Wilbur ross. This runs a half hour. We thank all of you for joining us today. We know how busy your schedules are and how difficult it is to get a group of this caliber together at the same time. Your attendance today demonstrates a clear commitment across the administration to implement a strategy to improve the endangered species act process for pesticides. Sks this bill tak esteemed group with engaging with stakeholders and others in a transparent manner. We are committed to maintaining that type of process. I now and very privileged to introduce the honorable epa administrator, andrew wheeler. Hasnistrator wheeler provided strong leadership to all of us at the age of and is deeply agency and is deeply committed to the issues the working group will assess. Administrator wheeler . Administrator wheeler thank you all for joining us on the important day, the 75th anniversary of dday. We honor the allied forces who stormed the beaches and helped to free a continent. We honor our world w
Interagency working group. Im alexandra dunn, administrator for chemicals and pesticides that epa. We are pleased to have this group continue the good work that began early in the administration and thank you for joining us today. We know how busy your schedules are and how difficult it is to get a group of this caliber together at the same time. Your attendance today demonstrates a clear commitment across the administration to implement a strategy to improve the endangered species act consultation process for pesticides. The farm bill passed this esteemed group, with various stakeholders, nongovernment organizations and others in a transparent manner and we are committed to maintaining that type of process. I now am privileged to introduce the honorable epa administrator andrew wheeler. Administrator wheeler has provided strong leadership to all of us here at the agency and is deeply committed to the issues the working group will assess. Administrator wheeler. Good morning and thank y
Unsuccessful. Were spending a lot of money. 13,000 per person. A lot of that is on health care. 45 of it. That is where congress decided to spend the money. The nation has made a great commitment to helping the poor. It increases every year. Third issue, the causes. The first is work rates. The longterm decline of work among males. The work rate among young black males, before the rescission, we before the recession, we have a real problem with male employment. For reasons that are not clear. Females, the opposite. They work more. Married women had joined the labor force. Never married mothers. The poorest group of mothers have had a spectacular increase in employment and even today, the likelihood that they have a job is greater, about 20 and it was before welfare reform. That group is working a lot. Wages. These are astounding. The wages at the 10th percentile and blow our where they were 30 and below are where they were 30 years ago. It is hard to make progress against poverty as we
Srael and all the time they do not respect, demoralize and do not comply with international, should be treated as other and i told once , they werent listening to us, you should be really concerned from the agreement with iran and the west but not because of the substance of the agreement but because of the mechanism that informs the agreement. This mccannas him, i told them mechanism, i know its not easy o boycott israel and put sanctions on oil but this is the way. I tell you, this is the way. Thats why the work of the media is very important, i know it has some substance and hallenges in the issues that tried to criminalize such work, but this is the way to peace. You have had to overcome and protect yourself and be prepared about other issues, i was asked, im being told i only have one minute of course but the division between hamas, this is a devasting disaster, this this is the worst thing that happened to us. Again, we have to face it by reviving the National Project in the pala
Familiar faces are enough to win. I will let you follow up on that. , we have very different characteristics. We have gone through a phase last election where republicans had many more seats that they could challenge. And a date addition to the in addition to the number of seats, republicans did very well last election picking up extremely red states that had democratic senators. There were six states that were rock red republican states and they had open seats. Republicans picked up all of them, plus North Carolina and if you swing states as well. Those of the prompt those are the prime targets than a world that is well aligned for the republicans are Holding Republican seats and democrats are Holding Democrat seats. What does this election look like . 24 big numbers are, republicans of four election, while there are only 10 democrats of your seats. And they just looking ahead, if in thek at 2018, and is opposite direction with only eight republicans and 23 or if 25 count the independ