d this is are to me and this is moscow 2021 has finally arrived the news from all of us. 2020 is not going to be a year many people will. i look back on fondly 2021 is going to be a year of fireworks lighting up the city sky moscow as they usually do. but this time with the large crowd of safety 1st the scale of celebrations has been drastically reduced this year of course because of the pattern that says he still thought receives a lot of us good byes to celebrate new good throughout the city without city time restrictions no gatherings. for. this would be free public transport all night for those few who do venture out but the big public events have being cancelled so gathering in spots like red square that s all for this year usually at this time thousands of people no matter what the temperatures and sometimes it can get down to minus 20 usually crowded into red square to see the fireworks this year though because of the pandemic like you muscovites sharing these firewor
funding for the u.s. postal service. members of the house rules committee met on friday to consider the bill called the delivering for america act introduced by oversight and reform chair carolyn maloney. it provides $25 billion in funding to the postal service and returns service levels to those at the beginning of 2020. the rules committee voted to send this legislation to the house floor for debate. the rules committee will come to order. we are here today because this president has thrown our democracy further into chaos. we are just weeks away from early voting in some states. the record number of ballots are expected to be asked by mail. are expected to be cast by mail. sorting machines are disappearing. delivery has been slowed. the postalle, service is still badly in need of additional resources. the house acted to provide more but nothinghs ago has been done. , this isy this clearly an assault on democracy. these actions call into question whether legal ballots w
idea, into your bill, out of your bill, appreciate that. i am curious if there have been any hearings about that. now and as you stated, it is out of the bill. let s go forward. have there been any hearings on this legislation at all? know, there were no hearings on the postmaster general s actions were he did not perform any of us and told us he wasn t stopping. our constituents were saying they were being hurt. can i respond? i would like to say i will give you more. congressman tom and moran and susan collins, all republicans sent their own letters expressing concerns with the postmaster general s actions. i ask unanimous consent to place them into the record and for example congressman from montana stated the postmaster general on august 6th, 2020, delaying mail service is unacceptable as the country continues to combat covid-19. it keeps our communities connected. montanans defendant reliable access to receive prescription drugs, online purchases and financia
degrees. 66 in san jose. topping out at 64 for concord later today. we will talk about the all- important weekend forecast and the holiday weekend, details on that coming up. now let s check in with gianna and the friday light out there. yes, it is definitely friday light. not saying a lot of cars on the roadway, which is great. you are good to go for the most part. a live look at the bay bridge. you can see traffic moving along pretty nicely as you head into san francisco. no delays in the city either. in fact, most of our bridges and our freeways are looking pretty good this morning. here s a a live look at the nimitz freeway near the coliseum. nice speed of there. are at the limit on the san mateo bridge with no delays between 880 and 101. and if you plan on taking the golden gate bridge this morning, just be advised there is roadwork northbound. you can see in our live shot, there s at least a couple lanes blocked. but again, lightly traveled, not causing a lot oflays.
americans in the western territories. this 45 minute program was held in aspen colorado, part of a conference hosted by the aspen institute. thank you so much. this is my panelvirginia scharff, and steve woodworth. so, two steves and a virginia. i think my colleagues will agree with me perhaps the only thing more difficult than doing and after dinner talk is doing an after lunch talk. especially on a beautiful colorado day. thank you all for being here. we hope we make it fun for you. one of the things, it strikes me, that we have been talking about, over the last day or so, is how we talk about history. history is not what happened in the past. history is the stories we tell about what happened in the past. we heard one of the speakers this morning talk about the extraordinary impact that cowboy novels had on her as a young girl. but, i think probably the way many of you learned about the west was not from cowboy novels, perhaps not even from westerns, but it was from the