[inaudible conversations] this panel American History sponsored by the Mississippi Library those who are with the Library Commission with the very first organizational meeting we could not do this from all over the state thank youmi for your support. We are in there today and the gratitude to them. You can purchase copies of their books and it would be signed in the program. Ced then open the floor to questions so help me welcome the moderator to the panel. [applause] i will tell you about these guys than me will start a conversation. Tom is a reporter from the New York Times and editor before turning to music on writing fulltime. Dodge city, the typhoon and wildas bill published by Saint Martins press and harpercollins will release. And the other 13 books and those by the l. A. Times and boston globe. And the john lyman award for a maritime history. And of the american my house including the impact of ptsd and First Responders in his number of book reviews and is a native of Southern
Apologize. I dont think he was available. D the cochairs on this and inside or senator john thune and senator Patrick Leahy and the house side is anna eshoo and a few weeks ago the congresswoman announced that the congressman from georgia would be the cochair of the house side of the caucus and we are thrilled to have him. Without any particular policy approach or advocacy is a brave thing to do and they want to have more information and education on these difficult issues my name i is jimmy and im the director of the caucus academy. A little bit of housekeeping. It will be on cspan today lie on cspan. Org also tonight on time on cspan television. The hash tag today is music moguls and you can follow along at caucusac and we will broadcast afterwards. Let me start off by setting the stage. This is supposed to be an educational events. Congress has been very involved in music and a lot of people dont know that and a lot of people dont understand where congress is involved for the federa
Service providers such as spotlight and satellite radio. This is just over an hour welcome, everybody. I apologize for the lack of space. More people showed up and we were expecting. If you were expecting jayz will be o on the panel, i apologize. This is an Academy Briefing and we have been doing these things since about 1996, which is pretty remarkable. These are meant to be informative issues, discuss things on as we see them and we try to provide a good baseline understanding some of these key issues. Todays panel is in the era of streaming who is a bigger music mogul, jayz or congress, and in conjunction with the congressional hearing caucus and the cochairs on this and inside or senator john thune and senator Patrick Leahy and the house side is anna eshoo and a few weeks ago the congresswoman announced that the congressman from georgia would be the cochair of the house side of the caucus and we are thrilled to have him. Without any particular policy approach or advocacy is a brave
This is just over an hour welcome, everybody. I apologize for the lack of space. More people showed up and we were expecting. If you were expecting jayz will be o on the panel, i apologize. This is an Academy Briefing and we have been doing these things since about 1996, which is pretty remarkable. These are meant to be informative issues, discuss things on as we see them and we try to provide a good baseline understanding some of these key issues. Todays panel is in the era of streaming who is a bigger music mogul, jayz or congress, and in conjunction with the congressional hearing caucus and the cochairs on this and inside or senator john thune and senator Patrick Leahy and the house side is anna eshoo and a few weeks ago the congresswoman announced that the congressman from georgia would be the cochair of the house side of the caucus and we are thrilled to have him. Without any particular policy approach or advocacy is a brave thing to do and they want to have more information and e
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