they understood what bernice later called the house and the coalition. the coalition is a place where you come together and work together even though you disagree. and in the democratic coalition of texas in the 1960's each of the groups remain separate. they each kept their own houses, their own feeders but they still worked together for a common cause. that's why i have this funnel diagram as the best representation rather than say a pyramid. it was a an acted contingent process or as one member of the coalition process called it coalitioning. coalitions came together and fell apart and had to be reorganized. they existed in the creative tension of groups that had great differences as well. despite these obstacles there are many that are coming together. in texas, there are often several competing multiracial coalitions given at any time. the one that i focused on today isa more conservative coalition who worked with white elites. particularly in the late 1960's a more radical black coalition to the left of the liberals some of for all of these activis

bernice and matthew made it their mission to bring together a story impacted by cancer through social media. here's a look at development through cancer plus one and slice of life. >> bernie samuels was young, happy and in love with her fiance, james, but after 11 great year, tragedy struck and changed their lives forever. >> cancer one started january 1st, 2011. that's the day my fiance was diagnosed with hodgkins limb phone na. i was 26, he was 28. so, after him passing, i was extremely, extremely sad and i did everything possible to try to get out of that funk. i made a decision, shortly after he passed away that i wasn't going to let this incident, define the rest of my life. so my younger brother mat is my best friend. i said we need to fix this, we need to do something. we need to help other people because james is gone now. no one else should have the type of pain and not have any guide as and feel they are alone. >> however little brother insisted on making adjustments to big stir's concept. >> my only play, let her know, we're young. a different face of cancer. we should make

. >> congresswoman eddie bernice johnson of texas who laid the groundwork for the s.t.e.m. opportunities ground -- act and my colleagues blumenthal markey cantwell shocks and marquis for supporting the sector. working together i know we can do better. no we can't ensure that women who want to pursue s.t.e.m. careers can do so in a supportive environment without fearing harassment. on equal pay day we are reminded of how far we have to go to achieve equality and encourage my colleagues to support the paycheck fairness act, the s.t.e.m. opportunities act and other legislation that would help close the gender gap in our workforce. i yield the floor. >> mr. president. i want to thank the senator from wife for her leadership on this issue and i will be yielding the floor to the lead sponsor of today's effort. our nation is built on the belief that anyone that works hard should have the opportunity to achieve the american dream yet there are women across this country who are doing the same job as their male colleagues and being paid less. that's why today on national equal pay da

hirono: i want to thank congresswoman bernice johnson of texas who legislation laid the groundwork for the stem opportunities act and my colleagues, senators peters, marie gillibrand, bloomenthal, markey, cantwell and merkley for supporting this effort. working together i know we can do better. i know we can assure that women who want to pursue stem careers can do so in a supportive environment without fearing harassment. on equal payday we are reminded of how far we have to go to achieve equality and i urge my colleagues to support the paycheck fairness act, the stem opportunities act, and other legislation that would help close the gender gap in our work force. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the assistant democratic leader. a senator: i want to thank the senator from high for her leadership on this issue. i will be yielding the floor to the lead sponsor of today's effort. mr. durbin: our nation is built on the belief that anyone that works hard should have the opportunity to achieve the american dream. yet there are women across this country who a

there are troops who are at it again, butgain and .nough of that but you showed some of the wonderful bernice abbott photographs, which the negatives for those photographs are the and i would like you to talk about the new york of 1945 if whether it has more in common with the world 40 years or 50 years ago and those photographs of pictures by her or the 50 years or so after? mr. reid: it is really -- the photographs -- i think they are the most fascinating, they are the most fascinating of all the civic photographers. but it is a funny combination. new yorkerradigmatic and she was the beginning of the rebels of the jazz age, she to newo paris, went york, of course, was a great photographer, and if you have any copies of james joyce, which i'm sure you all do, but then she came back to photograph a changing new york, and her whole idea was to witness the izing,etamorphosis ever-changing city. so it is a city where it is frederick caymans and -- frederick jamison's classic city of modern a many of the from hitler'scame europe were struck by what seemed to be the primordial quality of new york.

you showed some of the wonderful bernice abbott photographs, which the negatives for those incredible photographs are in the possession of the archives here. aboutd like you to talk tother the new york of 1940 1945, the initial core, whether it has more in common with the 40 years or 50 years before this photographs by her or the 50 years or so after this photographs? mr. reid: it is really -- the photographs -- i think they are the most fascinating, they are the most fascinating of all the civic photographers. maybe this is influencing a son -- pseudo-intellectual. it is a funny combination. she is a paradigmatic new yorker and beginning with the fact she was from the midwest. it was the beginning of the rebels and the jazz age she , moved to paris, went to new -- a great photographer, and if you have any copies of james in paperback which i'm , sure you all do, but then she came back to photograph a changing new york. her whole idea was to witness the ever-metamorphosisizing, we haven't endlessly changing city. the classic images of an enormous model of, some great set of ill of fin

bernice lives down river from s.r.s. many of her relatives died of cancer and she wonders if years of living near s.r.s. was the cause. more plutonium on the way means more worry for her. she showed us the environmental report which confirmed that while contaminants are in the air and water, they aren't at dangerous levels, at least not for what s.r.s. calls reference man. >> what they're saying is based on reference man, that that should be safe for him, reference man does not live here, we do. >> s.r.s. will always be like the family member you just can't live with or without. >> s.r.s. hires thousands of people. thousands. what would happen if they left? i don't want to see people lose jobs, but the people who are responsible for contaminating need to take responsibility for cleaning that up. >> that slip load of japanese plutonium is expected to reach here by mid may. back in 2000 when the u.s. reached agreement with russia on bringing in all this plutonium and excess nuclear material, they were expecting 34 metric t

it has been building and donald trump and bernice -- bernie sanders are a fascinating case study. they largely give the same speech. the system is rigged. you are getting hosed. and i'm going to fix it. donald trump is going to fix it by taking on china and mexico and immigrants. and bernie sanders is going to fix it by going after wall street. their supporters want to arrive at the same place through different means. >> who have predicted a year ago that a jew from vermont would be in contention for the nomination against a real estate billionaire? >> one thing i would say is that i remember going back and looking at 1992, and the ross perot phenomenon, looking at the polling and the data from then that created the opening for his candidacy. and compare that to a year or two ago, and it was much worse now, the terrain for an outsider businessperson, if it was enough 1992 that a guy who led the race for two months, you flash forward, just the underlined dynamics of mistrusting government, and what was right in 1992, is really fertile now. the notion of an outsider coming in in the

king's five-year-old daughter bernice laying on her mother's lap and looking at the camera was consideredrful image with considered -- translated nationwide and won a pulitzer prize for journalism, the first by a black journalist. [applause] >> so it is 1967, and we have saved the most sentimental recollection until last. in the 1970's and 1980's, jeanne patterson held during the -- gene patterson helped turn the st. petersburg times into one of the best newspapers, and when he died, mr. poynter's vision was turned into action of creating a school which now bears his name. he also spent a term as chair of the pulitzer prize board. for his reputation as a great editor and influential editorialist shaped in atlanta from 1956 to 1968, was the exact boundaries of the classic period of the civil rights movement, let's think of jean paterson of being in the middle of things, the hub of a great wheel. he won his pulitzer for editorial writing for the columns he wrote in 1966. this year, 2016, is the 100th anniversary of the pulitzer prize. the year 1966 would have been the 50th anniversary of th

to be a national voice for all hbcu's and institutions of higher learning, to representative eddie bernice johnson, a leader in stem education and a steadfast voice for our students and hbcu's in particular. and to congressional blah caucus chair, my colleague from -- black caucus chair, my colleague from north carolina, representative butterfield, for making hbcu's a priority for our congressional black caucus and for congress. to democrat vice chairs representative thompson and sewell, our republican vice chairs, westerman and forbes, who have been all fierce advocates for hbcu's in their districts, and to my colleagues, representative richmond and representative brown, who are co-chairs the c.b.c.'s hbcu task force. they've all put hbcu's first and brought members and the administration to the table to highlight the issues of concern. so thank you, thank you to all of these members for doing this good work. and for bringing their expertise to the hbcu caucus. because we couldn't do it without strong leaders in our communities who represent these institutions. so the thurgood marshall co

. >> reporter: bernice harrell has been trapped at this gas station for over three hours because of theloodwaters. >> i've never seen anything like this out here. i just want to get home. >> reporter: the houston school system is the largest in texas. officials there have decided to cancel classes for the day as heavy rains remain in the forecast. >> manuel, thanks a lot. >>> frantic searchers are looking for survivors of ecuador's most powerful earthquake in decades. the 7.8 magnitude quake on saturday night killed at least 350 people. more than 2500 others are hurt. many others are still missing at this hour. >> the destruction stretches from the epicenter along ecuador's coast. david begnaud is at guayaquil. >> reporter: where we are now is the largest city in ecuador. it's 300 miles from the epicenter of that quake. that quake was powerful enough to bring down this bridge. and when it happened, a man was killed. he was driving and the bridge fell on his vehicle crushing him. that's his windshield on the ground from when rescuers pulled it off his car. you can see what happened to th

. >> reporter: bernice harrell has been trapped at that gas station for over three hours because of theodwater. >> i've never seen anything like this out here. i just want >> reporter: houston has the largest school system in texas. officials there have decided to cancel classes for the day because the weather is expected to last all day. gayle? >> thank you, manuel. >>> the 7.8-magnitude quake in ecuador killed at least 272 people on saturday night. more than 2,500 others are hurt, many others still missing. >> the destruction stretches hundreds of miles from the epicenter along ecuador's coast. we have more from guayaquil, the site of one dramatic rescue effort. david, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, the power of that 7.8 earthquake was enough to bring down this bridge in guayaquil. it is 300 miles from the epicenter of the quake. this here is the windshield of one man's vehicle on the ground left behind after rescuers tried to save the man. his car was crushedn bridge fell on top of it. his wife was in the car with him. she survived. the man died instantly. the bridge collap

hirono: i want to thank congresswoman bernice johnson of texas who legislation laid the groundwork for the stem opportunities act and my colleagues, senators peters, marie gillibrand, bloomenthal, markey, cantwell and merkley for supporting this effort. working together i know we can do better. i know we can assure that women who want to pursue stem careers can do so in a supportive environment without fearing harassment. on equal payday we are reminded of how far we have to go to achieve equality and i urge my colleagues to support the paycheck fairness act, the stem opportunities act, and other legislation that would help close the gender gap in our work force. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the assistant democratic leader. a senator: i want to thank the senator from high for her leadership on this issue. i will be yielding the floor to the lead sponsor of today's effort. mr. durbin: our nation is built on the belief that anyone that works hard should have the opportunity to achieve the american dream. yet there are women across this country who a