The Health Concerns stemming from Climate Change. And what congress should do to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. This is 90 minutes. As we get in, we are joined by a select committee on Climate Crisis and an esteemed panel of witnesses. The voices leading to the next generation. On the global Climate Crisis. Know if you were witnesses have a hard stop at 11 30 to get to their next event advocating on these issues. I ask all members keep their questioning to five minutes. Or less. So we can fit in as many members as possible. Without objection, all the members may have five days to submit statements, questions, extra his materials for the record. Subject to length, limitation and the roles. I would like to call on the chairman of the full committee who has a few words to offer, chairman engel. Good morning everyone. I just want to invite everyone to come to the Foreign Affairs committee, i want to welcome everybody. On Climate Change. It is certainly something that is so important. In
What is your take on that . California is one of them. California is a google based company. We want to look at how it is doing its business practices. Its important to do it in a very thoughtful way. I know that the department of justice and the federal Commission Also talking about doing investigations and competitive practices of these companies, and its good to look at this and make sure the companies are behaving. Im not sure breaking companies up is a good idea. Big companies with a lot of tentacles. A lot of employees. If you break a company up like that, there will be unintended consequences. What will happen to the data that these companies owned . How many people will be displaced . Will it have an effect on the overall economy. Regulatory approaches may be better than antitrust, in my opinion. Does your district have a tech presence . Basically, i dont want to say we are suburb of silicon valley. More people from my district commute over to the bay area for their jobs. Quite
Sen. Collins the hearing will come to order. Good morning, everybody. It is wonderful to welcome all of you here to washington, d. C. This is our 11th childrens congress, and it is always a privilege to work with jdrf families whose commitment to promoting lifechanging research to prevent, treat, and ultimately cure type i diabetes inspires me. I want to welcome not only our Ranking Members, senator casey and senator scott from florida, but also we have a special guest , and that is the cochair with me of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, senator Jeanne Shaheen of new hampshire. So thank you for joining us here today as well. Let me shorten my opening comments this morning, because we do have votes beginning at 11 00, and i want to make sure that we have time to hear from all of our witnesses. As i said, i want to begin by welcoming the more than 160 children who have traveled to washington from all across the country to share your personal stories. You will tell us what it is like to live w
Vote the presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the are yeas are 89. The nays are 1. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates actions and the senate will resume legislative session. Mr. Thune mr. President. The presiding officer the majority whip. Mr. Thune mr. President , i ask unanimous consent the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune mr. President , yesterday we confirmed with two more excellent judges here in the senate. Despite democratic obstruction we continue moving forward on confirming nominees to the federal bench. Some of our democratic colleagues criticized the amount of time the senate spends on judges. Well, mr. President , we have spent a substantial amount of time
Sen. Collins the hearing will come to order. Good morning everybody. It is wonderful to welcome all of you here to washington, d. C. This is our 11th childrens congress and it is always a privilege to work with jd rs families whose commitment to promoting lifechanging research to prevent, treat, and ultimately cure type i diabetes inspires me. I want to welcome not only our Ranking Members, senator casey and senator scott from florida, but also we have a special guest and that is the cochair with me of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, senator jean of New Hampshire. Thank you for joining us here today as well. Let me shorten my opening comments this morning because we do have votes beginning at 11 00 , and i want to make sure that we have time to hear from all of our witnesses. As i said i want to begin by welcoming the more than 160 children who have traveled to washington from all across the country to share your personal stories. You will tell us what it is like to live with type i diabet