we have 9 million people under the age of 18 involved in the ymca program doing camp programs. we have 40,000 young people that we employ in our camps, and over 500,000 volunteers that serve us every day. we thought bingo, let's work , together where we have cities that really want to support parks and open spaces, we have the ymca who can help harness volunteers and is already serving young people. and you've got the federal government and the department of interior in specific that has 20% of the land in the united states, so let's blend this together and see if we can make magic together, so that is what we are doing. so we are launching later this week the beginning of a 50 cities campaign, which is taking a strong federal presence, strong support from the local community, and strong ymca leadership, and we are blending that with a financial contribution that we are announcing a later this week and we are going to be getting many, many more kids playing and parks and open spaces. 50 cities is a small subset. what i know we are going to do is we are going to learn. we are go

the ymca is going to be orchestrating a lot of these efforts and we are out raising private money to do is do we have support already for many of our programs to engage young people through companies like american eagle outfitters and coca-cola in camelback and north face and the big announcement coming later on this week. what it says is we don't have to do it on our own budgets. we don't have to do it all with their own employees. we can do it by working together in partnership. we can be so much more together than we are apart. so i want to thank the leadership of the national league of cities mayors becker and coleman and all of you for stepping up and showing us the way with the work you are doing and recognizing. yes, let's give you you guys around of applause applause for that. [applause] recognizing that we want our young people to stay. we want our young people to come home. we want them to build careers and raise their families and have as much fun growing up as we did. we all have work to do but if we do it well he will be the gift that keeps on giving. young people will h

the ymca had resources. it's an international organization and it had resources from outside and was able to do things like bring in clothing sent from the west and to feed people and set up soup kitchens. it also quickly became, because of jazz records that are arrived at the ymca became a center of social life in warsaw. it was a place you went to parties in 1947 and 1948. you can imagine a city in which everything is rubble and there's practically nothing standing in the ymca is a little island of jazz music. the ymca, this poses such a threat and such a problem at the very highest levels, the communist leaders write to one another angry letters. we must do something about the ymca. let's destroy the ymca and eventually they do. they close it up and it is tragic moment the communist smash the jazz records because it's seen as anything that's an island of self-organized or spontaneous organization is seen as a potential threat to the regime. c-span: at one point you mentioned john paul sartre and pablo pic

the ymca that you are referring to and their ability to develop what we did in the clinical trial, the diabetes prevention program which is counseling this lifestyle intervention on an individual basis, they were able to take it to scale by doing the same lifestyle intervention but providing it in a group setting and in fact their results after the first year or two were quite similar to what we achieved in the individual program in terms of weight loss, et cetera. but more interestingly, the cost for patients involved in this clinical trial with the initial instructions and the follow-up was about $6,000 per patient. in the group setting, in the ymca that cost was cut down to about $400 n terms of scaling this, for example, if we could expand this, we haven't done any economic analysis on this, but there is a private group called the urban institute that has recently looked at what happens if you can scale this. they estimate given those numbers about $191 billion over a ten-year period if this -- with some very conservative assessments or assumptions if this could go to scale. >> tha

so today, i'm pleased to announce that the the a and the ymca -- v.a. and the ymca are expanding. this enhanced agreement makes it easier to collaborate on helping transitioning service members and veterans connect to resources and opportunities that they need. neil, thank you. thanks to you and the entire organization for your enduring devotion to veterans. the benevolent protective order of elks have been friends of veterans for a long time, too. the reconstruction hospitals they built in boston in 1918 to the government, it was a forerunner of our centers. last month, the committed $4 million over a four-year period to help and veteran homelessness. they're deploying 800,000 members across the country to help and homelessness in their communities. paul, thank you and the elks across the country for your generosity and loyalty to our nations heroes. [applause] the ymca, the elks -- these are strategic partnerships we are starting as part of my transition, which are making profound differences. let me also welcome a great employee, patty andrews. 100,000esents more than employees

it is cheaper than the country expensive than the ymca, but they do not have to worry about getting naked in front of the strangers. single, it is the first time he looks in the mirror and says oh yes, where am i going to find the money to the diana catch -- somebody who thinks i am a catch? you go to the synagogue. ne, a is a direct lib diagonal line from non-jewish jews to a little bit jewish

what i think is a very significant process to make it easier for young people and groups like the ymca to move through the current permitting process and open the door for hundreds of young people and youth organizations. despite the good points, there are gaps in this year's budget request. we should work to address these. we can do more to work together on recreational access. small businesses in my state that rely on the recreation economy are confused about some of the priorities in this budget. for example, the forest service is proposing to cut road maintenance and is currently exploring ways to close some major recreational routes in my state. we are going to hear loudly from people on this, so i hope we can ask a question and get some details on that. in the same budget, the agency is proposing a significant increase in new roads. so people are trying to understand the new roads versus the maintenance. but without much of an explanation, we want to understand how we make sure these priorities are met on both sides. i want to take a point of personal privilege, if i could, and c

and the ymca have legacyto continue the by further expanding our partnership. this enhanced agreement makes it easier for local v.a. facilities transitioningelp service members to connect to the resources and opportunities that they need. neil, thanks to you and the entire organization for your and during devotion to veterans, the benevolent protective order of elks have been friends of veterans for a long time too. the reconstruction hospital that they built in boston in 1918 thed gave it to government, is a forerunner of today's v.a. centers. last month, the elks committed $4 million over four years to help and veterans homelessness. further, they are deploying 800,000 members across the country to help and veterans homelessness in their own communities. paul, thank you and the elks across this country for your generosity and loyalty to our nation. [applause] the ymca, the elks, these are the kinds of strategic partnerships that we are establishing as part of our "my ," which isormation making profound differences in the lives of veterans, and their families.

we need to be in the boys -- in a girls club, in a ymca, and in the churches, and in the synagogues. and we got to beat the curse of drugs. and i'll give you the money but that's not what's going to do it at the end. it's people deciding we've had enough of this curse. you want to know about income inequality? give your kids the skills they need to compete in this century. and that's at the school board level. nothing's holding you back from taking on the problems of the schools. you want to talk about the problem of welfare? get the businesses and the welfare office and tell the people to get relief. you're going to get trained for one of these jobs. and we're going to hold you accountable. because my mother was right. it's a sin not to help somebody who needs help but we can't keep helping people who need to learn how to help themselves. we have to impose some personal responsibility. [applause] and one more thing. well, a couple more things. i'll tell you what it is. if you're a family, it's the nurse. right, sweetie? your mother was sick, it's the nurse. it's really not the docto

ymca. that's all he could afford $500 a month special security. he was sent to the y as an answer to homelessness. years ago he could have called our facilities extended care section his home. but due to yearly mandates reducing the beds earmarked for extended air if favor of more rapid turnover and hence more billables and collections this 88-year-old warld war two veteran was sent to live in the ymca ymca. who is community is the community living center and what type of living is being provided. true to world war ii vet generation he believed a bed must be needed for someone in worse shape than he. he had no what do we look at when we evaluate success? if expediency the only measure? what is the most important thing? there is a spirit that enters the body at birth and ace area that leaves at death. our nation was founded on's airport. -- on air it. -- on spirit. when the day come to the v.a. must they have their spirit crushed? rep. coffman: thank you. you have five minutes. mr. tresmaine

in the group setting at the ymca, that cost was cut down to about $400. in terms of scaling this, we could expand this. we have not done economic analysis on this but there is a private group called the urban institute that has recently looked at what happens if you scale this. they estimate that given those numbers, about $191 billion over 10 years if this -- with some very conservative assessments or assumptions if this could go to scale. sen. murray: that's impressive. dr. lowy, let me ask you as dr. , collins mentioned, we have seen significant progress in recent years in the use of immunotherapy to treat certain forms of melanoma and lymphoma and lung cancer. i believe there is universal support on the subcommittee for efforts to find similar breakthroughs for other cancers. i wanted to ask you, what is nci doing to make these happen? and where is the potential for new cures the greatest? dr. lowy: we are investing in a number of different areas throughout the cancer spectrum. i think there are opportunities in many different areas. for example, we a

president ande chief government affairs officer at ymca of the usa. veteran andmy publisher of stars & stripes. the president of d.c. media connection and mc of the veteran women's rock rally at george washington university this coming veterans day. michael phelps, a vietnam era navy veteran and former publisher of the washington examiner. [applause] in addition to our audience here in the packed ballroom of the national press club, i want to welcome our c-span audience as well as our audience is listening on public radio. you can also follow the action on twitter. live -- #npclive. robert mcdonnell was confirmed as secretary of veterans affairs in july of last year, but he didn't have time to ease into the job. he came aboard to fix problems at the department with 312,000 employees. agency at the time was facing criminal investigations, congressional outrage, and construction cost overruns. you can remember the media reports from that time as well .s an intern will be a audit it was discovered that more than 120,000 veterans were either waiting for c

right here in this room that last year's budget when you and i talked about the problems with the ymca of greater seattle and the forest service and i'm delighted to hear you and second jewel are embarking on what i think is a significant process to make it easier for young people like the ymca to move through the current permit process and open the doors to hundreds of young people and organizations. so despite the good points, there are gaps in the budget request. we should work to address these so we can do more to work together on recreational access, small businesses in my state that rely on recreation in our economy are confused about some of the priorities in the budget. for example, the forest service is proposing to cut road maintenance and is exploring ways to close some of the major recreational routes in my state. this is -- we're going to hear loudly from people on this. i hope we can ask a question and get some details on that. in the same budget the agency is proposing significant increases in new roads. so people are trying to understand the new roads versus maintenance

to a ymca. >> that's a breakdown. they told the was a gym in manhattan -- >> you choose to go to brooklyn. >> die. >> why. >> a lot of things. the connection i have to my neighborhood is very, very strong. and i think when you think about the most elemental human reality, thisser is where hi kids were born, where my wife and i were married, in prospect park. our children were born in methodist hospital. coached little league there. this is where our life took its shape. and it's where i feel grounded and it's what i feel connected to. i also think all of us, as elected officials, need that touchstone, and i think when you drift from where you come from, it's part of what isolates you from everyday people. so, that -- i can go to the gym and no one bothers me. the same people i've been working out for decades. like cheers, everybody knows your name. out al office those factors. the potential bubble of public office is very dangerous, and you have to find your grounding, and by the way you also have to find your zen of

this aid will help organizations like good will and the ymca to protect their employees and ensure they can continue to offer critical services to all of our communities. finally, the bill allocates 1.5 billion in administrative expenses to sba. this funds will help the agency run the programs effectively and get aid to small business owners as soon as possible. i am proud of all the work our committee put into this bill which garnered bipartisan support during our markup and i urge my colleagues to support it. i would be happy to take any question. thank you for having me. >> thank you very much. i'm happy to welcome ranking member luke meyer. >> thank you, thank all of you for the opportunity to testify this morning on the american rescue plan act of 2021. mr. chairman, i strongly oppose this rule and the underlying legislation. our nation's small businesses are hurting. the challenges of the covid-19 pandemic have continued to mount for them. despite these circumstances, they have tried their best to move forward. adapting to constantly changing state and federal guidelines, mandates

late to make sure the job was done right and then donated some of that money to their church or their ymcaere is a pride and a dignity inherent in any job, and whether you have got the security of the union or not. express thatl help sense of voice to what you do every single day, and i believe that all workplaces should reflect the work and the dignity .f our working families that is why we fought for worker safety. that is why we ought for the right to unionize, and that is why we are hosting next month to make sure that americans share in the blessings of this country in unionsople not need to understand why unions are so important, why last summer we hosted a summit to talk about issues like higher pay and their pay and child care and workplace flexibility and paid leave. these things are not just good for working women, working families. .hey are good for business, to0 they are good for economies as a whole. the good news is working in concert with members of congress , like ed and elizabeth, we have taken steps to look at issues facing working families, and we have had the cooperatio

he related he was living in a room at the ymca in downtown wilmington, delaware. that being all he could afford on $500 a month social security and $500 a month non-service-connected pension. he was sent to the y after a stay at our medical facility as an answer to homelessness. years ago he could have called our facility's extended care section his home. but due to yearly mandates progressively reducing the percentage of beds in the facility's community living center earmarked for extended care in favor of more rapid turnover and hence more billables and collections, this 88-year-old world war ii veteran was sent to live at the ymca. because he's not service connected va feels no obligation to provide long-term care to him. whose community is the community living center, and what type of living is being provided? true to this 88-year-old world war ii veteran's generation, he believed that a bed in our community living center must be needed for someone in worse shape than he. this from a man with no effective use of his legs, no effective use of his arms, and almo

>> i think we need a lot of support from not just schools but i work with the ymca, nonprofits, community organizations to change the paradigm. there's a lot of paid in the motion in anchor in the motion with people struggling in communities that are struggling and violence. we live here i don't have a good answer. >> i thought about that before and this needs to be tackled them preschool because that is the time where kids how these ideas the few misconceptions about the world. and still to try to encourage empathy through preschool and my hope is that as students go through preschool to become more empathetic individuals their logo into high school with the much more empathetic background to lead them more in tune to the issues you brought up but is people simply willing to recognize their presence and talk about them. anybody else? it seems there were those who wanted to offer their own wisdom. >> not to debate your points but the other are points out three-year-old are capable of acting performing racist acts basically. not that i have the solution that that is right we have to start

i know my colleagues also asked about the ymca permit process, you in the stages of finalizing fat. that will be very, very important and i appreciate how much you've worked with them in the interim time since we first brought this up in the committee. so we will look forward to the details of how the process works. so thank you, madam chair. >> thank you for bring up that last point on the set aside. you and i had worked that letter some time ago. i just last october. but we are still waiting on that. it's not just a response to that letter. it was back in 13 that we had assurances that we would see something to correct the problem. in 14 congress are urged the forest service to address this in a probe spill. and in 15 we directed forest service to act within our interior approach you with a stewardship contracting. so i would certainly hope that we would have some form of communication back from you in terms of where this is and why it hasn't been addressed. so if you could get that does we will appreciate it. >> will provide the committee on the progress we working to with small

as the site of clinical care and with the fitness to walk to the park to the senior center for the ymca it isn't only about getting their or the exercise. and that is extremely helpful. and with that social interaction is difficult. in that is bring you that as well. that they need to assess the situation so with that beneficiary. we're not mandating that people have to stay in place that perhaps the social interaction and the other of walking distance as the energy policy those who have gone to the hill to come to washington to do nothing. a but other than that i should have left before i intervened soviet-era is to find one way to make the country better because it thought his comments were so are appropriate but this is something that i'd think we can move forward. and there is a number of ideas and i am also an optimist. so now i will have to excuse myself. [applause] >> one or two more then we have to wrap up. >> end with age ended come in the existing resources with those single homes and that is the modification is hard. and that is very important but there are those in the middl

armed services, ymca of the united states, $75,000. bob woodruff family foundation inc., they do a good job, $75,000. central iowa shelter and services, these are all vet-related, $100,000. connected warriors inc., $75,000. disabled american veterans' charitable service trust, $115,000. fisher house foundation, great people, $115,000. folds of honor foundation, $200,000. foundation for american veterans, $75,000. freedom alliance, $75,000. green beret foundation, $350,000. hire heroes usa, $75,000. homes for our troops, $50,000. and just so you understand, we've got a long way to go. this money was raised during a little speech that i made rather than doing a debate. the one debate i missed. it was the lowest rated debate, by the way, but i won't say that. [laughter] honoring america's warriors, $100,000. hope for the warriors, $65,000. intrepid fallen heroes fund, $175,000. k-9s for warriors, $50,000. liberty house, $100,000. marine corps law enforcement foundation, $1,100,000 i gave a million dollars to them. they're a great group. n

reality and we will have to employ all of these things to get there, but the boys and girls club, the ymca, things like that are critically important and many of you have supported that kind of community center, so thanks for pointing that out. [applause] >> if i could just quickly add, trying to do is exactly the right thing. schools being open six hours a days a week makes no sense. academic enrichment, arts, parents,lasses for schools made into physical resources that are schools have and we need to fully utilize them. and see if they can do more. funding is always a challenge but the idea of school being part of the community, being community centers, not just the academic piece, open 12, 13 hours a day, that exactly the right vision and whatever we can do to help that, we need that desperately. >> thank you. we have the final final question, comment. >> high. -- ithe use ambassador know one of the things we really need is like extracurricular for accelerated students. right now, all we have is activities for youth like or mentorships were students who are struggling in school. i know

i can't do that on the base, so we do that at the ymca, so we focus on that very carefully wherever we our families are being taking care of. we aren't all voluntary navy and all voluntary force that the figure or families the next thank you. >> admiral smith, i am trying to again sort of get the timeline of the 2013 budget resolution, the one we just passed in the fall and just sort of how that sort of, you know, is flowing in you-- into your decision-making process and you described a moment ago how you were able to restore some gym hours, which i guess was sometime in 2015, so obviously you were still living with, you know, the two-year 2013 budget resolution and now, we have a new list but is three weeks old and just, again, if you could just tee that our little bit with what you are anticipating. have you digested that even? >> there are some things we have been able to buy back, so i've mentioned we take risk and ground maintenance. we have bought back ground maintenance. ground maintenance isn't just necessarily how pretty the base looks because i think it's important, but is al

and now i have the option ready to serve my country as a public ally, teeth and remember, the ymca.ot pay more proud to stand 90 today can become a part of the family of americorps members like our president. i will get things done. please join me in welcoming the president of the united states, president barack obama. [applause] [applause] >> hello, everybody. thank you. thank you, everybody. thank you so much. thank you. everybody have a seat will be have a seat. welcome to the white house. [applause] give ivan a big round of applause for the introduction. [applause] in thank you for sharing your story. and i wanted thank all of you for joining president clinton and me in celebrating the 20th anniversary of americorps. i wanted thank some strong supporters of national service you are here today. we've got treasury secretary jack lew, who as a young aide to president clinton -- i mean, they both still look good -- [laughter] -- but 20 years ago helped to write the legislation creating americorps 20 year legacy. [applause] so thank you, jack, for their great job. might -- you alread

on january 4th, 1914, she spoke to the colored ymca on 12th street in washington, d.c. it was an electrifying event. wild cheering by the 1,000 people present, almost all of whom were black interrupted her speech many times. according to the "washington post" in a front page story headlined, wife of la follette says government fails. said there would be no constitution of peace until the question is settled and settled in the right way. and ovation of several minutes follow her remarks. an african-american woman noted quote, the tremendous effect upon all who heard your stirring speech. it's the topic overshadowed all the others in the black community. she concluded her message of thanks, may god continue to bless you. may he continue to lead you and may he continue to give you courage to do and to dare. la follette delivered essentially the same speech to the annual banquet of naacp in new york city. and offered solutions. the race issue, like the suffrage question, the sex question, are any other perplexing unsettled problem disturbing society today, should be freely

here in this room the past year's in this thread vegetarian menu and i talked about problems with the ymcagreater seattle and the forest service and i'm delighted to hear that you and secretary jewell are embarking on a very significant process to make it easier for young people like the ymca to move through the process and open the doors to hundreds of young people and organizations. despite the good points, there are gaps in this year's budget request and we should work to address these. we can do more to it together on recreational access. we rely on the economy, confused about some priorities and budget. for example, proposing to cut road maintenance and currently exploring ways to close some of the major recreational resume stay. we are going to hear about different people on this, so i hope you can ask a question and get some detail on that. same vegetation the proposing significant increases in new growth. people try to understand many rats versus maintenance and without much of an exclamation, we want to understand how we make sure priorities are met on both sides. i want to take a

we were at the ymca because a lot of kids go there. this program only works if the eligible kids can take advantage of it. and while this has been very successful for those kids who have been able to take advantage of this program, nationwide on average only about 18% of the kids who are ligible for free and reduced breakfast and lunches during the school year take advantage of this program. part of the challenge has been in the past that it's been difficult for families to get their kids to the sites where food is kitchen out. in massachusetts, community leaders are working with usda to make sure that they give out food at sites where kids are at. and so in massachusetts we can see the enrollment rate during the summer feeding programs increase. we are told, mr. speaker, that nationwide enrollments in this program have increased. but the fact of the matter is still one child in seven who need food in the summer are getting it. that means a whole bunch of kids aren't getting it. i would urge my colleagues to do what i did during -- on

and the school system, the ymca's are building kitchens because there's a legal issue, the school due to liability issues won't let them go to the schools and use the school kitchens to help show kids how to prepare meals. anyway, i'm talking on and on and on. but the point is we don't have this info graphic on our website, i think we probably should. it's confusing, not for me but i lived through all of the circles and connections but articulates the pieces that have been part of the methodology that the groups, people that have to connect not only at the local level but federal level but a task for all of you as you are studying law, if you get into a class where you are looking across the federal government at the federal level, what are the laws that would allow this kind of model to happen that it could not happen but help -- help incentivize? what is the incentive of obamacare, child nutrition act, pick the laws that deal with feeding program? what are the incentive programs that are built in and how do we encourage this cross-jurisdictional conversation. that's something that w

last week when i was back home in my district in delaware, getting a workout at the ymca in my hometown of wilmington, a man came up to me as i was on the exercise bike and said excuse me, do you mind if i interrupt? of course not. i work for you. i wanted to see if you know about the status of h.r. 4414 because i write expatriate health insurance plans for cigna and i don't want to lose my job. losing even one job like this in my state keeps me up at night. the prospect of losing 500 jobs is a punch to the gut. that's how many jobs we'll lose if my home state of delaware if we don't pass this bill on the floor today. i'm a strong supporter of the affordable care act. so are a lot of people in my state. but no law is perfect, and the law as important as complicated, and technical as the affordable care act there are bound to be a few things that needed to be fixed. the a.c.a. was unintentionally written in a way that subjects the u.s. patriot health insurance plans to alt provisions of the a.c.a. which places a unique burden on these types of plans. expatriate health insurance plans off

she previously served as the senior vice president and chief government affairs officer for the ymca of the usa in washington, d.c. and then governor steve ba sheer who of course you saw at the state of the union address the other night appointed her to the kentucky cabinet, the cabinet and her office oversees the kentucky exchange. hanes served in the clinton administration previously as deputy assistant to the president and director of the office for women's initiatives and outreach. also with us, we're happy to say, is christine ferguson. she's the director of the rhode island health benefits exchange. previously, she spent close to eight years as a research professor at the george washington university school of public health and services. she also has served as commissioner of the massachusetts department of public health. as the director of the rhode island department of human services. and formerly as counsel and deputy chief of staff to the late u.s. senator jon chaffee of rhode island. so we're very happy to have christy with us as well. mili kaufman also has joined us. she'

high ranking national park official accused of peeping at naked women at a ymca, and then there's another incident report in 2001. they were having voyeurism issues. police officer was sent. this person was found to be behind a home or a building in a highly suspicious behavior in that situation. and again, nothing happened. seems to be a little bit of a pattern. these are just the ones that they caught. so what were, if you don't mind me asking, i hope you don't, what were the other two incidents that happened to you? and then also, maybe if you could contrast the difference between forest service and park service. ms. martin: the other two incidents, one while i was still working at grand canyon, i don't remember the exact year, there was an individual that between the park service and the forest service, we worked very closely together on wild and fire snenlts. so this particular gentleman worked for the forest service, took pictures of me and put my pictures up above his visor in his government vehicle, was quite bold about it and showed other people that he had pictures of me in his

america and now i have the opportunity to serve my country as a public ally, americorps member with the ymca. [applause] >> we will be helping to create an after-school program for the young boys who want a better life in montgomery county. i could not be more proud to stand before you today. and become part of the family of americorps members. like our president i will get things done. [applause] >> please join me in welcoming the president of the united states, president barack obama. [applause] >> hello, everybody, thank you. thank you, everybody. thank you so much. thank you, everybody have a seat, have a seat. welcome to the white house. give ivan a big round of applause for the introduction. dana, thank you for sharing your story. and i want to thank all of you for joining president clinton and me in celebrating this 20th anniversary of americorps. i want to thank some strong supporters for national service to our here today. treasury secretary jack lew who as a young aide to president clinton -- they both still look good, but 20 years ago helped to write the legislation creating ameri

died in a similar circumstance, to make sure that all these public pool drains, from apartments, to ymca's, that the pool trains checked. you do not hear about them on the use in like we used to. and that's because of mark pryor's work. i know that the taylor family -- that was my proudest moment, calling them in the cloakroom an.that we could get this done,t wasn't quite that easy. it was in the energy bill, i think, for us to get it done. but being able to call scott taylor, who never gave up believing that the congress could get something done. again, just one more example of the work that senator pryor has done. so i thank you for that. i'm also here today to address something slierl different. that's a bill that we would like to get done before the end of the year in the united states senate. and it is a bill that i have with senator cornyn, and ids called the stop exploitation through trafficking act of 2015. it has 19 bipartisan cosponsors. i note the year 120136789 we have been waiting over a year, nearly two years to get this done. a version of the bill which is very similar to ou

i remember walking in the senate gym, like a ymca -- the guys walk around with nothing on.his guy. i swear to god. i felt guilty i was fully closed. [laughter] true story. was i embarrassed. your dad also intervened and got me placed on important committees usually not available to freshman senators. he not only looked out for me, but he looked out for my sons. i don't know how 8x8 dried you to the kennedy center and let me sit in the box next to him with my two sons, and you thought what in the hell are you doing here. you are always reaching out to my son, and later to my daughters. something about the kennedys. you all know it. everyone in here understands it. he was an anchor to many of us in our personal lives. he is also the anchor in an institution. we shared a lot of perspective on the world and our place in it. one that was p written on our sleeves is that we both viewed serving in u.s. senate as the single greatest honor, and the greatest responsibility that we had in our lives next to being fathers and husbands. we both believed, and i still believe, that democra

women played a significant role overseas in volunteer organizations like the salvation army, ymca, but also as telephone operators. of course nurses, and i am talking about this country. the world had changed and it opened up from this experience for women to be more empowered. >> another question? gentleman in the back. >> i would like to maybe slightly disagree with those who say that the soldiers of world war i were a lost generation, in that many of the soldiers who fought in world war i came back and became community leaders. we have such people in kansas city as the judge and the gentleman who spearheaded the whole idea behind brown versus board of education. there are so many people who joined the american legion who became great assets to their community with goals and ideas that someone picked up when they were in europe. >> you're absolutely right. a lot of soldiers came back and became community leaders and their churches and civic organizations and businesses. the point i want to make earlier was that they had such a horrific experience, especially on the western front, in

her campaign tweeting: full house here at the granite ymca for today's event with hillary clinton. >> donald trump is expected to announce his decision on whether or not he'll run for president tomorrow. we'll have live coverage at 11 a.m. eastern time on our companion network, c-span3. wisconsin governor scott walker and ohio governor john kasich also among those still deciding whether or not to join the race. that could end up just shy of 20 candidates. >> tonight on "the communicators," austin meyer nutritionix founder daniel zadoff and democratic congressman hank johnson talk about patent legislation before congress. >> 97% of the people that are sued by patent trolls have to settle because they don't have the $3 million to defend themselves. 97% of them settle, they pay an average of $300,000 to the patent troll that's suing them. now, when they paid the $300,000 settlement, they're locked up under an nda a nondisclosure agreement, which is a contract that says they're never allowed to tell anybody what happened to them. >> so far this new congress seems very excited to have legi

chief officer for the ymca in washington, d.c. governor steve bashir appointed her to the kentucky cabinet. the erved as director of office for women's initiative and outreach. also with us we're happy to say is christine ferguson. she's the director of rhode island health benefits exchange. preeveyoutsly spent close to -- previously she spent close to eight years as the commissioner for massachusetts department of public health as the director of the rhode island island department of human services and formerly as council and deputy chief of staff of the late u.s. senator john shavey of rhode island. so we're very happy to have cristy with us as well. mila coffman also has joined us. she's the executive director of the d.c. health benefit exchange authority. she's a nationally recognized expert on health insurance market and served a as the superintendent of the state of maine from 2008 to 2011. she also has served as key the national insurance and health policy institute. joining us on the line by phone from california we're hap

were a bind me -- right honey, a wonderful piece of property which is the ymca.was sold to the city a few years ago and demolished and the property was made development ready. we have sold that piece of property to a developer. they will put high-rise condos there. they not decided on the exact plan yet, we are still the plan. they should be started by the first of the year at the latest. probably at least 4-5 stories high. as bring a lot of people into town also. looking for redeveloping ourselves and reinventing ourselves as marketplace to come if you are younger and if you're looking for retirement and getting people to live in the downtown area has been very much a part of that. i think one of the key parts of our history, we're celebrating and have celebrated in 2007 our centennial. i don't think there's anyone particular story, but i'm proud of the lighthouse and the fact that people can visit and walk up to the top and look out. it was certainly back in the day, you had shipping around this area and logging and things like that. obviously not today but it

correlation between children getting in trouble and having access to boys' and girls' clubs, ywcas, ymcas matters. you've got to give children choices. children, basically -- [applause] children basically want to do the right thing, but the peer pressure is overwhelming. sometimes they need an escape, they need an excuse. when mom or dad are not present. but, look, you all know all of these things. but one of the factors we're talking about today is also that can be incredibly ameliorating is not just the policies, but how understanding is your employer. how understanding? you know, lastly, what, if anything, can the federal government do to help? i say lastly because all these other things are out there in the community. if they're woking really well -- working really well, including your employers, is less need for minimum wage, there's need for a whole range of things we've been working on our whole careers, but there's an awful lot that can be done just to change the atmosphere. the examples jill gave. you know, you're going to get to discuss all of these things today and more, but if

and early in 1949, al-banna was standing outside the ymca in cairo and was killed. so these events are a little shadowy, but i presume that the egyptian secret police took revenge on al-banna for the assassination by rubbing him out. then the brotherhood is driven underground, it's an underground organization. and people have to stop meeting and deny they ever had anything to doed with it and so forth. 1952, young officers in egypt made a coup against the regime. the parliamentary regime in egypt was kind of game of big landlords, they had huge haciendas, cotton farms on which the pesants work, extremely inequal society, a few thousand families on the good land. parliament was the big game, who was in parliament was the big landlords. of a few small industrialists and so forth. it was the elite. and much of the country were pesant sharecroppers or people without any power at all. and then this top elite was financially accused of corruption, and so the young officers made a coup. they felt they were betrayed in 1949 by the egyptian government because it had sent the