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they are joined by new york senator gillibrand and mike rounds along with human rights activist brian stevenson. watch tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org, or watch full coverage on our new video app, c-span now. >> washington's unfiltered. c-span, in your pocket. download c-span now today. >> briefing reporters in the capitol this morning, house speaker nancy pelosi answered questions about tensions between russia and ukraine and the future of president biden's social spending legislation. speaker pelosi: good afternoon, thank you for being here. as you all know, according to the president's statement this morning, last night america delivered justice to the leader of isis and struck a serious blow to the terrorist group. our entire nation is grateful for the patriotism of our military, personnel and intelligence community with the success strike. the strike was a strong step toward the fight against isis, but the death of this isis leader does not mean the death of isis. congress remains an ironclad commitment to our national security and we'll continue to work closel

the memorial's director, brian stevenson, hopes the collected names will help change the narrative ofd to montgomery, this was a city that had 59 markers and monuments to the confederacy, and you couldn't find the word "slave" or "slavery" anywhere. >> how is that even possible? >> it's because people had been very intentional about denying that part of our history. so, this memorial, this site, is intended to be a very intentional response to our silence. >> we talked to folks around the country about what the confederacy stood for and the monuments. they said black people owned slaves too. there were white slaves. >> there were many reasons beyond slavery for the civil war. >> many. >> these are all things designed to deracialize what happened. and they are aberrations. and we've allowed that to happen because we were fighting these other struggles, right? and so, this site is designed to help people understand that you can't ignore this any longer. >> o, you see one county with one name and one county with two names. and then you see a county like this, with over a dozen names. >>

thank you, brian stevenson, for those amazingly powerful and inspiring words, and a special shout outn and my dear colleague, senator gillibrand, who i know put her heart, soul, and mind into revitalizing this breakfast. thank you both for your hard work. a reading from deuteronomy. you are to love your god with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your resources. these words, which i command you today, are to be on your heart, and you shall teach them diligently to your children. you are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you travel on the road, when you lieth down and when you get up." a reading from leviticus 19:8. "don't take vengeance on or bear a grudge against any of your people. rather, love your neighbor as yourself." senator mcconnell: the gospel according to matthew. "hearing that jesus has silenced the [indiscernible] the pharisees got together. one of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question -- teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law? jesus replied, love the lord, your god, with all your heart and with all your soul an

dedicated in montgomery, alabama, the birth place of the civil rights movement, upon the efforts of brian stevenson, memorialize these individuals that were hung. it honors the lives and memories of 40 martyrs slain during the movement from 1954 to 1968 including emmitt till. but we know many more people lost their lives to racial violence in that era. as we were studying h.r. 40, the reparations commission, we determined 4,000, and most of those that were lynched were african-americans. this memorial was dedicated when 30 killers had not been charged. in many cases they were acquitted or serve onld small sentence. these unsolved crimes represent a continuing stain on our nation's honor and hock its commitment to equal justice under the law. the legislation before us is intended to help remove that stain once and for all. the 40 victims shreked for inclues in the civil rights memorial fit one of three cry tier yasm they were active in the civil rights movement. they were killed in act os terror aimed at intimidating civil rights activists. their death demonstrated the brutality faced by african-ame

breakfast in the capitol this morning in the auditorium of the visitors center where the speaker was brian stevenson, famed attorney, defender, au author, and he was here. he was our keynote speaker for the prayer breakfast. the chair for the -- cochair for the prayer breakfast was senator christopher coons of delaware. we -- the president of the united states spoke at the prayer breakfast today, joe biden, a delawarean. and the congresswoman had a privilege to be there and part of that family. it's been a good day for delaware and with the vote to move this nomination to the next step. it's a good -- another good day for delaware for this reason but also a very good day for our country. and for all who have worked hard to make this day possible and this possible, i want to say a heartfelt thank you. and with that, mr. president, i yield the floor to another fellow who has a delaware connection and when he came through orientation a few years ago, he was nice enough to share with me that -- i told him the most -- the most popular set of initials in the u.s. senate were the letter t.c. there are more

it is full of thousands and thousands of students, who, as brian stevenson said, are proximate to thestudents who are experiencing hunger and for that reason are not giving up. as i mentioned, now is the time for congress to step in and act at the federal level. thank you so much for your leadership on this issue and for bringing us together today. >> thank you very much. >> i want to echo thanks for the hearing. it is really a privilege and in many ways a dream come true as my colleagues have said, we have been at this for a long time and this was really something, this coupled with the report, which i think was a milestone as well in many, many ways. i want to underline as the hope center does every day that basic needs insecurity is an intersectional issue with many components to it. i don't think we can talk about ending hunger without talking about affordable housing or childcare, as i noted, along with affordable transportation. and i appreciate a focus for this issue on the broader economics of college that are creating this situation in the first place. one issue that we didn'

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they are joined by new york senator gillibrand and mike rounds along with human rights activist brian stevensonwatch tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org, or watch full coverage on our new video app, c-span now. >> washington's unfiltere