Early because of a power outage. Of course i couldnt operate without it. The machines, everything, registers are electric. Reporter sundays tripledigit heat broke records, it turn under to the biggest outage event we have seen in 16 years. It was hot. Yesterday. I think at one point it was like 111 out there. Reporter at one point the heat left more than 40,000pg e customers in the dark leaving many unprepareed for life without power. Hard for us because our grandpa is a dialysis patient and he does at home, so without the power it is hard for him to do his dialysis. Next door they closed at 8 00 and had to close because it is a restaurant and they have the same issues i have. Reporter word on another tripledigit day thursday, arny refuses to let the heat beat his business. I will be more prepared. We do apologize for the technical difficulties, in the meantime, to our north, a traffic nightmare after a stretch of highway 50 buckled over the weekend, this is west sacramento, but the he
3. Recess for 15 minutes and come back at 5 45 so everyone can go over and vote and be back and hear what everyone elses question. We thank you for being here mr. Secretary again. So promptly. We appreciate that youve made time to appear before this Committee Twice in h a weeks time passing an annual state department bill is one of the fundamental responsibilities of this committee. When we shirk that responsibility and decline to exercise our oversight we in essence surrender our authority and we fail to do the job our constituents sent us here to do. Restoring is this annual practice was a top priority of mine when he became thachairmand im proud of the progress we made last year when the first authorization bill in 14 years became law and i want to thank everybody on this committee for making that happen. However, because of previous inaction, there are programs at the department that have not been appropriately reviewed and analyzed in well over a decade. This lack of oversight res
Questions so in order to , at 5 30te that gladly we will recess and 15 minutes and come back at 5 45 so everyone can go over and vote and be back and hear what everyone elses question. We thank you for being here mr. Secretary again. So promptly. We appreciate that youve made time to appear before this Committee Twice in a weeks time passing an annual state department bill is one of the fundamental responsibilities of this committee. When we shirk that responsibility and decline to exercise our oversight we in essence surrender our authority and we fail to do the job our constituents sent us here to do. Restoring is this annual practice was a top priority of mine when he became the chairman and im proud of the progress we made last year when the first authorization bill in 14 years became law and i want to thank everybody on this committee for making that happen. However, because of previous inaction, there are programs at the department that have not been appropriately reviewed and an
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen welcome back to our conference on a worthy life, finding meaning in america. The class of 82 annual conference of James Madison institution here at Princeton University. The final panel for the day addresses issues having to do with liberal Arts Education and the search for truth. We have a very distinguished group of panelists who will answer the question. I want to begin though with the personal testimony of my own and really an expression of gratitude. We will be discussing topologies, undeniable topologies that exist in american Higher Education these days. Compromising of Academic Freedom , violations of Core Principles of freedom of speech, the lack of Viewpoint Diversity, the phenomenon of trying to win debates by labeling other people as haters or what have you. Those pathologies as i say our undeniable. They exists. They are very widespread. Many people in the academy across the political spectrum not only recognize them but recognize that t
And i want to thank the clerk of our committee as well as mark and sfgtv for covering the meeting today. Do you have any announces . Silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards and documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk, and the items acted tonight today will be on the january, 24th agenda unless otherwise stated would you call item one . Resolution authorizing the Fire Department to donate a retired pickup truck to the San Francisco Firefighters Local 798 thank you. And happy new year, mr. Chair, and supervisors. Mark from the Fire Department to present on the next four items actually. The first is the donation of an old retired from regular use pickup truck for the department to local seven 98. And to assist with their holiday toy Donation Program and it is actually year round, and assisting families in need and this truck is as i mentioned no longer in service for the department and in need of mant nens and they h