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What Public Office have you held before, if you have and if so hello, welcome to all of those of you who braved the weather to come join us today and also to our online all of a sudden. We really appreciate you joining us. Im tara watson, i direct the center for Economic Opportunity here at brookings. I was asked to join a project. It was under the auspices of the convergence collaborative and the goal was to discuss policies to support working families and i quickly learned that this approach was really serious about bringing together people from across the ideological spectrum and about facilitating productive conversation so several dozen of us spent quite a bit of time for the past year producing a report. Youll hear a bit about that today, especially in the first panel bull then because the process was so unusual, i wanted to give people the opportunity to hear more ....
Greatest challenge. Were doing our part still to easyo do yours. We are marking 45 years. Media institutions, no guarantees. The good news about cspan is we have tried to do is build an institution that people can trust without bias. And find for themselves and the nation has an american media. The gavel came down from the speaker of the house gaveled in the firstever televised session. Around at 45 means people have understood the role it plays in the niche in american media. Lets remind our viewers how we started. March 19, 1979, the gavel came down in the house of representatives and speaker of the house gaveled in the first televised session of the house. The house will be in order. Gentlemen from tennessee. [indiscernible] one minute, mr. Speaker. Without objection. Mr. Speaker, on this historic day, the house of representatives opens is proceeding for the first time to televised courage. I wish to congratulate you for making this possible and the committee who has worked so hard ....