I want to thank the panelists for your patience. Thank you for being here and being with us and were looking forward to your testimony. Rather than go through the record well start. Thank you. So first of all, id like to thank the committee for the extraordinary work that you did with all of the stakeholders to get a longterm faa reauthorization bill passed. It had been a long time since that had happened and everyone came together, and the votes that you received, we are 393 in the house and 93 in the senate. This is a clear mandate to move forward with very important safety provisions for our Aviation System. Among those was our issue of ten hours rest for Flight Attendants. Now, this is an issue of safety, health and equality. Safety, we had been raising the flag on this issue for more than 30 years, identifying Flight Attendant fatigue, getting through other faa reauthorization bills the commission of fatigue studies, seven in fact that determined that Flight Attendant fatigue does
I am honored to be here because the secretary has been involved in the foundation for about 15 years now and it was hard for us when she became secretary of the army because she had to step off the board but now that shes no longer secretary of the r. Air force. Im going to say to introduce debbie and she will be formally introduced by allison of the National Press club, she has been a friend for many years and set the example when she was at scic she was leaving people and was president of the Technical Division of the Largest Division and she doesnt mince words. Shes always there and when she became secretary of the air force, i used to stay up at night watching cspan and she with a decisive leader. She always made decisions quickly and i look forward to being here today where i dont have to watch on tv but have had the opportunity to learn about her leadership style and shes been a role model the last decade. I would like to introduce Alison Fitzgerald kodjak who has been so kind to
Air force. Im going to say to introduce debbie and she will be formally introduced by allison of the National Press club, she has been a friend for many years and set the example when she was at scic she was leaving people and was president of the Technical Division of the Largest Division and she doesnt mince words. Shes always there and when she became secretary of the air force, i used to stay up at night watching cspan and she with a decisive leader. She always made decisions quickly and i look forward to being here today where i dont have to watch on tv but have had the opportunity to learn about her leadership style and shes been a role model the last decade. I would like to introduce Alison Fitzgerald kodjak who has been so kind to host us today for this book event. Thanks so much. Good morning everybody welcome to the National Press club, the place where news happens. I am a correspondent at npr news and president of the press club this year. For the cspan public radio audience
Order. Without 0, all members will have five days to submit statements, materials and questions for the record, subject to length limitation and the rules. We immediate today to examine the fiasco surrounding the Trump Administrations decision to invoke Emergency Authority under the arms expert control act. And abuse of authority in my view and ram led to 8 billion in arms sales to gulf countries. Well hear testimony from assistant secretary of state for plate political clarke cooper. Thank you for appearing before us today. Welcome to members of the and can the press and thank you to your friends on cspan who are broughting this important proceeding. Before i recognize myself for opening stam i want to just say to the member isll be heavy with the gavel because we want to get in as many people asking questions as possible. So, the five minutes will be pretty hard and fast. Instead of let it go for six or seven minutes. If ask people to please speak within the fiveminute recognized per
Wilbur ross. This runs a half hour. We thank all of you for joining us today. We know how busy your schedules are and how difficult it is to get a group of this caliber together at the same time. Your attendance today demonstrates a clear commitment across the administration to implement a strategy to improve the endangered species act process for pesticides. Sks this bill tak esteemed group with engaging with stakeholders and others in a transparent manner. We are committed to maintaining that type of process. I now and very privileged to introduce the honorable epa administrator, andrew wheeler. Hasnistrator wheeler provided strong leadership to all of us at the age of and is deeply agency and is deeply committed to the issues the working group will assess. Administrator wheeler . Administrator wheeler thank you all for joining us on the important day, the 75th anniversary of dday. We honor the allied forces who stormed the beaches and helped to free a continent. We honor our world w