And personally, this means so much to me. First, i want to sing, and im not a singer but im about to saying, for Helene Cooper as a reporter. She joined the New York Times in 2004 as an assistant editorial page editor, and she has been a Diplomatic Correspondent for the times as well as a white house correspondent, she is now the pentagon reporter for the paper. And in 2015 she was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting specifically for work in liberia during the ebola epidemic. And that same year she received the prestigious george polk award and the overseas press club award. And prior to joining the times she spent 12 years with the wall street journal where she was an assistant bureau chief of the washington bureau. And i know that many of you are fans like i am of seeing her on sunday mornings giving insightful, thoughtful, words for us all to think about. Long before her life working highprofile job in the countries top papers, she experienced fi
I must tell you we have had sir and this is going to be another special session. Im delighted to be here at the history and biography stage. Have to admit that im a pretty history geek and personally this is meaning so much to me. First i want to sing and im not a singer but i have to sing for Helene Cooper as a reporter. Join the New York Times in 2004 as an assistant editorol page editor and has been a diplomatics comedy for the time as well as a White House Correspondent and now the pentagon reporter for the paper, and in 2015, she was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, specifically for her work in liberia during the ebola epidemic and that sameyearold she received the prestigious george polk award and the overseas press club award. Prior to joining the times she spent 12 years with the wall street journal, where she was an assistant bureau he could of the journals washington bureau. And i know that many of you are fans like i am of seeing her
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It is an hour and 50 minutes. Your first look at morning markets and breaking [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee on Energy Resources will come to order. Coming to hear testimony on oil and Gas Development on federal land. I ask unanimous consent the gentleman from arkansas, mr. Westerman relapse of the subcommittee and participate in the hearing. Without objection so ordered. Under Committee Rule for us, and the oral Opening Statement with the ranking minority members in the vice chair. This will allow us to hear from our witnesses sooner and help members keep to their schedules. Therefore i ask unanimous consent all other members Opening Statements he made part of the hearing record and be submitted to a clerk by 5 00 p. M. Today. Without objections ordered. Now, i ask that theyre not dna type of restriction regarding the testimony here today. Its important to respect the department and the rules of the committee of the house and build other members o
Eveningsd the overall discourse into about eight 50minute podcast and also a radio broadcast, because of that were going to do bits of production right in front of you. You will see me saying things like, i will be right back. And i will not go anywhere. I will still be right here. And there will be times when we take breaks and i will ask for your spontaneous applause for atmospherics or when i introduce he debaters, etc. I will let you know ahead of time when i will be making that kind of request. If i need to do that, i will say put your hands together. Lets do that right now. Lets have one more round of applause. [applause] lives where true privacy can be found exist oddly enough on our smartphones, which are designed so when you put the phone on lock, no one can get past its encryption, not even apple with the iphone or google with its pixel. Which is great, right . But not if you are in Law Enforcement and you have reason to believe a bad persons phone contains secrets that can s