Interior secretary will be testifying before the Natural Resources committee. You are watching live coverage on cspan 3. The committee will come to order. This morning the committee will discuss the president s proposed fiscal year 2025 budget for the department of interior. I would like to welcome secretary holland haaland and Denise Flanagan back to the committee. I want to thank you all three for joining us today. To set the scene the administration is requesting a 2 million for 2025. That is a 5 increase over fiscal year 2024. I think it is important to note for contexts that congress has also provided the Department Almost 50 billion in appropriations over the last three years to the bipartisan infrastructure law an Inflation Reduction Act. I look forward to discussing how the department is implementing those laws using the historic funding and justifications for the increase. It has been a year to the day since you were last before the committee for the fiscal year 2024 budget he
The incident. He said that no child, teacher or anyone else should everybody feel unsafe in an american school. Heres what we know about the shooter, Nikolaus Cruz was a a a former student and of g ammunition with him. Many turned to social media as the crisis unfolded. First i want to show you one students experience. Aidens message began, i am in a dwal sho actual shooting right now. I checked the local news and there are 20 victims. Aidan said love each other, you may never know when the last day you see someone. And nat tweeted this video of the Massive Police response, she tweeted i never thought i would see this in my city. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco tweets, too many families have lost someone to the senseless epidemic of gun violence. And Kamala Harris tweets, just awful, gutwrenching news, my heart breaks for the victims and families of the victims. And Melania Trump tweets, my heart is heavy over the School Shooting in florida, keeping all affected in
Speaker members of the congress, i have a high privilege and distinct honor to present to you our former colleague, the president of the United States. [applause] president bush thank you very much. Mr. President , mr. Speaker, members of the United States congress i return as a former president of the senate and a former member of this great house. And now, as president , it is my privilege to report to you on the state of the union. Tonight,i come not to speak about the state of the government, not to detail every new initiative we plan for the coming year nor to describe every line in the budget. Im here to speak to you and to the American People about the state of the union, about our world the changes weve seen, the challenges we face and what that means for america. There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after. And many of us in this chamber have lived much of our lives in a world whose fundamental features were defined i
Showers falling in the desert southwest, socal, near sierra. Keep in mind if traveling across the state today, especially across the sierra and northern california, youll run into rain. At home, another dry day. Temperatures in the low to mid60s this afternoon. At the coastline, temperatures in the upper 60s. San francisco at 68 degrees, mix of sun and clouds. North bay and east bay, temperatures range from the 70s to 80s. It will be warm in the trivalley. Temperatures yesterday got close to 90 degrees. Today closer to 80. Less humidity, less heat. That continues this upcoming week. We have a hurricane making its way to hawaii. We will talk about that. And will that effect weather here . Probably not. If traveling. Last trip before school starts. Anthony, thank you. We begin with continuing coverage of several major wildfires in northern california. California governor jerry brown describes the state as a tinder box, declaring a state of emergency. This map shows the locations of many
Take it a capitol hill for the interior secretary will be testifying before the Natural Resources committee. You are watching live coverage on cspan 3. The committee will come to order. This morning the committee will discuss the president s proposed fiscal year 2025 budget for the department of interior. I would like to welcome secretary holland haaland and Denise Flanagan back to the committee. I want to thank you all three for joining us today. To set the scene the administration is requesting a 2 million for 2025. That is a 5 increase over fiscal year 2024. I think it is important to note for contexts that congress has also provided the Department Almost 50 billion in appropriations over the last three years to the bipartisan infrastructure law an Inflation Reduction Act. I look forward to discussing how the department is implementing those laws using the historic funding and justifications for the increase. It has been a year to the day since you were last before the committee for