Leleaders at the u. N. Climate action summit, but the Worlds Largest Greenhouse Gas emitters make few new commitments to address the climate crisis. President trump attended the summit for just 14 minutes. We speak to the prizewinning writer Tanehisi Coates about slavery, the power of memory, and reparations. His first novel is out today. The water dancer is the story of hiram maker, enslaved after nemec and the son of a slave master and the child of a woman w who that slave master intern sold out. In 1861laved people wanted freedom. Amy Tanehisi Coates on the water dancer. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. N. Climate action summit kicked off in new york monday with World Leaders calling for action to prevent apocalyptic Climate Change. U. N. Secretary general Antonio Guterres said his generation had failed in its responsibility to protect our planet. 16yearold swedish climate activist Greta Thun
Action summit, but the Worlds Largest Greenhouse Gas emitters make few new commitments to address the climate crisis. President trump attended the summit for just 14 minutes. We speak to the prizewinning writer Tanehisi Coates about slavery, the power of memory, and reparations. His first novel is out today. The water dancer is the story of hiram maker, enslaved after nemec and the son of a slave master and the child of a woman whoho that slave master intern sold out. In 1861laved people wanted freedom. Amy Tanehisi Coates on the water dancer. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. N. Climate action summit kicked off in new york monday with World Leaders calling for action to prevent apocalyptic Climate Change. U. N. Secretary general Antonio Guterres said his generation had failed in its responsibility to protect our planet. 16yearold swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg fought off tears as she ga
Confidence in your power that they will celebrate the victories that are yet to be. May they never forget the inheritance that belongs to all who love and serve your will on earth. Provide them with the wisdom to know that you are the only sure foundation for all their strivings. Remind them that unless you protect the tion, its leaders and citizens labor in vain. Eternal spirit, great and marvelous are your works; just and true are your ways. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. 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. The presiding officer under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. Morning business is closed. Under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the erickson nomination, which the clerk will
So we saw from the air, sort of i guess about 10,000 feet what we have previously seen on the ground. From up in the air, you definitely have a different perspective on the waterlogged landscape. You see so much more. You see the levees, the reservoirs, areas hit. You see again as well the damaged goods and drywall that people have taken out of their homes as the first step toward recovery. And it definitely has an impression on you, particularly the size and scale of the affected area. Its really hard to believe until you see it from that perspective. When i took off my headset and sunglasses by the way, Speaker Paul Ryan joined us on that particular trip, and i appreciate we all appreciate his being there, but when we stepped off the chopper, what i thought about is what weve done so far, but how much farther we still have to go. Its not just about Building Materials and street and roof repairs or even just the temporary housing that people need, although all of those are surely impo
The president s nomination to head the federal Communications Commission. My view is that in particular, he will do an enormous amount of damage to one of the foundational principles of the internet Net Neutrality, and i am going to outline why that would be a horrendous mistake for the country. Mr. President , after we came to use the internet to see what an asset that would be beginning late in the 19 90s we laid out but i still consider to beiw the Legal Foundation for the internet in other words a little joking about who created the internet, the internet being used people begin to see how beneficial it would be and on ab bipartisan basis to lay out whats worth foundational before the foundational principles of the net with a variety of them, mr. President. We wanted to make sure the folks were not hit with the discriminatory taxes. We wrote a Digital Signature law that is an enormous benefit so people for example in the president s home state in nevada they are making business tra