during the fol week, pictures of pennsylvania blacks mobilizing to d the north from r e. lee's inv confederate forces and a of stalwart new york african-american volunteers a heading to a recruitment office were prominently displayed as full-page images in harper's weekly and the new york illustratedews. the latter engraving was all the the more strike thing in light of the incendiary pictori report in that newspaper following the emancipation proclamation in january, a full-page fifth anue scene showing affluent black nice neww yorkers common deering the sidewalk as awe they, quote, ignore t privileges of their why notreath remember, unquote -- brent remember, unquote. moreover, in the aftermath of the riots, the sacrifice and bravery of black soldiers was for depicted in fort wagner, south carolina. and the cover of the august 15thish hsu of the -- issue of the new york illustrated news depicted the capture of a confederate near buford if, south carolina. the rebel officer was a common centrally powerful african-american private serving in the 1st south carolina colored

before we wrap it up, one of■r e things i'd like to do -- i'm always looking for consensus, how do weecause political lines, how the house and the senate, how do we build consensus with the states and governors and otherev gover? i'm going to ask you in closing, if you would, just toose with an terms of actually taking us closer to consensus on something, an issue of significance relating to recycling. it could be what we're talking about today, it could be something else that's related to what we're talking about today. but -- what else do you think you want to kind of -- you have a chce to give an opening statement, give just a short closing statement with some wisdom and you've already given us a lot of that already. i'm going to ask mr. felton if you would and we'll wrap it up with ms. simon. mr. felton: thank you, senat one is, consensus is critical and we need people at the table. and i'm not suggesting people here in the room today are not at the table but one thing that's been discovered over the last four years is we're only going to solve these problems if all the stakeholde