Weekends television schedule, visit us online at booktv. Org. Up next, author and columnist amity shlaes, the chair of the Calvin Coolidge foundation, talks about the Great Depression, taxes and president ial legacies. The former wall street Journal Editorial Board member is the author of five nonfiction books including the New York Times bestseller, the forgotten man, which was released as a graphic edition in 2014. Host amity shlaes, whos the forgotten man . Be. Guest the forgotten man, who was he . President roosevelt spoke to have forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid, so that would be the homeless man. But in the era that president roosevelt spoke about this inoto the 1930s, they were aware of be another forgotten man. Many americans then had learned about this other forgotten man in school, and that forgotten man was the man who pays for th government project, the third party. Theres even a littlal yes pa be about the forgotten man, that other forgotten man. Ve they
Mr. Petri i move to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 961. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 1961, a bill to amend title 46, United States code to extend the exemption from the fire retardant materials requirement for vessels operating wiin the boundary line. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. Petri and the gentleman from maryland, mr. Coupling cummings, each will control 20 minutes. Mr. Petri i ask that members may have five legislative days to include extraneous material on h. R. 1961 the speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Petri i yield myself such time as i may consume. The gentleman is recognized. Mr. Petri h. R. 1961 renews the exemption for the delta queen from certain coast guard requirements adopted decades after the vessel was bill. The delta queen is a paddlewheel river boat and was built in 1926. It operated in california until 1947, then carried tourists up and down the mi
Me, too. Today, i hope stephanie gets here. Until then, i want to tell you we have the rude pundit coming up this hour. As we do every monday and weve got some great stuff for you. But in the meantime, we do have Jacki Schechner giving us all of the news from the current news center. Take it away, jacki. Happy monday. Not a ton of stuff going on, especially in washington. Everyone is on vacation. President obama is now in Marthas Vineyard though hell be getting daily briefings from senior aides and he will spend some time, of course, preparing for whats likely to be a busy falling, dealing with among other things Immigration Reform and the federal budget. While our president is now playing golf and relaxing a bit. Enjoying downtime, the norwegian Prime Minister has been taking on a second job. Well, sort of. Let me explain. He went undercover as a taxi driver in oslo during june because he wanted to hear what real people had to say. His exchanges with cab riders were caught on hidden c
Support i need to do those things and a thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please thank you very much for the opportunity to address this group. Im perry. And let me change my glasses. I want to speak on the cost of doing business in San Francisco and also investing in the future of our nonprofit leaders. Weve worked in San Francisco nonprofit workforce. Ive been over at campus Family Youth Services and presently at i h consortium. There was a time when it was rewarding. With our two annual salaries weve put our girls through schools and we utilized the Dance Mission spc a and we do everything in San Francisco and were proud to call ourselves san franciscans. And weve done that on a nonprofit salary. But will next generation folks build and contribute to their Nonprofit Mission and remain in San Francisco to enjoy family. I shutter to think of the loyalty and experience has all gone to the wind. Im here to ask the San Francisco committee to consider in order to retain those
Business that employes only people who are at risk of homelessness we liar over 1 hundred folks a year. We cant find enough people to hire that are skilled. Here we are and we dont have people ready for the jobs. Im asking for the 100,000 for the coalition to get our folks ready to work hello brian the executive director of the aids alliance. Im here to support the funding request for pets pa. Im supporting the one Million Dollars for every year and within that request is approximately 100,000 to continue services from the aids Housing Alliance. Well put together an online application and provided that to 7 organized in the city like the lgb center and we provided a homeless prevention and this is the beginning of a homeless and Housing Services for the lgb community which currently does not exist. Between 2006 and 2011 i recently invested through the hiv department that 20. 4 percent of people with hiv have been accomplice placed in San Francisco in 5 years. Over the same period the a