and that's telling of john lewis' legacy. i should note that this legislation has the support of congressman lewis' family, the john and lillian miles lewis foundation as well as local atlanta officials. thank you to representative nikema williams who now represents mr. lewis' old district in atlanta for sponsoring this effort. as a georgian, as a colleague, and as a friend, i'm especially honored to support this legislation and urge all of my colleagues to do the same. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from florida is recognized. ms. wasserman schultz: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, at this time i yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman from rhode island, a member of the judiciary committee, mr. cicilline. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cicilline: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentlelady for yielding and giving me an opportunity to say a few words about our extraordinary colleague, the late john lewis. john lewis is someone who had such an enormous impact

today what have been john lewis's 82nd birthday. rren, the late congressman's niece and his first cousin and a member of the board of director, amman and also the strategy and development director. angela, i'm going to start with you. congressman lewis was one of the strongest advocates for voting rights and education. what can you tell us about this new institute and its mission? >> one thing about this institute is we're going to stand with what uncle robert -- i'm sorry, congressman john started. we're about education, about reaching out to the people, about this institute is going to make sure that his legacy stay alive by making sure that we continue what he started, where we want to reach out to the youth and reach out to any organization that's willing to help women of color, men of color, diversity. we're just going to make sure that we know that we need to push what is right and that people understand that reading is important. we're just going to make sure everything that uncle robert -- i'm going to call him uncle robert -

. ♪ ba da ba ba bah ♪ soledad: i am curious how you feel about the passing of john lewis who was of coursey for younger people who weren't around when the march actually happened. john: it was a huge loss. he was on that edmund pettus bridge beaten within inches of his life, literally put his body on the line so that all of us could vote. i think it is important for us to realize that and contextualize that so that when we are talking about voting rights now, we realize that this has always been contested. this has always been a struggle, and there have been many more years in this country where folks were actively excluded and disenfranchised, actively denied their voting rights then there have been years where we have been close to full suffrage. we still have a ways to go. we have to be inspired by john lewis. we have to be inspired by dr. king and all the folks who organized the marches in selma and across the country by saying it is important that all of us are included in the franchise, that we are all citizens impacted by the laws that our representatives create. we are all a part o

the eaiest way to stop the assault is the bill named in john lewis' honor. electing people willing to stand up for the right to vote. like brown in lewis' home state of georgia whose blockbuster black voters matter mobilizing effort sent turnouts sky high in 2020 delivering democrats the white house and two senators but the fight continues and with me now is today's "reidout" mock da -- democracy defender latosha brown. as you look at the legislatures determined to pass, you know, the most hoops possible for particularly voters of color, black voters to jump through and conservative right wing courts willing to let them do it, how you operate, how that has changed the way that you operate in trying to ensure the right to vote. >> you know, part of it is we've had to use multiple strategies. we've had to use illegal strategy. we have several lawsuits we had to file. we had to organize on the streets on the local level the state level and the federal level to combat some of this. we had to combat some of the misinformation that is happening. in addition to that

you worked with john lewis on the documentary, john lewis, good trouble, and this apple tv series, thehich one would it be, and i'm going to say i know it's like asking a parent which is their favorite child, but which comes to mind? >> you know, each film is a product of its time. so gideon's army is my first film. i'm a lawyer by training. and i really with that film felt like there was something that i could understand with my background in law. that, you know if i didn't know about the crisis of mass incarceration, if i didn't know what pressure these young folks who were committed public defenders were under, if i didn't know that as a lawyer, i was thinking about a lot of other people don't know that, either. so that's probably, you know, the first film you make is probably, you know, the hardest in some ways, but it's very rewarding to have made that. to have shifted careers that way. >> yeah. >> but you know, i think i made the way i see it and john lewis movie very close together. and i feel like those films speak to each other. you know, john lewis was such a motivating perso

it when john lewis died, it was a remarkable moment for people who understood how much history he, had provided much of the archival footage used in the documentary. a lot of this was entirely unseen by the public, until you took a look at it, you and your team took a look at it. are you surprised by anything anymore? did you see things in there that shocked, even you? >> you know, a first, off just having the documentation of what was going on during 1965 and 1967 -- i mean, i did not know that story. so, that whole story was fascinating and surprising to me. the other part that was surprising that we were able to see in the footage is the deacons furred offense, the armed resistance group that protected the community, and enforce the boycott, which led to, you know, changes in the city. and you know, that was also an untold story. so, to have that documentation in this archival footage is pretty incredible. and, i should say that the 1965 footage was aired on pbs, called black narratives. but, we were able to not only have access to that footage, but outtakes from black matches. and,

king and other preachers were in their churches congregations, so the march was led with john lewis.ly. you have two minutes to turn around and go back to your church. this march will not continue. >> josÉ just asked, can we have a minute of prayer. >> i have got nothing further to say to you. >> so we had bloody sunday. ♪ ♪ at lowe's, you never have to be finished with your finishing touches. with aisles of ways to refresh and restyle. for whatever style you're feeling. at prices you're really feelin. shop the lowe's bath style & save event now in-store and online. ♪ ♪ i'm getting vaccinated with prevnar 20. so am i. because i'm at risk for pneumococcal pneumonia. i'm asking about prevnar 20. because there's a chance pneumococcal pneumonia could put me in the hospital. if you're 19 or older with certain chronic conditions like copd, asthma, or diabetes, you may be at an increased risk for pneumococcal pneumonia. prevnar 20 is approved in adults to help prevent infections from 20 strains of the bacteria that cause pneumococcal pneumonia. in just one dose. don't get prevnar 20 if you'

don't forget it was barack obama who went to john lewis, congressman john lewis' funeral and told thehat despite the fact that he regularly used the filibuster himself as a senator that the filibuster was racist and they needed to get rid of it. so many of the things that they woke liberal socialist democrats are pushing for now is because barack obama told them to push for it. so now he comes in and acts as if he's got good advice. he has been part of the polarizing problem from our nation that joe biden is now continuing. >> sean: what is your take, jason, as you see this all unfold? it is all coming together and not in a good way. >> ari is right. he sat quietly on his hands when joe biden stepped up. i look at the people closest to joe biden. i look at jill biden, his chief of staff, people like susan rice, other people that are right around the president you know his decline in israel, that he's not an actively engaged president, that his judgment is unclear, he can't even recite lines on a teleprompter. the things that he implemented, biden and harris, our self-inflicted wounds

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the john lewis billion freedom to vote act. but dealing with interference with election officials, dealing with of the issue you brought up are important as well. so i think that, you know, just doing eca is not sufficient. it may be necessary but it's not a sufficient. and eca deals with the situation in 2024. a lot of these things deal with of the situation -- it might deal with 2022 any more urgent and immediately. >> [inaudible] as you know, i pushed the house to move further along period of time. i care very much about this bill. the framework they set up and of the framework that is in the seeking bell are not that far apart. i believe all the gaps are approachable. we are having productive discussions with the house democrats. i don't know if any republicans will support it in the house but we are also having discussions with republicans in the senate, and i am very optimistic we will get this done very shortly. okay. last one over there. that's you. >> [inaudible] >> being a democrat i like to call on people in the back

demonstrating for voting rights. >> john lewis was the toughest person i ever interviewed.ul demonstrators including john lewis. >> dozes of peaceful protesters are beaten and injured for daring to demand their constitutional rights. >> to add insult to injury, people are on the ground bleeding, injured and they were denied medical care on the scene because colored folks didn't go to white hospitals. >> reporter: meanwhile, in new york, executives at abc news make a crucial decision, to cut into regular programming to run the local footage from selma. >> that decision shows how significant it was and how in realtime, people recognized that this was different, that the world had to see this as soon as possible. >> so many moving parts. so fascinating. that cgi really puts wilson inside the moments. the innovative concept, george, we're so excited to see that. congratulations to you on your show. there's a new episode of "i was there" tonight at 10:00 eastern on the history channel. >> i'm going to think about getting you back about that hair comment. thank you, will. >>> let

who had written a biography of john lewis the minor the the miners union john l lewis john l lewis and in he wrote quite a bit, and he was really interesting his labor history class because he liked a paper i did and he worked with me to get it published. i had to published on the brotherhood of carpenters and joiners of, ohio. um, and i went into the original union papers of the carpenters and joiners union and it got published as an undergraduate in a journal and that was like a big deal to me because you know, i was first time i had a byline first time i had an article and actually helped me get a fellowship to go money to go to georgetown because the priest there was running the department was impressed. they even though i maybe had not such great. states and math and science that i was getting a's in history and got an article published in a respectable journal and that was warren van tyne who pushed me in that direction? warren i've been in touch with the course since over the years he was quiet. he didn't have a he was but he would do little things that impressed me like he woul

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the freedom to vote act and the john lewis advancement act. voting advancement act. we want to make sure that those are passed. that's why our theme this year is toward justice. dr. king's -- one of dr. king's favorite sayings, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. it is that bending that is the hard work that we of goodwill must do. we must bend that arc toward justice. and i believe tonight, as you enjoy this inspirational program, my hope is that you will be edfied and empowered to bend that arc toward justice. thank you so much. [applause] >> please welcome to the stage, nationally renowned recording artist d1. >> thank you so much for having me, san francisco. looks good! my name is d1. i'm going to get straight to it you all. the motto i live by is three up. i need everybody to throw three fingers in the sky right now. these three right here. i'm from new orleans, louisiana and what i like to say when i throw them up is be real, be righteous, be relevant. that's the motto for everything in life. let's go, man. yeah, yeah, mic, chec

martin luther king, john lewis, fanny lou haimer and other civil rights leaders and they were fightingem that shut out generations of black voters and that they literally had to put their bodies on the line, getting arrested in many cases, in order to triumph over that injustice. fast forward nearly 60 years and the fight's not over. donald trump's big lie has millions convinced that our elections are rigged and state level republican lawmakers across the country are responding by trying to make voting harder in large part for voters of color with over 30 bills actively targeting and restricting voting rights. meanwhile, the freedom to vote act and the john lewis voting rights advancement act are still being blocked in the senate. all of this puts access to the ballot at risk for many americans particularly minorities and those for marginalized communities and lo and behold some of those protesting for equal rights of all americans are being taken away in handcuffs in 2022 just like my next guest who you're looking at there was recently. joining us now is democratic congressman jamal b

the only way it will is if we pass the john lewis voting rights act. which unfortunately doesn't look like it will mainly because of the filibuster. i don't know any other way to put it, you know, i i appreciate our big tent as a democratic party, but i did not go out and do everything i could do. and to get joe biden elected to only have an agenda that was palatable to kirsten cinnamon and joe mansion that's starting to get on my nerves. um, so i don't know. i know the mayor probably knows joe mansion. maybe he'll he'll give him a give a call one day. and see and see what joe's thinking but that's the only way that that we will be able to things from happening. so we'll see. in the last thing is about south carolina dims turning the state. and be coming here. okay, and i don't it takes a lot of what's wrong. it takes a lot of time and effort to turn the state and money. it's gonna take about 10 to 15 million dollars, okay. let's say hey to people say hello. say hey mayor riley. hi, this is satan. sadie's my little miracle baby sadie on september 1st o

i am the author of the john lewis national institute for minorityno health research and endowment revitalizationen act that would revitalize research endowment program at the national institute minority health and health disparities. our ep was established to assist minority serving institutions with low endowment to develop institutional capacity to successfully compete for funding with their nonminority school counterpart. savior college of pharmacy has been a beneficiary of the program, can you talk about the challenges universities face in trying to be more competitive for federal research dollars and revitalizing the program would be important to our nation? >> this program which was caused years ago, the resource by which we develop where we need to encounter -- >> facility is as important as facultyy. >> i mentioned putting a facility for hiv but the equipment, it is a variety of areas in the computer systems, one needs to be able to compete with those in understanding the resource at those schools not separate from thosera programs. students enter faculty in the research programs as underg

most recently, the freedom to vote act and the john lewis voting rights advancement act. these would have restored vital voter protections, and they were prevented dist districts from changing voting laws in a way that systematically disenfranchised as minority populations. both bills killed in the senate. can you explain how voters suppression disenfranchisement are predominantly impacting minorities in the united states and why voting rights? which are a pillar of democracy could be under attack? and it's 21st century. well, 1st of all, the united states used to have 2 political parties, democrats and republicans. from another point of view. they were 2 factions of the same party, the business party, the business, but the business world is overwhelmingly dominant and both of them. nevertheless, they were, they have been somewhat different with some overlap. in the last 3040 years, one of the is the republican party has simply drifted off the spectrum. it's not a political party in the traditional sense about 10 years ago to leading political analysts for the conservativ

i'm john lewis. >> come on in. >> hi, how you doing?r. good to see you. >> let me ask you a question. what more... you know, just for our case, we see after 50 years, a lot of these people are dead. >> yeah. >> so how can we bring closure? how can we, i mean, what can we do through this bill? >> well, we need to continue to investigate, 'cause it could be family members of some of the people who committed these unbelievable acts of violence still living, walking around every single day. >> i worked right beside of a kk's, one of the kk members' daughter-in-law. >> mm-hmm. >> i'm quite sure that someone knows something. >> yeah. >> and for them to not have come foafter all these years, it's just, it's unbearable. >> mm-hmm. >> a lot of families that suffered during that period, i honestly believe a lot of them still got a lot of anger in them. and, and i can use my brother as an example. he's still got a lot of hurt. >> i know what you've been through. what happened in natchez and other parts of the south was vicious, sick, and just wron

the freedom to vote act and the john lewis advancement act. voting advancement act. we want to make sure that those are passed. that's why our theme this year is toward justice. dr. king's -- one of dr. king's favorite sayings, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. it is that bending that is the hard work that we of goodwill must do. we must bend that arc toward justice. and i believe tonight, as you enjoy this inspirational program, my hope is that you will be edfied and empowered to bend that arc toward justice. thank you so much. [applause] >> please welcome to the stage, nationally renowned recording artist d1. >> thank you so much for having me, san francisco. looks good! my name is d1. i'm going to get straight to it you all. the motto i live by is three up. i need everybody to throw three fingers in the sky right now. these three right here. i'm from new orleans, louisiana and what i like to say when i throw them up is be real, be righteous, be relevant. that's the motto for everything in life. let's go, man. yeah, yeah, mic, chec

have democracy there at the moment, is, is that way or is a need for freedom to vote acts and the john lewis voting rights act. yeah, and i think that democracy on so many levels and, and from so many directions is are under threat right now. and i, you know, you say job, i'm so trying to do something about it. i'm saying he's not doing enough. i think that there's many, there are many things that he could be doing. and i think though the powers of the president of the united states are vast. if there's anything we learned from the trump administration, is that the powers of the presidency, our, our, our vast and, and there are many things that he could do or potentially try. i think maybe you know, some things will be struck down in the courts. but that doesn't give a whole lot of people a lot of confidence and he just started to make this a priority now and now they realize his popularity is down and he's probably not going or he's going to suffer major losses of midterms. now it's a priority, it should have been a priority from the very beginning. when people, particularly in the african

designate the facility of the united states postal at 3900 crown road southwest in atlanta, georgia as john r. lewis post office building. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will

i'm pleased to have worked with him on my bill, the john lewis national institutional minority health and health disparities research and endowment revitalization act that would provide funding to hbcus to promote the diversity and strength of the science workforce. need leaders like him to speak to the challenges, to plot the way forward and help find solutions for a more diverse health care workforce. with that i yield. >> thank you. i appreciate that warm introduction. now i will take over for introductions and we will revert to senator braun for the last. would like to introduce dr. margaret from middletown, connecticut. she is the senior vice president and clinical director of the committee health center incorporated. the chair of the board of directors, national nurse practitioner residency and training consortium. it is fair to say that over these many decades she has helped transform the community health center incorporated not only into one of the nation's largest federally qualified health centers, but one of the most innovative health system networks of any category in the

verret on my bill, the john lewis national institute on minority health and health disparities research endowment revitalization act, that will provide additional funding to hbcu's, the research health disparities, and to promote the diversity and strength of the science work force. we need leaders like dr. verret that speak to the challenges, to plot the way forward and help find solutions in recruiting a larger and more diverse health care work force. with that, i yield. senator hickenlooper: thank you. i appreciate that. that warm introduction. now i'll take over again for two introductions and then we'll revert to senator braun for the last introduction. first i'd like to introduce dr. margaret flinter from middletown, kentucky. connecticut. she's the director of the community health center incorporated. chair of the board of directors national nurse practitioner residency and fellowship training consortium. i think it's fair to say that over these many decades, shae she's helped transform the community health center incorporated, not only into one of the nation's largest federally