Continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, r. Thompson, for five minutes. Mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to honor the life and service of alan al pingy. He passed away tuesday, april 23, at home. He was mcking county commissioner and i flew a flag over the capitol to be presented to his family and colleagues. Prior to becoming commissioner, he was part of the bradford professional firefighters and retired as captain in 1988. He then served as bradford township supervisor, 11 years as chairman. He enlisted in the u. S. Marine corps and honorably discharged as a corporal in september, 1970. Mr. Speaker, al pingy has served his nation and community. Above all else, he was family man, a loving husband of 36 years to his wife, deborah, and father to his four children, andy, scott, jeff, and jody. He was a grandfat
Life, raise my kids, be a good father and teacher. I think we should all want that, for everyone, just to feel like we belong. Go ahead. I know we have another one. Host have to cut you off. I apologize. The author is chastity buttigieg. The book is called i have something to tell you. Go first. Sorry. Maybe it makes sense. Jericho is moderating. I am casper. I am the head of poetry at the library of congress. I want to give a shot to everyone in the room and those joining us via cspan across the country. I am pleased to introduce this event behind the scenes with black writers. Featuring Jericho Brown and two authors. Jericho was last at the festival in tonight 2019 to talk about his third and most recent book of poems which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize of poetry. [applause] he is the Charles Howard professor and creative writer at Emory University. Today, he is here to lead a discussion on the anthology edited titled how we do it, black writers, how we craft, practice, and skill
Kevin my name is kevin butterfield. It is my great pleasure to introduce you that todays speakers. Our center is one of the sponsors we are proud to bring americas most beloved writers to this room. We want to welcome everyone joining us live on cspan. Our next panels records of survival escaping genocide and human trafficking. His new book is waiting to be arrested at night. A memoir of chinas genocide. The founder and director of resilience force. His book is titled the great escape, a true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams. He is a lecturer in princeton. Our moderator writes for the Washington Post opinion section and is the author of prisoner, my 544 days in an iranian prison, solitary confinement, and the extraordinary efforts it took to get me out. Join me in welcoming them. [applause] i want to thank everybody for being here today and for watching me at home. This is an extraordinary honor and privilege for me. Over the last couple of weeks i have got to know him intima
For a job. Well done. About more than a little. I didnt do this alone there, so. But stephen, she shares a lot of that. So what were going to talk about is memories. For the most part. And and these are, as i said, the lighthearted side. And have some slides already ready up there to indicate the kind of the connectivity here. But between the story beginning with the Landing Craft and going to the present, but then im not sure where i point this. There you go. So thats the cover of the new book that mike just mentioned. Anthat is piorl photographic essay with. A little slim slim history and its the next. This is the prequel. The sequel will be out in a couple of years. So and the story really has a couple of beginnings the first really goes back and i want spend a little bit of time with my friendship withen ambrat has preceded the the epiphanhe eureka moment. I would say, and goes back to 1971 when i felp as part of the Team Recruiting him to you, yknow, lsu in new orleans at that tim
This is just over an hour. [background noises] [background noises] we have cspan here so we all have to behave. Good morning Washington Bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Our guest today is Shalonda Young director of the White House Office of management and budget. This is her first appearance at a monitor breakfast so welcome. Director young hills from louisiana urges degrees for Loyola University in new orleans and she worked on the hill for years pierced most recently as a staff staff director and House Appropriations. In 22 atd once she became acting omb director a year later it was confirmed easily by the senate including 14 republican votes. I picked up one. [laughter] way to go. In this day and age that is something for director young was a key negotiate of the debt ceiling talks last year. We will be interested in getting her take of all the government funding issues now urgently on the table. So again welcome. Now for the ground rules. We are on the record here, pl