Well, good afternoon, everyone. Kent lassman im the president at Competitive Enterprise Institute. I want to welcome all of our viewers for another of ces book forums today. Ill be joined by todd myers. Hes an expert in environmental policy. He is the author of a brand new book out this week called time to think small how, nimble Environmental Technologies can solve the planets biggest problems. He comes to us more than two decades of policy experience. Hes been a leader at the washington, the state of washingtons department of natural. He lives in the heart of the Cascade Mountains with more than 200,000 honeybees as part of the puget sound salmon recovery council. And he works day to day with our friends at, the washington policy center, where the environmental director, as a reminder, sir, we want to get you involved in. This conversation for our friends join me live. I encourage you to use the chat function at the bottom of your screen enter questions those will be sorted and said
[laughter] all right, everybody, lets do the next session here. Im not lamont from connecticut. Im really the warm up and phil scott, whos really on the front line of what disasters are and what governors have to do. A lot of people and determine what battles they want to take on. Governors, the battles come to us. I think we have learned that the hard way as governors over the last four years. I think phil is right on the front lines there as well. When phil and i first got elected, one of the first things we did was a tabletop exercise when it came to a cyberattack. We thought it was going to take down a power plant in massachusetts if memory serves, and how the rest of us were going to respond. Then it was just six months later that we got hit by covid. We had to learn how to Work Together not just across disciplines within our own state, but throughout the entire region and country as a whole. That is what weve got to learn going forward. Its amazing, weve got Juliette Kayyem here.
[laughter] all right, everybody, lets do the next session here. Im not lamont from connecticut. Im really the warm up and phil scott, whos really on the front line of what disasters are and what governors have to do. A lot of people and determine what battles they want to take on. Governors, the battles come to us. I think we have learned that the hard way as governors over the last four years. I think phil is right on the front lines there as well. When phil and i first got elected, one of the first things we did was a tabletop exercise when it came to a cyberattack. We thought it was going to take down a power plant in massachusetts if memory serves, and how the rest of us were going to respond. Then it was just six months later that we got hit by covid. We had to learn how to Work Together not just across disciplines within our own state, but throughout the entire region and country as a whole. That is what weve got to learn going forward. Its amazing, weve got Juliette Kayyem here.
[laughter] all right, everybody, lets do the next session here. Im not lamont from connecticut. Im really the warm up and phil scott, whos really on the front line of what disasters are and what governors have to do. A lot of people and determine what battles they want to take on. Governors, the battles come to us. I think we have learned that the hard way as governors over the last four years. I think phil is right on the front lines there as well. When phil and i first got elected, one of the first things we did was a tabletop exercise when it came to a cyberattack. We thought it was going to take down a power plant in massachusetts if memory serves, and how the rest of us were going to respond. Then it was just six months later that we got hit by covid. We had to learn how to Work Together not just across disciplines within our own state, but throughout the entire region and country as a whole. That is what weve got to learn going forward. Its amazing, weve got Juliette Kayyem here.
45minute filibuster to express concern of the administrations economic decisionmaking process for communities of color in particular in north omaha. President kelly, speaker arch and members of the 108th nebraska legislature, family, friends and distinguished guests, my fellow nebraskans, over the past 11 days, brutal Winter Weather sub zero temperatures back to back blizzards, unrelenting paralyzing winds that much of our state stranding hundreds of travelers preventing farmers and ranchers from getting farms and taking care of livestock, shuttering businesses, challenging our power grid, to meet this the emergency, nebraskans helped nebraskans just as we do in every single time countless times before. State troopers, sheriffs deputies, police officers, our First Responders, snow fighters from across the state moved swiftly to rescue thoserapped by the storms, clear roads, dig out communities and agriculture. These brave and women represent the best and the backbone of our state Publi