Will work on judicial nominations and next Week Voting Reform legislation. Next live to the senate here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. O god, who by your glorious power brought hope into our lives, fill our lawmakers with your peace. In the intricate challenges they face, provide them with the ability to persevere through lifes storms, lord, may they experience a peace because of their palpable connection with your divine presence. In your boundless compassion, be for them a shade by day and a defense by night. Give them the wisdom to please you by striving to live blameless lives. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with Liberty And Justice
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Social justice are supported in part by at t. We look for to a robust Questionandanswer Period the seating so please follow the instructions on screen for submitting your question via email or comments on our Youtube Page during the program. Were so grateful to have this timely opportunity for Robert F Kennedys Work and legacy with our distinguished guests this evening, and im to lead introduced tonight speakers. Im pleased to extend a warm virtual welcome back to the library to Patricia Sullivan, the William Arthur second professor of history at the university of south carolina. She is the Author And Editor of books including lift every voice, the naacp and the making of the civil Rights Movement, days of hope, Race And Democracy in a new deal era, and freedom rider, Virginia Foster care, letters from the civil rights era. Her new book is Justice Robert kennedys america in black and white. Also so please welcome back our moderator for this evening discussion, Kenneth Mack is the inaug
Later in the Week Majority Leader schumer has scheduled time for voting rights and election reformlegislation. Watch thesenate live here on cspan2. Now we return to book tvprogramming. I meet with him in the Senate Office working as a candidate then. He said i went to lunch all afternoon. And what marshall says, he is , he wants to change things. There are great spots in the book but hes got it and he supports it equality and citizenship, full rights and that he wouldnt be the normal politician because when he pushes for the civil Rights Act he says he expects republicans to come along but this is war. Our country is at state and as you say, people start, but they also saw the way the issue was being manipulated by politicians, to exacerbate white racial fears and resentments. But no, i think in part of the Book President kennedy understood it and the speech he gave in hawaii, right before he gave his equal Rights Speech he began to find a national problem. And our cities are on fire.
The presiding officer under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 10 30 a. M. On tuesday, and that wraps up the senate pro forma session held in the Hart Senate Office building on Capitol Hill while members are in their district work period. While Legislatures Return for business september 13th. And back to book tv, join it in progress. Im constantly thinking what can be best practice and what can we do to enhance Board Activity and i address this specific questions around employees and i talk about ways to really upgrade boards and im sure well get to that point. But to the question about employees, its a really interesting one, and the board in germany in particular is slightly different. As you know its a twotiered system so theres a sense that the managerial board as well as as well and its different from what you might see elsewhere. I will say again before i address the specific question that theres a lot of overlap in terms of the governance responsibility. All o