i now yield to the caucus vice hair, katherine clark. ms. clark: thank you so much, mr. chairman. thank you for bringing dr. dehart and linda greenhouse before the caucus. it was a wonderful call as we mourn and remember and celebrate a hero for women and a hero for justice. ruth bader ginsburg. justice ginsburg faced and overcame discrimination and then made the fight to end inequality her life's work. her distinguished 27-year career on the supreme court was defined by a simple, intrinsic truth. women and men are equal. and with this as her north star she changed america and guided our progress to become a more perfect union. generations of people have been liberated by her work and inspired by her tenacity and intellect. and she redefined workplace rights, reproductive rights, lgbtq rights, and health care access. she understood that women's rights are not just a gender issue but a civil rights issue that affects all of us. that equality for all americans made our nation stronger and without this commitment to justice for all, we are not living up to our constitution and our fo

clark thomas r. clark christopher robert clarke donna marie clarke michael j.ke suria rachel emma clarke kevin francis cleary james d. cleere geoffrey w. cloud susan marie clyne steven coakley jeffrey alan coale patricia a. cody daniel michael coffey jason matthew coffey florence g. cohen kevin s. cohen anthony joseph coladonato mark joseph colaio stephen j. colaio christopher michael colasanti kevin nathaniel colbert michel p. colbert keith e. coleman scott thomas coleman tarel coleman liam joseph colhoun robert d. colin robert j. coll jean marie collin john michael collins michael l. collins thomas joseph collins joseph kent collison jeffrey dwayne collman patricia malia colodner linda m. colon sol e. colon ronald edward comer jaime concepcion albert conde denease conley susan p. conlon margaret mary conner cynthia marie lise connolly john e. connolly, jr. james lee connor jonathan m. connors kevin patrick connors kevin f. conroy brenda e. conway dennis michael cook helen d. cook jeffrey w. coombs john a. cooper julian t. cooper joseph john coppo, jr. gerard

clark. could you give me in example of the kind of contracts that have gone to minorities and women? ms. clark: thank you, congresswoman chair waters. there are contrast going to minority and women owned businesses. right now, the majority of our projects are in capital projects. we have robust outreach to encourage minority owned businesses, particularly to have meetings and meet with contractors around the capital partners we currently have. we have major contracts on the professional side of services that we are acquiring. in that regard, most of the contractors are minority and women owned businesses. rep. waters: i would like to get a breakdown and interpretation of the kinds of contracts that you have been able to assist. i just have no idea whether it is, again, you are referring to your capital possibilities the contract there. i would like to know all of the areas in which you have minorities that are getting contracts. you can get that information to us later on. ms. pearson: i wou

rosalind clark artes of columbia, south carolina. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will now entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> madam speaker, request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, i rise today to thank and celebrate someone who has been a dedicated member of my team for many years now, field representative and office manager, recently surpassed a 20-year milestone representing our district. barb has selflessly served the district since september of 2000, initially with my predecessor, congressman john peterson. mr. thompson: we are truly blessed to welcome her to the thompson team. barb is an active member of the community and never stops working hard for her constituents, helping them get much-needed assistance on issues relating to v.a., health care and so much

clark. i would say the federal reserve can we in no way at any training that includes the all white people -- >> ms. davy, ms. dingman? >> at the federal reserve board no, we do not have divisive language in our training. >> okay. anyone else, yes or no? >> our trend does not include that. artery is to educate and not alienate anyone. >> thank you so much, my time is up and i yield back. i will now go to our ranking member, congresswoman wagner, for five minutes for questions. >> thank you, madam chair. ms. cofield, you served as executive director of the occ he's omwi since the office was established in 2010. i would love to hear from you what has been the most significant challenges that you and your office have faced with respect to recruiting and retaining women and minorities? ms. cofield. >> thank you. similar to the fdic statement earlier, examiners our largest population in the occ and maintaining a firm pipeline of diverse candidates and diverse employees, within or examine ranks is

less than a week later, the clark opened their doors again. now, visitors and staff must wear masks at all times. the museum has also reduced admission to 25% capacity on their 140-acre campus, and all tickets must be purchased in advance for specific entry times. >> we are now at 300 people in a day. it's also easier to keep them scattered all over the museum if you have less people. >> reporter: live outdoor performances are now also allowed in massachusetts. with the approval of actors equity, unioactors are now performing in the berkshires, even as broadw remains dark. ♪ oh, dear lord three things i pray ♪ >> the actors quarantined for two weeks before they came. they got tested right before they arrived here. we went to new york with vans and picked them all up, so they were all together. they've been in what we call a bubble ever since. they all live in the same house. they don't ever leave their bubble. >> reporter: artistic director kate maguire says "godspell" is particularly relevant during the pandemic. >> it's about a group of peop

clarke. what should state and local officials be doing now to ensure that voters are not disenfranchised in november? >> we need to not repeat the mistakes from the primary season, and we shouldhe take lessons that we learn from the primary season to ensure a successful general election inry november. in short, we want to ensure we are providing three avenues to the ballot for voters this season. one, we want streamlined accessible vote by mail.re we wantwe postage-paid envelopes to voters. i applaud those dates that are making this process easy why automatically mailing absentee ballots to registered voters. in addition to streamlining the absentee ballot process, we want at least two weeks of expanded in person early voting. we know that for many voters in our country, particularly for black voters and voters of color, the experience of voting in person is distinctly important. sovo having expansive early votg opportunities is critical. and if we get all that right then we will ease the bur

clark, i wanted to ask you to talk about a lot of your numbers , the programs you might have. the biggest issue that i see with all these programs . used to be dealt with all kinds of financial services groups , particularly banking and the biggest toughest thing is compliance . i mean, we can write all these rules . you can make it mandatory and it can be self-possessed, whether it can be imposed . the real question of the matter is how do we make these companies and how do we make your systems comply ? what would be your recommendation to congress on what we could do for better compliance? >> congressman garcia are you addressing compliance for the entity that we regulate or seeking compliance in that regard western mark . -- in that regard? >> yes ma'am. >> i think it will be up to the congressional members in congress to put forth what they feel is necessary in order to have these institutions be compliant. >> what would make it easier for you to help with compliance and again, as we switch from voluntary to mandatory we still have to make people do it. what would be helpf

. >> clark, james clark, radio engineer. i'm one of mr. johnson's attendance as well. i think of rent control? well mister, i've got a family to support and anything that keeps down the cost of living is all right with me. >> rent control isn't perfect. there are very few chillers and rent gougers who insist on bonus payments and phony tight in sales of furniture. but by the vigilance of cooperating landlords and other local citizens, as well as government officials, the public is protected. what this public. and this public. the shooting war is over, but we are still at war against inflationary prices and rents. next to food, rent is the largest item in our budget. lifting rent controls while homes are still scarce would break all other price controls. such a break of a line would be followed by skyrocketing prices and the kind of headache we had after world war one which started when rents jumped 50% after armistice day. with this situation, it becomes of the utmost importance to hold the line. break the line on rent by paying or charging illegal rent and you could h

the well known kenneth clark actually stood up for an argument and said there is no conclusive proof. is transmitted through blood products he really needs to answer for putting out that type of misinformation and this was the reply we received from kenneth clocks office and krista clark has chosen to decline through what's been and from the u.k. department of health and the infected blood inquiry is a cabinet of its leader and therefore they will be the ones best placed on see or questions beyond that initial acknowledgement the cabinet office has not responded to our request. and all we could find on the official u.k. national health service website was a report mentioning that victims are entitled to apply for compensation. 2019 and for the 1st time the u.k. government agreed to hear what the victims had to say a public inquiry was opened in london and jason evans group factory is taking part in it is finally happening it's been. a long road and this is a this train journey is one that i say him countless times over the last 34 years. even before jason was born his father was aware

his name was sheriff jim clark.ded the type of resistance that groups like sclc needed to make selma the stand for voting right. it's said that dr. king brought three things when he came down to selma. he brought money from the sclc and their donors who were able to get a lot of people bailed out of jail. he also brought motivation. when you have a big figure like dr. king come into a small city like selma, he's seen as somebody who can lead the masses and speak eloquently and inspire people. he brought a lot of motivation with him. that was a lot of inspiration for a lot of adults to get involved with the movement. he also brought the media. the media is what put the nail in the coffin for the voting rights movement here. they were able to show that even though these protesters were non-violent and they were only practicing civil disobedience, they were still being distreated because of sheriff clark's attitude towards them. so, we just made our way from brown chapel church over to the edmund pettus bridge which is

dr clark is there regarded problem that in a trial like this that it's all going to be healthy young people taking part in tightly controlled conditions if it does go ahead but if they then say yes this vaccine is pretty good let's get it out there you don't know what the effect is on say people over 50 with an underlying health problem you know they may know that it's once a corona virus that is that is part of the problem and that's why it's better to let people get the virus naturally rather than experimentally infect. you know it's a sub optimal way of doing the trials no 2 ways about it. andre you talk about the economic impact there if this vaccine does get out there as a result of these kind of trials presumably that's going to be a good thing for you isn't it if it's the attitude of the something that the economy needs and the thing that we can do to calm down the extremists in the government and the extremists in the better core profession is going to be a good thing because look you know we are talking about potentially what was it a 20.4 percent drop in the british economy

and you're going to see more and more [ inaudible ] trump and -- >> general clark. thanks so much.our service over these many, many years. miles taylor, thanks to you, as well. just ahead, we'll a live report from wildfire-ravaged california, where blistering heat is fueling a record-setting inferno. ♪ [ engines revving ] ♪ ♪ it's amazing to see them in the wild like th-- shhh. for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. i'm a talking dog. the other issue. oh...i'm scratching like crazy. you've got some allergic itch with skin inflammation. apoquel can work on that itch in as little as 4 hours, whether it's a new or chronic problem. and apoquel's treated over 8 million dogs. nice. and...the talking dog thing? is it bothering you? no...itching like a dog is bothering me. until dogs can speak for themselves, you have to. when allergic itch is a problem, ask for apoquel. apoquel is for the control of itch associated with allergic dermatitis and the control of atopic dermatitis in dogs. do not use apoquel in dogs less than 12 months old or those with serious infections. apoqu

clark or sheriff clark will be standing.e protesters lined up into the voter registration office, so you would have folks lined up, wrapped around the building, singing freedom songs and protest songs and doing chants and things of that nature. so anybody was walking by might ♪r woke up this morning with my mindset on freedom i woke up this morning with my mind set on freedom i woke up this morning with my mind it was set on freedom hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah here are a brown chapel ame church, and this is one of the movement churches, one of the main churches that was used during the voting rights movement to hold mass meetings to hold training sessions, and also meetings of civil rights movement leaders. so here at brown chapel, which is one of the oldest black churches in the city of selma, dr. king gave his first speech in the city january 2, 1955. [video clip] >> i am here to tell you tonight that the businessman, the mayor of this city, the police commissioner of this city, and everybody in the white power struct

if you see into the door, that's where sheriff clark would be standing. have protesters lined up just to get past in the getting to the voter registration office. you would have folks lined up rather upped around the bottom, singing protest songs and doing chants and things of that nature. so anybody who's walking by might hear good, woke up this morning ♪ ♪, stayed on freedom. i woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom. i woke up this morning with my mind it was stayed on freedom hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah >> where we are brown chapel amy church in this is one of the movement church is one of the many churches that was used during the voter rights movement for to hold mass meetings, to hold training sessions and -- so here at brown chapel which was one of the oldest charges in the cities selma, that dr. king actually gave one of his first speeches on january 1960. five >> i'm here to tell you that the businessman, the mayor of the city, the police commissioner of the city and everybody in the white power structure of this city must take

clark or sheriff clarke will be standing.ters lined up into the voter registration office. he would have folks lined up wrapped around the building singing freedom songs and protest songs in doing chance and things of that nature. anybody was walking by my dear a good -- woke up this morning with my mind set on freedom ♪ ♪ i woke up this morning with my mind set on freedom ♪ ♪ i woke up this morning with my mind, it was set on freedom ♪ ♪ hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ ♪ >> you are a brown chapel ame church and this is one of the movement churches, one of the main churches that was used during the voting rights movement to hold mass meetings and training session and to house civil rights moving leaders. this is one of the oldest black churches and see a selma. dr. king gave his first speech on generous second, 1955. >> the businessman, the mayor of the city, , the police commissioner of the city, and everybody in the white power structure of the city must take responsibility for everything that jim crow does. >> pretty

general clark, we will have to leave it there.tunately we have few problems with your line breaking up, but thank you for joining the program. we havspoken a lot recently about police violence in america on this program, but we want to focus now on new research coming out of south africa. it suggests at least one person dies there every single day at the hands of the police. many of the incidents go almost unnoticed, but the recent death of a teenager in a park in johannesburg has thrown a spotlight on the issue. >> anger spills on the streets of el dorado park. one of their own has been killed. the person with down syndrome had gone to by biscuits when he was shot. >> we want justice. >> this is where nathaniel was shot. just a few meters from his home. his death is the latest in a series of high-profile cases that have sharp south africans since the coronavirus lockdown. >> the cops went looking for other suspects and when they came out, that is when they foundathaniel suddenly by the truck. they called him over. as he walked ov

clarke: ranking members on the coronavirus crisis, my name is kristen clark and i serve as the executive director of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law, thank you for the opportunity to testify on the actions that must be taken to ensure a successful election during the pandemic. the lawyers committee for civil rights has been at the forefront of the battle for equal rights since its founding in 1963 at the request of president kennedy to enlist the private bars leadership and resources in combating racial disco nation, simply put, our mission is to ensure equal justice under the rule of law. we have been a leader in many of our nation's most seminal voting rights battles and we also lead election protection. the nation's largest -- largest and longest running voter production program anchored by the 866-hour vote hotline. since march we have filed two doesn't lawsuit stupor -- to protect the but -- right to vote. i am here to sound the alarm of the dangers we face as a democracy should we fail to fully confront the barriers that millions face amid the pandemic. nearly 200,

i want to thank kristen clarke and marc lamont hill.t climate.look stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. we end today's show looking at the candidates' exchange about the climate crisis. climate change was not on the six topics fox news moderator chris wallace released before the debate, but he added the issue after massive outcry from activists and young voteters. this is wallace questioning president trump and joe biden. chris: the forest fires in the west are raging now. they burned millions of acres. they have displaced hundreds of thousands of people. when state officials there climatehe fires on change, mr. president, you said "i don't think the science knows." over your four years, you have pulled the u.s. out of the paris climate accord. you have rolled back a number of obama by mental records. what do you believe about the science of climate change and what will you do in the next four years to confront it? pres. trump: i want crystal clean water and

defense secretary william cohen and retired general wesley clark.eral clark, in addition to making very disparaging remarks about fallen u.s. troops, woodward gives yet another account of the president denigrating the u.s. military leadership. he says this, and i'll put the quote up on the screen, a few words, my effing generals are a bunch of ps. they care more about their alliances than they do about trade deals. let's talk a little bit about that. when you hear that kind of denigration of the top u.s. military brass, the generals, the admirals. what do you say? >> well, first of all it's very consistent with other things that president trump has said and done. he clearly doesn't understand the value of the alliances. president trump is a transactional person. he values everything on the basis of money. he wants it now. and so i'll give you this, i'll give you that. what's made the united states so powerful. what has made america great is our consistency, our reliability, our ability to hold together long-term alliances based on common interests,

ktvu fo >>> good morning to you, thank you for joining us, and welcome to mornings on 2, i'm dave clark. >> good morning, i'm pam cook, wednesday morning, september 2nd. want to check in with steve paulson on the weather forecast , because it is certainly the talk of the air quality and the firefight. >>> at the same time, though, the wind is howling here for some point i mean it's up to about 40 miles an hour in cordelia, out to fairfield and other locations, ultima pass, about 35 miles per hour. this will be the last date until we start bumping things up a little bit here point big fog bank again. it is roaring, and the lows are a bit warmer each day. 50s to 60s on the temps, san jose and oakland, both at 60 point everyone is very close, putting the city and livermore, 59. but the change in the wind is here today point breezy, big fog bank, and hazy, although when you get a roaring southwest blowing towards the east here, napa, 16, fairfield, 31, gusting almost 40 point so fog, low clouds, one more day to give us below average highs, and that includes livermore. so 60s, 70s, and 80s.

i'm dave clark. >>> good morning, i'm pam cook. let's check in with steve paulson for our first day of september forecast. i know it is going to heat up towards the weekend. >> correct. not much change here. very quiet pattern for a couple days and yes, all signs point toward eddie, well, i will say a pretty good warm up by the weekend. it doesn't look like it's going to stick around a long time, but it will get pretty hot by saturday and sunday, especially for inland areas. there's just a lot of fog out there and that it is making a pretty good push inland. averages are in the 50s, 56 santa rosa, the city also at 56, 57 in livermore, mostly clear there. livermore and san jose had a few mid-level clouds going by. the breeze it does pick up once that fog burns back but there's a lot of that has to burn back. hazy skies,

pam cook is enjoying a morning off. >>> i am dave clark. it is always good to see you. this morning? >> i am good. my husband is snoring behind this wall. i will keep it down if i can. >> i was going to ask about my favorite bike riders. steve has our

jeffries: katherine clark said it earlier. mitch mcconnell's perspective has been that states should declare bankruptcy, which is ridiculous when you consider the states he is talking about, new york, california, new jersey, illinois, for instance, regularly provide tens of billions of dollars more to the federal government then we get back in return. that this saying is is not a blue state issue or a red state issue. it is an american issue. i think the comment about marijuana is just telling us -- silliness. they care more about the well-off and the well-connected. we know that is a fact because the first thing they did of any meaningful consequence from their ideological perspective when they had the house the senate and the presidency was they gop tax scam -- pass gop tax scam where benefits went to the wealthiest 1%. now mitch mcconnell wants to lecture us about a legislative agenda? have settledcally our children and grandchildren with $2 trillion worth of debt to promote the lifestyles of the rich and shameless? now you

i am pam cook. >> i am dave clark. -- we did not get a clear look at the moon, because of the fog and the clouds were kind of covering it up. >> yeah. >> that is the case for many, a big fog bank we have is moving in already. it started to come in last night. it is almost -- every observation here says cloudy to mostly cloudy. that includes concord and livermore as well. there are plenty of fires around. it is creating a lot of smoke. the wind is roaring southwest. some of that is being pushed towards the east today. it doesn't mean it is disappearing. it is just relocating. 50s and 60s, everyone is close. from santa rosa, to oakland and san jose, 59 degrees. it is unusual to see. breezy to windy, with big fog banks. it wilbeun

i am dave clark. it is friday. steve paulson is working in his home office.e has much to say about today, and this weekend. >>> it is the weekend. today will not be too bad, but it will be warmer. after a cool week for many, temperatures are below average for monday all the way to thursday. now they will go above for many. it will be a slow process on the closed, -- on the coast. it disappeared yesterday, and it is getting squashed. visibility for 2 miles and santa rosa -- oakland is