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is authorized to declare recesses at any anytime. welcome to the hearing on examining anti-semitism on college campuses. before i gave my opening state and before mr. conyers gives hum i ll yield to him so he can say word about the tragedy that occurred in texas over the weekend. the gentleman is recognized. top of the morning and i thank you, mr. chairman. welcome all nine witnesses, all-time hearing, and the distinguished gentleman from wisconsin, mr. sensenbrenner. let me just say briefly that before discussing the important topic of today s hearing, i want to raise another issue that we must unfortunately confront with urgency. on sunday, gunman shot and killed 26 church goers in sutherland springs, texas. we now know that information concerning his court-martial for domestic abuse should have been submitted by the air force to the national incident criminal background check system. should have been prevented from purchasing firearms from licensees gun dealers, vi ....
hearts, to become a self-governing people again, this will be the most extraordinary time in america s history. i hope that you believe that. i hope that we shed the negativity that exists and that we offer a hopeful optimistic message to people who haven t heard it in a long, long while. the politics of grievance, the politics of angst, the politics of anger is important to fight against the overreach by the progressives. but frankly we re never going to win elections unless we inspire people to believe that the future will be bright by applying the timeless principles that we know to be true and effective. with your help, we can make that happen. i appreciate your activism, i appreciate all that you do. i humbly ask for your vote. thank you all very much. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the president of the iowa faith and freedom coalition steve scheffler. steve scheffler: good morning. it is my deep honor and my deep pleasure to introduce a very goo ....
that do not make any sense to things like tiger grants, which you all know are so important to putting people to work rebuilding our infrastructure. that is why it is so hard for us to get the funding we need to get homeless assistance grants which helps our most vulnerable neighbors, gets them off the streets. that is why it has been so difficult to fund the preschool development grants, which help educate our children, which we know if we make better investments will pay off for your cities, for your states and for our country. i have been clear i will not sign bills at the sequestration level. i will not sign bills that seek to increase the fed spending before addressing any of our needs here at home. [applause] and i need your help. i need your help, mayors. talk to your members of congress, get rid of this sequester once and for all because it is harming our city and harming our country. there is no business no successful business that if it needed to reduce ....
is struggling for my people. i did not kill those agents. amy: we will speak to the attorneys of chelsea manning and leonard peltier, as well as oscar lopez rivera s brother. he is preparing for him to come home. then we look at betsy devos, donald trump s pick to be come education secretary. do you think if you were not a multibillionaire, if your family had not made hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to the republican party, that you would be sitting here today? as a matter of fact, i think there would be that possibility. amy: we will speak to jeremy scahill about besty devos and how her brother, blackwater founder erik prince, is advising donald trump from the shadows. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. president obama has commuted the sentences of army whistleblower chelsea manning and puerto rican independence activist oscar lopez rivera as part of more than 200 co ....
but obama took no action on longtime imprisoned native american leader leonard peltier. the only thing i am guilty of is struggling for my people. i did not kill those agents. amy: we will speak to the attorneys of chelsea manning and leonard peltier, as well as oscar lopez rivera s brother. he is preparing for him to come home. then we look at betsy devos, donald trump s pick to be come education secretary. do you think if you were not a multibillionaire, if your family had not made hundreds of millions of dlars in contributions to threpublican party, that you would be sitting here today? as a matter of fact, i think there would be that possibility. amy: we will speak to jeremy scahill about besty devos and how her brother, blackwater founder erik prince, is advising donald trump from the shadows. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. president obama has commuted the sentences of army ....