as an organization, the national association of scholars have a duty to be optimistic to try to find something in this that can reading this enterprise. if colleges are not going to go back and re-create some kind of core curriculum, common reading may only be a band-aid, but at least it's a band-aid. therefore let's go out and find the best band-aids we can. certainly henrique's journey or just mercy don't make the cut. we need something a something a little bit better than that and some persuasion on the part of those who do like to read can go a long way. i imagine every single person in this room, that's here, feel books have change your life. something that you read turned on your light and made you somebody who wanted to read for the rest of that life. we want you to take that that caring into this public discussion. we've published us 200 page report about this and we need to talk about it not just hang our heads and say what a sad situation. there's family members that care about this too. we encourage you to go out and talk about this. let's get a conversation started in thi

an easy path into a world in which the books they assign are not challenging, the content of them is overtly political. there is a quality of intellectual squalor that has overtaken this enterprise. as an organization the national association of scholars's duties to be optimistic, try to find something that can redeem this enterprise. colleges will not go back and re-create some kind of core curriculum, a common reading may be only a band-aid but at least it is a band-aid. let's find the best band-aid we can. henrique's journey and just mercy don't make the cut. we need something a little better than that and some persuasion on the part of those who do like to read can go a long way. every single person in this room is here because books have changed your life. something that turned on your life and made you somebody who wanted to read for the rest of your life and you care about that and we want you to take that caring into this public discussion. it is great to publish a 200 page report about this and say it is a sad situation but all of you have friends and family members who care about these things too. we urge you to go out and talk about this, get a conversation started about better books for the beach or beyond the

as an organization, the national association of scholars -- and i think first thing as well -- a kindf duty to be optimistic, to try to find something in this that can redeem this enterprise. if colleges are not going to go back and recreate some kind of core curriculum, a common reading may be only a band-aid, but at least it's a band-aid. and, therefore, let us go out and find the best band-aids we can. certainly, enrique's journey or just mercy don't make the cut. we need something a little bit better than that and some suasion on the part of those who do like to read can go a long way. so i imagine every single person in this room is here because books have changed your life. something that you read at some point, it turned on your life and made you somebody who wanted to read for the rest of your life. and you care about that. and we want you to take that caring into this public discussion. publish a 200-page about this and hang our head and say what a sad situation it is. but all of you who have friends and influence and family members who care about these things too. so we urge

organizations like the american medical association, the national academy of sciences, the f.d.a., and the world health organization all say that there's no evidence that g.m.o.'s aren't safe. we agree that biotechnology is animportant tool for farmers and ranchers. particularly as we tackle the challenges of climate change, which by the way science also tells us is real, and i believe in science, and i would love if we would all come together around the science on both of these issues. and we have to tackle the need to feed a growing hungry world. and we agree that a 50-state patchwork of labeling laws is not a workable long-term solution. in fact, i don't know any member on any side of this issue here in the senate that doesn't agree with that, that we have to have a national approach, not 50 different states. but we also, mr. president, know, as we have frequently debated states' rights, the importance of states to make decisions, that when we preempt states -- whether it is on fuel efficiency standards for automobiles or whether it's on food labeling -- that the approach has always been to go from 50 different states doing 50 different things to having a national standard and a national approach. and, a

the national association of clean air agencies and i can tell you epa is present on every call. they attend it, and that's not just with my committee, with other committees, where an organization has the presence of epa staff, they bring their thinking to us. they share early drafts, they explain. so that may be a good place to plug in a conversation with epa. could they do better? in some instances yes. we hear there's friction and tension between guidance and flexibility, you want the rules, i understand, you want to go to rule makings. rulings are rigid, so be careful what we ask for and make sure they can produce what it is that we want. so the rules set minimum standards, and the rest of it is our responsibility to collaborate and cooperate and get done. thank you. >> i would add to that, i'm on the executive committee of the environmental council of states and epa is at every meeting and comes on to monthly calls if we ask them to. so as described by ali, they've made themselves remarkably available to us. in our region, as we're developing our performance partnership agreement, they also in region one at least, are offering tremendous flexibility in terms of how we're going

committee at the national association of clean air agencies and i can tell you epa is present on every call. they attended and that's not just with my committee but other committees where an organization has the presenceov of epa staff they share early drafts, explain -- so that may be a good place to plug in a conversation with epa could they do better? in some instances yes. we hear there's friction and tension between guidance and flexibility, you want the rules, i understand, you want to the go to rule makings, rulings are rigid so be careful what we ask for and make sure they can produce what it is that we want. so the rule s set minimum standards, and the rest of it is our responsibility to collaborate and cooperate and get done. >> i would add to that, i'm on the executive committee of the environment a an council of the states and epa is at every meeting and comes on to monthly calls if we ask them to so as described by ali, that i've made themselves remarkably available to us, in our region as we're developing our performance partnership agreement they also in region one at least are offering tremendous flexibility in terms of how we're going to be managing our obligation und

an impressive board of directors featuring members from fortune 100 corporations. earlier this month, the nonprofit organization mentor and the national basketball association formally launched the real-life campaign as part of the nba's commitment to my brother's keeper. this campaign challenges americans across the franchises the nba is based in to mentor so that every young person who wants to be connected to a mentor has that opportunity. the nba uses stories about mentors and mentees and updates on grassroot activities shared across the country. rest of thise month, this is nba's all-star month, you will see a lot of attention around my brother's keeper and the nba throughout the course of this month. recently in usa today, bill op-ed thateased an was published in the usa about mentoring and my brother's kendrickd last week, lamar released a video amplifying his story about the importance of mentoring and how it relates the presidents initiative -- president's initiative. there is a lot of effort and attention being brought to this from the private sector. to some all of this up, let me thishe following -- sum up, let me say the following. the president's econo

an interlude, interlude and expression. marcus garvey, the co-founder of universal negro association, a black national to believe in race, pride and self-determination. the largest organization had global reach as far away as australia. africa for africans, influenced the queen mother and hubert harrison who parted ways with marcus garvey who believe in black capitalism. and black socialism. the queen mother for short-time work for the communist party in harlem and marcus garvey influenced malcolm little who became malcolm x who would be influenced by mothers in elijah muhammed unfounded the nation of islam who was influenced by garvey and black nationalism and malcolm x was influenced by queen mother more to after world war ii, at stanford, which john freeman in cleveland founded the revolutionary action movement in the early 1960s, interlude introduced into. . they both were influenced by richard white's the colored curtain in the concept of the 1950s by gloria richardson of the cambridge movement and malcolm x "the wilmington 10" 63 conference in detroit where malcolm delivered the same message to the grass roots. mohamad and don had 2014 co-founded the committee for soci