Now come a heang on the Health Concerns of the veterans exposed to hazardous checals. While deployed at the airbase in his pakistan known as k2. A Veterans Affairs Department Official told the subcommittee that more Scientific Data is needed before providing health care and disability benefits to those that served at the base between 2001 and 2005. This is about 90 minutes. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to todays hybrid hearing of the National Security subcommittee. On the committee of oveight and government reform. Pursuant t the hse rule, some members will aear in person and others will appear remotely. Since some members are appearing in person, let me first remind everybody that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician, all individuals attenng this hearing in person must wear a face mask. Members who are notearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few rinders for those members that are appearing i person. You will only see member
Topic for usea but one that were eager to have a conversation about and im hoping that this will be the first of a continuing conversation because the matters that were going to address this afternoon are taking on a degree of urgency. Theyve always been urgent, but i think, myself, that the urgency is growing. So thank all of you for coming. We have an excellent set of panelists here today for our discussion. We hope to have audience participation as well. Moderating todays session is mark wolfe. Mark will provide a discussion and will moderate the discussion on the need for Energy Assistance. He is an economist and is an expert on local and Regional Energy and housing financing. He has consulted regularly for federal, state foundation and nonprofit agencies. He is very experienced at testifying before congress, and he is the executive director of the National Energy assistance Directors Association. And the Energy Program consortium and is the Founding Partner of project energy saver
Investigations and impede justice. Resources remain scarce. The report by the tribal law and commission noted the need for a thousand Law Enforcement officers. A 50 staffing shortfall. That is why resources requested in the president s budget are vital. Excluding funding for a prison, the budget allocates 300. Illion for Public Safety this funding would be historic and allow us to build on progress to make inroads into solving problems faced by our tribal partners. Page andt would take a donate significant funding to initiatives. A flexible tribal grant, 7 set aside of programs from my office 111 give tribes access to million in grant resources. This would remove some of the unpredictability around the competition for federal funding for which under resourced tribes often at a distinct disadvantage. Makesesidents budget targeted investments as well. 25 million would be devoted to meeting the needs of native american victims who remain chronically underserved. Funds from the department
Water. They immediately called police. Police, firefighters arrived, confirmed that the man, we believe it is a man, clothed body, was dead. Now it will be up it the medical examiner, San Francisco, to determine how this person died. At this point there are no signs of foul play, but the mystery remains. How did he end up in this lake . The medical examiner will conduct an autopsy and that will determine whether it was by suicide perhaps, whether this was accidental. As we come back out here live, its very quiet now. There is a lot of activity here. Some streets in the immediate area were blocked off, and now its back to normal. Very popular scene with joggers and waterfowl. Very jarring, indeed, to have a body discovered here at south lake. Back to you, mike and gasia. Henry, we talked a lot with the fact that some Homeless People use gold gate park as their home. Any indication this might be a transient whose body was found . Reporter its possible. We dont he know if this person was,
The history of the present in which were trying to go back into the past to do our very best to events that are happening before our eyes in the present tense. And todays class going to be an overview. The war with, our typical back and forth between past and present. And im going try to explain is not a class in mathematics in the least, but a rather simple formula. Thats there on the blackboard for those who can see it. And the formula is a is not equal to b plus c. And ill explain in just a moment that rather mysterious mathematic formula in practice means is a is a variable that stands for russian aspirations with its military and Foreign Policy. Thats one side of the equation. B is the Foreign Policy and military aspirations of ukraine and c are the military, foreign affairs, espionage of the United States b and c have gone along pretty well for the last six months. And youve witnessed a very Close Partnership between ukraine and the United States. So in that b plus c adds up to s