And what legislative steps could be taken to curb gun violence. This is just over an hour and a half. The forum will come too orde, please. We welcome everyone and thank them for being here. Our speakers, thank you very much for being here. Our fellow members and guests of the committee, thank you. We are here today because 203 days ago the house passed bipartisan gun violence prevention legislation, and the u. S. Senate has done nothing. After every mass shooting that makes the headlines, leader mcconnell says its too soon to talk about policy. Unfortunately, there have been more Mass Shootings this year than there have been days in the year. If we wait for a day without gun violence, to talk about it, we will be waiting forever. The Senate Leader mcconnell hopes if we wait, if you wait this out, it will just go away. Well, were not going away. Were not going to go away because childrenir are dying, ad the tron is scaring an entire generation. As of this week, i find her children unde
Politics, Paul Wellstone told us, is about the improvement of peoples lives. I know that the work ive been able to do has improved peoples lives. I would do it all over again in a heartbeat. For a decade now every time i would get tired or discouraged or frustrated, i would think about the people i was doing this for and it would get me back up on my feet. I know the same will be true for everyone who decides to pursue a politics that is about improving peoples lives. And i hope you know that i will be fighting alongside you every step of the way. With that, mr. President , i yield the floor. Mr. Sullivan madam president . The presiding officer the senator from alaska. Mr. Sullivan madam president , i ask that following disposition of the balash nomination the senate proceed to consideration of executive calendar 167 as under the previous order. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Sullivan madam president , i have five requests for committees to meet during todays session of t
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Antilibrary on these people. You what . I told them and i warned them beforehand that i hate libraries, and so, but, one of the striking things that i have been talking to people for weeks about, and preparing for this, and it is that people have childhood memories in particular of the libraries and when they first got, and they are the favorite moments and curious if they can start, and i have to introduce you, my goodness, and to my left, Susan Hild Rhett is the former director of the museum and library service, and Senate Appointed service, and treasurer of the American Library association, and to her left is the director of the director of the future of the center for libraries and initiative of the American Library association examining Library Innovation and the communities they serve and finally susan packer who is the Deputy University librarian at ucla where she builds University Design and serves at the the librarys chief financial officer. Susan parker, let me start with you