Attacks by those inspired by the assault three weeks ago now. An attack even Donald Trumps former Defense Secretary now says was, quote, fomented by the former president. All of it in service to the big lie. Since january 6th, a lot of Members Of Congress are reporting, 32 Members Of Congress have now asked House Leadership for more protection. We will probably need a supplemental for more security for members when the enemy is within the house of representatives. A threat that members are concerned about in addition to what is happening outside. What did you mean that the enemy is within in. We want to bring gun on the floor and have threatened violence on other Members Of Congress. There is of course already tension over initial moves to enhance Safety Procedures like Metal Detectors which some republican members have walked around, refusing to use. But there is also increasing anger among democrats about other members of the house, like freshman republican Marjorie Taylor greene of
Expressed interest and are considering participating and then we certainly have, you know, many managers who are engaging with Portfolio Companies around climate risk but perhaps not formally through that initiative. Okay. And then my other concern is, we talked about diversity and i like what youve done in terms of the work around that. Do we use that same [indiscernible] in terms of rps and other things, do we really apply the sfers criteria for the type of diversity were looking for across the board, including [indiscernible] and other sectors . I cant fully comment on that. I guess what i can say is, you know, there is proposition 209 in place in california i know. Thats why i i know. Up to a vote, thats in november. But we do not i want to make clear that we do not ask about diversity characteristics when we send out an rfp or enter a new relationship or a new contract with an external party. Were wanting to be not running afoul of distortion . The board is engaging, we do request
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Short two to three week circuit breaker. The northwest of england, the northwest, the northeast. The list is growing longer. Tom it is going to be interesting. To say the least, the lockdown in america is not a lot done but is very regional, as mentioned in the debate last night. The upper middle west really hit hard right now. In new york city with our news, ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump and joe biden covered a wide range of issues in last nights second debate. Amongst them, racism, corruption, and the manner in which the president handled the coronavirus. Trump no choice. We cannot lock ourselves up in a basement like joe does. He says we are learning to live with it. People are learning to die with it. He also said the vaccine would be coming in weeks. In that of a guarantee is that a guarantee . Pres. Trump it is not a guarantee, but by the end of the year. Mr. Biden anyone responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of america. Ritik
Costs for them the russians want to do it because it means profits and money for them great so 2 countries agree on this and the United States decides no we cant have this because they claim that this would somehow in danger to the Energy Independence of germany it would endanger europe in fact by pompei of the secretary of state is using this act essentially called the peace other protecting Europes Energy Security act of 2019 to justify why the u. S. Is placing same sions on germany and russia in order to try to block this pipeline as you said they already stopped a Swiss Company from being involved in it who quit the project with a very small amount left 93 percent of this pipeline is now constructed but the u. S. Doesnt want to leave it alone they want to stay involved and they want to literally force their will on these 2 sovereign nations who should have the right and the sovereignty to be able to say we want to be able to pursue this pipeline its in our best interest and the u.