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we go into other areas where, again, if you can't move it apros the floor in a straight up bill out of an authorizing committee, why in the world do you think we are going to be able to get it through an appropriations committee? sometimes we can't, but this leads to much more dysfunction than it does to actually reaching a policy objective. so i would recommend that we sit down and study. those are just, again, at the end of the day i think you hit it precisely in your t this is a question of political will. and political courage. and this is also a question of going into areas that are, quote, the third rail and all the entitlement and all the tax areas and having the courage to vote. and the appropriation process insofar as it is dysfunctional, it's largely dysfunctional because we have problems, i would argue, in other areas. the committee actually does its work pretty well when it's allowed to do its work. ms. foxx: i want to say to you, i should have said this at the beginning, that i do compliment the appropriations committee for having done its work last year and getting every

they're trying to mobilize apro-brazilian youth to push the then-government to recognize black historyl, to reform the curricula in order to teach about the uprising of 1835. this was a slave revolt that failed, launched largely by slaves. so i remember talking to them, hanging out, and he tells me, you know, here in brazil hip-hok has a moral advantage over all other musical genres. is it that way in america? hmm, what a question, right? so it got me thinking about the globalization of hip-hop, the globalization of black radicalism. and i set out to write a book on music, black internationalism and u.s. foreign policy, especially policy towards the islamic world, right? the war on terror and so on. i had a wonderful time doing the research. i think my favorite part was getting to meet and interview the jazz elders, randy west and yousef latif and others, and it's an honor to be in this building. for instance, in 2008 i went out to milwaukee to meet with rashid ahmed, the patriarch of the community. he passed away earlier this year, he was 86 years old back then, a jazz officionado, a

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