little stillman is a singer from denmark about fifteen years ago she started something new. i was experimenting with my wife so i wanted to try to find new expression new sounds and then i thought if i i sang into the surface of the water i might get some feedback some reverb so i went into the kitchen and i got myself a bowl and i started to sing into the water to grab the jelly i started to put my lips into the wall and then my own mouth. and in the beginning it it didn't sound too well at all but i was intrigued by this element what started as a home experiment has turned into a music project. actually named sonic. it consists of the five musicians of the band between music and their instruments everything happens on the water and precisions. drummer morten paulsen fills his pool with water some of us plays really change sound drastically if if if if there are just a few degrees too much and too little. they can push the boundaries of what's possible without any advanced technology or they use our underwater microphones to transport the sound to the concert hall audience

it was a shock, of course, to the stillman family that their young daughter who was so vibrant and full of life was taken away at young age. and a little later the vaccine was made available in the united states after i and several other of my colleagues had been advocating for its approval. yet, even today, fewer than 10% of young people receive the men b vaccine. emily's mother alicia who is in the gallery with us today, founded the emily stillman foundation to help preserve her daughter's memory and also advocate both for vaccination and organ donation. mr. speaker, also, petty lost her 17-year-old daughter kim berle in 2012. petty is joining us in the house gallery here today. er daughter, kimberly, coffee, was a high school senior in long island, when she was 17 years old when she contracted meningitis b. her parents were blindsided thinking she was vaccinated. after hours being hospitalized she went into cardiac arrest and her organs began to fail. her mother had to make that agonizing decision to actually remove her from life support berly memory, im she founded a foundation to talk about the importance of the vaccination of men

stillman, who wrote the book blood brothers, tee5, author of inseparable. and steven ross who wrote hitler in los angeles. they tell their story to the characters who were little known at the time through them they talk about american culture and society and politics tell us lessons and teach us things that would be of value to enlighten us even today in the air of donald trump. hitler in los angeles by steven ross a finalist for by a pulitzer prize in the history category. [applause] that is an honor subtractive the not see -- the nazi campaign from world war ii you tell much about los angeles and the hidden stories of the effort to capitalize on the depression to create the nazi state as hitler did parading aroundel hindenburg park, trading with guns in the santa monica mountains and you tell it by telling the story people that were unknown then pretty much and are now unknown. but in her book madeleine albright warns of fascism in the u.s. under trump. do you see a parallel between those times that you wrote about and the times of today? >> one of the lead lines of the book that we use in advertising that i thought captured the spirit is it's a story of wha