Mr. Brown madam president. The presiding officer the senator from ohio. Mr. Brown thank you, madam president. Madam president , i join we joined last year to do this reading. Im glad shes presiding today. Its an honor to jape my join my colleagues on the floor to read dr. Kings letter from the birmingham jail. Thanks to senator cassidy first, casey, lankford, britt, butler who will wrap it up for joining for this annual bipartisan tradition. Every year, we bring together three republicans and three democrats to read one of the greatest pieces of writing of the 20th century and reflect on the mission and powerful words ever dr. King. This year, a reading falls right after workers memorial day, which we marked on sunday, a day when we honor all the workers killed on the job over the past year, workers past year, workers injured and killed throughout our history. Every year on that date im reminded of dr. Kings final trip, second trip of the year, his final trip to memphis. He went to sta
It is really wonderful for us to have john and i back the Carter Library you know it has just been several years since jonathan was here. He was here for the book, a book about jackie robinson. And thats been probably seven or eight years since then. And whats really neat is that jonathan had decided to kick off his tour for his new book. His book just came out yesterday and that here at the jimmy president ial library, which is really, i think, great. This is his sixth book. Hes just as i said about jackie robinson, lou gehrig, muhammad, al capone as as the foursome who really did the push to get the approval of the Birth Control pill. But the thing that the thing that you see in jonathans writing is an amount of research that goes into it. And i think he comes by that naturally his dad was accountant so a stickler for details and his mom was a community activist. And so if you think about and think about the subjects hes written, jackie robinson, mohammed ali, Martin Luther king, i t
And thats been probably seven or eight years since then. And whats really neat is that jonathan had decided to kick off his tour for his new book. His book just came out yesterday and that here at the jimmy president ial library, which is really, i think, great. This is his sixth book. Hes just as i said about jackie robinson, lou gehrig, muhammad, al capone as as the foursome who really did the push to get the approval of the Birth Control pill. But the thing that the thing that you see in jonathans writing is an amount of research that goes into it. And i think he comes by that naturally his dad was accountant so a stickler for details and his mom was a community activist. And so if you think about and think about the subjects hes written, jackie robinson, mohammed ali, Martin Luther king, i think he gets that from her. Well, hes been a reporter at the new orleans timespicayune, dallas morning news, chicago magazine, the wall street journal. He has taught at Columbia College and lect
We may stay just below the record. We may tie it in san jose. Santa rosa may set a new record along with napa and oakland. San francisco will be very close. Well see if we hit that 90 degree mark. Well talk about this and the cooldown for the weekend. Mike, a truck is having trouble near the carquinez bridge. Yeah. Well look at the Speed Sensors. Tuesday, a late start out of the Altamont Pass and slowing in eastern livermore. Across the carquinez bridge, blocking the connecter at highway 29 through vallejo. Sounds like a flat tire on one of the many tires for the tractor trailer. Well track this. Hopefully they can move it quickly. Traffic to the bay bridge, we give you the live look. We have a cash lane starting to back up now. All cash lanes just opened for business. Back to you. Thank you very much, mike. Another scare in the sky and the ground at San Francisco international. Yeah, this morning, laura, the audio recordings of the communications between air Traffic Controllers and pi
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