Change the House Oversight subcommittee on the environment held its fifth hearing on Climate Change. Everybody sits together we will get started the subcommittee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time so to discuss Climate Change on the future Economic Impact i will defer the Opening Statement for myself and when we spoke earlier i mentioned the fact we would hopefully to do a hearing we have time for Opening Statements but what i would like to do is to give each of you the opportunity to do so. Let me introduce the four of you have all freight oh gomez from the Accountability Office senior director for environmental risk the institute for Economic Freedom doctor greenstone Milton Friedman and the honorable Stephen Benjamin mayor from south carolina. So you are now recognized to give an oral presentation of your testimony for five minutes. I am pleased to be here today how to limit the federal government fiscal exposure by reducing
Everybody sits together we will get started the subcommittee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time so to discuss Climate Change on the future Economic Impact i will defer the Opening Statement for myself and when we spoke earlier i mentioned the fact we would hopefully to do a hearing we have time for Opening Statements but what i would like to do is to give each of you the opportunity to do so. Let me introduce the four of you have all freight oh gomez from the Accountability Office senior director for environmental risk the institute for Economic Freedom doctor greenstone Milton Friedman and the honorable Stephen Benjamin mayor from south carolina. So you are now recognized to give an oral presentation of your testimony for five minutes. I am pleased to be here today how to limit the federal government fiscal exposure by reducing risk this is an area on our high risk list since 2013 recent disaster has shown the need for planning
Our free video mobile app. Up next, former Michigan Republican congress and talks about the indictment of former President Donald Trump and he also discusses his support for a Bipartisan Group called no labels which is a is organizing a campaign for a third third party on the ballot. Live. I am the reporter here at the washington post. Our guest is former republican from michigan it, fret up in. Fred upton. Welcome back. Fred its nice to see you. Host lets get right to the news. Donald trump was indicted for a third time on charges that he tried to disrupt the 2020 election. You said this was totally justified. Your vote to impeach mr. Trump for those actions, why do you feel vindicated . Fred we saw it firsthand. Those of us that were there in the capital that day casting the vote at 8 00 when the house came back because of the insurrectionists that were there. The bottom line was he really did try to not allow the counting of the electoral votes on january 6. We see the conspiracy ch
Decline. You can see we are looking at west texas intermediate trading for a 3. 48 83. 48. We will have the results in just a moment. General motors has unveiled its first all electric cadillac escalade. It is called the escalade i q. I caught up with the president of gm about the announcement. The current escalade, we sold over one million units. One out of every three of these suvs in this luxury segment is an escalade. We have an x successful brand and it is an on believable vehicle for General Motors but this is added business. We are going to be the first ones to bring it here with an iconic brand and this is in addition to the internal Combustion Engine escalade and you can see it in the next step of the deadlock the the design language of the escalade. The escalade standard of the world. Matt you already have the hummer, which is on the cutting edge of everything and early adopters who are waiting for a big electric vehicle, i assume went out and got that. Who is left to buy the
Attention. Ask the mayors that are in the room to please be seated and at the table. Others please feel free to sit in chairs along the wall. Were going to go ahead and get started so we can make an attempt to stay on schedule. Welcome, everyone, wish you good morning to the special climate secti section. The staff gave it the title. Todays leadership confronting tomorrows challenges. Ill talk more about that soon. I am jim brainard. Im the mayor of carmel, indiana, and cochair of the Energy Independence and Climate Protection Task force. I want to introduce my colleague and fellow cochair, san jose mayor sam liccardo in just a few moments. Let me ask all the mayors who are present here this morning to introduce yourselves that are speakers and others will know who is participating. Start with greg stanton. Good morning. Im greg stanton, mayor of phoenix, i chair the mayors Conference Energy committee. Good morning. My name is Javier Gonzalez. Im the mayor of the city of santa fe, and