The dominican republic. He earned a bachelors degree from Brown University where he is now teaching parttime, working a variety of jobs and where he worked his way through school, working a variety of jobs. He was Deputy Assistant attorney general for civil rights and the clinton administration. Te served as deputy assistan attorney general. He was elected Montgomery County council member, and led the state of marylands labor department. In the Obama Administration he was assistant attorney general for civil rights, and secretary of labor from 2013 until 2017. Thus ends the biographical part of the program. Now on to mechanics. We are on the record here. Please, no live blogging or tweeting. In short, no filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway, to give us time to listen to what our guest says. There is no embargo when the session ends probably at 11 00. To help you curb that relentless selfie urge, we will email several pictures of the session to all reporters here when the
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