to put forward, so, i commend the u.s. senate proappropriatio committee providing some assistance in that regard. i want to just invite david to ask, to address whether the, whether we can wait another 30 or 40 or 50 years to take action and expect not to have consequences. thank you for the question. not acting increases the cost of action. the longer we delay in action will increase the cost of action. because we will have infrastructure lock in and other dynamics that will make it increasingly difficult to in fact shift to low carbon xwhis. we have the opportunity and i think we in fact are on the trajectory as lisa and others have said, we are on the trajectory of moving very rapidly toward that low carbon economy. the price of solar panels for example has fallen 75% in the last five years. and we can create hundreds of thousands of jobs in doing so? and we are in fact creating, there are 100,000 jobs in texas alone. thank you. i want to welcome sam adams, who wor
it s called the crossroads of new york state, and this weekend our c-span cities tour will explore the history and literary life of syracuse, new york. on book tv, we ll visit the special collections library at syracuse university and learn about the anti-slavery movement in the area through the papers of abolitionist garrett smith. a local author discusses her book, prelude to prison. then we ll talk with jeff hems lee about his book going viral. reality is a process of social sharing. it s the process by what that happens. viralty is what happens when people share content usually into their own networks. oftentimes somebody who has a lot of following, a lot of followers or a lot of people paying attention to them, also spreads the content. on american history tv, we ll visit the erie canal museum to learn how the canal influenced the growth o
house conveniences for business at 2:00 p.m. eastern. the house is expected to take up energy legislation that week. live coverage of the house of representatives is on c-span. on c-span2, the senate comes back monday at 3:00 p.m. later that day the senate begins debate on the nomination of gail smith to be administrator of the u.s. agency for international development. coming up next, a subcommittee looks at policing and the role of the civil rights division. they heard members from that division. this is about three hours. this hearing will come to order. welcome to everyone here. welcome to the witnesses in the first panel and welcome to those who have come to participate in this hearing. the purpose of this hearing is to look at the challenges facing the brave men and women of law enforcement. a great many of us have been growing more and more concerned at seeing police officers the subject of public vilification. seeing police officers being undermined and hearing fr
i was 24 years old. while most of my friends spent their summer at the jersey shore, i sat in a shot, steamy courtroom and watched in horror and disbelief as the man who murdered my husband tried to turn the courtroom into a political stage where he could spew his hate and contempt for this country and our justice system. at the moment my husband s bloodstained shirt was displayed by the evidence handler, mumia abu-jamal smirked at me, demonstrating his contempt for law enforcement. thankfully a racially mixed injury found him guilty. the following day they sentenced him to death for the brutal act he had committed. that s when my second nightmare began. for three decades, my family and i endured appeal after appeal. each rooted in lies, disportions, and allegations of civil rights violations. and year after year, judge after judge the conviction and sentence were unanimously upheld. then 30 years after the fact, my family, society and i were denied justice when three federal
member of lpr 2011. i would much rather hear you speak than joe biden, so thank you. that bar is not very high. the real question is, from our perspective, from my perspective here out in the real world we hear about all of these investigations by the house and by the senate and all these hearings and all these hearings and all these hearings and nothing happens. at what point, what needs to take place to actually have an independent investigation on benghazi? yeah. i think the answer is we are not going to get to the truth, real truth of benghazi anytime soon and there is two reasons for this. the first is the administration truly has something to hide. the first thing, i think what is indisputable or not perfectly provable in court of law, what is indisputable the entire response to benghazi was framed by the politics t was making sure that the president didn t look bad. that bass the first and most important thing they were concerned about and they never want to admi