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the landrieu family, mary landrieu and mitch landrieu who's now mayor and the morials, dutch morial, the first black mayor and mark morial who's the head of the urban league today. so it's reflecting on race and families in new orleans for julian bond. i then went and taught at tulane university and i'm now a professor of history at rice university in houston. i live in austin so i divide my time between austin-houston and i have three kids, which takes up a lot of my time. and i'm able to take them now to historic sites and parks that my parents took me to when i was young. >> yes, do they -- >> usually they -- >> -- do they resist? >> a little bit but, you know, we tend to go more to like dino parks and things like this. but i'm -- i mean we were just in waco, texas and i took them on a tour of the dr. pepper factory. or if we go to, you know, houston we try to go to the history museum as well as some of the natural history ones so i'm -- it's in my blood, and i'm planning on taking them to all these places because they mean so much to me. >> yes. >> this weekend or coming up right

mary landrieu of louisiana chairs the small business and entrepreneurship committee. this is just over two hours. >> good morning, everyone and welcome to the small business hearing. connecting main street to the world. we are excited about the two panels that we have this morning, and anxious to hear the testimony and also looking forward to the questions. we should have a good attendance on our side this morning as we can see the room is packed, because there's a tremendous amount of interest in how small businesses, both in urban areas, suburban areas, and in rural and sometimes underserved areas can benefit from the new technologies and new partnerships that are emerging on this issue. so i am pleased to be in the senate hearing on small business and entrepreneurship today in our newly renovated space and hopefully you all will enjoy the benefits of that today. i like to begin by thanking our witnesses. we have a distinguished verse panel, which i will introduce in a minute. but what i want to say is that i understanunderstand our witnesses have at a full congress

the landrieu family, mary landrieu and mitch landrieu who's now mayor and the morials, dutch morial,or and mark morial who's the head of the urban league today. so it's reflecting on race and families in new orleans for julian bond. i then went and taught at tulane university and i'm now a professor of history at rice university in houston. i live in austin so i divide my time between austin-houston and i have three kids, which takes up a lot of my time. and i'm able to take them now to historic sites and parks that my parents took me to when i was young.