Coming. Two events like this could be possible if it were not for your generous support showing up to them. Really, thank you so much for adding to your denver reading community. We appreciate it. Tonight we had the honor of hosting emily dufton here to talk about her book grass roots the rise and fall of marijuana in america. Emily received her phd in american studies from George Washington university and grassroots is based off her dissertation, the inspiration for such entries you tell us more about and she starts her talk. Emily has been featured in history channel, in the art and a work can also be found in the washington post, the atlantic History News Network and run washington. We are excited to emily here today because as you know in colorado without a very intriguing conversation going about marijuana. Even before it was officially legalized in 2014. Her book adds to this conversation with new research and interviews which expands this conversation even more than we could eve
Ms. Pelosi good morning. Good morning, everyone. Once again, we come together very sadly, our hearts have been broken by the tragedy of gun violence. His time at a high school. Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in florida. 17 pronounced dead. More wounded. Innocent children. Sending terrified texts and goodbyes to their parents. We thank god for the heroism of the teachers, the school leaders, and our First Responders going into harms way to save lives. Once again we see the urgency of congress to take true commonsense action to prevent gun violence. Everyone is saying we need more information. And we do. And thats why im very pleased to be join here this morning by congressman mike thompson, hes the chair of the Gun Violence Prevention Task force. He has served in the military. Knows how to use guns. Hes a hunter. Hes a believer in the second amendment. Well, hell speak to his own credentials. I just want at that to say how proud we are of him for taking the lead on this issue. And
[inaudible conversations] let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill galston, senior fellow here in governance stud ies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past and the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this one entitled broken, can the senate save itself and the country. Those of you who read his first book on the senate will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an an answers institution and will not know howdy how distress as decline this topic could not be more timely. We are just days from the expiration of yet another shortterm continuing budget re solution and perhaps even more pertinently from a promised open Senate Debate on u. S. Immigration policy. Will the promise be kept and if it is will todays senate be up to the job of an open deliberation on the most burning domestic question which is more than come itself
Good afternoon. Im susan collins, senator from the great state of maine. As the cochair with senator joe manchin of the bipartisan common sense coalition, im so pleased to be here with my colleagues to present our immigration security a and opportunity act, which will be offered as a floor amendment sometime today. I want to thank each one of my colleagues for their hard work and their commitment to achieving a bipartisan solution. I appreciate the leadership of senator rounds and senator king and all of the cosponsors who have joined them. I want to point out that this is the one and only bill that deals with immigration issues with broad bipartisan support. The bill would address two urgent concerns. First, the fate of young people who are brought to this country by their parents who entered illegally, and second, those who allow drugs to be smuggled into our country, devastating families and communities across our nation. We have provided robust funding at the president s level over
Let me try to call this full have stored or, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill gholston , senior fellow here in governance studies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past, the present and possible future of the u. S. Senate. The location of this discussion is the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate. This one entitled broken can the senate save itself and the country those of you who read his first book on the senates will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an institution and will not be surprised to learn how distressed he is by what he describes as its precipitous decline. This topic could not be more timely. We are just days from the expiration of yet another shortterm continuing budget resolution and perhaps even more pertinently from a promised open Senate Debate on Us Immigration policy. Will the promise be kept . And if it is, will todays senate be up