Governor and somebody we worked with there he well, incredibly well, the great state of louisiana, i wanted to introduce dr. Blithe adamson. With us for a few months to help us with the ventilator situation. We took over a government where everything was missing. It was all missing in action. She and a group of super geniuses straightened it out to a point where we are helping other countries with ventilators, france, italy, spain, nigeria, spoke to the president of nejra. Many countries are calling us for help with ventilators. It is highly sophisticated. We are doing highquality ventilators. Blithe if you could say a few words . Dr. Adamson i have worked with a strong team from fema, dr. Birx, military, it has been wonderful to see the evidence generation in realtime, learning as fast as we can from what is happening with the epidemic to create mathematical models for these Infectious Diseases to understand the demand for the hospital resources. And to do forecasting for states like
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Good to see you all here and in with Nuclear Deterrence this is not a topic that you find online Cable Television or political shows or president ial debates or if you are lucky at your summer barbecue but it is an important topic and for a number of reasons and then with the Nuclear Deterrence is so important and underappreciated man whose job it is to manage those Nuclear Weapons and conduct operations and for what they are asked to do that is legal and legitimate society owes them those so its not so simple but that legality may be distinguished from the legality of using Nuclear Weapons. And those that prevent you from having to do it. And a whole different set of legal considerations and that this kind of question and to be glad that it is being addressed here to be a part of this discussion and also to point out that is likely to become more salient over the next few years which again reinforces the idea between the excellent paper he has written on the legality of Nuclear Deterr
And now Veterans Affairs secretary Denis Mcdonough testifies before the senate Veterans Affairs committee on president bidens 2024 budget request for the agency. He weighed in on the camp lejeune water contamination suits, the agencys claims process and womens healthcare. There was also testimony from the heads of various veterans groups. This is just over an hour and 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i am going to call this hearing to order. We are little bit ahead. I want to thank Denis Mcdonough and our friends and partners for joining us today. For those of you joining us on television, you will hear a great opening and questioning of the secretary of the va and what is interesting is we have three folks who are going to do a combined statement which will be particularly entertaining, i think. Something to look forward to. We are here to take a closer look at the president s fiscal year 24 budget request from the department of
F. A. A. To aggressively address the safety crisis. Make our Aviation System more accessible for passengers will disabilities. Provide historic investments and enhance our nations capacity to recruit and train the next generation of aviation worker do it without weakening down the post covid Safety Systems including pilot safety standards. There are many important provisions in this bill, but i want to highlight a few today. This bill takes important steps to address critical safety challenges facing our Aviation System. During the pandemic, retirements and buyouts gained critical experience from our aviation work force both in the federal agencies like the f. A. A. And n. T. S. B. As well as in the commercial aviation sector. The post covid surge stretched the remaining aviation. Near misses and close calls became so frequent that the f. A. A. Was forced to convene a safety summit. Despite this the close calls keep happening over and over and over again. Just last week, a swissair fli