Under the eight previous years of republican chairmen, debate was never cut off when democratic members offered difficult amendments during democrats members democratic members offered difficult amendments during the process. We took tough votes when we needed to. Mr. Speaker, i wish we could have had such a different conversation today, the day after veterans day, than this one. But i would be remiss in my duty as Ranking Member if i did not call out this behavior and ways in which it fails our nations veterans. Chairman takano has spoken movingly about how he want us to use his chairmanship to stand up for the rights of minority veterans and i commend him for that. And have stood alongside him in doing that work. Including in may when we stood side by side to launch the Bipartisan Women Veterans Task force. Yet i urge him now in carrying out this that commitment not to spurn the historical bipartisan traditions of the Veterans Affairs committee, not to trouns on the rights of the min
Gun violence. The Democracy Alliance Senior Advisor discusses her recent piece in the nation magazine, the Republican Partys white women problem. Roblem o. Host good morning. It is friday, september 6, 2019. Welcome to washington journal. There has been a notable update in a mission and outlook of a Major Business group, one representing some 200 Bluechip Companies that perhaps reflects the changing views in america over who corporations should be responsible to. This first hour, we will talk about that. Who should corporations be responsible to . 2027488000 is the number to call for democrats. 2027488001. E and for all others, 2027488002. You can send us a tweet at cspanwj or post comments to facebook. Com cspan. In addition to the change of the Business Roundtable outlook, perhaps the increasing crossroads between Public Policy in corporations like Johnson Johnson and Purdue Pharma over the Opioid Crisis or walmart and the gun violence privacy concerns over corporations like facebook
Definitely expect to see a little bit of a slowdown there. Also the metering lights have been on since 5 20 but noticed building traffic earlier bay bridge westbound 80 toward the bay bridge looking at 13 minutes. Look at the busy trivalley once again, westbound 580 from grant line road to 680 from about 14 minutes to 24 minutes so that gives you an idea where we stand at now. Ill have another look at that traffic coming up in a bit. Thanks, vianey. The second round of democratic debates half way done. Ten president ial candidates appeared on stage last night in detroit, taking on several issues. Ten more are up tonight including former Vice President joe biden and senator kamala harris, and if you did not watch last night, were breaking down the top molts. Today in the bays tracie potts is live from washington with a recap for us. Tracie . Hi, marcus, good morning. Good morning, everyone. Those top moments included the progressives versus the moderates. The progressives Bernie Sanders
He looks quite leisurely. Oh, these are just wings. Not the bread and the hotdogs. Thanks for starting your morning with us on today in the bay. Im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. Well get to the morning commute in a bit. Lets talk about the forecast, kari. Its been so nice. As you head out the door this morning, get ready for another beautiful day. Cool temperatures to start in brentwood, upper 70s by early afternoon, eventually reaching the upper 80s in antioch today. San francisco up to 65 and 81 in santa rosa. Vianey has a look at the morning commute starting to back up. Its starting to build definitely. 5 00 now and this is usually when we start noticing the building commute coming up from the trivalley and i also want to show you the dublin camera. You can see a lot of tail lights and headlights out there, so starting to pick up as well as your south bay drive times, northbound 101 from highway 85 looking at is 12 minutes. Ill have another update shortly. We begin in detr
That a slight break in theres a heavy rains across will southern sections of china for the last few hours however this will rain in the forecast and certainly a lot of rain here to the south across the philippines now were all watching a new Tropical Storm is called on us its moving to the north away from the philippines but producing some very heavy amounts of rain National Still system is just on the edge of here and then sunday by friday as same story with the razor continues to be heavy its a very slow moving storm system the Winds Continuing to get stronger certainly by friday probably about 80 kilometers an hour well keep you very well of data but youll see on friday those rains pushing down into Southern China so again a wet and hong kong with a high of 34 degrees celsius further to the south we have got an array of showers and thunderstorms little bit of cloud across i was born yeah but not much there in the way of rain the rain really is further to the north as you can see str