Impeachment proceedings. It seems like morning, noon, and night the relentless effort to unseat the president of the United States is a toxic strain of potomac fever infecting capitol hill. Now if only congress would channel every waking minute to fix problems in the real world, wouldnt that be wonderful. Let me provide a reality check. For People Living in the real world, impeachment inquiry is not what keeps americans up at night. Its not what wakes up moms and dads worried sick about paying for their childs insulin. Its not what drains the pocketbooks of seniors and takes a big bite out of peoples paychecks. The issue that unites americans from maine to iowa to oregon is the high skyhigh prices that americans and the taxpaying public pay for are paying for prescription medicine. As chairman of the Senate Finance committee, i am working in a bipartisan way to fix whats broken in our drug supply chain. In february we called the heads of big pharma to testify before the finance committ
Excellent panel and were start off with heather. Thank you so much. I think the arctic is the best place to talk about the intersection of climate stress and security. In many ways, the arctic is telling us, both polar regions are telling us theyre under the most stress as the arctic is warming two to three times faster than anyplace on the planet. In many ways, were now dealing with a very new ocean. In fact our former coast guard commandant called the arctic americas fourth coast. I thought that was a powerful way of thinking about it because Many Americans do not know the United States as an arctic nation to bring it home, this is homeland security. We now have a new coast that requires our protection. That is what in many ways the nexus between the rapid diminishment of the arctic polar ice cap is now creating new borders, new coasts to protect. Which is why we need enhanced coast guard presence. Certainly thats through the enhanced ice breaker component, what we call a polar secur
What that means now in the policy and the security space. Im excited to have an excellent panel to talk about that. Weve got heather conley, our vice president. We have john. We have sara glasser, the Deputy Director of secure fisheries and amy lair, the director of our human rights initiative. Thank you to the panel, and im going to sit down and be quiet and turn it over to my excellent panel, and well start off with heather. Thank you so much. Good morning, everyone. I think the arctic is the best place to talk about that intersection of climate stress and security. And in many ways the arctic is telling us, actually, both polar regions are telling us theyre under the most dramatic stress as the arctic certainly is warming two to three times faster than any place on the planet. And in many ways we are now dealing with a very new ocean. In fact, our former coast guard commandant called the arctic americas fourth coast. I thought that was a powerful way of thinking about it in part bec
Climate on oceans, Marine Biodiversity and human populations living in vulnerable areas. I appreciate it andthanks to our first panel. Ive enjoyed the conversation. I think were going to pick up on the end of that conversation around this idea of the Dynamic World and what that means now in the policy and security space so im excited to have an excellent panel to talk about that. Heatherconley , John Mimikakis was Vice President for oceans Environmental Defense fund, there was director of fisheries and amy lehr who is the director of the Human Rights Initiative so think the panel and im going to sit down and be quiet and handed over to my panel and we will start off. Thank you so much, good morning. I think the arctic is a tough place to talk about. The intersection of climate stress and security. And in many ways, the arctic is telling us, actually most polar regions are telling us they are under the most dramatic stress as the arctic certainly is warming 2 to 3 times faster than any
Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united dates. [ applause ] [ applause ] thank you, thank you very much. It is great to have you and i hope that you all had a truly wonderful Independence Day weekend. In spite of the heavy rain and it was really heavy, he had a remarkable salute to america on the national mall. It was incredible. [ applause ] standing on the steps of the Great Lincoln memorial and looking out on the crowd there were incredible dutiful crowds braving the weather all the way back to the washington monument. We celebrated freedom in all of its magnificence while saluting our great military. This was something really special. I will say this, it was a wonderful day for all americans and based on its tremendous success, we are just making the decision and i think we can say we have made the decision to do it again next year and maybe we can say for the foreseeable future. [ applause ] as we celebrate our nations founding, we are reminded once more of our profound