with me, with bernadette, with brenda?e you marching with us, or are you still writing, comfortable , comfortable, but sitting in the back. i have to pay tribute to my mother here. the me tell you why this is so serious to me. i had a moment when i was considering shutting down the empowerment experiment. i was going to do it because i found that my mother had pancreatic cancer. she got diagnosed one month before we were going to launch our excrement. the only reason i am standing here today is because she told experiment. our the only reason i am sending here today is because she told me not to stop or did i said, nina, are you crazy? how can this be the most important thing that i will do? they had a war named after me at named after me at the junior high school that they gave out to the best all-around best and every year. they named an award after me. i was the first editor of the award-winning newspaper at the high school. i was the first black prom queen at the high school. nina, are you satisfied? i got me a harvard

it is great to be here with you and bernadette.o the committee, thank you. , my morning, my friend colleague, my guiding hand gave me the challenge of presenting what it is that we might do in a lame-duck session. as i thought about that last night i read an article recently wouldlitico, that this with be the lamest lame duck session. how appropriate for the lamest congresses as we have seen in generations. a lame congress following a do do nothing congress is appropriate. i thought i would start by telling you what we should do during a lame-duck congress. that coulduld do turn this congress into a do something congress would be to pass an increase in the federal minimum wage. most minimum-wage workers are women. the federal minimum wage is at a level that doesn't allow people to live and work 40 hours a week at minimum wage and not reach the poverty line. we could do that in a lame-duck session. that would include the tip workers. for minimum-wage workers, two thirds are women. , a majority of those women vast number of those wom

also want to thank bernadette sy, [speaker not understood], also thank [speaker not understood]. we wouldn't be here right now if it wasn't for her hard work, for her to learn ethnic studies at kindergarten and first grade -- (applause) >> and it's something that needs to be defended and protected every day because ethnic studies is something that's always going to be a challenge and it's been 40 years since it's been institutionalized and something that needs to be there every day. people shouldn't wait till they get to college to learn about their own debt it. ~ identity. so, thank you again. (applause) >> thank you, supervisor avalos. now on to district 10, supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. to all of the award recipients in the chamber today, congratulations. thank you for making this city just a little bit more bearable. i have the pleasure to acknowledge a gentleman by the name of august stow de la cruz. he's not able to be here with us today. he has a woman by the name of [speaker not understood] who is going to accept the award on his behalf. towed i'd like to hono

in six or seven hours, things will improve dramatically and bernadette --in bermuda. >> we cannot get better than this. george'sthat with st. with sustained winds. for us, cool, 49 to 56 for the overnight temperatures. in much cooler day with sunshine on sunday. for the redskins, it will be beautiful weather. temperatures in the 50's. that is all for the moment. back to you. >> you got us on that one. >> it will be a good one if the skins can play defense, offense, special teams. you have got to get it done if you want to win on sunday. defense is having issues as well as offense. in the third quarter against arizona on sunday, he had what should have been an automatic interception. it goes right through his hands. no doubt that would have been a game changer, maybe even a season changer. the only one stepping up lately on defense is ryan kerrigan. he has been challenging his team all week. >> if we can get some pressure up front, that can force the quarter met -- cornerback to make plays. maybe that will allow us to make an interception and force a fumble. we have to take it upon our

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with me, with bernadette, with brenda? are you marching with us, or are you still writing, comfortable , comfortable, but sitting in the back. i have to pay tribute to my mother here. the me tell you why this is so serious to me. i had a moment when i was considering shutting down the empowerment experiment. i was going to do it because i found that my mother had pancreatic cancer. she got diagnosed one month before we were going to launch our excrement. the only reason i am standing here today is because she told experiment. our the only reason i am sending here today is because she told me not to stop or did i said, nina, are you crazy? how can this be the most important thing that i will do? they had a war named after me at named after me at the junior high school that they gave out to the best all-around best and every year. they named an award after me. i was the first editor of the award-winning newspaper at the high school. i was the first black prom queen at the high school. nina, are you satisfied? i got me a harv

up and fill them up and set our buckets down for these children who need to see marie, brenda, bernadette to because they are right now limited by confining circumstances and a restricted reality that has relegated our girls, doomed them to an inferior education environment. i do that over and over again, and i bring that here, especially for that little girl and the economically deprived places she comes from the tells her she is not could be enough to go to college, not good enough to be a congresswoman , on a successful law firm because she is black and destined to in intergenerational poverty . that is problematic and unfair and tells her she is not good enough and that their people are not good enough to build and maintain their families and businesses and neighborhoods that would support her if she did want to create or produce a hit television show. you can do it. you know what i'm talking about. where are you? you can do it. it is our little private joke. we have to do this. i did it. let me tell you about jordan this precious little girl. i would not have gone anywhere near she l

bernadette leonard's sweet potato casserole. her nachos. >> we found the tongs?birthday, baby. >> do they go out for dinner on their birthday? >> good luck with that 'cause i'm in new york. yeah. doesn't that look yummy? so anyway, you toss it with parmesan. you can top it with a little basil and it's heaven. >> beautiful. >> and this is great. on thanksgiving when you have turkey or christmas and you have leftover turkey the next day, i love to make turkey enchiladas. shred the turkey, put it together with tortillas and you're good to go. >> that's great. my mom loves that. this is excellent. >> you could make that for that dinner you were talking about. >> i have a dinner on wednesday. >> in the middle of a brand-new season. are we going to see you dating this year? we heard rumors about who you might be dating. >> well, you know those rumors. i don't know. tune in and find out. >> really? >> yeah. >> i don't think you'll have a hard time. >> we just started filming season 10 a week ago. you never know what's going to happen by the time it airs. >> kourtney and