He was serving as the d. O. D. , secretary norquist completed the first d. O. T. Audit ever, soon thereafter secretary norquist was audited and confirmed as secretary of defense with all of senate support, he has a wealth of knowledge on these issues and i thank him for being here today. To a lot of people aside from my good friend senator purdue who im hopeful will be here a little bit later, the d. O. T. Audit might not coming across as most interesting topic of the world however the Ranking Member cain and i take our oversight responsibilities seriously and are happy to have the support and timely hearing, another responsibility we take seriously is one of providing the funding needed to rebuild our military with the specific focus on restoring readiness. Conducting an audit of this magnitude is a massive undertaking, in fact until secretary norquist arrived it had never happened, the pentagon had never completed an audit, let me repeat it in its history the department of defense an
Policymakers and the public from homegrown american terrorism to the United States drone wars abroad and around the world to the challenge. The changes with the societal changes id like to first begin by introducing jessie who will begin with a presentation before we jump into the panel portion. Jesse was a propagandist who ran revolutionon muslim in new york citybased organization active in the 2000 z. Connected to a number of terrorism cases and connected the ideology and transformed it for america creating englishlanguage propaganda. The radicalized in 2011 following his arrest and incarceration in the u. S. Hes now executive director of the parallel networks and after the presentation i would like the rest of the speakers to join me on stage to provide an introduction for each of them we will discuss the new initiatives, the changing Threat Landscape future of terrorism prevention practices at the relationship between. We will save the last 30 minutes or so for the audience qanda a
Issues with plastic straws. He is a member of oceana. And it also included testimony from other environmental advocates and plastics industry representative representative. The subcommittee on oceans and wildlife will come to order. I may look like congressman huffman, but i am not. It is a shock. Congressman huffman is back in sonoma and able to deal with the wildfires and he was not able to get back here in washington, and so we are all hoping that, you know, that the fires subside and that, you know, many people are safe and that mr. Huffman returns soon. So with that, the subcommittee on water, oceans and wildlife will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to meet on the testimony of a sea of problems, the impact of plastics on ocean, water and wildlife. Any oral Opening Statements at the hearings are limited to the chairman, the ranking minority member, the vice chair and the vice Ranking Member. This is going to allow us to hear from our witnesses sooner and help keep,
Our stop today in erie, pennsylvania. Us to talk about the 2020 election there is Joseph Morris of mercy hearst university, with the center for applied politics. He serves as their director, as well as the Political Science chair. Good morning to you. Guest good morning. Host can you give us a snapshot of what youre he, pennsylvania of what erie, pennsylvania looked like in 2016, in particular, how it voted for President Trump . Guest yeah, that is an incredibly difficult question to answer, even with good Public Opinion polling. Erie county, of course, has been historically, overwhelmingly democratic in terms of voter registration. In 2016, i think we saw a perfect storm for democrats. Erie countys economy has been suffering for a number of years , and we had a candidate in Hillary Clinton that Many Democrats in erie county had concerns about. That combined with the promises of a renaissance in manufacturing that donald trump made, i think it led to a narrow but, in the end, ultimatel
Hearing to learn more about gun violence and its impact on Public Health. Lawmakers heard from doctors, a funeral home owner and a woman who lost her sons and brother to gun violence her sons and brother to gun violence. Good morning, everyone. [indiscernible] between the majority and minority i would ask for unanimous consent for the house members who are with us today, who are not members of the committee, that they be recognized or three minutes to forquestions recognized three minutes to ask questions. Many members will be allowed to make openings Committee Members will be allowed to make Opening Statements. Hearing no objections, so ordered. The chair recognizes herself for five minutes for an opening statement. First of all thank you, everyone , for being here this morning. It is an honor for those of us that are not from on a very serious issue. This is the very first energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the gun violence epidemic in our country. As a Public Health issue. And