Committee on the impact of wildfires on the electric grid. Atmakers are looking wildfire mitigation technology, Forest Management, and power system reliability. Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. A lot going on this morning so i think we will have people popping in and out but we do have a pretty hard stop at 11 00 this morning with a series of votes. We are going to observe an actual 10 minute clock. This is the goal. To be able to hear from everyone this morning and have an opportunity for the very, very, very important conversations regarding this issue. We are here to discuss the impact of wildfires on the reliability of our electric rate and efforts to mitigate wildfire risk and increase grid resiliency. In recent years, devastating wildfires and electricity blackouts in california have drawn National Attention to the challenge of maintaining grid resiliency in the face of extreme conditions. Tragically, we remember last years camp fire, the deadliest and most
Make sure this didnt happen. The house passed a clean bill, a bipartisan majority in the senate voted to pass that clean bill, but Senate Democrats shut it down. We were told it was about immigration, but republicans always said that we would sit at the table. We already were at the table every single day before this shutdown. Negotiating in good faith. Despite this Political Drama mr. Hoyer mr. Speaker, the house is not in order. I am having trouble hearing the gentleman. The speaker pro tempore the house will come to order. Members will remove themselves from the aisles and remove their conversations from the house. The house will come to order. Members will remove their conversations from the house nd clear the aisles. The gentleman from california is recognized. Mr. Mccarthy we were told this was about immigration, but republicans already said we would sit at the table. We already were at the table every single day before this shutdown, negotiating in good faith. Now, despite this
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Nicole carol about what we need to preserve and protect while so much of media is changing. Lets take a big picture view as we begin this hour. This was the decade of streams and screams and the shared notion of truth. To see what has changed, look at some of the words that have been added to the Merriam Webster dictionary in the past ten years. There is bingable. Thats a new one. Screen time. Cyber safety. Also airplane mode. Plus click bait, emoji, meme. Thats a new one in the past ten years. And deep state, truther, alt right, idiocracy. Think back to 2010 before any of those words hit our lexicon. It was the year the ipad launched and the year instagram started. In 201135 of adults owned a smartphone now that number is up to 81 and still rising. You wake up and if youre anything like me, you wake up and we start scrolling. All day long our phone addictions have taken hold. These addictions start at a young age. New platforms keep popping up changing the way we communicate and chang
At this year’s Brawl of the Wild, the decades-long tradition of the Montana State University marching band uniting with the Grizzly Marching Band and playing together came undone when Bozeman’s