Alex rondos, the special representative to the horn of africa discussed europes aid to that northeast region including thiopia, sudan and djibouti. It included a talk about the middle east influence in the region. Just a quick word about the Global Europe Program which i chair for the Woodrow Wilson program center. This is design today do Something Different because it looks at the stresses and issues that confront the continent of europe whether thats the arctic and the issues of Climate Change and trade. Whether thats migration or the big relationships with russia, with china and of course, the United States and mr. Its issues that confronted whether its issues that confronted in many issues and challenging ways. Our guests will be able to talk extremely eloquently in this ase around the horn of africa. Alex needs to introduction to any of you. Hes been the European Union special representative for the horn of africa he tells me eight years now. Its based now in nairobi and has been
Know, that the fires subside, and that, you know, many people are safe, and that mr. Huffman returns soon. So with that, the subcommittee on water, oceans and wildlife will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to hear a testimony on a sea of problems. The impacts of plastic pollution on oceans and wildlife. Under Committee Rule format, any oral Opening Statements at the hearings are limited to the chairman, the ranking minority member, the vice chair and the vice Ranking Member. This will allow us to hear from our witnesses sooner and help keep help members keep to their schedules. So therefore i ask for unanimous consent that all members Opening Statements be made a part of the hearing record. If they are submitted to the subcommittee clerk by 5 00 p. M. Today, or the close of the hearing, whichever comes first. Hearing no objections, so ordered. Ill open up and welcome all the witnesses. Were discussing a pressing environmental issue and thats plastic pollution. Certainly
20. Why are americans Young Diane Young at alarming rates . We will open up our phone lines for you this morning. If you are in the eastern or central time zones, we want to 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain or central time zones, call 202 7488001. Text us at 202 7488003 and we are always reading on social media, http twitter. Com cspanwj social media. Lets set the groundwork, first. Im going to read a little bit from report here so that you can see what we are going to talk about. Heres the article. Now i want to read from you a little bit from the actual report itself. Here is what it says. Hear from thes director of the cdc, dr. Robert redfield, discussing why the opioid outbreak is a crisis here in washington, d. C. Here is what he had to say. [video clip] the outbreak of our time is the opioid outbreak. Im going to stress that i think there are a lot of lessons for us from what we learned in the Ebola Outbreak. We dont need to wait for the perfect solution to the challenges
Good afternoon. It is not often that i get a musical introduction so i appreciate that very much. I think we will have some fun with our panel when they come up but as i think you know, i believe this is the program, we are going to have a special guest first and a little intimate conversation between this special guest and me and i feel very privileged to be able to chat with them. An old and dear friend, senator john warner. Senator warner is approaching old age but you would never know it. We have been sitting in the back and talking about old times in this race and that race and all kinds of things. I was thinking about his career and that is absolutely incredible because you can go back as far as world war ii and korea. He was in both of those wars, and he did not have to, he did not have to do the second one if he did the first one, but he was always willing to jump in and participate. He did lots of things in between, but lets start with secretary of the navy and early 1970s. Th
All of this for us. Edward, harsh words from the president. Yes, david, exactly. President donald trump and treasury secretary mnuchin, the agriculture secretary, sonny perdue, as well as two economic advisors made a major push for usmca today. They did some odd 70 between them interviews with local media to put pressure on House Democrats in their local districts. The president or at least one democrat now saying that they could see the usmca ratified before the end of the year. Critical to try to get this done before the end of the year. I agree with that. I think it would be a good idea also to i think it would help stabilize markets. I think this issue thats in front of the American People now as it relates to trade, where these subsidies going to american farmers, that doesnt solve the problem. The administration now thinks that House Speaker pelosi is holding up usmca to rally votes for impeachment. Pelosi had a meeting today with freshman democrats in the house. Theyre starting