In advance of that weare getting windy and cooler out here. 60s and 70s near temperatures today. The Silicon Valley communed is beginning to fire up that here on a live picture interstate 80 coming to vallejo and oakland. Getting across the bay bridge is going to be moderate as steve has been mentioning. Across the bridge looks okay into downtown San Francisco. No issues here in front of the oakland coliseum. And heading down to the san mateo or dumbarton bridges. All of it is emphasis go it looks good. The giants home game is going to be well attended so that will impact your afternoon commute looking at the entire east bay commute looks good. Silicon valley is still a nice drive. From sunnydale all the way to the west valley. Lets go back to the desk. The new information about the whistleblower who is pressuring the ukraine into finding embarrassing information on joe biden and his son hunter. The whistleblower according to leading democrats will meet with the House Intelligence Comm
For defying a congressional subpoena and the president s son was criticized for his appearance by republican members congressional subpoenas in relation to the generally sixth attack on the u. S. Capitol. The end of the meeting the full house for consideration. A quorum is present but without objection a chair is authorized to declare a racist at any time. Pursuant to Committee Rule five beat house rule 11 clause to the chair may postpone further proceedings today on the question of approving any measure or manner or adopting an amendment i wish a recorded vote are ordered. The first order of business is ratifying the new subcommittee roster. The clerks have distributed the roster electronically. I ask unanimous consent the Committee Approved the appointment to the assignments as shown on the roster. Without objection the subcommittee roster is approved. The chair also notes points of order pertaining to the engaging of personalities against the president will not be in order for the d
House for consideration. A quorum is present but without objection a chair is authorized to declare a racist at any time. Pursuant to Committee Rule five chair may postpone further proceedings today on the question of approving any measure or manner or adopting an amendment i wish a recorded vote are ordered. The first order of business is ratifying the new subcommittee roster. The clerks have distrutnically. I ask unanimous consent the Committee Approved the appointment to the assignments as shown on the roster. Withouobhe subcommittee roster is approved. The chair also notes points of order pertaining to the engaging of personalities against the president will not be in order for the duration. Given the underlined subject matter of hunter by the subpoena on this committees investigation members must be allowed to speak frankly. Now pursuant to notice i call up a report containing a resolution recommending the house of representatives find Robert Hunter biden in contempt of congress r
Engagements are and what the price being paid for those engagements really is. Good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, i call this joint hearing of the readiness and cpower and Projection Forces subcommittees of the House Arms Services committee to order. First, i would like to honor the 17 sailors who were lost in the uss fitzgerald sailors douglas, noe hernandez, and dakota rigsby, Carlos Victor subayung and the two uss john mccain sailors, kevin bushel, dustin doyen, timothy drake, charles finley, john hogeland, Abraham Lopez and kenneth smith, logan palmer and each one of them is so special to every person here. Over the course of the past six months our subcommittees have met with Navy Leadership to understand the causal factors that have led to gruesome and tragic incidents involving ships resulting in the death of 17 sailors. Our navy remains most powerful in the world. However, the navy is not alone in responsibility. As sales james mattis stated in august. Quote, it creates unpr
D where more than a dozen shipyards really shut her down and leaves us with an industrial basis has for less capacity now. So we need to protect that with everything we can. I think both of you know this but when we stood up at shipyard for mobile, we had the entity under my direction that had to create the workforce for the shipyard in mobile. And we had the lux youre riff time, a whole lot of time, and we had a recession where we had a lot of people lay off. We have exactly the opposite situation right now. We do not have the luxury of time, we have a very active economy where people with those sorts of skills, if we lay them off they can go anywhere and get a job. And its very hard to both train the people that you need to replace them and the people you train will not have the experience that the people theyre replacing had, which means youre going to have a less efficient production schedule. And the ships going to cost more. Which we all dont want the ships to cost more. So i jus