversation between us and then over to audience to ask questions directly. And in the process, i know that their appetites for reading this book will be seriously whetted. I spent the weekend reading it and it is, indeed, terrific. Let me start where you start in the book which is to describe the various kind of shaping forces that help shape our culture and our politics and the way in which they led to the moment were in today, the political moment, the social moment, the cultural moment were in today. And you start by arguing that throughout our history, theres been this ongoing tension in our sense of ourselves between rugged individualism on the one hand and a commitment to community, to collectivism on the other. Say a word about that and
At the inventions that have the greatest impact of todays economy. It is author carl hiassen on his writing career. [inaudible conversations] we welcome carl hiassen. [applause] [inaudible conversations] high. I have two microphones. Can you hear any of them . Good. We will wait a second for everyone to put away the flag and have a seat. I am from florida. I will tell you a little about myself, if you care. I was born in fort lauderdale, florida. My background is newspaper journalism. I still write a column for the miami herald. I have never lived anywhere but florida and that is my excuse for my novels. I dont know anything. The weirdness of florida is my daily reality. Everybody is moving to florida which is a lot more material for me. Our newest e and, former resident of manhattan apparently. Now he is down there golfing. The material is priceless. One the first book i ever wrote with just my name on it was a book called tourist season. I wrote another novel that was ripped out a re