That will drift over us. It will really not stop the temperatures from being above average. A mix of sun and clouds. More likely tomorrow will be the warmest day even though with some of that cloud cover. These are well above average as you might imagine. Here he is on a friday mr. Sal castaneda. Steve, you sound like you are much better. I am much better. Thank you. [ laughter ] good morning, to you. Good morning, to everybody. Lets take a look at what we have now. The traffic is not too bad as you drive to the bay bridge toll plaza. It is a nice looking drive. Continues to look good as you drive through there. There are no major problems. The traffic continues to look good all the way up into San Francisco. Speaking of the east bay, we have been looking at the traffic on 580. There are no real decent starts. You want to use 680, go right ahead. Lets go to interstate 280 in san jose. South bay commute is off to a good start. If you want to jump ahead of any crowd you might see there,
There is an affidavit from donald f terry. He was employed with the committee on small business. It was charged in 1976 new rules of official conduct of the house. He refers to book royalties. I should come to that next. In these matters, these three people who had a great deal to do with writing the rules say that is not what they intended. Where else might you turn . Might you not possibly go to the committee itself and see what opinions it has given . Here is the publication that the Committee Sends to tell us what is legal. Each year we received this, as instructions to fill out the statement. Appendix e is advisory number 10, which defines who has a direct interest in legislation under the law. It says if the member does not believe that the donor of the gift has a special interest in the congressional legislative process which sets him apart from the general public, then the member should feel free to accept such gifts. Then he defines who has an interest in legislation four clas
What a speaker ought to be able to accomplish. Not to say that whatever the speaker accomplishes or has accomplished during his term is a oneman show. It most certainly is not and in this room today are people who shared with me the agonies of trying to figure out what on earth can we do in this situation and one of them is david bern. One of them is tom foley and one of them is dan rostenkowski. The speakership under rayburn was something that i guess entered my consciousness as the model of how a speaker should be. Sam rayburn saw National Needs and he made things happen. He was an activist speaker but he was also the 20 essential southern gentlemen and he treated all of us like gentlemen. In his view, we all were speaker rayburn once said, the chair always takes the word of a member on one occasion when a point of order had been made about a members representation that he had been in the chamber at a time qualifying him to vote on an issue. The chair always takes the word of a membe
Senator smith, could you start by talking to us about how people watch television in the current day as, say, opposed to a few years ago . Broadcasting is affected by that. We remain highly relevant because what we do is local, and as to those who want to get it the oldfashioned way, it is free, and yet, you have satellite, you have cable, and now you have the internet, through hulu or netflix, which are other ways to access television, so television remains highly relevant to the future. When you look at the top 100 programs that are watched, 90 of them are broadcast, content. I think the future is bright, indeed. 90 of them are broadcast content. We are a mobile society, and so the challenge is to make sure that we are on pads, computers, phones, as well as traditional viewing, now with a wonderful highdefinition television screen. The other challenge we have is that spectrum is a finite resource, and others want that resource, and there is not enough spectrum in the resources to do
This morning, we reveal that painting to the president s mom, former First Lady Barbara Bush live. And daves departure. David letterman announces his plans to retire like only he can. What this means now is that paul and i can be married. Well look at some of the top ten moments from his late night run today, friday, april 4th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, we welcome you to today on a friday morning. And how about that news from David Letterman . Big surprise. It really is. Hes retiring, not immediately, this takes place some time in 2015. Some time over the next year. No date has been given. But this is a big deal in the world of late night television. It is. Hes given us a year to emotionally prepare. Have you heard about that painter from texas . George w. Bush with his first art exhibit. These are incredible portraits hes painted of the World Leaders he encountered along the way.