It is my deep conviction that we have reached a turning point in the long history of our countrys efforts to guarantee freedom and equality to all our citizens. Our immediate task is to move the last remnants of the barrier, which stand between millions of our citizens and their birthright. We must make the federal government a friendly, vigilant defender of the rights and equality of all americans. When i say all americans, i mean all americans. We can no longer afford luxury of a leisurely attack upon prejudice and discriminate never before has the need been so urgent for skillful and vigorous action to bring us closer to. Our ideal. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Clifton Truman. Daniel. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. I am Clifton Truman daniel and it is my great pleasure to welcome you to the Opening Event of the truman civil rights symposium 75 years ago today. My grandfather our president , harry truman, changed the course of American History when he signed executive or
On cspan2. The reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program. Femas perspective. All members will have five days for extraneous materials to the chair for inclusion in the record. I recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Thank you for appearing today for the second hearing for the housing subcommittee for the 118th congress. Fema plays a vital road through the Disaster Recovery efforts and today well explore the National Flood Insurance Program which existed over 50 years and until recently has operated in the same manner and relied on the same outdated tools since its creation and i just applaud the progress that youre making as flooding in the United States is a significant and costly problem for coastal and inland residents. Unfortunately, theres only one provider for nearly all Flood Insurance and the governmentbacked program which sells in a 93 to 95 of all rest tension Flood Insurance in the country. Thats not just a bad idea from the perspective of
this to the republican party. especially the ultra conservative members, who have been making a lot of noise about it. his political reputation is potentially on the line, he needs to show he can make a deal but also satisfy the members of his party who are unsure about the deal. inaudible question. lots of lawmakers on the hill have lots of lawmakers on the hill have used this as an opportunity to give their opinions about which way they think opinions about which way they think the opinions about which way they think the deal should go. you have peeple think the deal should go. you have people like think the deal should go. wm. have people like emanuel cleaver who is a democrat, he said enough people on both sides don t want the default, so he is optimistic it will go through. he was asked by my colleague, what would you say to people watching around the world who are curious to know why is the debt ceiling becoming such a big issue in america? we know a country li
Announcer Charter Communications supports cspan as a public service, alo with these other television providers, giving you a frontrow seat to mocracy. Announcer an update downloading the ongoing israelhamas war. According to the washington chief prosecutor is seeking arrest warrants against the leaders of israel, and hamas, in charge of the war crimes and crimes against humanity. Today i am filing arrest before the Pretrial Chamber one of the International Criminal in the situation on the state of palestine. Palestine. These are the outcome of independent investigations conducted by my office under the direction of the two principal trial lawyers standing behind me today. Brenda j. Hollis, who in addition to leading our work co january t oip of the palestine investigation. And andrew kaley, ā pkings counsel, who more recently joined the office and will be on the situation in the state of palestine going forward. On the basis of evidence collected office i have reasonable grounds to be
Host welcome back to washington journal. Re by democratic district. Ative Emanuel Cleaver he is also a Ranking Member on the Financial Services subcommittee on housing and ranc congressman, welcome to the program. Guest good to be with you thank you. Host want to start with the International Criminal requesting arrest warrants for amasnd is really Prime Minister netanyahu. Your reaction to that . Guest there is a level of false equivalency here that enters into our political lexicon, much too often then i would prefer. By that i mean, where we are now is come israel obviously is trying to weed out. However, the casualties of civilians has m high for me. And millions of othebut to suggl is doing is equivalent what ma has and continues to do, is a levelncy that is intolerable. They probably are doing some damage to the relationship between israel and the rest of the world when tt and say, there is no difference between israel and hamas. That is an insult to people of decency all over the