Francisco. 1860 San Francisco has mature d and it is isnt the tough town as before. You have the brothels but they are further back and all of the same activities are happening but they are more discreet. And the rampant lawlessness you can read about in books where you here about the australia ducks and thugs is fantastic reading but by this time that has mostly passed so i would not say it plays an enormus role in their work. Is there a top research that you did for this book . I would say 75 happened at the bay cliff at berkeley. It was invaluable. There is such good scholarship around mark twain. You can go see his letters and correspondence so when it comes to researching twain it is straight forward. With the other characters i had to dig deeper into archives because their work isnt as widely known so that was more detective work which i enjoyed. I was here in San Francisco, oakland and a couple collections on the east coast and in los angeles but i was mostly in berkeley. Any ot
And the Community Banks. The Community Bank said, we will oppose any bill that puts us into the same regulator. That was the reason. That is what stop that. We could not overcome it. It was something i thought about before. There was no way he you could pass a bill over the strong objections over Community Banks. Were ready to lobby hard against this because they did not want to be with the big banks. Draft,009, i proposed a what i called a discussion draft of the bill. In the midst of all this, the Political Considerations work is shocking to some. Votes too get enough pass it. The reaction was overwhelming, for a number of reasons. The regulators were going to be out of a job, so they were opposed. Not a lot of constituency interest in the subject matter. I say respectfully of our colleagues, the idea of consolidation. Ts of consolidating, we grew if i had a magic wand, the one consolidation we would have rational world would you have a Security Exchange commission and the sharingies
Himself a combat veteran, i recognize the gentleman from colorado, mr. Coffman. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Coffman as a gulf war and iraq war veteran, im grateful for your leadership on the House Committee on veterans affairs. H r. 4 61, the Gulf War Health Research Reform act of 2014, which i sponsored along with Ranking Member kirk patic right hand and full committee Ranking Member michaud restores the infence of the Research Advisory committee on gulf war illnesses to perform the role it has historically played. As intebbeded by congress. To improve the lives of gulf war veterans. This bill is necessary because some career v. A. Staff have been trying to revive the discredited 1990s fiction that nothing special happened to gulf war Veterans Health and that the problems experienced by gulf war veterans are, quote, what happens after every war, unquote. Due to psychological stress factor. Because there is no Scientific Evidence for this position, v. A. St
Closed. Ah, earlier a minutes silence was held across the United Kingdom. The late monarch will be laid to rest later on monday, since wednesday, hundreds of thousands of people have lined up to see the queens prophet. Us President Joe Biden, and the 1st lady paid their respects to the queen in london, up to 500. 00 foreign dignitaries from 200. 00 countries or in the city to attend the funeral, where we challenged has more from london taking his turn with the tide of people that have been flowing past the queens coffin for days now. Us President Joe Biden came to pay his respects in london to sign the book of condolence, and to offer his recollections for the much celebrated monarch. She was the same in person this year as her image, decent, unable, and all much service and harsh go out to the royal family. Came charles in all the family and the loss that leaves a giant hole. And joe biden is, of course, to join hundreds of dignitaries at a funeral. That is an unprecedented challenge
Strikes, and well get right to the news of the day, but first we get the latest from Lisa Ferguson out in los angeles. Hi bill frankenstorm that does not sound good. Good morning, everyone. The president has three interviews from the white house this morning. In the morning he is spoking from the oval office and then he is live for an mtv interview from the house. Finally he has an interview with april ryan. Mitt romney starts his speech from aims iowa aids say it is important but they wont say what is in it so well have to wait and see. And then romney flies back to canton ohio. Ohio is seen as the most important swing state in this election. Here is the president there yesterday. Obama if mitt romney had been president when the auto try was on the verge of collapse we might not have an American Auto industry today. You can see that appealing to the workerclass voters. Early voting could give president obama theed a advantage. Ho stopped off to vote early yesterday. More bill press is