Live Breaking News & Updates on Public Policy Center|Page 5
Stay updated with breaking news from Public policy center. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Quorum call quorum call mr. Sanders madam president. The presiding officer the senator from vermont is recognized. Sorry. Mr. Sanders thank you. Madam president , since last week the senate has been quote, unquote, debating the presiding officer senator, were in a quorum call. Mr. Sanders i would ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Sanders madam president , since last week, the senate ostensibly one of the great deliberative bodies in the world, supposedly, has been quote, unquote, debating the 740 billion National Defense authorization act. Its been a very, very silent debate because of the 700 amendments that have been filed to this bill. There has been no roll call votes on any of them. I do understand that in the managers amendments have been accepted, and thats fine, but weve had a vigorous debate but nobody in the world has heard that debate because theres not been one amendme ....
Indicates that many of you are in a sour mood. 2027488000 if you are optimistic about the direction of the country. If you are pessimistic, 2027488001. You can also join us on social media and we will read your treat your tweets. You can send us a text message. That number is 2027488003. And as always, we are on facebook. A lot to get to, thank you for being with us as the july 4 Holiday Celebration gets underway. We want to begin with this. The headline, 2020 has put americans in a bad mood. Americans are watching with anguish as a nation grapples with systemic racism and upset with protesters defacing statues with those representing the worst racist. They worry about the economy but fear the spread of coronavirus. One study from pew research finding that 12 of americans are satisfied with the way things are going in the country. Further, according to the survey, 71 percent described themselves as angry, 66 percent as fearfu ....
Group to the stage. [applause] michael so welcome and thanks. This is a huge crowd, coming out this evening, to talk about the subject of considerable interest and controversy, namely citizenship in the United States. From the beginning of the republic, there has been a problem. How do you form, how do we form a citizenry out of such a diverse of diverse and eclectic mix . This is important, at least our framers believed it was because their understanding was in a republic, as opposed to a other regime, it was responsible essential that citizens voluntarily out of their own passion and patriotism be committed to a much thicker understanding of the common good than is necessary in the other regimes. It is both more necessary and more difficult. And then we were lacking some things these older regimes would have that had been unifying citizen forming institutions. We did not have a monarch around whom we would rally. We were not goin ....
The communicators is at the state of the net conference in washington, d. C. We will show you some of the interviews we conducted with members of congress, government officials and technology users. Joining us on the communicators is susan, what were some of the issues you dealt with back in the 1990s when you were the fcc commissioner . It was the golden age of the federal communications commission. We moved all of the lanes of the communication highway, from analog to digital. That was cable broadcasts, satellite had been launched but the service had not yet begun. We came up with the Digital Television standards, which are radio standards. My First Commission meeting we did band plans for pcf. And we began the first auction, at which point they actually used the hand placard to bid. It was an exciting time to be there. We also implemented the 1996 telecom act, which ....