Cori Bush — Congressional Art Competition (2021) - Missouri's First District

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you

Speaker 1: And I'll tell you, this is just an honor to have more all here we have been fawning over your pictures

for

Speaker 2 (higher-pitched voice): the last month and to see you next to your pictures and see the artwork has been amazing so thank you all for being here and participating today uh the congressional

Speaker 3 (higher-pitched voice): art competition honors inspiring work created by young artists in the missouri's first congressional district each

Speaker 2 (higher-pitched voice): spring high school students across the country honored by honor their members of congress through this visual art competition Since the competition began more than half a million students have participated. Now in its 21st year, the Artist Discovery Contest showcases the talents of high school students all across the United States. This year's theme was resistance. We learned so much from the artwork of the students and thank you parents, teachers, and of course We have to thank St. Louis University for letting us use this beautiful gallery, setting everything up. I'd like to

Speaker 3 (higher-pitched voice): give a special thanks to the team, especially Asia Owens, who is an artist in our own right, who has helped set this up. Marlene Coleman, Denny, the whole comms team, our whole DC team, we couldn't do it without each one of

you

Speaker 3 (higher-pitched voice): Before we go any further, I want to give a special thanks to Jamison Faulkner. Jamison provided the music. He's a 2016

Speaker 5: graduate of Purdue High

Speaker 3 (higher-pitched voice): School, and he's a part of the Point of View Jazz Ensemble. And we want to thank Asia. Asia Brantley is a young lady who actually books all the artists. She is a junior at Cartman River, and she books all the artists. She's making you all proud, and Harvey Lockhart is the director. So thank you again, Jameson, and congratulations on your 2021 graduation. He's headed to the University of Miami in the fall

Without further

Speaker 6 (higher-pitched voice): ado, I'm going to bring up Asia Owens, who will have a few words for us, and she was the coordinator of this year's art competition

good

Speaker 8: evening everybody you

guys can

Speaker 8: do a

Speaker 9: little bit better than that good evening everyone thank

you so much um i first

Speaker 10: want to take an opportunity to thank all of the students who took the time to participate in this competition all of your hard work and dedication is definitely seeing you guys are incredible your work is brilliant thank you so much um i also I also wanted to take an opportunity to thank all of the parents. the guardians and all of the teachers and the mentors that took an opportunity to guide the students and your children um you guys helped with the framing you guys sent those press releases probably not press releases with the student releases like sometimes more than once twice but i appreciate the patience and your flexibility when things change thank you so much um parents teachers mentors thank you so much um i also want to thank the judges These are local artists that took out the time to use their expertise and their candid eye to judge this competition, which I know is really, really hard, but they came and they did an excellent job with the judging. Also, Miranda already said it, but thanks to the St. Louis University Museum of Art for allowing us to be in a space again. It's just beautiful. Can we just give it up for them one more time

And as

Speaker 10: Miranda already said, I want to thank our entire team, the St. Louis team, the D.C. team. You guys don't know this way, but I'm going to stream the lives so that you

Speaker 2 (higher-pitched voice): can see people who are here in spirit and everybody come together to make this what it is. So thank you all

Before we bring up

Speaker 11 (higher-pitched voice): the Congresswoman, we want to make sure that you give a special thanks again and bring up Pertudo Leaphand

Speaker 12: who is the Director of the Art Museum here, to say a few words on behalf of St

Louis University. I have to lower this hand

Speaker 13: behind the microphone. So, good evening

Woman 14: Congresswoman Cori Bush and honored guests, welcome

We are

Woman 14: delighted to have you at St. Louis University Museum of Art for the 21st annual exhibition of the Congressional Artistic Discovery Contest. This exhibition was made possible by the support of Cori Bush, the United States representative for the Missouri's first congressional district and her timeless staff

This

Woman 14: is an important event that recognizes and encourages the artistic talent of aspiring art artists who are currently high school students. St. Louis University Museum of Art started hosting the annual exhibition of the Congressional Artistic Discovery Contest in 2017. This exhibition, which consists of all of artwork centered in this year's contest, will be open through July 11

Family

Woman 14: members and friends of students who are participating in this exhibition can visit it Monday through Friday between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m

This is a

Woman 14: special arrangement because otherwise the museum is closed. This museum is part of St. Louis University Museums and Galleries department, which also includes Museum of Contemporary Religious Art and historic Samuel Cappos House. St. Louis University, the first institution of higher learning west of the Mississippi River, was founded in 1818 and art played an important role from its beginning

The artworks in

Woman 14: the collection of the Western Jesuit missions, displayed on the third floor of this museum, attest to it

They were

Woman 14: brought to St. Louis by Father Peter DeSmet, who arrived in St. Louis in 1823 and made many trips back to Europe to raise funds. He always brought artworks and artifacts back to St. Louis with the intention to use them for education

In the

Woman 14: process, he contributed to the creation of the first museum west of the Mississippi. With support from generous donors, we continue Father Dismant's legacy by adding to the collection, which we share with the public through long-term displays, exhibitions, and educational programs. Modern and contemporary artworks from the permanent collection are on display on the second floor. Artworks made prior to the 20th century are on display in historic Samuel Cowell's house. So, Lewis University Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, or MOPRA, is the first museum to bring an interfaith core focus to contemporary art. Through exhibitions, collections, and educational programs, MOCRA highlights and explores the ways contemporary visual artists engage with religious and spiritual dimensions. All three San Luis University museums are currently closed to the public due to the pandemic, but when they are open, they all have free admission. After the pandemic, please come back and visit

often

Woman 14: Thank you for coming and sharing this evening with the talented student artists included in this exhibition. Thank you very

much. Without further ado, I have the

Speaker 6 (higher-pitched voice): honor of introducing Congresswoman Cori Bush. Congresswoman

Cori Bush. She's a

Speaker 2 (higher-pitched voice): nurse. She's a lifelong St. Louisan. She's a lover of people, a lover of art. She is a lover of all of St. Louis. And we are so excited to have her here. Um

Speaker 17 (higher-pitched voice): without further ado, Congresswoman Cori Bush

I am

Speaker 18: so super

Speaker 19 (higher-pitched voice): excited, so I can raise it up because I have on heels to be clear. I am

so excited to be with you all this evening. It is always, it just does my

Speaker 20: heart, it

does my

Speaker 20: heart good to be able to be in the presence of you

When

Speaker 20: I get to meet people that I don't know, some of you, I do see familiar faces, but for those that I don't know, I get to know you. Like, I get to meet you today, and that

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): means the world to me, because I just love us. I mean, I just do. I just love us. I love our energy. I love what we do. I love just the idea of all the things that we can do together, and in this space, we get to see that happen

Speaker 20: First, let me thank St. Louis University Museum of Art for hosting us this evening and for allowing us to be looking in this beautiful, beautiful space to showcase this incredible talent. Incredible, incredible talent. Let me say that I don't remember having this opportunity myself. when I was in school, and I don't know that I would have done much with it if I had, but to give our students this opportunity, opening this door, it's just a remarkable thing. Them

being able to

Speaker 20: showcase, you being able to showcase your remarkable talent, I'm just honored to be able to be a part of that. I'd like to thank

my team

Speaker 20: Raise your hand, team. Raise your hand

Speaker 24: And I'd like to thank our judges, all of our judges for their time and for your thoughtfulness. Thank you so much

Speaker 25: for selecting this year's winners, honorable mentions, and our runners-up. Also

I'd like

Speaker 25: to thank all the educators that had a

Speaker 19 (higher-pitched voice): hand in this. Thank you for standing with our students. Our parents, thank you for standing with your students

our

Speaker 19 (higher-pitched voice): families and all others who are here to support such an amazing group of

Speaker 25: young people. Without you all, none of this would be possible

You

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): raised them, you fostered their creativity, you motivated them, you challenged them, and you held them when things got hard. And most importantly, you loved

them. I

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): also, of course

want to

Speaker 26 (higher-pitched voice): thank our student artists. Wave if you're a student artist. Wave, wave, wave. I want

to thank you for sharing

Speaker 27 (higher-pitched voice): your talents

your

Speaker 20: gifts, with all of us in Missouri's first district. Art is a very special thing, it's a very personal thing, and to create art, you have to put a piece

of yourself on that sheet of paper

Speaker 28 (higher-pitched voice): that canvas, that photograph. It's not always easy to share your experiences. It's not always easy to tell others what happened

to you

Speaker 28 (higher-pitched voice): And I know, I know, I know this personally, how hard

it can be. A

Speaker 28 (higher-pitched voice): member of my staff is an

artist

Speaker 29: And she was recently talking about how art is an outlet. There's

Speaker 25: so much happening in our district right now and it can feel

Speaker 28 (higher-pitched voice): so heavy. There's so much happening all across our world

So for those

Speaker 28 (higher-pitched voice): of you who may

be

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): feeling that burden, I hope that this beautiful artwork, every single piece has given

you a place

Speaker 31 (higher-pitched voice): to express yourself, how you're feeling

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): whether it's fear, anger, joy, love, excitement

And I want

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): to thank you for showing us those emotions

It takes strength to tell your story, so I want to thank each and every one of you for being brave enough to do that and share a part of yourself with us. The theme of this

Speaker 32 (higher-pitched voice): year's competition is resistance. So what is resistance? What does it mean to resist

Speaker 28 (higher-pitched voice): Resistance means insisting on our own humanity and the humanity of others. Resistance is about all of us

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): every single one of us, getting to live a life with dignity and refusing to accept injustice. Can you agree

When

Speaker 33: I think about resistance

Speaker 34 (higher-pitched voice): do you

agree? when I think

Speaker 34 (higher-pitched voice): about resistance I think about what Angela Davis said she said I am no

Speaker 28 (higher-pitched voice): longer accepting the things

that I

Speaker 28 (higher-pitched voice): can not change I'm changing the things I cannot accept that is resistance

Speaker 34 (higher-pitched voice): it is refusing to be told that we cannot accomplish big

Speaker 35: things because we can you're looking

at that person that did that A few years

Speaker 36: ago I was sleeping in a car with two babies and now I'm your U.S. congressman

and

Speaker 37: not just by

Speaker 20: title doing the work to make your lives better and the lives of your legacy better

It is fighting

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): fighting on when others are telling us it's too hard, it's too

Speaker 38: hard. Can't do that, it's too

soon. You don't

Speaker 34 (higher-pitched voice): have what it takes. It

is refusing to

Speaker 34 (higher-pitched voice): accept

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): baby steps towards justice when what we need is transformation. Art

has long been a

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): tool of resistance, a way to speak truth to power

Speaker 20: We see it in the works of Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and Gordon Parks

We see

Speaker 28 (higher-pitched voice): it in the works of local artists like Billy Bill and Kababi Beya, Gans Hovey, and Wiley Price, Paulette Sankofa and Brock Seals, we see it

and so many

Speaker 31 (higher-pitched voice): others who have used their talents to call out racial injustice and call out justice

Other

Speaker 31 (higher-pitched voice): injustices and push for peace and

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): simply force the world to see their humanity. To

our artists

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): you are that next generation of artists. You

have already

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): begun the work of speaking truth to power. So we look to you

What is your

Speaker 34 (higher-pitched voice): voice? What does your voice say? You are the painter's the photographers, the

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): digital artists

you are

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): those who will continue the legacy of resistance through art. I

already see

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): the resistance in the works that you created for this competition. The honesty with which you tell your story is

resistance. It is in the boldness of your colors, and the thoughtfulness of each and every line

Speaker 20: and shape

I see

Speaker 20: it in the subjects you chose, in the stories you are telling

As

Speaker 34 (higher-pitched voice): some of you may know, I think of myself and I call myself a politipist. I actually

coined

Speaker 28 (higher-pitched voice): the term

A

Speaker 28 (higher-pitched voice): politician and an activist I am. And people ask me all the time

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): like, what can I do? How

do I get

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): started in activism? Like, what's the, what are the steps? And

I always tell

Speaker 39: them, just do what you do. We

all have

Speaker 39: something amazing

Speaker 34 (higher-pitched voice): to bring to this world. Bring that to the table

You're

Speaker 34 (higher-pitched voice): an activist because you're active, because you're diligent in that thing, because you seek it out and you're intentional about that change

Speaker 25: and seeing it through

Activism isn't just

Speaker 25: grabbing a bullhorn and leading a protest. Activism

can be

Speaker 28 (higher-pitched voice): registering people to vote or bringing water to hand out to people

who are

Speaker 25: protesting. Activism can be running for your local school board or simply calling out an

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): injustice when you see it. Activism can be creating art that starts a conversation and forces people to

Speaker 28 (higher-pitched voice): acknowledge you, acknowledge you, your experience, and the experiences of others

You all

Speaker 20: have started that conversation with the work that we see all around us in there tonight. Because of you and the art that you created

we

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): as a community, a city, a district, and a country, have that insight into what it means to be you

I want to congratulate

Speaker 34 (higher-pitched voice): each and every student who participated in this year's competition

And I

Speaker 40: want to

thank you. Thank you for

Speaker 20: sharing with us. Thank you for your bravery. Thank you for sharing your creativity. Thank you

Speaker 28 (higher-pitched voice): for sparking conversations. And thank you for your resistance

Speaker 41: Now. All

Speaker 42: right, now

I know

Speaker 42: you all have been

Speaker 34 (higher-pitched voice): waiting very, very patiently to find out the results of this year's competition. The winner, the runners-up honorable mentions were

Speaker 33: chosen by a panel of five judges

all

Speaker 33: of the artists from Missouri's first district. So of course I was not going to make the decision at all. That was clear from the beginning

Speaker 19 (higher-pitched voice): That was not going to be the case at all. And so, but we wanted to keep it local. Keep it local. People have to know St. Louis has amazing talent. This is not fly over country. We have talent and we have, we have everything that the coastal cities have and more

So

Speaker 19 (higher-pitched voice): we pulled from our local artists and maybe one day some of the artists that are here who are in the competition

Speaker 34 (higher-pitched voice): will be one that will be a judge another day. So, each judge rated every student's art on a scale of one to five in several categories, including design and creative elements. technique, expression

organization

Speaker 19 (higher-pitched voice): craftsmanship, and the theme which was resistance. Each member of the panel judged independently and no one

Speaker 25: from our office was involved in the judging at all. No one. We'd like to acknowledge and thank our five judges who were so generous

with their time

Speaker 43: and so

Speaker 25: thoughtful throughout this entire process. I'm going to ask each of the judges to come up when your name is called And if we could give them a round of applause, yes, they do. I get

to call the

Speaker 2 (higher-pitched voice): judges because the Congresswoman is going to take a picture with them. And all of them

Speaker 11 (higher-pitched voice): aren't here today, but we do know that

Speaker 44 (higher-pitched voice): we have the incomparable Wiley Price here with us today. Thank you

Speaker 45: Wiley

Speaker 46: gets to

Speaker 48: take a picture today

Then we

Speaker 11 (higher-pitched voice): have a few of them. I think that's the only judge that's here today, but the other ones

Speaker 2 (higher-pitched voice): are Gans Hovey, Paulette Sankofa, Brian Brock Shields, and Billy Beal. So thank you

all again for a few judges. Now that you know

Speaker 52: that one of the judges is here, all right, now

Speaker 42: afterwards. We love you. All right

now I

Speaker 42: know this is what you've

Speaker 19 (higher-pitched voice): been really waiting for, we're first going to announce the students who received

honorable mentions

Speaker 19 (higher-pitched voice): from our judges for the work that they submitted. students please come up to the podium when your name is

Speaker 53: called to receive your certificate first we

have

Speaker 54: okay we're going to be all

right I

Speaker 54: will let you do

that I just get to

Speaker 11 (higher-pitched voice): read the names you can take pictures with the congresswoman So I'm going to call your name

Speaker 2 (higher-pitched voice): If you can come up to the podium and take a quick picture and we will give you your certificate. Then we'll do honorable mentions

Speaker 55: and the winner

That's just

Speaker 56: suspense. That was just suspense. I'm sorry

All right. And

Speaker 51: Asia, can you come up here too? Because you know that the students as well

Okay. Thank

Speaker 58: you

Speaker 59: Sianna

Speaker 60: Clark

Mikaela

Speaker 61: Cooper

Speaker 62: Mikaela

Speaker 63: Flowers Lauren

Gill

Speaker 64: NICOLE

GORILLA

Speaker 65: Leah

Speaker 66: Harrison

Marek

Speaker 67: Pohl

Speaker 68: Isabelle

Speaker 69: Jackson

Speaker 70: Cameron

John Laurie

Speaker 71: Thank

Speaker 72: you

Speaker 73: Aninka

Noble Watch

Speaker 74: out. We're going to

get a

Speaker 74: picture. They're trying to get a picture right there. We're going to

get a

Speaker 74: picture. We got it

Speaker 75: Don't be shocked. One

of the

Speaker 76: pictures. Thank you

Speaker 77: Norah Rowling

Gabrielle

Speaker 78: Hewlett

Speaker 79: Arianna

Whittington. Max

Speaker 80: Yang

Speaker 81: and Jordan

Schoen. I

Speaker 17 (higher-pitched voice): can't remember to pronounce your name right, Coral. Is that correct? Malayla Coral. Kohler. It's

you

Speaker 83: It's you

Thank you

Speaker 84: JORDAN

CAN

Speaker 85: YOU STAY UP HERE FOR A SECOND

Speaker 86: TOO? THANK

YOU SO MUCH. can

Speaker 88: you stay up here next to jordan's one

Speaker 89: bobby reed

Robby. Robby, can we take a

Speaker 91: picture? Just

playing

Speaker 92: Thank you

Speaker 93: Sadie Malekz

Speaker 95: John

Speaker 96: Ruland

Thank you, everybody, I

Speaker 97: have to stay up here

for a

Speaker 98: second. And last, not least, I have Samantha

Seamer. The reason

Speaker 44 (higher-pitched voice): we ask these young

Speaker 99: people to stay up here

Speaker 44 (higher-pitched voice): is these are all of our honorable mentions

Congratulations to all of our honorable

Speaker 100: mentions. Thank you for the presence

of Mr. Martin. So one

Speaker 3 (higher-pitched voice): more time, while I'm taking a picture. Jordan Shaw for her work, "I Can't Breathe." Jordan, wave your hand for it. Sadie Moss, the president of the United States

Mrs

Speaker 101: Kohler

Speaker 44 (higher-pitched voice): and I just

Speaker 101: messed her name

Speaker 44 (higher-pitched voice): up. Klor for "Stop the Pipeline

Bobby

Speaker 102: Freeman, the Chief of the District. John Ruland, for

Speaker 3 (higher-pitched voice): Municipal Boundaries. Samantha Seymour, for Faith of Resistance. And those are our honorable mentions

Speaker 106: Congratulations

you guys

Speaker 3 (higher-pitched voice): ready for the next ones the winners I think you should

have announced the one two three okay OK, THIRD

Speaker 107: PLACE

Speaker 11 (higher-pitched voice): THE JUDGES HAVE AWARDED THIRD PLACE TO ISABELLA JACKSON CAMERON FROM METRO ACADEMIC CLASSICAL HIGH SCHOOL

FOR HER WORK YEARNING. So we mixed

Speaker 44 (higher-pitched voice): it up so you guys may know who the winner was right

Speaker 108: away. She has her certificate

already. These will be placed

Speaker 109: on your painting. Take a picture of you, honey. Bring your certificate

with you. Those

Speaker 109: on your painting

On your... On your art. A part. A

Speaker 114: part. and

Speaker 44 (higher-pitched voice): then we have a few other people but we mixed it up because again we didn't want the winner to be

Speaker 11 (higher-pitched voice): like you know the last person who got it so we

Speaker 115: did this so Maxine Adams Can you come forward? Maxine is here. She's

not here. Okay. Making

Speaker 3 (higher-pitched voice): sure. as in yeah and then gabrielle you look okay we just want to make sure we didn't miss them

okay all right

Speaker 3 (higher-pitched voice): second place

Speaker 2 (higher-pitched voice): and this

person did

Speaker 2 (higher-pitched voice): not was not able to come tonight but the second place winner um is merrick hoell from universal city and

Speaker 11 (higher-pitched voice): his work was it's a temporary thing and he was not

able to come tonight You

Speaker 116: want to bring the

Speaker 119: winnings

Speaker 121: Drum

Speaker 122: roll

We're going

Speaker 123: to

Speaker 124: reveal

Speaker 44 (higher-pitched voice): it. And the winner of the 2021 Congressional Art

Speaker 11 (higher-pitched voice): Competition for the 1st

District

Speaker 11 (higher-pitched voice): Of Missouri is Alyssa Shin for her work, Ella

Alyssa is a

Speaker 125: ninth

Speaker 126: grader in Metro Africa City

in classical high school. Thank

Speaker 128: you

Speaker 129: Okay, Melissa, I'm going to ask you to stay up here for a moment

Yes, stay up

Speaker 130: here for a moment

Speaker 129: I want

Speaker 130: to share a little bit

about your work

Speaker 25: Alyssa's piece is a pencil drawing of civil rights leader Ella Baker. Ella Baker spent more than five decades organizing for racial justice, calling out racism and critiquing sexism within the civil rights movement. She worked and fought alongside W.E.B. Du Bois. Thurgood Marshall, Dr. Martin Luther King, and has

Speaker 19 (higher-pitched voice): been called one of the most influential women in the movement for civil rights. Ella Baker embodied resistance. She did not allow

Speaker 25: racism or sexism to deter her from fighting for a better

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): world, a world where every life is valued

She once

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): said, until the killing of Black men, Black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country

As a white

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): mother's son, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens

Ella Baker resisted, and her

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): fight is still our fight

I want to thank

Speaker 131: Alyssa for accepting the work of this fearless woman

to

Speaker 132: bring

Speaker 25: her peace and elevate his story to Washington, D.C. for a ceremony honoring all the winners from across the country. Her drawing

will

Speaker 133: then hang in the U.S. Capitol for one year. Congratulations again

all

Speaker 26 (higher-pitched voice): right um thank you and and let me say

Speaker 33: um for all of our participants we will display your hearts so um

art

Speaker 33: is the art

Speaker 25: is going to move so more people can see it uh so it will be here in this amazing amazing gallery through july 11th yes um and then uh we will let you know where it's going next we want to we want uh to

Speaker 27 (higher-pitched voice): move it around we're going to see how that works um but one place where it's going to be

Speaker 25: is in my office so i'm taking art to dc um to hang in our office uh and then there will we are all They will also spend time here at our St. Louis office so all of your family members and friends and loved ones and neighbors can come in to see it without taking a trip. So I just wanted to make sure that you all know that. And let's see. Before

I wrap

Speaker 25: up, just one more thing that I want to say to some of you. Many of you have heard this probably before. But to all the students here today, to your families and your educators too, but to the students, I need you to know, beyond the shadow

of a doubt

Speaker 25: no matter what happens and what is said, your

Speaker 21 (higher-pitched voice): work on this project, this competition

we

Speaker 20: all felt it, and it will bring

joy

Speaker 20: spark conversations, bring peace, and can bring about change. Whether you

were the

Speaker 20: winner, the honorable mention, or an amazing

Speaker 25: participant. We need you to know that. And also

Speaker 27 (higher-pitched voice): your Congresswoman

loves you. And

Speaker 27 (higher-pitched voice): I have to say that someone said, "Oh, Corrie, that's just fluff. I don't care if you hate me, just give me what I need

Speaker 134: No

No

Speaker 34 (higher-pitched voice): No. I need you to know that your congresswoman

Speaker 27 (higher-pitched voice): loves you. There is nothing wrong with the person that's fighting for you and supposed to serve and represent you caring for your life. I care for your life

So no matter

Speaker 27 (higher-pitched voice): where you come from, what your zip code

is, what school

Speaker 27 (higher-pitched voice): you go to, no matter what your religion is

Speaker 32 (higher-pitched voice): race, any of that, your gender

I just

Speaker 32 (higher-pitched voice): love you. Is that okay? All right. All right. So don't let

Speaker 135 (higher-pitched voice): anybody say anything to me. I care about you and I care about your future. And so I fight for you every single day in Congress. Every single day, I think about what you need. If you put it on social

Speaker 34 (higher-pitched voice): media, sometimes I see it. And

I go

Speaker 34 (higher-pitched voice): and I use that and I speak for you and I take that voice with me. So... Again, your

Speaker 136: congresswoman loves you. This team loves you. Team, don't we love the first issue

Speaker 135 (higher-pitched voice): Absolutely. All right. So we're going to close this out. And again, thank you to St

Speaker 137: Louis University, Archesville. Thank you. Thank you

Speaker 26 (higher-pitched voice): amazing work all right let's go and let's take all in now now you got to go in and like really

get into it

Speaker 19 (higher-pitched voice): and really

Speaker 138: soak in what's on those walls we just talked all about resistance so now let's go learn let's go get something out of it come on let's go

you