This hearing will come to order. Apologies for beginning a little bit late. We have another vote at about 5 30. I want to thank the four individuals or Witnesses Today for being with us. And i would like to thank as well my friend, senator johnson, for his cooperation and support in moving forward with this hearing. A lot going on of historic magnitude before the United States senate. But the issue before us today is truly of the store consequence in president ial and practical import. The issue is in fact whether four companies sitting here today, represented by very able leadership except their obligation to respond to congressional subpoenas. The apparent refusal to do so in full is not only unprecedented, but it threatens opening a door to other u. S. Companies cloaking themselves from scrutiny whenever they work for a foreign government, or even a foreign state owned enterprise. This potential shield invoked by these four consultants risks blocking not only the subcommittee, but a
Larger question about the harm analysts. Most, not all, most said genuine concern. It is not just a cause. Sometimes it is just a cause, but over time there are genuine and the people involved dug generally worried. If i lived in a pretty area and did not need to release my land that would really embrace it. Unfortunately there are parts of this country where things were kind of challenging and tough to be looked at new york state. Some really destitute and troubled areas. Instead of fracking, they will embrace gambling, which is kind of sad to me. I come back to that theme of instead of telling people not to do with, lets encourage it and put many more regulations and scrutiny on there. One more back there. 5 million gallons of water per well. Thats true on average. I understand that they have pitched to recapture that toxic water, but they do not recapture every one of those 5 million gallons. Is fracking safe for new york citys water, sir . New york city water. Yes, as i said. The w
A really good book, adding, copyediting, cover design, marketing, publicity, all that sort of thing. Its being done on a microbrew, the level. The term kraft publishing. I think that that has a lot of potential to get away from the vanity of publishing and to be more about people. A think if we have written, such pros that it deserves to be up there with no filter, you probably are really meant to be an author. We want to have other peoples eyes on my work desperately because we know that there are things that can be changed and made better. I think that is a really Important Message to get across, is. Is all good it . Absolutely my daughter just graduated from college and she will go in turn for a literary agent in washington d. C. And someone said you really are a bad mother. [laughter] getting her into publishing. You cannot help it. Beloved what we do. And earlier this said you dont go into publishing to get rich. That is why we are here of. Feel free to volunteer for go is a lot o
Conservative groups. Wednesday night the principle of hartford connecticuts Capital Preparatory Magnet School on educating children. Thursday the House Budget Committee hearing on federal state and private and the property programs. Friday night native American History. On cspan2 this week booktv in prime time. Join the cspan conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Up next its todays edition of washington journal. We kick things off today by asking viewers if they thought the Republican Party could woo africanamerican voters the next election. This is just under 15 minutes. Host lets begin with a look at some of the headlines on this monday morning. From the union leader and New Hampshire james foley is free now. Free Funeral Services, Memorial Service held yesterday in rochester New Hampshire for the american journalist who was killed by isis. From the boston globe, militants for u. S. Rider held in syria. That is from peter curtis was released. It was a ransom paid,
Twoparty, can you draw any more parallels . It is just kind of foreshadowing another civil war . No, thankfully. But here is the thing. I was a history jackie and very active in politics forever up the opportunity to register myself. A great opporunity to write three books out. History will be worth it for me to read because it is a great story. Some of the most Amazing Stories ever. You would not believe it is somebody wrote in their novel. Too good to be real. That is not a good enough reason i write history because the messages from the past resonant with us today and are applicable we can learn from these things. We can remember a matter how divisive and combat of our politics, remember there was a point when our country went to war with each other and we lost 2 percent of population. Two out of every hundred americans, a war that destroyed broad sections of the country, 10,000. And so however bad we think it is, and i like watching tv and hearing, this is the most of my selection