Authors experiences covering terrorist groups around the world. Many of these authors have or will be appearing on booktv. You can watch them on our web site, booktv. Org. Host and fcc commissioner Mignon Clyburn is our guest on the communicators this week. Welcome, commissioner. Thanks for coming back, we appreciate it. Guest its great to be back. Host this is the first time in your service on the federal communications economies that youve commission that youve been in the minority, and its been about five months. How is that different than the previous eight years . Guest very interesting. I often think of myself playing offense and defense. And so, you know, playing the entire field has been a little exhausting but exhilarating at the same time. I havent changed. The things that i care about in terms of consumers being first and foremost in our minds when it comes to policy and when it comes to my interests, when it comes to serving them, that has not changed. But youre right, thin
Fcc commissioner Mignon Clyburn is our guest on the communicators this week. Welcome, commissioner. Thank you for coming back. This is the first time in your service on the federal medications that even in the minority and about five months. How is that different than the previous eight years . Very interesting. I often think of myself playing offense and defense. So, playing the entire field it has been a little exhausting but exhilarating at the same time. I havent changed. The things that i care about in terms of consumers have been first and foremost in our minds when it comes to policy and when it comes to my interests and when it comes to serving them. That hasnt changed. Things are different, youre right. Theres been a couple of more than a couple of two ones. The essence is the same. We will get into those issues in just a minute but june 30t june 30th, is coming up and is a significant date because thats when your commission and. Well, if i were to look at the calendar, one wo
I will be chairing or moderating the panel. After the three papers i will offer some brief comments, some thoughts, some questions i had in order to make it hopefully start generating conversations for us for the q a portion. I will introduce our three presenters. We will go in the order they appear on the program. The presenters will speak for roughly 20 minutes, and that i will speak for a few minutes and open things up. Our first presenter will be Graham Hodges, the George Langevin professor of history at Colgate University. He has written on africanamericans and labor in new york city, and more recently written a political apathy of david robles, and important figure in railroad activities. He is working on a book that reframes the underground railroad and will hear about his ideas about reframing, thinking about the underground railroad and a larger context if reading freedom making. Kate mazer, associate professor of history at northwestern. She has written on emancipation and wa
Mr. Durbin. No. Mr. Durbin no. Mrs. Murray. No. Liz moments almost hollywood. A man diagnosed with brain cancer just a week ago. Senator john mccain of arizona comes rushing in on capitol hill to cast his vote to a standing ovation. He traveled all the way from arizona in way that would be approved by his doctors so that he could get to this floor and vote yes on moving forward the discussion of whether to repeal and or replace obamacare. John mccain voted yes. So he is a yes. Ron johnson, the senator from wisconsin, he of course was speaking to both senator Mitch Mcconnell who the speaker, there was some real question for the moment whether senator johnson might say im out. Im voting with mcowski who both voted no on those. So we have the tiebreaker in the chair. The tiebreaker of course is Vice President pence. And hes in the chair ready to cast that tie breaking vote. But surely, this is something people have never seen. Let me back up just a second for you. It was about 20 minutes
Our special guest, the director of use korean institute, the assistant director and im sorry the ambassador could not join us tonight. My name is andrew injoo park, the president of the Sejong Society of washington d. C. Founded in 2006, it operates at a nonpartisan and all volunteer organization dedicated in informing, developing and connecting Young Professionals are interested and engaged in korean affairs. Our ultimate goal is to inspire the next generation regards of the political and career affiliations of korea and northeast asia special. Under the guidance of our Senior Advisor and with generous support and partnership with the use korean institute, the Sejong Society has been hosting numerous events such as workshops, book talks, panel discussions. Although the Sejong Society puts its members and efforts together successfully hosted those events in the past, tonight event is the one that i was looking forward to the most. And hoping and planning the longest, its not only becau