I was so worried. [applause] i was so worried. It was ringing. I thought are going to want to stay in bed and read. Here you are. Thank you and good morning. Welcome to the 2017th National Book festival. I am carla hayden. I am so honored to be able to say im the 14th librarian of congress. As you can see pretty excited to open this event. Our 17th consecutive celebration of books and reading. It is wonderful to see a full house here. Not only will we have a full house here at the convention center, but we have millions and millions of people joining us live on facebook. Thanks to everyone for joining us. Now, we have a fantastic lineup of mainstage authors this year. What better way to kick off a festival than with one of our nations most beloved historian historians, mr. David mcculloug mccullough. [applause] he is here for his sixth National Book festival appearance, and we hope you will continue to make this a habit. He will be followed by diana. [applause] she is the author of the
Mr. Pallone thank you, all, for being here today. I want to thank all of our participants at this joint energy and commerce and judiciary democratic forum. I want to thank our Judiciary Committee Ranking Member i call him chairman, mr. Conyers. I havent been in this position so i can refer to you as chairman but not myself. So thank you, chairman conyers, for joining us to examine the longterm impacts of repetitive brain traumatic and particular trauma associated with sports. I look forward to the dialogue. Every week this time of the year Football Players at all levels take the field and engage in a contact sport they enjoy playing but may be harmful to their health in the future. There are a lot of concerning questions that we will discuss today. At the very least athletes and their families need to know they are being informed about the health risk and the risks associated with Contact Sports are being mitigated to the greatest extent possible. With more and more research coming out
Mr. Pallone thank you, all, for being here today. I want to thank all of our participants at this joint energy and commerce and judiciary democratic forum. I want to thank our Judiciary Committee Ranking Member i call him chairman, mr. Conyers. I havent been in this position so i can refer to you as chairman but not myself. So thank you, chairman conyers, for joining us to examine the longterm impacts of repetitive brain traumatic and particular trauma associated with sports. I look forward to the dialogue. Every week this time of the year Football Players at all levels take the field and engage in a contact sport they enjoy playing but may be harmful to their health in the future. There are a lot of concerning questions that we will discuss today. At the very least athletes and their families need to know they are being informed about the health risk and the risks associated with Contact Sports are being mitigated to the greatest extent possible. With more and more research coming out
Mr. Pallone thank you, all, for being here today. I want to thank all of our participants at this joint energy and commerce and judiciary democratic forum. I want to thank our Judiciary Committee Ranking Member i call him chairman, mr. Conyers. I havent been in this position so i can refer to you as chairman but not myself. So thank you, chairman conyers, for joining us to examine the longterm impacts of repetitive brain traumatic and particular trauma associated with sports. I look forward to the dialogue. Every week this time of the year Football Players at all levels take the field and engage in a contact sport they enjoy playing but may be harmful to their health in the future. There are a lot of concerning questions that we will discuss today. At the very least athletes and their families need to know they are being informed about the health risk and the risks associated with Contact Sports are being mitigated to the greatest extent possible. With more and more research coming out
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