Officials. Representative Cathy Mcmorris rodgers, when you let Republican Leadership in the house, he basically had your choice of any committee you wanted. Why did you choose energy and commerce . Guest im excited to be on the energy and commerce right now. Energy and Commerce Committee has it at the forefront of americas competitiveness, at the forefront of our future, the issues and from the energy and Commerce Committee are going to determine americas leadership in the world. My goal is to make sure we are leading on energy, climate, healthcare, technology, 5g, driverless cars, closing the Digital Divide making sure america is leading and the rest of the world is following our leadership. Host as a Top Republican on the Consumer Protection subcommittee, one of the issues right now is privacy. Where is your marker . What you want to have done . Guest its very important that congress act. Its important that we set a National Standard for privacy in the United States of america. Right
You are watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors at the weekend. Tv, television for serious readers. She teaches American History at university is the wishes a professor, a Mcknight University professor, the rudolph chair in immigration history and the director of the immigration History Research center. Lee is the author of three awardwinning books in u. S. Immigration, americas gates, chinese immigration during the exclusionary era, 18821943, and angel island, gateway to america in the making of asian america, a history. At the immigration History Research center she has helped to merge immigration history with the digital humanities. She launched and oversees the National Endowment for the humanities funded immigration story project which works with recent immigrants and refugees to collect, preserve and share their experiences. Her book america for americans a history of xenophobia in the United States is the subject of tonight talk. Please welcome erika lee.
And disagrees with public works current approach to remove public trash cans based on requests. They just do it based on complaints. And the result is theyre putting out trash cans and pulling them away all over the place, and they may pull one away and the result of that is there isnt one for block after block after block. Thats unreasonable. One solution being tested is a new automatic lock on private bins. This Pilot Program includes giving customers a key, a collection time window, and changing the times drivers work. We have switched our tenderloin drivers from servicing at night starting at 7 00 p. M. Until morning time so the carts out on the street all night. I want to appreciate you all for being innovative for really trying solve this problem. Now public works is working on a new design for city cans, and theyre hoping that will become a public process later this summer. In San Francisco, lauren martinez, abc7 news. All right, lauren. What is the impetus . You got to think th
Think it makes him weaker. If you are still not sure, 202 7488002. We will also read your Text Messages at 202 7488003. Tell us your first name and where you are texting from. We are on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Happy sunday, happy christmas week, a lot to talk about in the next three hours. I want to talk about some breaking news from north korea. Trump careening towards a christmas crisis with north korea. Here are some of the details. President trump is pulling out all the stops to convince north korea to return to nuclear talks, delaying married till your delaying military exercises and sending a top envoy to the region to reassure jittery allies. Democrats are calling on the president to stick to diplomacy and even strive for a limited interim agreement while lawmakers in both parties want the white house to be more transparent about what it knows about north Koreas Nuclear capabilities. Dictator, kim jongun, shows no sign of restarting the talks. His regime has promised th
Host joining us on newsmakers is Ellen Weintraub. She is the chair of the federal election commission. Joining us here for the questioning is Maggie Severns, reporter for politico. And michelle ye hee lee, who covers money and politics for the Washington Post. To both of you, thanks for being with us. Chairman weintraub, thank you for joining us. Let me begin with the enforcement mechanism that the fec has. You do not have a quorum. You do not have a majority. So what type of authority, what type of power do you have in enforcing fec laws . Chair weintraub well, the laws will be enforced, they are just not going to be enforced right now. There is a five year statute of limitations. No one should be under any illusions that if they do something now because of a lack of quorum, there will not be any enforcement. It is unfortunate we dont have a quorum. It is inexcusable, in my view. We had two commissioners who resigned, one two years ago, another almost two years ago. Those seats were n