And businesses boarded up some closed for good as the pandemic leaves many of these places in downtown San Jose Holding on by a thread watching these invoices you can see him right here behind me these are all invoices that of piling up over the past few months that were working with our vendors pay cash born on a decade old bar called haberdashery in downtown san jose. Hes also the cochair of the newly formed 40 Person Coalition called the greater downtown san jose Economic Recovery Task force which was championed by Council Member role parolees in may. Over the last 5 weeks. The group examined ways to keep businesses in district 3 open this week they submitted a list of 9 recommendations to the city. Some of them include extending free parking downtown and a new Marketing Campaign for the store fronts so being able to help build Consumer Confidence that we are operating safely and were hearing to guidelines so that they can. Come in and and support the businesses they love. Of course
They dont provide support at all. The president s own words and actions the president understands precisely the constitutional argument i made when he ran in 2007. He said the president does not have unilateral power to wage war without congress during absent an actual or imminent attack on the United States. Of articlee limits ii. Limitationsds the of the 2001 ums who said we shouldnt be broadening that a withhat was put together no geographic limitation and no temporal limitation. We should be narrowing it. We should be refining it during we should be ultimately on the path to repeal it. With respect to the 2002 iraq authorization that the administration now claims give support for the mission, just a few months ago, we had a hearing on it. Administration witnesses can repair to be asked on it. It the position of the administration that it should be obsolete and now be repealed . I would be i would argue that the residence onwards as a candidate and as a president is he understands t
It is my hope i know the president would welcome us. I hope their team will realize that it is not just a matter of welcoming. They should realize it is more likely to work out better if they do it with congress. The pay for, very tough question. We have a cr as well as a syrian authorization on the training of equipment, but we will have to grapple with a longerterm appropriations, not another cr. I am fully expecting, as part of that for there to be funding requests. But that is another reason why congress should debate the stuff up front. We ought to be asking the question, how much will it cost and how are we going to pay for it . Iraq and afghanistan were the first wars that United States decides to do on a credit card. Iraq and afghanistan were the first to where we said, we can kind of do this, members of Congress Kids wont get drafted now. We can get blackwater or a thirdparty to do stuff we dont want to ask troops to do. There has been a progressive executive overreach by putt
In Public Service will always come from the contributions of those who served either under my command in the marine corps or on my staff. Our country has heard and will continue to hear from these talented men and women wherever they go and however they choose to serve, and a good number of them have made the trek over here the during a busy workweek to join us today. We did great things during those six years. They continue to show us that they are allstars in a multitude of endeavors, and id be praised if they would stand or wave and be recognized right now. [applause] there have been a lot of things going on in the last couple of days, and im sure im going to be get questions about them, but what im ready like to talk about in my opening remarks is whats going on in our country and what we can do to make things better. And let me begin by stealing a quote by gore vidal, one of the most irascible minds of the postworld war ii era. He once wrote you never know when you are happy, you
Rick warily will military campaign against isis, and the longterm extremedefeating violence. And a Sports Writer reviews the Domestic Violence controversies involving nfl players and the leagues response to them as well as congress. Action by as always, well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal, live at 7 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Former virginia senator jim webb was the featured speaker at the National Press club recently, where he talked about economic and Foreign Policy issues. Addressed speculation of a possible president ial run in 2016, saying he was seriously looking at the possibility. This is an hour. Good afternoon. Welcome. My name is myron. At theajung Professor George Washington University of public affairs. Former International Bureau associate press. The nash is the the national worldsub is the leading professional journalists. For we foster a free press worldwide. For more information about the National Press club,