I am proud to say it led to the first bipartisan package in decades. It took time and a willingness to acknowledge that no party has a monopoly on good ideas. M proud of what we are what we created together. Although we were already holding these hearings in our committee, we require that others hold them also so that all members have a chance to be heard in front of congress. Hopefully, more good ideas have the chance to see a light of day. I couldnt ask for a better partner than our Ranking Member, tom cole. We come from different parties, but we share the same dedication to this institution. What this is really all about, a wellfunctioning house allows us to tackle the issues that can make a positive difference in peoples lives and that is why we already for prep congress and the first place. Before i turn to our ranking on the job to for the house of new parliament parliamentian. Mr. Jason smith. Mr. Cole and i have said a lot about him to his predecessor. And he and his predecesso
That is correct, mr. Chairman. We got to find something we can join here. There may be good reasons, im just trying to i want a global fund to be created like we have done for aids and malaria and other things to deal with plastics that we can control. I want us to look at the World Bank Program and see if we can make some contributions there. We are going to leave the hearing open to friday at 2 00 p. M. For additional questions. I just want to thank you both. I look forward to working with you on this. We are going to provide you more resources. Tell us what you think it is best utilized. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, thank you very much and thank you for the attention. Thank you. The meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Thank you so much. Today, the conclusion of a q a interview about the relationship between the media and u. S. President s. Todays program talks about president s from Franklin Roosevelt to donald trump. With joe biden as president elect, go to cspan for live coverage of the
Topic and its usually the easiest ways, what are you reading now, we keep one up about a month and sometimes maybe i will have two or three books that im reading and ill say here take the picture this month, next month, one of her. To ever post reviews . No ive never done too much of that. I just dont dont have a lot of time to write reviews. If i put the book up there means i think it was a pretty good book. What are you reading right now . I thought i take a little break and this is one of those classic cases we see the movie so you want to read the book, the martian. Who is it, were, i think andy we are, and then i got intrigued by this new netflix things, the man in the high castle which is an old book, 62, used to read Science Fiction when i was a kid and for whatever reason i do not read that one and a guy named philip dicks who is now dead, so those are kind of the things, i just finished up a biography of roger sure knows, wonderful one on washington it was a fabulous book and
Congress has the exclusive seat of law making power. Not some guy in the basement of the labor department. We must assert that the people speaking through their elected representatives is the best way to keep us free and protect our liberty and to make sure the promise of america exists for the next generation. What youll find throughout history is that not much has changed. The same historic reoccurring struggle between freedom and power that the abraham lincolns, the john quincy adams, the Daniel Websters all faced. Its the struggle between fulfilling the promise of america or breaking it. They knew the torch one day would be passed, where it resides with us. A daughter of a cherry farmer from kettle falls, washington. A nurse from tennessee. A businessman from texas. An air force chaplain from georgia. An author from utah. A combat surgeon from ohio. It is about this generations responsibility right now to cherish, to embrace, to protect the fragile, carefully crafted american promi
Read . Look, i like anything that Steven Ambrose wrote. He was really a lot of range in in writing. Very good, obviously, john John Mccollough is an excellent historian. It have focused on british history and, you know, these were not all all, you know, histories but, boy, churchill was always worth reading whether its memoirs, whether he had a wonderful little book called great contemporaries written in the 20s which nexton did a follow on kind of book himself. I like to read Richard Nixon stuff. I like to read about Richard Nixon. Fascinating politician of my life and i thought the things that he wrote were really quite good. Did your reading help you in your work as a congressman . It does. History in particular provides a lot of context, a lot of analogies, frankly a lot of understanding because most people when they get to congress they sort of think history begins with them, but youre really stepping into the flow and if you read particularly contemporary history, a lot of intere