Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Our budgets are under extreme stress. Arts fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We run our cities with a balanced budget which we are required to do by law. So what does that mean . How do we possibly do that in the face of this tremendous crisis . It means the cut jobs. It means eliminating services and staff at the same time. Our First Responders have been on the job since day one of this pandemic transporting those with covid to hospitals with Public Health initiatives keeping social and family order
I want to thank her for an sent the National League of cities in the National Association of counties for their sheer dedication to this issue on badly needed federal assistance as we continue to fight the covid19 pandemic. A quick note for members of the press joining us today, we will take questions after brief opening remarks. If you have a question, please put your name and media outlet in the chat and well call on you. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We r
President ial debates on American History tv on cspan3. The Senate Judiciary subcommittee on intellectual property held a hearing on u. S. Copy right law and the 1998 copy right act which says when hosts must remove pirated content. This hearing will come to order turn your microphone. This hearing will come to order. While im disappointed we cant be together in person today, im grateful to chairman graham and Ranking Member feinstein and our clerk for facilitating todays hearing through webex. I want to make clear that this hearing is no way distracting from the full committee and my personal work on other pressing issues facing our nation. Congress must address issues of Police Brutality and the horrific circumstances that led to the murder of george floyd and the senseless deaths of so many of our africanamerican brothers and sisters. Thats why im grateful to chairman graham and Ranking Member feinstein for agreeing to hold a full Committee Hearing on policing in america and i will
At the mississippi book festival in jackson to talk about literacy and american libraries. [inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. Welcome to the third mississippi book festival. In the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Ive been asked to remind everyone that you are more than welcome to take photographs, post to social media, and the hash tag is literarylongparty. This is the conversation with the library of Congress Panel sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have so strong a supporter as its literature, music and art as congressman greg harper. Now in his fifth term in the United States house of representatives, congressman harper chairs the committee on House Administration and serves on the House Committee on energy and commerce, the joint committee on printing and perhaps most pertinently for us here today, as the chair of the joint committee of the library of congress. Here is congressman gre
The sqf complex, but it started when our fires here locally in the bay area started with that Lightning Storm. It has been going since then, but today it took off. If you look at it, were going to talk about that plume of smoke in a second. If you got good eyes, you can see there is kind of a white dot that shows where the flames are emanating from, and that white dot is a telltale sign in addition to smoke this fire has developed another one of those pyro cumulus clouds. That word. Those are the clouds able to develop still high into the atmosphere they through smoke really high and can spread it really far. Its also not good news for that fire. For our immediate concerns, the way the atmosphere is looking right now, look at the direction for that plume of smoke. Is it possible to see exactly how this plays out, but if you just connect the dots on this, it doesnt look promising. There could be some good news on this tomorrow. If you look at the way the upper level winds removing those