Nation and world. We praise you that your plans succeed and your precepts are sure. Lord, you know our thoughts before we think them. Encourage our lawmakers to do your will. Give them the wisdom to totally depend upon your unfailing love, remembering that unless you help them they labor in vain. Lord, when doubts fill their minds, provide them with the renewed hope in the ultimate triumph of your purposes. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa is recognized. Mr. Grassley i would like to have one minute for morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley thirty years ago today, the freely elected parliament of lithuania declared the restorati
Adam wilson discusses the current challenges facing Law Enforcement in the u. S. And the state of relations between the police and the communities they serve. We will also take your phone calls, comments, and tweet. Live right now on cspan. Host this is the washington journal for january 2. We will ask you to share your thoughts about the largest about hate crimes and terrorist incidents in the United States. The fbi released data looking at hate crimes in the u. S. We will show you the data and ask you to give your thoughts on this topic. Here is how you can call us. 2027488000 if you live in the eastern and central time zones. 2027488001 if you live in the mountain and pacific time zones. And if you are a member of Law Enforcement and want to give your perspective, it is 2027488002. Ou can text us at 2027488003 you can post on our twitter feed at cspanwj and our Facebook Page available to you as well at facebook. Com cspan. The fbi last november released information about the topic o
Another good one. Host what does the term Climate Change mean to people versus what you have seen in the past . Guest it is huge. This past decade is when Climate Change left out of the lab and onto our front pages and on television screens. People understand we have a problem and they know we need to do something about it. 70 of the people want our government to do something about it, according to quinnipiac polls. This is the decade, starting now, that we need to get this right. Nations, tying cysts scientists from all over the world are telling us that we need to get this ship turned around, cut our fossil fuel pollution by about a half by 2030, on the way to cutting it by 80 , cutting all of it or offsetting that with that remains by no later than 2050 if we are going to avoid the worked the worst impacts of climate catastrophe. Host we have seen those type of deadlines before, that if we do x by such and such a date what is different now . Guest we look around and the seas are ris
Us. My name is patricia. I did not finish college because i couldnt pass public speaking. But im standing here right now in city hall, speaking, because this is so important to me. As an older adult, i have been taking classes at the senior center. And ive learned a little bit of public speaking and also computers. And that is how i found out about it last night, googling and hearing the news. So this is very important to me that these classes stay. Ive been shocked and awed the last few years with whats been going on. I thought i was numb to a lot of the everymorning upsets. But today, i was mad. And i decided to do something about it. And thats why im speaking today. Please vote with your heart and not with your pocketbook. I thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is candice fault. Im a resident of our fine city of San Francisco. And im also one of the coleaders of the San Francisco chapter of citizens climate lobby. I would like to thank all of you for the tim
Through 70s was a Thriving Black Community known all over the world. It established black businesses. Black people werent allowed to leads outside the fillmore because of racism so we were a self sustaining community. The beautiful thing about the fillmore is that you had white, jewish, you had all people from all over the world coming to shop and spend their money in black businesses. It was really the togetherness that we all strive for. My daughter and my great uncle played jazz on fillmore. But the city, the federal government and the state through redevelopment agency, through the board of supervisors who held the power decided to use imminent domain and bulldoze the fillmore. 40 square blocks was bulldozed. That red dot on the picture, thats where sheafway is. You can see st. Marrys marrysa theydral. Thats the National Distribution center for the newspaper. It was the fillmore heritage center. You can see the highrise building projects. They bulldozed our community and put us in