mr. baldwin's assertion that any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it. the loss of all that gave one and i didn't be, the end of safety. this is about two hours. [inaudible conversations] ..

mr. baldwin but when you think about a blackhearts figure from -- like baraka he was a man of the people in the kind of way that literally you could walk down the street you could have a conversation p.m. not going to start the conversation because literally almost everybody in the room has had one of those moments. i did have the opportunity for an extended period of time around this time that spike lee and malcolm x were alive. one thing that stayed with me for a long long time with this is idea for all the money being spent for in his opinion what was a version of malcolm x that it would be better for folks to set up 20 seats in the basement of their houses and do community-based art. that always stuck with me. particularly as we have been watching all the losses that we have been watching over these last 18 months or you the idea of independent black institutions as one of the lasting legacies of the black arts movement because they could not go to mainstream publishing houses to get their stuff published. there were no black studies programs as we know it that could subsidize black

mr. feinberg. >> senator baldwin, welcome. senator baldwin is here as a special guest of this committee today. and we welcome you. and welcome your questions. >> thank you, chairman mccaskill and ranking member heller for allowing me to join you today. i'm not a member of the commerce committee. but i have had discussions with family members and let me just share by way of an opening statement that on the night of october 24, 2006, three girlfriends, natasha wigle who you heard about earlier from senator klobuchar, amy rademacher and megan kearns were returning from a trip to a wal-mart in st. croix county, wisconsin. one of the border counties between wisconsin and minnesota. 205-n re heading east on in a chevrolet cobalt that lost power and into a telephone pole and the airbags never demrade. the accident killed natasha and amy and left megan seriously injured. as you heard from senator klobuchar, natasha was a goalie on her hockey team. her parents could count on one hand the number of times they had seen her in a dress. the tomboy also had an artistic side that impressed her art poetry. wi

mr. feinberg. >> senator baldwin, welcome. senator baldwin is here as a special guest of this committee today. and we welcome you. and welcome your questions. >> thank you, chairman mccaskill and ranking member heller for allowing me to join you today. i'm not a member of the commerce committee. but i have had discussions with family members and let me just share by way of an opening statement that on the night of october 24, 2006, three girlfriends, natasha wigle who you heard about earlier from senator klobuchar, amy rademacher and megan kearns were returning from a trip to a wal-mart in st. croix county, wisconsin. one of the border counties between wisconsin and minnesota. 205-n re heading east on in a chevrolet cobalt that lost power and into a telephone pole and the airbags never demrade. the accident killed natasha and amy and left megan seriously injured. as you heard from senator klobuchar, natasha was a goalie on her hockey team. her parents could count on one hand the number of times they had seen her in a dress. the tomboy also had an artistic side that impressed her art poetry. wi

mr. feinberg. >> senator baldwin, welcome. senator baldwin is here as a special guest of this committee today. and we welcome you. and welcome your questions. >> thank you, chairman mccaskill and ranking member heller for allowing me to join you today. i'm not a member of the commerce committee. but i have had discussions with family members and let me just share by way of an opening statement that on the night of october 24, 2006, three girlfriends, natasha wigle who you heard about earlier from senator klobuchar, amy rademacher and megan kearns were returning from a trip to a wal-mart in st. croix county, wisconsin. one of the border counties between wisconsin and minnesota. 205-n re heading east on in a chevrolet cobalt that lost power and into a telephone pole and the airbags never demrade. the accident killed natasha and amy and left megan seriously injured. as you heard from senator klobuchar, natasha was a goalie on her hockey team. her parents could count on one hand the number of times they had seen her in a dress. the tomboy also had an artistic side that impressed her art poetry. wi