Representative smith is washington states 9th District Representative and serves as Ranking Member on the u. S. House Armed Services committee. He graduated from Fordham University with a bachelor degree in Political Science and jd from the university of Washington School of law. During his last year in law school, representative smith ran and won an election for washingtons 33rd district, becoming the youngest state senator in the country at the time. Representative smith is now the 11th in his 11th term in congress. Representative smith has previously chaired the subcommittee on air and land forces and the subcommittee on terrorism, unconventional threats and capabilities. He has previously served on the House Foreign Affairs committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on intelligence. After he makes his keynote remarks today i will join him on stage for a little back and forth and well open it up to the audience before we move to a break for our first panel. Please join me in
Our resiliency that has carried us through these challenges times in the past and will continue to carry us into the future. Lastly, id like to invite you to president breed and mine black History Month celebrations. Its something we started five years ago and it continues. We close out the wonderful month of february with a big celebration right here in the rotunda. You are all my invited guests, february 28th from 5 30 to 9 30 right outside these doors in the rotunda. We have fabulous food. If you thought that reception was nice, you want to come to this event. We have fabulous food, weve got whiskey sampling tasting and wine. Were supporting the African American businesses that make San Francisco the wonderful city it is. Please come down and please join us. With that said, i want to take a moment and up lift the people that make me look good. The people that support me. And that is my staff, i want to recognize ali who has pulled together the reception that you are able to enjoy. I
It alone and we have to talk with each other and figure out how the create quality jobs in the clean energy e kconomy. We have had as our part perrer inship that we are work manage the midwest and on the west coast from the u. S. Conference of mayors you can see more at cspan. Org, and we will leave this for a series of conversations this afternoon about defense and National Security oversight. The House Armed Services Ranking Member adam smith leads off and also the private sector for oversight and accountability. Live coverage here on cspan3. Hassan, we feel secure in the building but as a convener, we have a duty to prepare for the emergencies, so take a look around you and behind me are exits. I will be the official Safety Officer today. So should a fire alarm or something go off, i will direct you in the correct orientation out of the building. Today culminations a ninemonthlong effort conducteded by the cis program. Over 60 groups and functional experts and leaders of the ngo and
Was nice, you want to come to this event. We have fabulous food, weve got whiskey sampling tasting and wine. Were supporting the African American businesses that make San Francisco the wonderful city it is. Please come down and please join us. With that said, i want to take a moment and up lift the people that make me look good. The people that support me. And that is my staff, i want to recognize ali who has pulled together the reception that you are able to enjoy. I want to recognize brittney and also sophia kitler. With that said, i want to up lift and recognize president breeds staff who have been helpful pullin pulling this tog. Id like to recognize my own honoree first, its the privilege of being able to pro e side over todays celebration. Put your hands together, i want to introduce to you a wonderful woman, a pioneer who has been doing a lot of work unbeknownst to many of us. I want to recognize cione lincho, she also goes by the name of sunshine. Will miss sunshine come on dow
Travel packages, so check with the airline for confirmation. Many Downtown Hotels are already sold out going for 300 to 500 a night. Thousands of people have shared photos and videos of themselves and their kids and pets and parties. You can too by posting to instagram or twitter or the facebook page. Fans want to check out the latest on the birds as they get ready for superbowl 52. You see emotional stories from players and their families as well as learn from fans are saying about the eagle win last night. We have a rush hour alert for the delaware valley. Its pouring when roads are packed with people heading to work. For the latest on Storm Tracker radar, lets check in with cecily tynan. Jim, the same storm that brought snow to minneapolis is winding down. We wont get the snow. Well be in the warm sector of the storm. Im tracking areas of rain moving through the ohio valley and embedded thunderstorms. Thats moving our way. Timing is everything. Bad timing for the morning commute. Fu