Welcome to the foundation of democrat sees. I know moat of you, i met a lot of you, glad youre here. Today marks the release of a major report, maximum pressure, 2. 0, a plan for north korea. The report offers an actionable and multifaceted plan focused on the denuclearization of north korea. Today north korea, we have a young, mercurial, brutal and ruthal despot kim jongun armed with missiles and hes using the threat on america and americas allies. You may have seen reports earlier in the week in the Washington Times that a highlevel defector from north korea sent a letter to President Trump. The defector warned the administration that kim jongun is unlikely to give up his Nuclear Weapons absent significant additional pressure. Consistent with the recommendations and ftds new report which will be discussed today, the defector urges allout sanctions and what our report authors Call Information and influence operations. We understand that people of good faith may disagree on the path fo
The talmud teaches that if a person destroys one life, it is as if they have destroyed an entire world. And if a person saves one life, it is as if theyve saved an entire world. What an extraordinary honor to be with us as we honor four righteous individuals whose courage is measured in the lives they saved. One child. O one refugee. One comrade at a time. And who, in so doing, helped save our world. I deliver a lot of speeches. Very rarely am i so humbled by the eloquence that has preceded me. Not just in words, but in the acts that we commemorate today. To my dear friend, steven spielberg, thanks for your moving and generous words. You spoke of the importance of finding your voice and using it for good, and i know that your work, whether a masterpiece by schindlers list or the stories that you have so persistently preserved through the Shoah Foundation is deeply personal. Steven once said is the sho. A shoah is a story he was born to tell, the stories you heard from your family. Stev
My my mother was 54. I thought about my last conversation with her. When she implored that she spent all of her savings if she had no chance to live. Of course she had no chance to live where told that she would not live beyond eight months. And we spend all of her savings. They thought about what that does to families. The question is why . Most of us come to Congress Bring with us our experiences we try to answer through service that question why. Every session i sat through theres a common theme of unity of really open up opportunities to all and i think it was embodied that chance between art colleague in the last president. As i go away from this conference a much better person than i was when i came. I hope that as we democrats back to the hill on monday that we will really stay united creating opportunities for all and going to the American People in this election year. To presenting a united front dedicated for opportunities for all. Thank you jim. First i want to thank all of
Government company was privatized in britain. The British Government did that for the same reason weve got problems with our u. S. Yes. Declining mail volume and deed for greater efficiency in the market economy. So britain has done. Iselin note i see no reason why this country cant privatized its postal system. Thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Arnold. Minus Brandon Arnold and the Vice President of Government Affairs for the National Taxpayers union. Thank you to the committee and the chairmen and ranking ever for having me today. Lef. By myself i would include a heck of a lot more, but you know, when you are cooperating there is a lot to talk about bipartisan cooperation. We are very pleased to work to find stuff that we both agreed upon. I dont have time to go through all 65 recommendations in this brief period but the report is included in some entire dna binder and i hope that without objection the entire binder be placed on the record. I hope he will share it with your staff an
Thank you, ms. Huggins. Any further comments . Yes, i didnt realize you wanted to comment on this. Go ahead. Espanola jackson from bayview Hunters Point. Dr. Espanola. Yes, thank you, sweetheart. I want to say this, we need to know the history of the Housing Authority like you need to know your history, you know, how you came to being. In the 40s, Public Housing did not pay pg e and our gor garbage, that didnt change until the 70s and we need to find out why did it change in the 70s because during the wartime, and you can check and find out for yourself, when i bring you information, you know i know what im talking about, also one of the things we really need to think about, you saw what happened in florida, the sinkholes, you know San Francisco is having some of the same problems. Right in front of my house. What you need to do, sir, is get staff to go to the city and get the maps of this city because this city has nothing but streams running all through it, so the water is going unde