Day of Firsts

The gavel has been passed. We have Nancy Pelosi, our first woman Speaker of the House! At her invitation, I attended a worship service this morning for the incoming 110th Congress.

While the new leadership of the House read passages from the gospels and the Hebrew bible, Keith Ellison, the first (and only) Muslim member of Congress shared a passage from the Qur'an. Adam Putnam, a conservative Republican member, read a Maya Angelou poem while others shared prayers by Cesar Chavez and Thomas Jefferson.

It was a good way to start -- interfaith and bipartisan. That's what it is going to take to repair the damage of the last dozen years. We can take our first important steps in the first 100 hours (which starts next Tuesday). One way you can help is by responding to this UUSC action alert on minimum wage.

Let's live out our best values by winning big votes to increase the minimum wage, make prescription drugs and college tuition more affordable and fund alternative energy. Let's make some more history!