I yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. Senator dick durbin talks about the fdas role in removing certain ecigarette from the market. September 9, 2021, over a year ago, was supposed to be a historic day and american efforts to stop the purveyors of candy and fruit flavored you cigarettes from praying on americas kids but september 9, 2021, was the deadline and it was set by a federal judge for the us food and Drug Administration to finally finally clear its enormous backlog of applications for ecigarette Companies Seeking to sell the product in america, companies that can improve their products were appropriate for protection of public health, they can sell their products legally but ecigarette products cant meet that standard, cant demonstrate a benefit to public health, vape vaping is dangerous and addictive, these companies are praying on our children. Fda had a legal mandate to ban these from us markets on september 9, 2021, but the food and Drug Administration failed
Attack capability every year, burning over 6. 7 million acres. There are over 95 percent effective, they do a great job, but every so often you get that season or that issue that is going to escape or go beyond their ability to stop it right away and right now currently the u. S. Forest service that helps provide a lot of air resources and seasonal Fire Fighters is at the point at the end of that season where every pay period they have to justify keeping those air aviation contracts in place. When you come to the end of the season like this, they are going to have to start taking reductions on the rest of the year for those air tankers, those helicopters and the seasonal Fire Fighters. When you talk to kim sakaras back there, the cold front that is about to hit us up here means hot dry winds in state of california. That fact is no stranger to people here on the panel. It doesnt take much to fan hot, dry vegetation that has been soaking in that hot sun. When i say soaking, it means it g
So we would be out there telling the afghans, this is how you conduct police operations, this is how we do police training, this is how you hold your weapon and engage the enemy, and then several weeks later another force would come in and not that it was necessarily wrong, but it was different. So from the afghan perspective, incredibly frustrating to understand where they are going and what they need to be doing and what is right and what is wrong. So in closing if someone were to ask me from 2010 to where were at now, is there hope i would say, yes, there is. As we stand down our combat forces and shift to an advisory and a training role i think were going to be able to take our lessons lerbed learned and ensure that we can continue to build on what weve done. There were some Great Success stories. One of the things we worked on a lot was trying to bring women into the policing, something that was unheard of only a few years ago. Nina talked about the teachers but there was women wh
So we would be out there telling the afghans, this is how you conduct police operations, this is how we do police training, this is how you hold your weapon and engage the enemy, and then several weeks later another force would come in and not that it was necessarily wrong, but it was different. So from the afghan perspective, incredibly frustrating to understand where they are going and what they need to be doing and what is right and what is wrong. So in closing if someone were to ask me from 2010 to where were at now, is there hope i would say, yes, there is. As we stand down our combat forces and shift to an advisory and a training role i think were going to be able to take our lessons lerbed learned and ensure that we can continue to build on what weve done. There were some Great Success stories. One of the things we worked on a lot was trying to bring women into the policing, something that was unheard of only a few years ago. Nina talked about the teachers but there was women wh
Shared by many different countries. The frustration was many different countries, theres many different ways of doing things. So we would be out there telling the afghans, this is how you conduct police operations, this is how we do police training, this is how you hold your weapon and engage the enemy, and then several weeks later another force would come in and not that it was necessarily wrong, but it was different. So from the afghan perspective, incredibly frustrating to understand where they are going and what they need to be doing and what is right and what is wrong. So in closing if someone were to ask me from 2010 to where were at now, is there hope i would say, yes, there is. As we stand down our combat forces and shift to an advisory and a training role i think were going to be able to take our lessons lerbed learned and ensure that we can continue to build on what weve done. There were some Great Success stories. One of the things we worked on a lot was trying to bring wome