Confident, yet humble, wise, yet dependent on your guidance. Give them the wisdom to cultivate a faith that preserves, keeping them from growing weary in doing what is right. Strengthen their ability to see among their colleagues your divine image. May our senators increase in favor with you and humanity. Fill them with a passion to live for your glory. We praise you for being our helper and we desire to magnify your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president. The presiding officer the senator from iowa is a recognized. Mr. Grassley i ask one minute in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley quite often in our newspapers you can read about a lot of city, state Pension Funds that are in trouble. Theres
You see my name tag in here, and im a public server for more than ten years and a union storer for Government Employees. You all know we have 2,000 Government Employee expos emplon Public Relations for the San Francisco chapter. I have been coming in here to be reporting to you in dates back in 2017, 2018 and 2019. I was here in october of 2019. I came before you as Ethic Commissioners and staff to investigate government abuse, government corruption with Public Officials. I have been reporting to you possible corruption with elected officials through election fraud. And no other party for 45 years. We have green, independent, libertarian, republican, nonpartisan or constitution, but in San Francisco, we only have one party for 45 years and that is democrats. Theres no political equity for people by super pac. 2018, San Francisco taxpayers pay 4. 16 million in matching funds to support democrats and refuse nondemocrats to go into forums. 2019, democrats and all of you sitting in here in
Full of fuel. People driving right by the fire. The freeway just feet away and now the freeway is shut down. Massive black smoke coming out of the facility t. Contra costa county sheriff declaring it a Hazardous Materials emergency. A quake felt here in the bay area as nerves were already rattled. That one big enough to cause two refineries to malfunction. Breaking news in san francisco. The vote to ban private cars on a major thoroughfare. Actress Felicity Huffman reports to prison for her role in the College Admissions scandal. Former official is sayg about club fed. Whats happened is we have at least two tanks with failure releasing chemicals that are now burning. Those chemicals are from this fire in Contra Costa County. Shelterinplace advisories issued for crockett and rodeo. That means thousand of people are being told to stay inside in order to stay safe, shelterinplace. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Im kristen sze. That fire is still burning at the Nustar Energy facility in rode
Over foro pay half 1 billion contributing to the states Opioid Crisis. This marks the first time a drug company has been held responsible for the crisis, which has led to more than 400,000 Overdose Deaths since 1999. We will get the latest. Then to kochland the secret history of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in america. Is theland in one sense history of one corporation, and it happens to be one of the largest corporations in the industries. S, coke this company hasevenues every year that are laer than that of facebook, Goldman Sachs, nus beall combed. It touches on most every aspect of modern life from energy to the food system to Building Materials. Amy following the death of billionaire rightwing donor david koch, we look at how he and his brother charles koch transformed the American Economy and political system from funding Climate Change deniers to fighting organized labor. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report.
[inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair has authorized to declare a recess at anytime. We welcome every the subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair iso authorized to declare a recess at any time. We welcome everybody to todays hearing on a free press and protecting journalists. I will remind everybody that the guests in the chamber guests and you are free to be here but this is no audience participation in the hearing. This is a hearing and we will conduct it accordingly. I will not recognize myself for an opening statement. Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost. Those words were true when Thomas Jefferson wrote them in 1786 and they are still true today. First amendment to the constitution guarantees freedom of the press and prohibits the federal government from making any law abridging the freedom. In its concurrence, the New York Times versus the United St