Hello im david rubinstein, the National Book festival, welcome to the National Book festival, which this year is being done virtually. Our guest this year is melinda gates, for the first part of our program. Im coming to you from washington dc at the library of congress and from another washington, seattle washington, is melinda gates. Thank you very much for doing this. Im so glad we could do it david. Melinda, youve written your first book recently, a book about women its a book about empowering women and i want to talk to you about that and what prompted you to write this book. How long did it take you to write this book and what prompted you to write this book . Melinda i wrote it over most of the year and what prompted me to write it was, ive been so incredibly fortunate with the foundation to travel to so many places in the world. Its the people and particularly the women ive met in these incredibly difficult circumstances and seeing what they are doing to empower their families
Member collins will hear from democrats and Republican Council on the findings of the inquiry. Our coverage starts live at cspan or cspan. Org or you can also find it on the free radio app. The director of the sen for for Tobacco Products testified about eliminating ecigarette use. This Committee Hearing focused on the status of the proposal to ban ecigarette flavors that was suggested by President Trump in september, but it has not yet been implemented. This subcommittee will come to order. Again, the chair is allowed to stop the Hearing Committee at any time, and this hearing is about youth ecigarette use, and fda and food and Drug Administration compliance policy. I now recognize myself for five minutes for a opening statement. The administration released deeply disturbing results from the National Youth poe back coe survey otherwise known as the nyts. And the data confirmed our fears that the youth vaping epidemic continues to grow the alltime highs. 5. 3 Million High School studen
Based in new orleans. Now live floor coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. O lord our god, we are grateful for your marvelous works and power. Keep us from becoming weary in doing what is right, as you remind us about a harvest of blessing is certain. Give strength to our lawmakers and bless them with your peace. We praise you that you are the strength of our lives and we need not fear for the future. As you guid guide our senators h your wisdom create in them a hunger and thirst for righteou righteousness preparing them to be filled with your divine nourishment. Lord, thank you for not withholding blessings from those who walk upright. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it
Mounts a new fight to overturn the North Carolina bill that did away with the antilgbtq bill known as hb2. We will also look at the political crisis in the tar heel state after republican lawmakers waged a legislative coup against the states democratic governor. Is the state of North Carolina still a democracy . And we will look at how a group of africanamerican residents are fighting back against factory hog farms that spray liquid manure on their communities. Thisu open the door, and melted sure by the way. You start gagging. I shut my hog operation down. I got out of it. I just could not do another person that way, to make them smell that. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Around the world, millions of workers took to the streets monday for may day, also known as International Workers day. This year, in california, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the bay area, as immigrant work
We will hear voices from the streets of new york and speak to an immigrant rights organizer here in raleigh. In the aclu melds a new fight mounts a new fight t to overturn the North Carolina bill that did away with the antilgbtq bill known as hb2. We will also look at the political crisis in the tar heel state after republican lawmakers waged a legislative coup against the states democratic governor. Is the state of North Carolina still a democracy . And we will look at how a group of africanamerican residents are fighting back against factory hog farms that spray liquid manure on their communities. Thisu open the door, and melted sure by the way. You start gagginin i shut my hog operation down. I got ouout of it. I just could not do another person that way, to make them smell that. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome e to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Around the world, millions of workers took to the streets monday for may day, also