Haaland and deputy interior secretary testified before the Senate Natural resources committee. The senators, most of whom are from western states, asked about increasing Domestic Oil Production in the biden administrations interior Budget Priorities for 2024. The administration is requesting 18. 9 billion from the department as an increase of 2 million from 2023. This morning, the committee will be discussing the president s proposed fiscal year 2024 budget for the department of interior and other items within his purview. Id like to welcome secretary holland, deputy secretary boudreau back to the committee as well as interior budget director, denise flanagan. I wanna thank you all for joining us this morning to set the scene. I think its important to note for contexts that the congress provide the department an additional 48. 1 billion in the last 19 months including 47. 3 billion and targeted investments to the bipartisan infrastructure law and Inflation Reduction Act and 779 million
Guide or watch online anytime at cspan. Org history. Interior secretary deb haaland and deputy interior secretary testified before the Senate Natural resources committee. The senators, most of whom are from western states, asked about increasing Domestic Oil Production in the biden administrations interior Budget Priorities for 2024. The administration is requesting 18. 9 billion from the department as an increase of 2 million from 2023. This morning, the committee will be discussing the president s proposed fiscal year 2024 budget for the department of interior and other items within his purview. Id like to welcome secretary holland, deputy secretary boudreau back to the committee as well as interior budget director, denise flanagan. I wanna thank you all for joining us this morning to set the scene. I think its important to note for contexts that the congress provide the department an additional 48. 1 billion in the last 19 months including 47. 3 billion and targeted investments to t
Welcome to asia, where the heart of the continent beats. Lets tell you what this day is memorable for in history right now. Hello. Exactly 200 years ago, the seventeenth. In april 1824 , the russianamerican treaty on alaska was signed. Opened to the old world by a russian expedition, alaska had been russian for almost a century when suddenly American Companies began to appear here. Often they also armed the natives to fight russian settlements. After long negotiations, it was possible to conclude a convention on friendly relations, trade, navigation and fishing. The document fixed the southern border of the russian empires possession in alaska. 40 minutes north latitude, they also agreed that for at least 10 years both russian and american ships could sail along the Pacific Coast and fish there. Both sides were prohibited from selling any weapons, ammunition, or alcoholic beverages to local residents. The document was signed in st. Petersburg by Russian Foreign minister karl nisselrode
Victim is or suspected victim is isolated and then making that phone call is really huge. In the long term before we started, before this virus hit, we were doing these water and sanitation activities with the government. And we were successful in working with over 350 communities on proper sanitation and proper hygiene. And that effort was incredibly successful. In all 350 communities which are some of the hardest hit counties, none of them have been effected by ebola. It really goes to show that if you make that long term investment, if you prepare the communities before it hits they have a huge it has a huge impact and prevents that from happening. I only wish we were able to hit all the communities in liberia before we were able before the virus hit. I wanted to ask if you would expand a little more. I understand it was something you said 70 of the transmissions were due to contact with people who had passed away. How long is a body contagious . My colleague was asking about the ro
Of the individual from where they are to a hospital ready and waiting for them. They were cared for safely in that system. Yesterday, we notified people that starting today, we will be doing that same kind of active monitoring for everyone who arrives in mali. Not because we believe there is widespread transmission but because there are so many contacts there and we are not yet confident that they are all being identified and monitored daily. If one comes here, we dont want to take the risk that they may become ill and the Health Care System would not be aware of it. We dont know that we have the perfect response but like everything in Public Health, everything for clinical medicine, everything in science, we use data to continuously improve practices. That is the approach we will take. We work with the Health Care System to strengthen control. They have visited three dozen hospitals all over the country and a dozen states to assess the ready. They provided the tests for ebola. Usually