Hearing runs an hour and a half. [background noises] clicks good morning everyone broke all this hearing of the Senate Budget committee to order. Let me begin by expressing condolences to might distinguish Ranking Member for the loss of life in iowa. H no doubt described as a pop rock elliptic touchdown. And cause considerable death and destruction. Today we have a different topic thank you for. Yes, sir. We address how Climate Change is making drought more severe question magnifies so many of the other risks we talked about in this committee. Climate change exacerbates the severity of droughts. Major agricultural regions like the American West of the mediterranean precedent less precipitation in many places art whiplash bite wild swings between drought and delusion. Almost everywhere is experiencing increased heat. The most straightforward of these is increased heat. Hotter weather means higher demand for water to drink, to support agriculture but even to cool power plants. Without co
The debt bomb threat returns. Thats the push and pull for investors good for stocks trillion dollar deficits higher Interest Rates thats bad. Hence, volatility politics u susan rice she of benghazi wrote a memo to herself for the very moment of Trump Inauguration in it she insisted twice that at a secret meeting president obama had had laid down the law to the the fbi. They must investigate russian medaling by the book. He was not asking about initiating or instructing anything. He was completely removed from the fbi probe. His hands were entirely clean. Two republican senators pownsd the memo odd as they call it. Yes, we have a big show for you today stay there please. A terrific olympic story for you. Varney company is about to begin. [laughter] oh, you have to love this. The u. S. Wins another gold at the olympics and this is a really special one. Khloe kim 17 year old a near perfect run in the snowboarding half pipe she was way with out in front of everybody. By the way, she had qu
Cards that have been streaming in here all day. The police chief says they have lost a warrior, a leader a friend the day july 22nd became the end of watch for Sergeant Scott lunger. Scott loved this job. He did it eagerly. It is a tragedy that someone has done this. Reporter calling it a dark and devastating day, Hayward Police are dealing with a loss of one of their finest. They say Sergeant Scott lunger was shot and killed after he pulled over a pick Truck Driving erratically through a hayward neighborhood about 3 00 this morning. Partner down partner down. Police say the officers partner fired back into the suspects vehicle. A short time later the bulletriddled truck was found abandoned in east oakland. Based on information from the vehicle we have identified a person of interest. Tonight haywards police chief say they have arrested a suspect, 21yearold Mark Anthony Estrada, an oakland man they say has ties to a gang. They spent the day searching the suspects east oakland house. Ne
About the article. Good . Okay. So im going to tell you guys a little bit about how i started being interested in bracero history. I always tell you guys i was a student like you guys in a class, mexicanAmerican History, and my advisor, my thenmentor well, he was first my teacher. Matt garcia said to me and the rest of the class, find your oldest Family Member and collect an oral history. I thought an oral history was a basic interview and i thought, okay, thats fine. It is a little challenging when you come from immigrant families in which your grandparents are somewhere else, so i looked for my oldest Family Member, and my oldest Family Member was not really that old, right . He was my uncle who had come in as a bracero. I grew up with my uncle. I grew up seeing my uncle every single day and he would talk every once in a while about his work in california, in texas. He would tell me stories and tell my whole family stories about what it was like to work picking cotton in texas, what
You guys today about what i research. So you guys had my piece on the alien braceros. I want us to think about the class today in two parts, one in which were going to cover bracero history. I know we covered bracero history in sort of broad sketches, but this time we will talk about it a little bit more in depth. My gift to you, i cant let you walk out of a class with me without you guys knowing bracero history really well. Second thing were going to do is were actually going to talk about the article. Good . Okay. So im going to tell you guys a little bit about how i started being interested in bracero history. I always tell you guys i was a student like you guys in a class, mexicanAmerican History, and my advisor, my thenmentor well, he was first my teacher. Matt garcia said to me and the rest of the class, find your oldest Family Member and collect an oral history. I thought an oral history was a basic interview and i thought, okay, thats fine. It is a little challenging when you c