Recognition . Rep. Gottheimer consent for all the members to revise and extend and include the special order of power. Rep. Phillips is there any objection . Hearing no objection, the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for 30 minutes. Rep. Gottheimer thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today with my fellow cochair of the problems offers solvers caucus and good friend from new york and other members of the Problem Solvers Caucus to discuss the issues of state and local funding being contemplated for the next round of cares legislation. I yield myself as much time as i may consume, mr. Speaker. I am here to fight for our state of new jersey and county and local governments. Our country is facing major battles right now, and getting including ensuring every american is protected from this virus and getting our local economies and businesses back on track. On the front lines of the battles are the workers in every community, frontline medical workers as well as lease and law police and law
Hurlbert, director ofpolicy change program new america. Trevor and i are the coauthors of this book , fuel to the fire, helpful made americas broken Foreign Policy even worse and how we can recover. Copies are available for sale here for actually go for those of you in attendance and for allyour favorite booksellers, those of you watching from our. Im going to tell you a little bit about the book even though you can probably guess a lot of it from the subtitle. Includes discussions, this is not a spoiler, includes a discussion of Donald Trumps chief of us Foreign Policy. Includes why we think, why we the authors think americas Foreign Policy was broken and that there is a better alternative than what President Trump has offered. So its my responsibility today to sort of set the stage and that involves a little bit of history which is my forte and a little bit of strategic analysis which is all three of our expertise. I go back to trumps major Foreign Policy address the mayflower hotel,
Schools. Hes also the author of a new book, a good what i might add, thats called the land of flickering lights. We will talk about the book. It unfolds the baxter, some of the hyper partisan conflicts in congress today, calling washington out on its dysfunction. Senator bennet said he hes rug for president to restore integrity into the government. Were excited to have her with us. Please welcome senator michael bennet. Thank you. [applause] well, we will talk about the book and obviously want to talk about congress and the campaign, but you were born in 1964 in new delhi, india,. Thats true. How did speed is as a second look at the very helpful origin story when youre running for senate in the state of colorado. But it worked. You were appointed. Tells the circumstances. I was there because my parents were there, for convenience. [laughing] that make sense. They were working for embassy. Theres a guy named Chester Bowles to some of you may remember our ambassador to india and they wer
Like you that i got. To the. World and im going to watching the hawks i am tyrrel for and today like every thursday we once again put dialogue over the pages of the walls myself bring you 2 distinct an informative discussions between a variety of topics and guests with unique political viewpoints starting with my a very own perception and perspective. Joining me today to give their perspective host of r t v the big picture alan cook r t america sports anchor steve christakis and our to americas correspondent in canada alex mahela bitch thank you all 3 for coming here i want to start with this riot boosting in and south dakota in his ruling against the. Riot boosting act in south dakota u. S. District judge Lawrence Paracel wrote imagine that if these riot boosting statutes were applied to the protests that took place in birmingham alabama what might be the result dr king in the southern christian Leadership Conference could have been liable under an identical riot boosting loft was put
Grows its own blood supply and now this is slowly integrated as part of its own living out of my own. Greetings and salyut asians today lets kick things off with some good news for a change walk watchers actually its great news for both environmentalist and freedom of speech advocates in the wake of the total access pipeline protests we saw big oil submissive legislators in both north and south dakota pass multiple new laws of the century outlaw various acts of protest especially the kind used to protest Oil Pipelines like the senate bill 189 in south dakota which according to the a. C. L. U. Gives the state the authority to sue in a bid jewels and organizations for riot boosting but it does not clearly describe what speech or conduct conduct it considers to be riot boosting essentially it could mean that if you helped organize or support a protest and then a fight breaks out at the event you could be held by nancy accountable due to your support of the riot. Thankfully a federal judge