is a cockburn, we actually stay cockburn. this is a course that was left out of the song. we are here to celebrate an extraordinary book, an extraordinary man. and in keeping with the spirit of alexander, i hope that the crowd over at the memorial last year will forgive me if i begin the way that i began then, which is recalling what you here every morning if alexander stayed with you in your home. you would be barely awake, at the crack of dawn thinking of all the things that lay before you, trials and tribulations for the day. you would hear not from the dead in the guestroom, because alexander didn't like sleeping in guest bedroom that. he much preferred laying out on the couch in the living room. you would hear rising from the living room a voice, an unmistakable voice saying, sal, are you ready to greet the day with unbridled of terrorism? and i think we should all just meet him in that course right now. are we ready to greet the day with unbridled optimism? [cheers and applause] fair enough. i want to thank powerhouse arena for putting out such a gorgeous book. all t

that struck me as the cockburn version of there is hope but not for us which is personally struck meas inspiring. the it's just the twin of an i'm sorry to sound like a total hippie is love of freaks and weirdos and losers in the forgotten. this remarkable about alex is he stayed radical even has the last several decades watching the liberal left reform and something beyond stupidity. i don't know how he did it. as i was telling friends i can imagine what it must feel like to come to the u.s. as a committed left radical son of cop turned and watched the whole sorry affair with clinton and obama play out for decades but think that he was here because in the words of. [crying] carthy carried the fire and when he passed it off i couldn't care less if he had taken a few detours from the proper socialist path as i was half the joy of reading his work. it's a fairly predictable socialist in my generation i am sure you can guess where he differed with alex. when i thought he was training his -- on the wrong side not only because it was always tempered with optimism and joy. i submit -- spen

let me say that captain cockburn, this has been the likelihood and a family-run business.his is a witty put groceries on the table for future families. and you are calling upon this in your testimony, you are asking the secretary of commerce to direct employees to fulfill the task you have already paid in torrents. you pay this with management and uk these management costs for the cost recovery program. is that correct? spirit that is correct. >> a much do you pay? >> is a small percentage, but i know over the last seven years i think that it has run into the millions of dollars for the management. >> okay. >> it may interest the committee know that there are three house members -- that there are three members of congress that agree with your position as the secretary who has the authority to direct them to resume its activities. i hold in my hand a letter signed by lisa murkowski and also by don young and chairman doc hastings of the state of washington. it is a letter that i will has to be included in the record at this time. >> soviet. >> to the secretary, taking the ex

and i want to appreciate -- i want to express my appreciation to captain cockburn for traveling 4000 miles and making us aware of one aspect of these effects. but the other point is that i also have heard on this same show one of the folks saying that you know that congress doesn't understand the effects of real people. of course, we do. we are hearing it now, but we have also been hearing it day after day and hour after hour from our constituents and we are listening to them and it is a small very fractional fringe group that ideologically is in complete contradiction to the appreciation that the american people have. because they want to shut down the government and that has been part of their agenda. fortunately, i think that they have been shown to be wrong. but in their opinion the government is worthless and that it does no good and i want to thank each of you for coming here today and expressing to us very pointedly and persuasively the harm and hardship that has been done to the sectors those sectors of the economy are you represent in the segments of people and them, maybe y

see a complete schedule of the day's events and also a look at a late alexander cockburn's book a colossal wreck. aero difficult political scandals and american culture at 9:00 on sunday. a:00 p.m. sunday your thoughts what does not apply here. >> up next representative john lewis, a democrat from georgia. the 14 term congressman talks about his role in the civil rights movement, race relations in the obama event political partisanship on capitol hill, he has written wind: a memoir of the movement," "across that bridge: life lessons and a vision for change" and "march: book 1". >> congressman john lewis, who is elwin wilson? >> guest: i'd met him in 1961. i was part of the freedom ride. we left washington d.c. on may 4th, 1961, at 18 of us, to test the decision of the united states supreme court to end segregation in public transportation. my seatmate from washington d.c. you must understand in 1961, black people and white people couldn't be seen together when you get out of washington to try to go to north carolina or georgia, alabama, mississippi. we were on our way to new orleans. we di