The speaker the house will be in order. Pursuant to the order of the house of january 4, 2021, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. With time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Quigley, for five minutes. Mr. Quigley thank you, madam speaker. And now mr. Speaker. By rejoining the Paris Agreement, President Biden has promised the world the u. S. Will retake its position in the fight against Climate Change and be true to its word to meet our commitments to reduce Greenhouse Gases and now it falls to us, it falls to congress to prof. The president right. Prove the president right. Despite the confused, disingenuous and false rhetoric around the Paris Agreement, in reality, it is catalyzing, measur
For you with Jackie Deangelis watching these markets today, Edward Lawrence has some reporting from washington, well get to edward in a moment but on a friday afternoon jackie we start with you. Reporter well, lets take a look at where the markets finish for the day because the dow started a little bit higher there was optimism about reopening but that petered out because you can see that the dow is down 207 points the s p finished for the day by 17 and the nasdac managing to get out a small gain of three points there but also early optimism about some commentary coming from china about its commitment to the phase i trade deal too, but what really took the wind out of the sales was this report coming out of apple saying that its going to close close to a dozen stores because of spikes in coronavirus cases across the country that have raised concerns so when the market sees apple is a little bit worried the market gets a little worried and they said in a statement and ill just give you
People will live differently and work differently in the future so i hope we can get the national will to have the conversation to make this optimistic scenario come true. Host well lets move in with this book we will. Thank you dr. Cancer. Just go thank you very much secretary slater. You are watching booktv, 48 hours of authors and books every weekend. Next, gayle lemmon talks about the operation commenced Cultural Support Teams. Its a program that puts women on the battlefield to conduct culturally Sensitive Missions in afghanistan that require contact with women and children despite women being officially banned from combat. Hello. Good evening. Welcome to book passage in san franciscos historic building. I want to thank you all for coming out tonight to support independent bookstores and independent thinking. I also want to thank our future cspan viewers. We have cspan here with us tonight videotaping so know that you are on camera. So when we goround for the duende also know that
Next up five talks about the special Operations Commands Cultural Support Teams. Its a program that puts women on the battlefield to conduct culturally Sensitive Missions in afghanistan that require contact with women and children despite women being officially banned from combat. Hello. Good evening. Welcome to book passage in san franciscos historic ferry building. I want to thank you all for coming out tonight to support independent bookstores and independent thinking. I also want to thank our future cspan viewers. We have cspan here with us tonight so know that you are on camera. So when we go out for the q a we will have a mic around to capture your questions for cspan. But we are very honored tonight to welcome author and journalist Gayle Tzemach lemmon a senior fellow at the council of Foreign Relations as well as a contributor to the atlantic defense fund where she reports regularly on issues of National Security and foreign policy. She is also the best selling author of the dr
Work on this work force component perspective. And despite the federal Housing Finance agencys concerns, we are confident that San Franciscos program now can move forward. Again, weve seen other jurisdictions do this throughout the state of california. And because the fhfa concerns are doing all we can as a city to protect our owners and give them the comfort and certainty they need to participate in this program. Governor brown recently passed in his budget a reserve fund for pace programs in the state of california that will address the fhfas concerns and ensure that fannie mae and freddie mack will noting negatively impacted by these programs. San francisco will be participating in the state reserve fund so that our Property Owners here in San Francisco are fully protected. In the end of the day green finance sf will further cement our citys National Role as a leader in reducing the adverse effectses of Climate Change and make it easier for Property Owners in our neighborhoods to ma