House conveniences for business at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. The house is expected to take up Energy Legislation that week. Live coverage of the house of representatives is on cspan. On cspan2, the senate comes back monday at 3 00 p. M. Later that day the Senate Begins debate on the nomination of gail smith to be administrator of the u. S. Agency for international development. Coming up next, a subcommittee looks at policing and the role of the Civil Rights Division. They heard members from that division. This is about three hours. This hearing will come to order. Welcome to everyone here. Welcome to the witnesses in the first panel and welcome to those who have come to participate in this hearing. The purpose of this hearing is to look at the challenges facing the brave men and women of Law Enforcement. A great many of us have been growing more and more concerned at seeing Police Officers the subject of public vilification. Seeing Police Officers being undermined and hearing from Police Off
To put forward, so, i commend the u. S. Senate proappropriatio committee providing some assistance in that regard. I want to just invite david to ask, to address whether the, whether we can wait another 30 or 40 or 50 years to take action and expect not to have consequences. Thank you for the question. Not acting increases the cost of action. The longer we delay in action will increase the cost of action. Because we will have infrastructure lock in and other dynamics that will make it increasingly difficult to in fact shift to low carbon xwhis. We have the opportunity and i think we in fact are on the trajectory as lisa and others have said, we are on the trajectory of moving very rapidly toward that low carbon economy. The price of solar panels for example has fallen 75 in the last five years. And we can create hundreds of thousands of jobs in doing so . And we are in fact creating, there are 100,000 jobs in texas alone. Thank you. I want to welcome sam adams, who works with the World
The Justice Department statistics show that nationally only 16 of state prisoners are in for drug crimes and less than 4 are there for drug possession. And yet, our very president is going around stating an untruth. That is because this is an administration i think that is ruled by an ideology that claims that Law Enforcement is somehow racist. And that, as you say, is a disservice to officers of all colors who are there to help the good people in the community. Mr. Mccarthy, you rightly observed that the title this hearing, the war on police, is directed more broadly than just the department of justice. But it is rather what i see as a pervasive, to use a term of art, pattern and practice across the federal government and this administration, and indeed, i think no one bears more direct responsibility than the president. As ms. Macdonald just noted, president obama has directly tried to attack his own fbi director for observing that Violent Crime and homicides are increasing. We saw a
Its called the crossroads of new york state, and this weekend our cspan cities tour will explore the history and literary life of syracuse, new york. On book tv, well visit the special Collections Library at Syracuse University and learn about the Antislavery Movement in the area through the papers of abolitionist garrett smith. A local author discusses her book, prelude to prison. Then well talk with jeff hems lee about his book going viral. Reality is a process of social sharing. Its the process by what that happens. Viralty is what happens when people share content usually into their own networks. Oftentimes somebody who has a lot of following, a lot of followers or a lot of people paying attention to them, also spreads the content. On American History tv, well visit the Erie Canal Museum to learn how the canal influenced the growth of syracuse, the state, and the nation. Then it is on to Harriet Tubmans home. Our trip to syracuse takes us to the Matilda Jocelyn gage home. Her speec
Treated for gun wounds after being shot in ferguson, missouri. It is unclear where the shots came from. The police chief resigned. He had been in charge when Michael Brown was killed, fatally shot back in august. A cop got shot. Everybody down on the ground. Police got shot. These pictures were taken moments after the incident. At midnight the crowd was starting to break up. Several of the officers left the area. Two officers were struck. One officer was struck in the shoulder. Another one struck in the face. Demonstrators were standing across from the officers at the time. A photographer said the gunfire came from further up the street. We were about to leave. We heard what we thought were fireworks up the street. Turns out, it was gunfire. We saw the muzzle fire from the gun. We were kind of ducked down. The protest on wednesday was largely peaceful. Some demonstrators were seen taken away from the site in handcuffs. The police chief resigned from his post earlier that day. Law enfor