Everybody in lake charles, we were saying, probably have many weeks if not months of no power, trouble with the water system and even people as far north as shreveport and monroe, still without power. We are here today with jack davis in conversation, a professor of history so specializing in environmental history and sustainability and the author of Pulitzer Prize winning the gulf the making of an american city. New york times book review calls this book a beautiful homage to a neglected in addition to the Pulitzer Prize, notable book for 2017, made several other lists including the Washington Post and npr and forbes. Welcome. A pleasure to have you with us today. I turn the floor to jack and derek and have a conversation. One final thing, people have questions they can write in the chat room and get to the question if not during the talk, at the very end. And encourage people who have signed copies at the bookshop and go to our website, www. Districtbookshop. Com. Give us a call anyw
Question time. Each week the house of commons is in session we bring you Prime Minister Boris Johnson with questions from the house of commons. We invite your participation via twitter using hashtag pmqs. Prior to questions i members are finishing other business. Now live to the floor of the british house of commons. Is it necessary for this government from the businesses in Northern Ireland . What a pleasure it is to see the right honorable gentleman, and welcome him back. In the last 3 months we published operational guidance, announced 200 million support fees to support traders in Northern Ireland to meet the requirements, 150 million of investments to operate the requirement it made progress to operate it but recognize the need to do that through Business Engagement and our work on the joint committee. We now come to questions for the Prime Minister. And we start with andrew jones. The whole house is talking about the result of the heavily contested election. It is a year ago to t
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2020 values voters summit. This is 20 minutes. This is the 15th annual gathering, going all the way back to 2005. Some of those early value voter meetings. Yeah. Debbie and i actually attended, like many of the people that are tuned in tonight, activists wanting to make sure that their values are heard in washington dc. For us, it was more about making sure that we werent silent. 15 years, it seems like just yesterday. Theres probably no more impactful gathering of conservative christian values that we get to hear, whether its in the administration or on capitol hill. The values voters summit happens each and every year. You get a lot of the energy. A lot of headlines. A lot of press. I remember having a conversation with you after one of these gatherings. You were sensing that you are being led to move more directly into the arena. It wasnt long after that that you were elected to congress. I felt a calling to run for congress. As you know, it was not the thing that i ever had on my b