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
Are again. Once again finding yourselves in a transformational change. To hear stories about these changes as they are foundational with innovation and competitiveness the commission cochaired is a multiyear effort for americans innovation potential to have a new path and the 21st century. And as this slide shows a little less than a year ago of poor leadership we begin to build this effort and by august pulled together a powerful and diverse set of commissioners from across the country from industry and academia and the labor union and today is the 2020 roadmap of activities that we hope will change the future and trajectory of American Innovation and to make this happen with hundreds of advisors and innovation practitioners with this new innovation agenda and movement for americana. This morning our Commission Leadership will share their Top Priorities of the strategy and i would like to look at a future centered around a more sustainable approach of production consumption and the be
Now if we take a look at the impact of wildfires on the u. S. Electric grid, mitigation technology, Forest Management and power system reliability. Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. Last hearing of the year here. Theres a lot going on this morning so i think we will have people popping in and out but we do have a pretty hard to stop at 11 00 oclock this morning. A series of votes that are beginning at 11 00 a. M. And we are going to observe an actual ten minute clock, we are told. It will be the first time in Senate History but that is the goal. We want to be able to hear from everyone this morning and have an opportunity for the very, very important conversations regarding this issue. We are here to discuss the impact of wildfires on the reliability of our electric grid and efforts to mitigate wildfire risk and increase good resiliency. In recent years devastating wildfires and related electricity blackouts in california have drawn National Attention to the chal
Congressman Betty Thompson chairs the Homeland Security committee. [inaudible conversations] the committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on a department of Homeland Security is use of facial recognition and other Biometric Technologies. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the canadian recess at any point. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning. The committee on Homeland Security is meeting with the use of peaceful recognition and other Biometric Technologies. The governments use of biometrics is not entirely new. For example, fingerprints have been used as an identification tool for many decades. Other biometrics include dna, patterns and palm prints. In recent years facial recognition has become the new chosen form of Biometric Technology as basil brush facial Recognition Technology has advanced it is used by the government and private sector also increased. Currently the dhs is col
Five minutes to make an opening statement. Today the committee is holding our second hearing on the use of racial facial Recognition Technology. We will be examining the use of this technology by Law Enforcement agencies across the federal government. We had a broad survey of full range of issues, raised by technology. We heard from a number of experts about the benefits and the dangers of this technology across government and the entire private sector. Stark conclusion after our last hearing was that this technology is evolving extremely rapidly, without any really safeguards, whether were talking about commercial use or government use, the real concerns about the risks that this Technology Poses to our civil rights and liberties and our rights to privacy. The other conclusion from our last hearing was that these concerns are indeed bipartisan. As we saw at our last hearing, among conservatives and liberals, republic republicans and democrats thats a widerange agreement we should be c