And the director of the center for strategy at the council and security. Last october, the skull cross Center Forward defense team reported on effective resilience and national strategy, lessons from the pandemic and the requirements for key medical infrastructure by distinguished fellow kramer. A Strategic Operational framework for effective resilience is the capacity to withstand shocks of a magnitude of a major pandemic, a strategic shot. Today, as President Biden confronts covid19, our report and recommendations on Health Security remain timeless. To discuss these issues i am , very pleased to welcome a variety of guests to our event. Our moderator will help frame the discussion. She will be followed by the report author, frank kramer cool present key findings. Jaclyn leavy, chris mcguire, on our Panel Moderated by the director of our former defense practice area, clementine starley. I would like to thanks speakers and the audience for joining us. In accordance with the legacy, it
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Much of the metro getting a lightning show last night. This was taken of the lightning and our photographer captured a shot from the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown denver. Lisa, any lightning storms today . The threat for Severe Weather yesterday lightning is an issue again today. Everything is pretty quiet across the state this morning. Well see a mix of sun and clouds early on and temperatures in the 60s as you walk out. Were 85 by noon and a chance early evening. This is your first alert were probably 15 to 20 degrees below this by friday and saturday. Having a couple problems today. Not only at highway 36 and i 25, the gates arent coming up right now for the hov lanes so we cant use and due to an operational difficulty, severe delays brake light the aline and downtown this morning. Allow delays for the next few hours with that, they are saying. You can see the ramp allowing traffic to come through. Northbound i25 from there. A news alert for parents this morning. Police say monday
My parents emigrated here for an opportunity to improve their life and give their children a nce of better one. They made it to middleclass. My dad worked as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and maid. I didnt inherited money from them but i inherited something better, real opportunity to accomplish my dreams. This opportunity to make it to the middleclass no matter how you start out in life, it isnt bestowed us from washington. It comes from a economy where people can rick their own money to open their own business and hire more people to help others start a business and create jobs. President s in both parties from john k. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan that Free Enterprise economy is the source of our middleclass prosperity. The president obama, he believes its the caution of our problems. The economic downturn happened because our government didnt tax enough, spend enough or control enough. Therefore, as you heard tonight his solution to virtually every problem we face is for washi
Interest that is defending itself, that is defending its right to pollute, that is endistinguishing its ability to compromise our atmosphere, compromise our health, compromise our great oceans and waters. This should be an easy struggle. This should be an easy struggle. But its not, and it will be a mark of shame on this generati generation, and it will a mark of shame on this buildin buildit i have goin the choice between the clear information from the that given the choice between the clear frftion from the scientists shall the clear experience of what is happening in all of our states and the power of the special interests, we ignored the first and we yielded to that power of those special interests. Mr. President , i yield the floor. Mr. Whitehouse mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from rhode island. Mr. Whitehouse i ask that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 146, Senate Resolution 156. The presiding officer the clerk will report.