Development on federal land and environmental issues. Les this is two hours. Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. We are here this morning to consider the president s budget request for the department of interior for fiscal year 2018. This is the second of three budget hearings before our committee this year following the Forest Service last week and the kept of energy which is coming up on thursday. Secretary zinke, welcome back to the committee for your first appearance since our bipartisan vote in favor of your confirmation on march 1st. It was nice to be able to give you the the official tally this morning, make it officially official. I want to start by noting you have taken on some tough tasks at the department including some challenges that really have gone unaddressed for years. I think you are off to a good start. And i appreciate that. I have enjoyed working with you during the early month of your tenure as secretary. I truly appreciated the opportunity t
Speech your majesty has addressed to both houses of parliament. I call the leaders of opposition mr. Jeremy corbyn. Thank you, mr. Speaker. As tradition we cumeterate the members we lost in the last year. Sadly, mr. Speaker this must also mark those weve lost in horrific events in recent days and weeks. The Grenfell Tower incident what makes it both a tragedy and outrage is every single one of those deaths could have been avoided. Something has gone horrifically wrong. The North Kensington community are demanding answers, and they deserve those answers. Many in the tower blocks around the country deserve our deepest respect and support. I also want to pay respect to my honorable friend who has demonstrated so clearly why our local community put their faith in her. Her determineitation to ensure every family is housed safely lessons must be learned, mr. Speaker, in the Public Inquiry and a disaster that never should have happened must never happen again. The terrorist attacks in manches
Speech your majesty has addressed to both houses of parliament. I call the leaders of opposition mr. Jeremy corbyn. Thank you, mr. Speaker. As tradition we cumeterate the members we lost in the last year. Sadly, mr. Speaker this must also mark those weve lost in horrific events in recent days and weeks. The Grenfell Tower incident what makes it both a tragedy and outrage is every single one of those deaths could have been avoided. Something has gone horrifically wrong. The North Kensington community are demanding answers, and they deserve those answers. Many in the tower blocks around the country deserve our deepest respect and support. I also want to pay respect to my honorable friend who has demonstrated so clearly why our local community put their faith in her. Her determineitation to ensure every family is housed safely lessons must be learned, mr. Speaker, in the Public Inquiry and a disaster that never should have happened must never happen again. The terrorist attacks in manches
Disaster. The families look for a nswe is. Grenfell tower disaster. Labour urges mps to back an amendment to the queens speech calling on the government to recruit more Police Officers and firefighters and to end the Public Sector pay cap. No more needles a flu jab using a sticking plaster passes safety tests in its first Human Trial Experts say it could revolutionise how injections are given. A world wide cyber attack continues to wreak havoc for a second day frances biggest bank is its latest victim. Two weeks on from the Grenfell Tower fire more calls for answers today the Housing Minister was confronted by survivors over accommodation. The families of those who died At Hillsborough will find out later this morning whether anyone will Face Criminal Charges. An inquest ruled last year that the 96 liverpool fans who died at the stadium in sheffield in 1989 were unlawfully killed. We are expecting announcement at half past 11. An inquestjudy last year said the funds had been unlawfully
Coming up, the government sees off calls for an end to cuts to Public Services and the Public Sector pay cap. The ayes to the right, 309, the noes to the left, 323. Theresa may and Jeremy Corbyn clash at their first Prime Ministers questions of the new parliament over whether council cuts were a factor in the grenfell fire. When you cut local Authority Budgets by a0 , we all pay a price in public safety. The cladding of tower blocks began under a blair government. And the governments told to rethink its approach to trade after we have left the eu. The governments Brexit Policy is one of trying to fill a Swimming Pool with a teaspoon. But first, after a couple of months away for a general election, which produced a result few had predicted, it was time for theresa may and Jeremy Corbyn to face each other for the first Prime Ministers questions of the new parliament. Much as happened since mps last met, including Terrorist Attacks in manchester and london and the fire at Grenfell Tower,