As best we can. Im going to talk to you a little bit tonight about america the ingenious. This book i wrote. The best thing about writing books is hopefully you learned something. I learned a great deal writing this. Americansof how invented, developed or learned to exploit so many of the things exploit the world. What i found even more telling was how things are invented. How invention itself is encouraged and nurtured. At least how it has been encouraged and nurtured in this country in the past. , as i do in myy book, that we are a nation of tinkerers. We americans like to think of ass natural adventurers, risktakers and entrepreneurs. But what does that mean exactly. I am a believer in american exceptionalism. It hasnes like to say, to be earned, never given. How did we earn it . How did we do what we did and how could we get back to doing it right . As the first nation to exist wholly in the modern age, United States has also insisted when making things when we were extracting them
Of my friends have heard me give this origin story. This book came about because of the review i did that mention the series that was used biography to teach history. It would hit biographical topics or would you say representative biography to get at a broader subject of history. They had just published their first volume, it was on pocahontas because of the issues regarding native American History. They were looking for someone to do something on American Foreign relations. He offered me the opportunity to put together a perspective. These were supposed to be short and concise books. That was the idea. The topic i debated and consulted with some people about which biographical figure might serve that purpose in the american context. I kept coming back to Henry Kissinger. A man whos had such a long career of american and foreign relations. Though not born in the United States, his career really does represent something about 20thcentury american politics. When i did get the chance to
Samoa, the commonwealth of northern Mariana Islands come along, puerto rico and u. S. Virgin islands. More poorly we want to receive the perspective from our congress can help localss governments adequately address this world pandemic. Not just for the territories, its even i think have a better understanding when we say world pandemic as opposed to just try to keep it to the mainland here, discussion. The territories face unique challenges, geographic location, the unequal treatment under federal programs and the dire financial situation. And so the islands have been hit, have been hit by severe Natural Disasters including hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, and now theyre weakening the Healthcare Infrastructure in the economys is covid19. The local governments have been working to recover these communities and rebuilding these events, but w i believe theres more that needs to be done, and that one of the things that this virus has provided all of us, and helped provide everyone in con
The day he will take questions from the house intelligence committee. Both open sessions. Mr. Muellers report into russian interference in the 2016 election will air live on cspan3 online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. Much of puerto ricos medicaid funding conspires at the end of september. Puerto rico and other u. S. Territories are on a separate medicaid system nan the rest of the u. S. Congress funds them through block grants. So when the territories are hit by hurricane they go through funds faster and deplete the grants early. The House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on why states get continuous medicaid coverage while the territories do not. The committees meeting today today to hear testimony on the impact of the end of medicaid funding for the insular areas under the Affordable Care act also known as the insular areas medicaid cliff. And the Committee Rule 4 f any oral Opening Statements at hearings are limited to the chairman and the ranking
Federal communications commission. In proceedings which lasted over four hours the commissioners considered and voted on several issues including rowboat Call Blocking regulations. Media ownership rules into the a new broadcast standard for television. Good morning welcome to that november 2017 meeting of the federal communications commission. Good morning to you and good morning commissioners. You will hear eight items for your consideration first you will consider a report in order that would expressly authorize Voice Service providers to block certain types of robo calls that falsely appear to be from telephone numbers that do not or cannot make outgoing calls. It would prohibit Voice Service them blocking the 911 calls under these rules. To provide a mechanism to allow subscribers whose legitimate calls are blocked an error to stop such block it and clarify that providers may exclude. You will consider a report in order. Order on reconsideration. Provide four gigahertz for satellit