I am holding you & all our Congress people in the Light as you work through all of your challenges this week. Rep Hakeem Jeffries (NY-8) says that everyone is “leaning in.” I certainly hope so. I don’t like reading about “warring factions” in the Dem party who could “kill” your economic agenda….

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…Unfortunately, Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s Ambassador to the UN is also staying under the radar & did not speak to his colleagues yesterday. I hope the credential committee names him Myanmar’s official representative so he can keep the world’s eyes on the plight of his people….

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…Charlie Blow pointed out in today’s NYT that Haitians are being treated like “animals” because you are afraid of the “monsters” of DC. He says that it is an affront to his “collective consciousness of blackness born of the white supremacist erasure of our individuality.” I believe he has a point!…

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…Unfortunately, the news today included a couple of op-ed pieces about your age. Simon Tisdall wrote in the G that you are an old man in a hurry & Ross Douthat’s piece in the NYT included the question, “Can Joe Biden Recover?”…

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…I don’t know if you discussed Myanmar because the QUAD meeting was not covered by the papers in the US. In fact, your activities were not covered much at all today. Your name appeared only 3 times on the NYT webpage & 5 times on the WP’s….

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…Then VP KDH could brag about the benefits of democracy when she talks with the QUAD guys this afternoon. PM Modi (NDM) needs to hear that. As you know, he tends toward the autocratic side of the spectrum. I hope KDH can help him see the Light…..

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…I heard Progressive Caucus leader, Rep. Pramilla Jayapad (WA-7), on PBS last night insisting that the Sept. 27 deadline is arbitrary & she evoked your name by describing the bills as “the president’s agenda.” I found her persuasive….

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…I invite you to join me in the Biking for Burma Fund-athalon. It’s a healthy, fun way to keep the people of Myanmar in your thoughts. I’m afraid news of their plight is subsiding from the press so efforts such as these let them know that they are not forgotten…

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…. I just finishing watching your speech to the UN. It seemed to go fine. I appreciated your comment that “our success is bound up with others” & “our freedoms are interconnected.”…

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…I was so impressed to read about Julie Su this morning & am wondering why she is the Deputy Sec. of Labor rather than the head honcho…

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…Despite a few hecklers I assume that most of the people in Manville were grateful for your visit, especially, Somerset County Commissioner, Shanel Robinson who claims they have had 4 100-year floods in the past 20 years…

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…I’m afraid that the USACE predicted that Manville would get the brunt of this flooding event. They estimated flood damage claims there would exceed $20 million while other towns in the vicinity would have between $100,000 & $1 million….

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…While you are in Wilmington today, go over to the PO downtown which was recently named for Mary Ann Chadd Cary, Black abolitionist, who Frederick Douglass called “a person of uncomparable zeal & commendable ability.” Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester spearheaded the renaming campaign because she believes, “you have to see it to be it.”…

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