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Different colors. All woven and held together by a single precious thread of democracy. Paul has taught us so much and as students who followed him, worked with him, believed with him, loved him and now miss him, we could never, ever be more thankful. With that, mr. Trone and mr. Speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. Mr. Trone i recognize mr. Levin. Mr. Levin thank you very much for recognizing me, mr. Trone and i thank the majority leader for organizing this. Mr. Speaker, i rise to spea...

Id like to welcome yall here to politics and prose. My name is allen watke and im then events staff here where we host klose to a thousand author events a year at three locations. For everything confirm you can go to the website at politics prose. Com or pick up a monthly printed calendar. Before we get started id like to ask everyone to please silence your cellphones so not to disrupt the event. And when we get to the q a, if you could line up at themake crow phone at the pillar lat would be gr...

This microphone at the pillar , that would be great as we are audio recording for book tv is filming again. So wed like to have yourquestions in their. Following the q and a we will have a signing at this table and if you could just leave your chairs where they are as we have a couple more readings today, that would be fantastic. So today we are very excited to welcome robert plumb celebrating his book the better angels five women who changed civil war america. A collective biography of five ext...

Tonight, we have tremendous honor of hearing one of the most veteran world reporters feels a little silly he has an incredible, incredible record and id like to share of Stephen Kinzers background with you. He joined the New York Times in january of 83 after serving several years as latin american correspondent for the boston globe. From 1983 to 89, stephen was firsttime bureau chief in nicaragua. He covered war and social upheaval in central america. He next spent six years in germany as chief ...

Elements have been slower to arrive than we expected. Most of the activitys in the south bay right now south of san jose into the morgan hill and gilroy walgtsonville area. Through tomorrow morning well see periods of rain, heavy at times, wind gusts up to 55 miles an hour. A chance of thunder. High wind warning is in effect for much of the bay area coastal areas and the wind advisory for the rest of the bay area. 3 00 monday theres a watch. The burn scar area over in kinkade. We expect up to tw...

Good morning, everyone, it is sunday december 1st, im liz kreutz. Lets get right to the look at the weather. This is meteorologist lisa argen. This is a 2 on or storm impact scale. We have heavy downpours, breezy to gusty winds and this morning the rain is coming down from the north bay through the Santa Cruz Mountains. We do have breaks in our inland valleys but there is a chance of thunderstorms. As we look at live doppler 7 you will notice we have wet weather from the santa cruz area up throu...

Scale. That means some periods of heavy rain. The focus has been to the south of us around the Santa Cruz Mountains, Monterey County and the coastal hills. Winds gusting 40 to 50 miles an hour. Here is a look at live doppler 7. You can see the focus in the Santa Cruz Mountains from Scotts Valley to Boulder Creek and also up in the north bay around san rafael, elsewhere light to moderate rain. We widen the perspective you can see that bullseye south of the bay area where we will be getting the he...

We need to work on every front on climate change. It is the threat to every living thing on this planet. We didnt lock people up in cage, wee didnt separate families, we didnt do all of those things. You asked earlier about china. Its a complicated relationship. We have to hold china accountable. They steal our product, including our intellectual property. This election is not about any of us up here. It is not about this president. Even though its hard to talk of anything else some days. Its no...

Barack. I think obamacare worked. I think the way we add to it, replace everything thats been cut. Add a public option. Reporter biden senators bere sanders and Elizabeth Warren who have been closing in on biden. He asked them to prove they could cover the cost of medicare for all and other Big Government changes. What we should be doing is creating an economy that works for all of us, not 1 . Thats my understanding of democratic social itch. I have proposed a 0. Two wealth tax on the top 1 in t...

Next steps for Passenger Rail. Im glad to convene this hearing with my friend and colleague Ranking Member cantwell. I welcome or panel of witnesses and thank them for hearing. We will hear from richard anderson, president and ceo of amtrak. Ian jefferies, president and ceo of the association of american railroads. Jim sube, commissioner of the southwest chief and Front Range Passenger Rail commission. And jennifer hamade, board member, National Transportation safety board. I continue to be a st...