thanks so much for having me. >> hinojosa: it's an honor to have you here. >> thank you. >> hinojosa: i mean, you have had hits that people have heard starting in 1962. probably most people saw you when you sang for the inauguration of president back obama. >> oh, absolutely. >> hinojosa: you sang "a change is going to come." >> more people than had ever seen me to date. >> hinojosa: you were incredibly excited about being on that stage. >> oh, for sure. there were so many things happening to me that weren't happening to anyone else on the entire show. and if you remember, there were a lot of people there. i was the only one... was the only performer who was born in segregation on the show. my career is the exact same age as the president, so... and it was the first time that that many people had ever seen me. it was one of the biggest breaks i've ever had in my career, and then we were having the first black president. so a lot of stuff was going on for me. >> hinojosa: and when you realized that in fact this audience that you have basically been looking for since 1962 as a singer, t

>> mejorana. >> hinojosa: mejorana. mejorana. >> yes. >> hinojosa: and it's a kind of blues? >> it's... i call it our panamanian blues. and it has roots, of course, spanish roots, as a lot of the music of latin america. this is a wonderful experiment, because it deals with folk material, connecting with folk material from the north. like you have folk music where the blues come from, and folk music from latin america, folk muc fr south ameca. so this is the idea of pan-american jazz, actually-- connecting the whole americas to one sound. >> hinojosa: so you've named this. you call it pan-american jazz? >> well, it's a movement, i think. it's a movement that started in the 20th century with a lot of people doing it. you know, i learned a lot from paquito, for example. he really... >> hinojosa: paquito d'rivera. >> yes, paquito d'rivera, great cuban saxophonist. he introduced me to a lot of music, playing venezuelan waltzes, playing old contradances. and the desire... a lot of the desire to combine folkloric material with traditional rhythms, with latin american song forms, wit

i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. jose hernandez, you are one of the few people in this world who have made it to space. you were up on the shuttle discovery for two weeks in the year 2009. and you are one of only nine latino astronauts that have actually been up in space. welcome to our program. >> thank you very much, maria. happy to be here. >> hinojosa: so what was it like going up into space? you're one of, like, 500 people who have done it. >> it's just an amazing experience. i think few people realize that it only takes eight and a half minutes to get up into space. >> hinojosa: so, like, we'll be done with this television show, and you would have already made it... >> halfway across the world. >> hinojosa: wow. >> exactly. >> hinojosa: what does it feel like? i mean, actually, you tweeted about it. you were tweeting bilingually at the time. >> absolutely. >> hinosa: and you kind of clueus ithat it wa nerve-wracking. >> i mean, at first, you know, you're sitting there, and you're ready for the countdown, the co

>> hinojosa: ...on beauty? >> mm-hmm. >> hinojosa: there are probably a lot of young women of color who are watching this show, or older women of color... >> yeah. >> hinojosa: ...and older women. >> keep talking. >> hinojosa: tell us what we need to know, because this is your next book... >> yeah. >> hinojosa: ...about understanding our own beauty. leave us with an uplifting thought about understanding our own beauty. >> we need to understand that most of the images we see as beauty are meant to sell us things. that's not what it's about. so to women of color, to older women of color, to older women, to younger women, don't get sucked in by the beauty industry, because beauty is something entirely different. and i should... if there... is a plural for the adjective "differences," that you can be beautiful in many ways, and it's not about what people want to sell you and make you feel that you're awful unless you buy this thing. >> hinojosa: i'm not buying anything now but your books. >> ( laughing ) thank you.

i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. your majesty queen noor, what an honor to have you here. >> oh, i'm delighted. thank you. >> hinojosa: there's something quite beautiful. you know, most people now, when i was telling people that i was going to interview you, and i'd say, "i'm interviewing queen noor," they'd say, "oh, we love here, we love queen noor," this feeling of love. but people around the world know you as queen noor. >> mm-hmm. >> hinojosa: they don't know you as lisa halaby, the woman who you were. you were growing up as an american girl, and i think one the things that people are fascinated by about you is the fact that you actually... you could make this decision to say, "i was lisa... i am, or was lisa halaby, an american girl, but i could also be this, i could also be royalty of someplace else." this ability to basically say, "i could be someone else," change your identity, is really quite extraordinary. >> well, first of all, it was my husband who changed the identity in the way you described it, with a

hinojosa, 1 1/2 minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. hinojosa: mr. speaker, mr. speaker, i rise to strongly oppose h.r. 6429, the republican stem proposal, before the house today under suspension of the rules. as the ranking member of the subcommittee on higher education and work force and vice chair of the congressional hispanic caucus, i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, i urge my colleagues to join me and members of the congressional hispanic caucus, the congressional black caucus, and the asian american caucus, in strongly opposing this republican stem proposal, misguided legislation that would curtail legal immigration to the united states. as a proud co-sponsor of this bill, i support this legislation because it would allow advanced stem graduates to remain in the united states and contribute to our nation's scientific discovery and technological innovation, increasing our nation's global competitiveness. this bill reduces backlogs for stem degree recipients by retaining critical talent and creating a new green card category for pe

general assembly, i have the honor to welcome to the united nations, his excellency felipe calderon hinojosa, president of the united mexican state to address the assembly. [applause] >> send your president take -- -- mr. president and head of state and ladies and gentlemen -- out of conviction and as a result of history, mexico is a strategic ally of the united nations. we were one of the founding countries of the united nations and as a founding country, we fully share its fundamental precepts, the precepts of our great organization. for me, this will be the last time i will be attending as the president of mexico. it will be the last time i attended the general assembly of the united nations. over the past six years, my country has taken part in very different fora to pave the way for you and initiatives. we have endeavored to strengthen the u n and make it the main body for dialogue and peace and for security and for the application of international law and, in particular, international law. we know full well that today the world is facing challenges which have threatened the very existe