Its just gotten under way. The issue of Climate Change has been with us for decades. Esi stated all the way back in 1988 that addressing Climate Change is imperative. And experts have been working on the issue and proposing solutions all the while. Instead of just more frequent storms, i hope what were seeing and feeling is momentum to act on these solutions. I think there is some evidence that this is the case. Last week i testified before the Senate Energy committee and the need to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions was front and center. That probably would not have been the case a few years ago. Again, not something around a few years ago. At esi, we know and our panelists know that inaction on Climate Change is making the solutions we need to limit Global Warming harder and harder to achieve. We have to act now and we need to contribute to the momentum to act and reinforce it constantly reinforce it and this is where esi comes in, to inform policymakers and share Lessons Learned to he
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning and welcome to joint hearing of the executive commission on china in the Human Rights Commission hosted by the word Affairs Committee i want to think my cochair, micah review on the China Commission and the congressman chris smith on the Human Rights Commission. I would also like to think Ranking Member Michael Mccaul and all the members of the foreign Affairs Committee for hosting and participating in the support hearing. The title of todays hearing was examining the evolution of repression in china. The hearing will review the events in china in 1989 in the aspirations of the generation and the ongoing censorship and lack of accountability with those victims of the nazca. For first panel we are proud to welcome the speaker of the house representatives nancy pelosi. In 1989 just two weeks after the square massacre in her second term of Congress Introduced legislation to protect Chinese Students and nationals who feared b
That has been in the making for nearly 100 years. Paying it ford ward is just the icing on the cake. It is a beautiful story. Maybe it is one that the world needs to hear. Reporter elwyn lopez, nbc news, california. It absolutely is a story the world needs to hear. And it goes to show you that you never know how the amazing Ripple Effect of one act of bravery, what it can produce. On that extraordinary note, i wish you a very goodnight. I told you i was giving you sweet dreams. For all of our colleagues, thanks for staying up late with me. See you at the end of tomorrow. In the summer of 2004, The War In Iraq was raging. Fighting had intensified and evidence of american torture at the prison had just come to light. Democrats were promising a new direction for the war. And to make their case, they had just nominated a decorated war veteran to be their nominee. A man who had been awarded the silver star, the bronze star, and three Purple Hearts for valor and combat. Thank you. Im john ke
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The Housing Authority of the city and county of San Francisco we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Thank you very much, bennett. Item 4, president report. Y i will save the president report for later in the meeting. I want to wish everyone a very happy black History Month and in celebration of the only mythical creature in the Lunar New Year calendar the year of the