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modi in a joint meeting of congress on june 8th. we ll have live coverage of his speech on c-span. employing people with disabilities and disorders was the subject of a hearing on capitol hill yesterday. members of the small business committee heard testimony on the role the businesses play in creating job opportunities for the disabled. this is just over an hour. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] committee comes to order. i want to thank everyone for being here today. before i give my opening statement i d like to welcome here the co-chairs of the conference. chris smith from new jersey is here, and mike doyle from pennsylvania is the democratic counterpart and we thank you for your work. and when this committee meets it s to discuss the challenges facing small businesses. today, however, we get to talk about some of the truly inspiring opportunities they have been offering. small businesses are not just the backbone of the ....
they are going to push back and treat the theocratic mentality and have a vision because otherwise there s the cognitive dissonance that prevents the advancement of the ideas that can happen this laboratory in america. take your medical and now to step further in europe for two trading symptoms instead of addressing the root cause. i assume you could analogize this to a misdiagnosis. in this instance that we missed a diagnosis as a malady that has brought about as a result of poverty and the result of lack of educational opportunities or a career opportunity what might we mess? we would miss the fact that the prisoners in saudi arabia and syria are fighting not for poverty against poverty. they are fighting for freedom and for liberty and in this great society we can even recognize the voices, the descendents voices but if you look in the cold war s being told that their voices don t matter at all that matters is the economic plight and in the meantime marker from ....
american values and when we look at this notion that we are going to condemn a faith i think we have gone way too far. ms. khera i know you want to say something but let me ask you first do you live in a muslim neighborhood? no, i do not. do you know what a muslim neighborhood is? i was scratching my head at that when i first heard that term use. the muslim community in the united states with few phuoc sections is actually quite spread out and integrated into the broader america. that is my experience too that i can show you some irish catholic churches in chicago and some areas on the north shore where jewish populations live but muslim populations at large per se and they seem to be dispersed family and we talk about the trolling and enforcing muslim neighborhoods i m at a loss. what was he trying to say? what is a muslim neighborhood? .. let me just dash i called senator flake at his home on a saturday evening when he visited the mosque in arizona and tha ....
to. a book i am rereading. i am also reading a book at the national gallery a week or so ago called the accidental masterpiece. it is about how you see art and to me i am a great lover of art, every day objects, everywhere you look. an interesting book i picked up. you see by my office, i do my own art. and keep my day job here. reading, i want to mention, is foundational. i was not born in this country. english is not my first language. i credit a library and in elementary school who awakened my love of reading and i remember the book, those who sit at her feet at the library and she read is mary poppins. that brought the love of reading for me which was foundational. you should be a reader. i am a pretty voracious reader. anything else you are reading this summer? i picked up i read as a new yorker compilation, short stories on the ipad, those are things i can read and when i have time, as i said, i have a number of those books on my ipad. the other thing i want ....
hospital, the chief of staff who so generously allowed us to broadcast from the harlem atrium. it s a wonderful place. it was important because while we usually broadcast from schaumburg it was important to introduce another harlem institution and interestingly enough to have a more literally the harlem hospital live, the schaumburg in another way but i wanted you to just know that harlem is a vibrant community, a community that in many ways sustains not only those who live here but is the idea of harlem and what it represents it sustains us all. so i wanted wanted to thank harlem hospitals. i wanted to thank christopher from the public affairs department who i have called too many times and i know he has answered the phone to many times. so thank you christopher. with all that is going on in the nation, i think it is important to begin the harlem book fair with an opening remark and that is, we know what is. my question is, what is the alternative and for me the altern ....