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Coming out. Thank you also to cspan for covering this in our cspan viewers. Im going to introduce the who is the advisor to the National Security program and she is a Longtime Department of defense she most recently defense fory of energy security. Apparently, you all realize it is snowing, so we are grateful that you braved the weather to come and join us for a very important conversation and fastmoving situation. I want to to start with peter has a new book out that you should all read and his book just about two weeks ago, i said you are writing about a president and National Security team before the story is over, so what is the next chapter . [laughter] you see where this is going. President has not had a genuine foreignpolicy crisis yet. We dont know the capabilities, so make sure you ask his projections on the market and Everything Else and here we are. I would encourage you to read the detailed biographies of our panel because we would be here all afternoon going through their
Welcome to new america. Thank you for coming out in the what the Weather Forecast has called a wintry mix. Thank you for cspan for covering this. And welcome to the cspan viewers. Im going to introduce our moderator, sharon burke who is the Senior Advisor to the International Security program. She runs the resource security program. Shes a Longtime Department of defense most recent position was assistant secretary of defense for energy and security. Ill go to sharon now. Thank you. Sharon thank you very much. Apparently, you realize its snowing. So we thank you for braving the weather for joining us together for a very important situation and a fastmoving situation for sure. I want to start by acknowledging something that we just did with peter. Peter, of course has a new book out that you should all read. And when we were here talking about his book just about two weeks ago, i asked peter, i said you know, youre writing about a president and a National Security team before the story i
That issue is now over in the senate and in their hands. We could spend some time talking about that but then last friday another issue occurred. Ill spend more time talking about that. A little later. But what it came but what i came to the floor tonight for is to talk about what a democratic aucus, our leadership, and the 230plus members of our caucus have been working on diligently over the last year. For the people. A series of legislative initiatives that address the fundamental concerns that america has, that americans talk about as we like to say, at their breakfast table. Or dinner table. The concerns about their familys education. About their job. About their retirement. And as i learned yesterday from my neighbor, a rancher, about the extraordinary cost of health insurance. I come to the floor tonight for that purpose. But im going to delay my discussion of that and ask the chairman of the labor education committee, bobby scott, to talk about the extraordinary work that his c
The federal government. The only avenue some launched a statewide homeless is toured a shelter in Nevada County today, the governor listen to volunteers at the Spirit Peer Empowerment Center in grass valley acknowledging the homeless issue affects not just urban but rural parts of the state as well state agencies are now working to identify vacant land and buildings which could be used to shelters under the governors latest executive order. The governor says cities and counties which work most aggressive to aggressively on this issue and engage with the state will be first in line to get new supported services. Its those that seek our support that asked for our support and are committing. To bring allow the states bridge support to be handed off to them for longterm support which is also a foundational point of what were trying to do that. Starting in march the state is also set to deploy emergency medical tents in fema trailers to areas in need of shelter. The governor says later this