madam speaker, the people of el salvador were hit hard by hurricane ida. as a floridian i understand how destructive and devastating a hurricane can be. we in florida know what it's like to see the eye of a hurricane coming our way and how it impacts our lives. my heart goes out to the thousands of men, women, and children who have had their lives completely changed by hurricane ida. and who are as we speak picking up the pieces and slowly rebuilding their destroyed villages. as the ranking member of the western hemisphere subcommittee, i believe it's important that the people of el salvador understand that the people of the united states support them during these difficult times. i also think it's important to note how several nations work together and continue to do so to ensure the people of el salvador are getting the help they need to rebuild. from honduras our forces were able to lift those in need out of harm's way. from south florida we were able to airlift much needed supplies. those who have participated in these relief efforts should be commende

martin luther king and benjamin baniker and ida b.ls and unsung people, slaves, just ordinary people throughout history. >> can you give me an example of one of these unsung people. >> oh, sure. there are many -- several letters from slaves who had who were just writing to each other, to family members from whom they'd been separated, you know, letting them know how they are and trying to find out how they're loved ones are faring. not people we would have known of. >> how did you come upon this project and how do you select the letters? >> well, that was pretty insane. i went through thousands of letters over the course of five years. and some of the themes naturally emerged so i wanted to look at black family life through letters. and so after a while there was sort of an organizing principle through these themes and then i arranged them chronologically. but i tried to kind of create a narrative to show the historical arc so the book begins with the letters of people in the 1700s. some were slaves and some like benjamin baniker who

i am not going to speak to ida panelists. i am familiar with you all on this need down the table. i will leave that to the experts. we have heard about brown vs. board of education. we know what that has provided for all of us. as a result of the seattle cases, we do have a challenge because it has limited the ability for us to find some remedy towards segregation that has been occurring. i want to address the louisville cases, the jefferson county situation as well as the current settlement agreement we have reached in north carolina that provides us some type of remedy. louisville has a special place in my heart because i grew up there. i am familiar with the segregation that has taken place between the east end and west an end. you are quite aware that you know where the black students came from. growing up in the east end i know where the black students came from. they are on the basketball team with me and the track team. that is where we are. there is a reason that you needed that within louisville. unfortunately, because the supreme court case, we are in a situation where t

and i also read "ida." the book of idab. wells. right now i just started the help. which is totally different. it's fiction. i don't normally read fiction. but it's a good read. >> the author, she's the editor of "letters from black america." thank you so much. >> thank you. >> author robert, give us an update? >> well, i'm doing the fourth one. third one i got the international book award here. and well, this is a long book. and i'm sort of in the middle of it now. you know, lyndon johnson, president, civil rights, vietnam, turning points in american history. that's an interesting book to do. interesting for me to try to do it. when do you see it being finished? >> i think i have two more years. >> how many years have been devoted to lincoln -- lyndon johnson? >> well, i started, "power broker" came a out in 1974. i started in '76 on lyndon johnson. i want to add it up, 33 years. >> what first sparked your interest in lbj? >> good question. i never look at my books as biography. i never want to do a book just about a great man. i'm interested in political power and

ida want to give anybody any ideas here, because i wouldn't like that. and, you know, and the urge to keep books from children, the urge to ban books, to challenge books, it is maddening and yet it is interesting because i think it really grows out of the desire to-- is the year. it is fear that if my child reads this book you have written, my child is going to know about this and if my child knows about this may be is going to happen to my child, maybe my child is going to do it or maybe my child is going to ask me questions that i don't want to answer or maybe my child is going to get new ideas and i don't want my child to have new ideas. but if u.s. a parent can talk to your kids all the time about whatever comes up, read the same books that they are reading, without becoming fearful, and just let it happen naturally, talk to your kids about characters and books is a great way to communicate. and don't be afraid, and don't be judgmental of what the kids are reading. the important thing is if they are reading. >> did your parents encourage your readi

he has a girlfriend there called ida. some of you may remember that gas, or the polar bear at the central park zoo would swim around in circles that everyone was working was losing his mind. they brought him a girlfriend and cured him right up. what has happened to me is fascinating, and that is that polar bears at the same time that they are seen as threatening by some people, anyway, threatening arctic predatory, also are probably the cutest animals on earth. and this creates a bit of a conflict and how you're supposed to think about polar bears. this is the first bear cub about which a country went crazy. the bear cub was born in the london zoo in 1954, and the bear was called broom is. little baby bear was called broom is. broom is made the whole country of england insein. everybody in england wanted to go see broomus, the little baby bear at the london zoo. i told you i would show you what little baby bear sluglike. this is a zoo. this happens to be stripped are but baby polar bears are about the size of a rabbit whe

i think that while we did -- congress did a phenomenal job of trying to align esea and ida in the lasttwo reauthorizations of those laws we continue to have sill os between the two systems and two sets of expectations for stun. it's a conversation we need to continue to have as we move towards reauthorization. at the end of the day we're talking about all kids. many of these kids are one in the same. thank you. >> thank you. amy, welcome. can you hear me? >> one of the nice things going towards the end, people have said a lot of what i might have said. also, you guys have been sitting for more than an hour listening and that's just bad pedagoguey. if we are supposed to be educators, we should recognize we should get you to the q&a part as quickly as possible. i just want to make a couple of points. first, thanks for having me today. the second thing is i am so grateful to you for raising the point about higher ed. i was getting very distressed sitting here listening to a conversation about what it takes to get doids a high school diploma. a high school diploma is not what our kids need

we need conversations on@@@e@@Å trying to align esea and ida in the last two reauthorizations of thoses we continue to have sill os between the two systems and two sets of expectations for stun. it's a conversation we need to continue to have as we move towards reauthorization. at the end of the day we're talking about all kids. many of these kids are one in the same. thank you. >> thank you. amy, welcome. can you hear me? >> one of the nice things going towards the end, people have said a lot of what i might have said. also, you guys have been sitting for more than an hour listening and that's just bad pedagoguey. if we are supposed to be educators, we should recognize we should get you to the q&a part as quickly as possible. i just want to make a couple of points. first, thanks for having me today. the second thing is i am so grateful to you for raising the point about higher ed. i was getting very distressed sitting here listening to a conversation about what it takes to get doids a high school diploma. a high school diploma is not what our kids need anymore. we're having a conversa

you tell the story of ida ginsber frisch. she was a flapper who bob turner long hair and wore a coat with a mink caller. she was hardly beyond her teens when she won an automobile for selling more subscriptions to the newspaper than anyone else in town. guest: that was my mother. i am blessed to have wonderful parents. my mother once the card and a license came with a car. she got in the car with her sister, who 50 years later talked about how terrified she was. she did not know how to drive. i asked her, how in the world did you sell more papers than anyone else? she said she went into the immigrant district where no one spoke english and sold the papers. my mother was terrific. she said i told them it was good for the children. she was always interested in education. having a newspaper was good for the children, she was right. my books are personal books. my father is great. you will find something on my grandfather. i wanted this to be a conversation between -- i want the children to understand that authors write books. te