First, democratic representative al green of texas, then scott perry of pennsylvania. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is thursday, october 1, 2020. The senate convenes at noon, and the house is in at 9 00 a. M. Eastern, which means we will be with you for two hours. We begin taking stock of tuesdays first president ial debate. With criticism pouring in from both sides of the aisle, the commission on president ial debates announced yesterday it would make changes to the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues. As we wait to see with those changes will be, we are asking you what you would suggest. How would you alter the debate format, if all . Phone lines are split up as usual. If you support the trump pence ticket, 202 7488000 202 7488001. If you support the aydin harris ticket, 202 7488000 biden harris ticket 202 7488000. For independents, 202 7488002. O text us, 202 7488003 twitter,lso find us on cspanwj. You can start calling and now as
And to the Washington Times as well, trump biden debate baffles the world. Those are some of the headlines this morning from the major papers. Amid that criticism, this was the statement put out by the commission on president ial debate yesterday. The commission sponsors televised debates to the benefit of the american electorate. Last nights debate made clear the additional structure to be added to the remaining format added to the format of the remaining debates. Will be carefully considered considering the changes that it will adopt and will announce that these measures shortly. The commission is grateful for Chris Wallace for the professionalism and skill he brought to last nights debate and intends to ensure the additional tools to maintain order. Both asked about this issue and talked about it while they were on the campaign trail. We start with joe biden yesterday. Last night was i think a wakeup call for all americans. What i tried to do last night, i tried to speak directly in
The meeting is being called to order at 5 36 p. M. The meeting is televised on sf gov tv 2 or live streamed on the website. Members of the public who will be calling in, the number is 4155 4156550001, and then the number is 4156550001. The access code is 1466093005, pound and then pound again to connect. Again, the number the access code is 1466093005, press pound and then pound again to connect. You will hear the meeting in discussion, but you will be muted and in listening mode only when your item is addressed called dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. If when you dial star 3 before Public Comment is called, youll be added to the queue. When you are called through Public Comment, please mute the device you are listening to the meeting on when its your time to speak you will be prompted to do so. Public comment during the meeting is limited to three minutes per s
Clerk we should open this up for Public Comment. If you wish to speak to an item proposed for continuance only on the matter of continuance, you should hit star 3 now to be queued to speak. Can i ask why the item was continued, the brannan street one . Clerk brannan i dont believe it was proposed to be heard today. To be honest, i dont know why the brannan item is being continued. Okay. I set time to show up and we got notification by mail. Clerk the item is listed on agenda as matter of continuance on the agenda. Thank you sir. Good afternoon commissioners. My family and i live at 2843 geary boulevard. I understand that theres a continuance thats been requested to address things with the tenant. I like to voice those concerns. Clerk unfortunately, at this time, you cannot on matters proposed on continuance. We are taking Public Comment but only on major of continuance and not. Project itself. Is that 2845 geary boulevard . Clerk it was listed 2843 and its continued to october 15th. Wo
To think about what i think its core dialectic was. The tension between democracy and efficiency. These were both ideals that people from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds in the progressive era believed were important. And they believed they were not incompatible, but you can see some ways in which they were fundamentally at some tension. So again, throughout class today be thinking about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians of the early 20th century what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled in search of progressism, which i think aptly summed up the way that the historians were rummaging around, knowing that the progressive era existed but quibbling about what counted as progressive his. Who counted, when it started. Some people limit only to the Political Party that it was named for. Others define it much more broadly. So for me in this class this is how im going to define progressivism. In the broadest sense,