mr. alexander. francisco, comment, 7-b? >> mr. president, if i might. >> yes, commissioner moran. >> i appreciate the comments that were just made. i think there was some commission. this is the san francisco public utilities commission. we have no jurisdiction over pg&e. pg&e's actions and liability is the fires is under the california p.u.c. [inaudible] >> well, i'm not going to allow that, but thank you for your comment, and thank you, mr. alexander for coming. francisco? >> so i was lucky that this commuter was right in front of me so i could use my military training to look at the screens to know what the hell is happening. so the general manager said these are just snippets. okay. let's deal with snippets. so one of the snippets says, and they're giving all these agencies, and all of the agencies have their scores in 78, 60, whatever. but when it comes to sfpuc, it's 38. so we've got -- we have to find out that. the second snippet, i'll divide it into two parts. so one part talks about general things. oh, in your environment

mr. alexander. >> let us be open hearted and kind. without willful blindness and see what we find. let's be like 5-year-olds. those before me and those behind me. now, as 5-year-olds, would we poison the water? would we eat poisoned animals? charlie brown and the peanuts gang. charles shultz was a spiritual man and he portrayed them all 55 years to have something in common with jesus, gandhi, einstein, see zar chavez, and thousands of others. they were all vegans. and the religions have done their job in lying to people for they have excluded the gospel both in the old testament and new. i invite anybody to spend a moment where jesus chastises religious leaders that ingest flesh and blood has having no capacity to know the kingdom let alone teach it. and people will say what about the fish and the loves? another deception. he cast out the bread. the truth. he reeled in the fish, the believers. water is life. yet most of the water truly, truly in the eyes of the creator almighty, most of this water is misused for the raising of abused animals terrorized and slaughterhouse murdered.

mr. alexander, ms. baldwin, mr. burr aso, mr. bennett, mrs. blackburn, mr. blumenthal, mr. blunt -- mr. booker, mr. boseman, mr. brawn, mr. brown, mr. burr, ms. cantwell, mrs. capito, mr. cardin, mr. carper, mr. casey, mr. cassidy, ms. collins, mr. coons, mr. cornyn, ms. cortez masto, mr. cotton, mr. kramer, mr. crepe o, mr. cruz, mr. deigns ms. duck worth, mr. durbin, mr. enzi. mrs. ernst. mrs. feinstein, mrs. fisher. mr. gardener, mrs. gillibrand, mr. graham. mr. grassley, ms. harass, ms. hassan, mr. holly. mr. heinrich, ms. hirono. mr. hoeven, mrs. hide-smith. mr. inhofe, mr. isaacson. mr. johnson, mr. jones, mr. cane, mr. kennedy, mr. king, ms. klobuchar, mr. lankford. mr. leahy, mr. lee, mr. manchin, mr. marquee, mr. mcconnell, ms. mcsally. mr. menendez. mr. merkley. mr. muran, ms. murkowski, mr. murphy, mrs. murray, mr. paul, mr. perdue, mr. peters, mr. coordinateman. mr. reed, mr. risch, mr. roberts, mr. romney, mrs. rosen, mrs. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders, mr. sasse, mr. schumer mr. scott, mrs. shaheen, mr. shelby, ms. cinema, mr. smith, ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan mr. chester

mr. alexander: i'm glad to know at least one person read my article in "the washington post" this morning, and i appreciated his mentioning it. i think we should be blunt about this. there is never an excuse for a shutdown of the government. there is never an excuse even for a partial shutdown of the government. government shutdowns should not be -- it should be as off limits in bargaining over the budget, for example, as chemical weapons are in warfare. shutting down the government is not a demonstration of skill or courage. it's a demonstration of incompetence, a failure by negotiators. it's embarrassing and the american people ought to hold us accountable for that because we're sent here to get a result. it takes no particular skill or courage to take a position. if all one wants to do is take a position, you don't have to go through all the trouble of being elected to the united states senate. you can just stay home and get a soap box or get a radio show or a tv show. there are plenty of ways to take a position in this country. the real skill or courage belongs to those who first take

well, i am do you he is mr donald alexander! well, iam not do you he is mr donald alexander!let's take a look at some of the front pages. in fairness, the front pages are more important than some cats. the telegraph leads on brexit, reporting that british and eu officials are discussing the possibility of extending article 50, and therefore the date when the uk leaves. the picture is of american actor kevin spacey, who appeared in court yesterday to face charges of indecent assault. the mirror reports on what it calls "chronic staff shortages" in the nhs. it says the government's 10 year plan for the health service is "doomed to failure" unless more staff are hired. finally, the mail focuses on some of the new technology announced in the long—term nhs plan, saying health bosses want a third of all outpatient consultations to be done by video link. the picture is of actress olivia colman, after winning her award at the golden globes. of course, we were talking about that yesterday. and here's the most read story on the bbc news website overnight. a french writer, yann moix, is

course, the most visible example of that would be prime minister viktor orban, his son, mr soros‘s son, alexanderntly, he said, "something fundamental changed in 2016 across the world," and he associated it with donald trump as well, he said, "mr trump aired a final tv ad featuring my father, george soros, janet yellen," ah, head of the federal reserve at the time, "lloyd blankfein, chairman of goldman sachs," all of them, pointed soros jr, were jewish. "it was dog whistle language about special interests and global special interests. a genie was let out of the bottle." so when you talk about your dark era, going back to 1914, do you see donald trump, the european nationalist movement, all of this of a piece, all of it a fundamental threat to the jews? i don't want to get involved too much in political discourse between right and left and if donald trump is a part of the phenomena or the cause, stop but if we are talking about hungary, for example, we know that the european union, for example, has many problems with hungary, is taking hungary to court. we know that the jewish community in hungary

mr. trump? alexander: we should keep on nurturing the relationship even during mr. trump.mericans and anti-americans in europe who understand we are not any permanent state of disruption between the u.s. and eu. we need to do two things. we need to have some concrete projects. i mentioned artificial intelligence, digitize asian. the other one is to stick to our common values. someone after trump has to continue defending multilateralism. tom: i did not make the trip, i regret this immensely. deutsche bank took the ferry to estonia. how big is the money laundering we don't know in europe? i don't want you to comment on deutsche bank and get yourself in trouble, but are there going to be more of these money laundering scandals in europe? alexander: i assume there might be a few others, but i would not know. technology will at the end of the day be the big revelation and i think transparency, i actually think that blockchain can help. cash used to be the old money laundering fashion. now we need to make sure it does not happen anymore. we are moving toward a more transparent

nationalists and the most visible example of that would be prime minister viktor 0rban, his son, mr soros‘s son, alexander016 across the world" he associated it with donald trump as well, "there was lloyd langford, chairman of goldman sachs, all of them pointed out they were jewish. it was dog whistle language about special interests. a genie was let out of the bottle." when you talk about your dark era, going back to 1914, do you see donald trump, the european nationalist movement, all of this of a peace, all of it a threat to the jews? i don't want to get involved too much in political discourse between right and left and if donald trump is part of the phenomena or the cause will stop but if we are talking about hungry, for example, we know the european union has many problems with hungry, taking hungry to court. we know that the jewish community and taking hungry to court. we know that thejewish community and hungary has trouble with its government. we know that the jewish community is trouble with its government. we know that thejewish community is quite unhappy with this new holocaust museum created

two of them were in congress together on the same side of the issue, that is, stevens t, alexander wrote famously, mr. lincoln's rose to to the union the sublimity of religious mysticism. now, if we're going -- and i take that statement seriously, i a lot of truth in it, if we're going to understand of reverence an for the union, we ought, i moment or two to what he understood the union to be. my sense is, that he always regarded the union as an unfinished project. project in evolution, in development. remember, the words of the preamble, we, the people, in more perfect a union, not a perfect union, but en route to s perfecting itself, a goal it realize but never we should all hope that it never to realize.y for lincoln, i think the destiny in time, on was that closer come into congruence, with it's principle of universal human equality hich he said again and again, was the source of every thought he had ever had. now, the problem that americans mid-19th century faced is that these two documents were in with each other, because the constitution did not ive the federal government and lincoln respected

the media as it should be what about this as it means in a democratic society from mr let me give you an example alexander mcqueen of a senior official of your ruling progressive party he labeled the head of the independent journalists association a voyage void in a and enemy of serbia because he made critical comments about the authorities is that acceptable is an enemy of serbia i'm not saying that it's acceptable for your sake it doesn't happen well for one thing i'm saying that there is a media freedom and in serbia i'm saying that the there is many and they're saying we as a risk in which journalists work in serbia appears to have deteriorated quite honestly not sort of these absolutely do not look very with that in serbia i think we're makes it up listen in serbia. about ten years ago or a little bit over the over the when we actually had a democratically the macross tickle your hanted political party in power the members of the ruling coalition kicked physically kicked journalists. the if the so you think is untrue on another john threatened now they're going after the anti corruption council so th

alexander hamilton. it is my pleasure now to introduce gregory may. [applause] mr. may: thank you very much. it is great to be here at the museum of american finance to talk to an audience interested in financial history. alexander hamilton's worst enemy was not who broadway thinks it was. aaron burr may have shot the man, but it was albert gallatin who destroyed his life's work, the financial system that he had created for the new federal government. hamilton was proud of that system. he thought that the federal government's ability to borrow vast amounts of money would allow the united states to become a great nation. gallatin disagreed. he thought that endless public borrowing was a drag on the private sector and a prescription for economic failure. in the first great fight over how to pay for the federal government, it was gallatin who won. when jefferson appointed albert gallatin to be the secretary of the treasury, the federalists who had controlled the government were worried. they braced for the worst. they had just lost the insidency for the first time an election so bitterly contest

them were in congress together on the same side of the issue, that is, against it, alexander stevens wrote famously, mr. lincoln's devotion to the union rose to the sublimity of religious mysticism. now, if we're going -- and i take that statement seriously, i think there is a lot of truth in it, if we're going to understand lincoln as a man of reverence for the union, we ought, i think, give a moment or two to what he understood the union to be. my sense is, that he always regarded the union as an unfinished project. a project in evolution, in development. remember, the words of the preamble, we, the people, in order to form a more perfect union, not a perfect union, but a union that's en route to perfecting itself, a goal it will no doubt never realize but we should all hope that it never ceases to try to realize. for lincoln, i think the destiny of the union was that in time, it would come into closer congruence, with it's principle of universal human equality which he said again and again, was the source of every political thought he had ever had. now, the problem that americans in the mid-19th cen

peter alexander with details on speaker pelosi's new power play. >> mr. speaker, the president of the united states! >> reporter: one of the biggest nights of the year for president trump may be off, possibly shutting down the state of the union. speaker nancy pelosi urging the president to postpone his annual address or deliver it in writing. in this new letter citing security concerns, noting that due to the shutdown, the department of homeland security and secret service have been hamstrung by furloughs. >> he can make it from the oval office if he wants. >> reporter: pelosi's deputy more definitive. >> the state of the union is off? >> the state of the union is off. >> reporter: steny hoyer's aides later insisting he misspoke. the white house tonight not responding. but homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen challenged pelosi's claim, tweeting dhs and the secret service are fully prepared to support and secure the state of the union. even though agents and dhs staff aren't presently being paid. the white house now acknowledges the shutdown that'

mr. trump's campaign. among them, his former campaign chairman, paul manafort. >> peter alexander report tlg. >>> nancy pelosi claims she is not disinviting the president, many see it as a power move designed to deprive the presen important political platform during the government shutdown. >> thousands going without pay. tsa workers among them, many calling in sick, leading to delays in airports across the country, including atlanta. preparing for mlk holiday crowds and super bowl february 2nd. atlanta's mayor is now warning travelers. >> early as you possibly can. and especially for the super bowl. we'll have a record number of passengers coming in, but it will be over a ten-day period. but what we call mass exodus monday, we expect a record number of passengers, possibly up to 120,000 passengers leaving on monday. >> there is talk that some workers in critical jobs l tsa or air traffic control do not receive their paycheck, you can see many more walk off the job. unions have discouraged their members from doing that. >>> okay. if your kids can work a cell phone, they probably play fortnight. listen up. the

mr. wheeler from sandra alexander emison expressing our support for keeping the mats in place.cond is a december 28 the letter to all the office of information. regulatory affairs outlining why i have great concerns about the epa's fraud cost-benefit analysis used in the mats proposal. and finally come one last one -- >> without objection on the. >> i asked an endless consent to submit for the record of rights which was that include these articles can letter some stakeholders and other materials relating to mr. wheelers time as epa acting administer. >> without objection. members may submit follow-up questions for the record by 5 p.m. is a deadline friday, january 18. nominee she responded to questions by 5 p.m. p.m. friday the 25th of january. i want to thank the nominee for his time, his testimony today. that concludes the hearing. the hearing is adjourned. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> next up on c-span2 we take you live to the capital house speake

mr. wheeler from senator alexander and myself, expressing our support to keep the matz record in place and effective. the second is a letter to omb's office of information, regulatory affairs, outlining why i have great concerns about the epa's flawed cost benefit used in the matz proposal. and finally, one last one. >> without objection on that. >> thank you. mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent to submit a variety of materials that include news articles, letters from stakeholders and other materials relating to mr. wheeler's time as epa acting administrator. >> without objection. and members may submit followup questions. for the record, by 5:00 p.m. is the deadline friday, january 18th. nominees respond by 5:00 p.m. friday the 25th of january. and i want to thank the nominee for his time, his testimony today, and that concludes the hearing. the hearing is ajournld. adjourned. >>> this is the 26th day of the government shutdown over border wall funding with congress planning to skip next week's recess. there are 26,000 furloughed employees back to work without pay for tax filing season.

joining us and scott from moscow is alexander bridges senior foreign policy at gazeta dot argue that's a russian newspaper a very warm welcome to all of you let me start with mr bush there and london are we seeing the biggest schism in christianity in the hundreds if not the cells and he is. it's obviously not the biggest schism in christan it's a more although i would be very careful about using the word schism because it has very kind of derogatory connotations within the orthodox in christan is in general you know it means god of the oil always hubris if you like it's it's about. all the. national churches in within the orthodox tradition have a degree of independence and this is how they actually have co-existed for four years so i hope the current situation will not lead to this bleed but eventually to the more kind of balance within within eastern orthodox mistake why do you think that the patriarch in constantinople is granting autonomy to ukraine and how much of patriarch bartholomew decision is based on religion and how much of it as political. well it is a political definitely a political step the wrists not much of religion according to canonical t

alexander which the q . thank. you for me this was in place isn't that it was the old. it was from a dear mr president my dear friend let me say a few words in russian i mean yeah it is a relief for me and for serbia but it's other than it's going to receive in the order of i sometimes ask isa grates on her. but it's also a great responsibility. the i will take on in my future activities as president developing the cooperation between russia and serbia i am very grateful because. you have a protocol i should say this is somewhat against the protocol because it's deeper than that it's very sincere. and i would like to acknowledge how much i appreciate this award it's of great importance to me and the reason i say this is. that me getting. awarded this order by the president of russia vladimir putin which you will which i will this is very special i am emphasizing this very fact which because remember put in which was which is the leader of a very important state russia also shoots him a great he protected russia's interests. and he also protected the interests of the serbian people. our peopl

joining us and scot from moscow is alexander birch esky senior foreign policy at gazeta dot argue that's a russian newspaper a very warm welcome to all of you let me start with mr bush there and london are we seeing the biggest schism in christianity in the hundreds if not a thousand years. it's obviously not the biggest schism in christan it's a moreover i would be very careful about using the word schism because it has very kind of derogatory connotations within the orthodox and kristan is in general you know it means god of the oil always hubris if you like it's it's about. all the. national churches in within the orthodox tradition have a degree of independence and this is how they actually have co-existed for four years so i hope the current situation will not lead to this bleed but eventually to the more kind of balance within within eastern orthodox in that mistake why do you think that the patriarch in constantinople is granting autonomy to ukraine and how much of patriarch bartholomew the decision is based on religion and how much of it as political. well it is a political definitely a political step there is not much of religion according to canonical

alexander hamilton's financial system. and his work on the peace treaty that ended the war of 1812. mr. may is the author of jefferson's treasure: how albert gallatin saved the new nation from debt. the the museum of american finance posted this event. it is about 45 minutes. >> welcome everyone. the museum of american finance is still the only mission in america with a mission to preserve and teach our financial history. today we are going to discuss the nation's fourth secretary of the treasury albert gallatin,.

joining us on scot from moscow is alexander birch esky senior foreign policy at gazeta dot argue that's a russian newspaper a very warm welcome to all of you let me start with mr bush there and london are we seeing the biggest schism in christianity in the hundreds if not a thousand years. it's obviously not the biggest schism in christan it's a more although i would be very careful about using the word schism because it has very kind of derogatory connotations within the orthodox in christan is in general you know it means god of the oil always hubris if you like it's it's about. all the. national churches in within the orthodox tradition have a degree of independence and this is how they actually have co-existed for four years so i hope the current situation will not lead to this bleed but eventually to the more kind of balance within within eastern orthodox in that mistake why do you think that the patriarch in constantinople is granting autonomy to ukraine and how much of patriarch bartholomew the decision is based on religion and how much of it as political. well it is a political definitely a political step the wrists not much of religion according to ca

lamar alexander, and the conservative, pat roberts of kansas, he's retiring and marco rubio, florida, people more traditionally conservative. where are we? is it just concerns and grumbling, mreed to see a strategy or mr. president, change course? >> ink it think it's rumblings spoke to lisa murkowski and she said she was going to bring this up not that she would get into a policy back and forth, but it's the issue of people are already coming into their offices and people are being affected by this shutdown and this is the wrong way to go, and we need to reopen while we continue to resolve the differences and those calls will start to grow. what will be interesting to see is in the past when there have been differences between republicans and the president on capitol hill when he goes to these senate lunches, oftentimes they will hold back and not say anything to his face. he's the president and he gives his monologue and maybe takes questions and maybe doesn't, you don't hear a lot of direct pushing on the president during these moments and it will be interesting to see whether he actually gets some of that today from people like senator murkowski and others and whether th

mrs. pelosi: let me take the privilege of thinking my dear husband, paul, and our five children. [applause] our five children, nancy, karen, christine, paul, and alexandra. and our nine grandchildren, madeline, alexanderliam, shawn, and ryan. thomas and paul. -- bella and octavio. we are so proud of all of our grandchildren. and we are proud of everyone's grandchildren, and children who are here today. we will see more of them. i am also proud of my debt lisandro family here from baltimore for us. spirit, my mother and father, my brother tommy who was also mayor of baltimore, taught us through their example that public service is a noble calling. that we should serve with our hearts full of love, and that america's heart is full of love. my comrade, and italian-american with all of that, i want to acknowledge tony bennett who is here with us today. thank you, tony. [applause] mrs. pelosi: he helped free the concentration camps during the time of world war ii, he marched with martin luther king, he is a true american patriot. thank you, tony. and again, i want to thank my constituents from san francisco. who has entrusted me to represent them in congress in the spirit of st. francis, the francisco,t of

alexander acosta, deana, louise, hector are a vera arez, juan carlos, trisha, maria, jose, carlos emanuel diaz-balart, louise roberto ara, sophia de la varga, gloria, alonzo, uri hernandez, oscar, ashley la madrid, gladys, mr. a joseph, miriam ocho, speaker, as this house adjourns after just today, one ruled bill, i implore my colleagues to take some time and think deeply about these individuals, their families and what our country stands for. it's certain -- it certainly isn't this political stunt by this majority, and it certainly isn't the status quo they are so proud to protect. . as members of the u.s. house of representatives we're a small group with a very large responsibility. the burden on us 435 americans is to represent 325 americans faithfully. to work together so tomorrow is better than today. let us not let these political distractions get in the way of our duty. instead, let's actually work together to give the voice to the voiceless. yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina. mr. meadows: mr. speaker, powerful words. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina reserves. the gentleman from missouri is recognized. mr. clay: i'm ready to close whenev

mr. alexander: i'm glad to know at least one person read my article in "the washington post" this morning, and i appreciated his mentioning it. i think we should be blunt about this. there is never an excuse for a shutdown of the government. there is never an excuse even for a partial shutdown of the government. government shutdowns should not be -- it should be as off limits in bargaining over the budget, for example, as chemical weapons are in warfare. shutting down the government is not a demonstration of skill or courage. it's a demonstration of incompetence, a failure by negotiators. it's embarrassing and the american people ought to hold us accountable for that because we're sent here to get a result. it takes no particular skill or courage to take a position. if all one wants to do is take a position, you don't have to go through all the trouble of being elected to the united states senate. you can just stay home and get a soap box or get a radio show or a tv show. there are plenty of ways to take a position in this country. the real skill or courage belongs to those who first take