As you provide them with your wisdom to meet the challenges they face. May they trust you completely, whether in the sunshine or storm. Help them to remember the many times you have helped them when they had no solutions for their problems. Lord, lead them to be such true stewards of our National Trust that they will transmit this nation to our decendants far greater than it is today. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , july 9, 2014. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable edward j. Markey, a senator from the commonwealth of massachusetts, to p
Year. The prince actually hadnt attended the state opening i dont think since 1996 before last year, though he had attended several before then. So this is the second time that theyve attended as a couple, and they are now arriving at the sovereigns entrance under the victoria tower, and what well see a little later on is charles and camilla seated at the queens side just on the righthand side of the main throne in the ceremonial chairs, the chairs of state which are being brought in for them. So this is a relatively new development that were seeing. A real sense as well, nick, last time, although these obviously are things that we deal with sensitively, that is by the way the duke of norfolk, he is in charge of the really big events of state, including coronations, state funerals, really significant events. He is here today because really hes the organizing mastermind of the state opening. I just mentioned the sensitivity around the understandable process of looking ahead and the fact
U. S. Student loan debt. Later, discussions about Cyber Security and business. Now a Senate Hearing on training firefighters who respond to firefighters. Mark begich questioned officials representing the Forest Service and firefighters about the resources needed with increasing firefighters in Populated Areas. This hearing is an hour. Thank you so much for being here. Its a pleasure to have folks here. This is the subcommittee on Emergency Management intergovernment relations in the District Of Columbia. I apologize. I have a cold so im suffering through a cold. So i appreciate you being here. I want to thank the witnesses to be here especially on short notice to lend their expertise to our discussion. We are here to look at the problems that are serious and concerns to many states for a while now, and thats wildfires. This is a challenge that confronts communities of all towns, villages, cities, states and the federal government. As a former mayor myself i know firsthand how important
Hawk. This years proposal just reversed it and wants to retire the u2 and keep the global hawk. When you flipflop completely within one year it doesnt give you a lot of confidence these poem proposals have been thought out. If you talk to commanders in korea they want to keep them both with the volatile young leader now in charge in the north. But the other reason im not willing to accept many of the administrations proposals is that im not willing that we have to accept that we have to have a smaller military or a smaller role in the world. Most republicans and Many Democrats are not willing to throw up our hands in retreat and resign ourselves to a smaller military and smaller role. Because we know as the United States retreats others will fill that void and those others will not move the world towards greater freedom and greater prosperity. The United States is exceptional and it is exceptional in a way that no other country in the world is. President also accuses republicans of wan
Threatening your state are stark reminder of this present danger. Before the hearing we spoke with tom wescott. He estimates that a vast majority of his membership will be engaged in those efforts before the fire is finally brought under control. The scourge of wildfires has become epidemic and will i am peril our nation. Changing the way in which federal government budgets for wild land Fire Fighting. It makes sense and should be done but only a first step. For decades firefighters are battled on how to deal with wildfires. Today with the increased development of wild land urban interface, we want to develop a more wholistic strategy to deal with the issue. The clearly the federal government must take the lead. We applaud the strategy. This strategy establishes a National Vision for wild land Fire Management and response. The strategy is an Excellent First step but once again more must be done in the 1960 and 1970s they were blited with with arson. The National Commission on Fire Prev