has ever performed the song-- and a lot of contemporary artists have: cassandra wilson, dee dee bridgewaterverybody who's ever performed the song notes the same phenomenon, that it just stops people in their tracks. so you're in new york city. you've got the most talked-about song around. people are coming out every night to hear it. the natural thing is, "let's turn this into a record." "let's make a few bucks." and did anyone step up and say, "we want to put that out"? did the major labels step forward? well, the major labels cowered in fear. columbia was her label, and she wanted to get the song recorded. i mean, as you said, she sort of, you know, had a proprietary interest in it after a while, and columbia would not touch the song. columbia refused to record it. columbia was a national company. columbia had southern customers. they were afraid of offending people down south, and so billie holiday went to a place called the commodore record shop, which was across from grand central on east 42nd street, run by a fellow named milt gabler who had his own little, tiny record label and put o

graduate of the university of chicago law school and now a member of the management committee at bridgewater associates. i should tell everyone assembled here that mr. comey and i were in the same law school class. we graduated together. we have known each other for a long time. i think maybe our classmates would have not expected that we would have been sitting in these roles back when we graduated in 1985, but it is certainly great to have him here today. mr. comey. >> thank you, senator klobuchar. senator grassley and distinguished members of this committee, thank you for inviting me to testify here today. it is great to be back in this room before this distinguished committee and especially to offer my voice in support of an extension of director bob mueller's term for two years. i know bob mueller very well and believe he is one of the finest public servants this nation has ever seen. in his decade as director i think he has made huge strides in transforming the f.b.i. and contributed enormously to the safety of the american people. when i was deputy attorney general during those two ye