Impact of Climate Change. Members talked with james witt and Atmospheric Science professors about efforts to prepare for Natural Disasters which might result in change in weather patterns. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objections, the chair is authorized. This is our third in a series of Climate Change hearings, continuing with Natural Disasters. I recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Mentioned, this is the third in a series of hearings. History ofning the the Scientific Consensus of Climate Change and the Public Health effects of Climate Change in our first two hearings, the subcommittee turns to the impact of Climate Change on Natural Disasters. This subcommittee has three goals today. First, we are going to illustrate how Natural Disasters are made both more intense and more frequent to to Climate Change. Climate change israel and we are constantly reminded of that fact in terrifying ways. Just two weeks ago, it was reported that greenland l
Test. Test. Test. Test. Thank you very much for your service, sir. The gentleman from missouri, mr. Clay. Theres also the chair for the subcommittee on housing, Community Development, and insurance, recognized for five minutes. Thank you, madam chair. And mr. Secretary, lets discuss the wellston, missouri, Housing Authority, which hud has had in receivership for the last 22 years. As you are aware, there is a planned demolition of a number of units, which will displace tenants, uproot lives, and cause utter confusion in those lives. Children will be forced to change schools, and some parents will have drastic changes to their life and work schedules. As you know, we are looking at several options, which we have discussed, including the grand families concept and section 202 housing. Could you please walk us through a displacement such as this and tell us what does hud do to serve the Affordable Housing needs of these residents and ensure that they have access to safe, affordable, and m
The Committee Plans to hold this congress. After examining the history of the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change and the Public Health effects of Climate Change in our first two hearings, today the subcommittee turns to the impact of Climate Change on Natural Disasters. This subcommittee has three goals today. First, were going to illustrate how Natural Disasters are made both more intense and more frequent due to Climate Change. Climate change is real. We are con substantiate constan of that fact. Greenland lost 2 billion tons of ice in one day alone. 2 billion tons of ice lost in a day and weve got people still telling us not to worry that Climate Change isnt a problem. The American People know better and they know because they are already suffering from the effects. Michael man is here today to explain how and why we are seeing more intense hurricanes, more frequent wildfires and more devastating flooding because of Climate Change. Our second goal today is to examine how the fed
Thank you very much. Any questions, colleagues . A few years ago, we were talking, at least some of the supervisors were mentioning rebuilding your system. The open source . Yeah, what happened to that . That is ongoing. Right now it is more in a technical phase of development, so the technology is leading that project at the moment. The next step will occur in the third week in july, second week in july, when d. T. Will host a Stakeholder Community event to start gathering the specifications and also to create working groups around the development of certain aspects of the system. The next step is next july at the state level. There is bill 1784, which would provide matching funds to the city to develop a Voting System. The bill would allocate 60 million to Voting System development, anyone county would be eligible to receive no more than 8 million. Potentially, we would add meat 8 million in matching funds. The bill went through assembly, and it went through his First Reading at the
Host caitlin emma from politico. Read more at politico. Com. Thanks so much for the update. Reporter thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] the house will be back shortly to vote on the rule for that fivebill package. Also in the upcoming debate, they will have final package passage vote on that first measure they started last week. The one that includes laborhealthHuman Serviceseducationdefensestat eforeign operations. Take you live back to the house floor now for that series of votes. Postponed. Votes will be taken in the following order. Ordering the previous question on House Resolution 445 and adoption of House Resolution 445 if ordered. The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15minute vote. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20, remaining electronic votes will be conducted as fiveminute votes. Pursuant to clause