An excerpt from Peter Fryer's Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain on William Cuffay, black tailor and leader of the London Chartists. Reprinted with footnotes by Past Tense in 2005.
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for this country. the first point i would make is that the bill includes a reduction of $491 million for the overall renewable program from fiscal year 2011, even a more significant reduction compared to fiscal year 2010. and so the committee, i believe, fully recognizes its responsibilities to be careful fiscally. but i must also indicate that someone i have a great deal of respect for, my senior senator from my state, senator lugar, has characterized our energy problem as a national security problem. we all recognize it is an economic problem. we can debate the environmental aspects. i think it is an environmental problem itself, but no one can dispute it is a national security issue relative to where we are buying so many of our petroleum products. and to gain energy independence, we are going to need a different matrix of energy sources. much of our energy is produced from coal and oil and it is not healthy to our national security. we need to diversify. in this instance,
staff writer for the hill. thank you for your and we appreciate your time and input today. it will be back tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. for another edition of the washington journal. we go to the national press club where congressman barney frank will be speaking. a look at the dog-franc reform bill. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] please keep questions brief and to the point we can get in as many questions as possible. after the press has been affecting their questions, other audience members are welcome to rest there. congressman barney frank represents the fourth congressional district of massachusetts and he is also the ranking member of the house financial services committee. he helped pass the dodd-frank consumer protection act last year. welcome, congressman frank. thank you. those of you who cover the financial services committee might ask your editors for dual pay because you will