Organizations on legislation recently passed in the senate which is expected to be taken up in the house. This is 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. The committee will come to order. I am pleased to have this opportunity today to hear directly from organizations that work with, represent or support millions of veterans every day. This committee has gatheredli today to hear from these organizations their firsthand perspective and reasons they support our comprehensive Suicide Prevention legislation, s. 785, the commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health care improvement act. This is a legislation that is been before this committee and before the senate, and i wanted to give the opportunity to those Veterans Service organizations and others the ability to tell us any thoughts that in regard to this legislation as we negotiate with the house in its p
The low 70s. Our coolest one of what will be increasingly warm forecast talking more about that still to come. Weve interviewed is qualified and ive narrowed down youll find out shortly. Shortly could be any moment the decision coming from joe biden about who his running mate will be for Vice President all signs pointing to a woman of color. Jeff zeleny gives us the latest. 2 of the final contenders to be joe bidens running mate just happened to be alongside him at the last rally of the primary. California senator Kamala Harris and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer before he clinched the nomination and coronavirus change the campaign. His decision is coming any day now ahead of next weeks Democratic Convention every one of the women time. Weve interviewed is qualified and i narrowed it down youll find out shortly aides tell cnn hes narrowing it down from a list of at least 11 women who have undergone extensive vetting people close to the search believe Harris Whitmer and former Obama
Youre not the dominant race you are excluded from the courts and education and access we as a country try to you are wrong. We are not done with the journey almost every delegation under every flag everyone marching looks like. Until the United States marches in and you see this great diversity of athletes and it reminds us again in the past ten days should remind us we are not done so to do the hard work with their own families and do that legislative work that needs to be done to make progress but lets keep going. And tell it is done my friend said to me last weekend founding documents are great we just never live them out for everybody. I cannot wait for us to continue the work in this body toward becoming a more perfect union. I yield the floor. Las americanser gettembe for us to gather together but last monday gave us an opportunity that we should take every day to pause and remember the brave americans who gave their lives in defense of our country and we honor the sacrifices the
Before we proceed to todays hearing id like to take a moment to recognize last monday was memorial day. It was a different memorial day for me and other americans than normal and it was more difficult for us to gather together. But last monday gave us an opportunity, an opportunity that we should take every day to pause and remember the brave americans who gave their lives in defense of our country. And we honor the sacrifices they made to keep us free. While let me start by saying that the veterans we honored on memorial day, they served our country and that peaceful protests are a demonstration of the freedom our veterans served to safeguard and protect. And while we reject the defacing of our National Monuments i would take another moment to express my gratitude the National Park service, its employees and volunteers who quickly restored our memorials. All of them but especially those that recognize the service of our men and women particularly the world war ii memorial. I know that
Offshore areas. Secondly, we will explore how that is distributed and shared with state, local, and tribal governments. Then we will hear testimonies that will both revenue sharing from onshore renewable and onshore developments. Both bills under consideration are sponsored by members of this committee. Senator cassidy, introducing in s14 the coastal act, and senator mcsally, introducing the energy reproducing act. Thank you for introducing legislation that would bring revenuesharing for coastal producing states into parity with onshore development. Congress lay the foundation for offshore revenuesharing through the passage of the gulf of Mexico Energy security act in 2006. At that time the bill did not include alaska. The coastal act that we are considering now would establish a revenuesharing program that would include alaska and, at the current time, our offshore production is pretty minimal and therefore any returns to the state are equally minimal. It is important to address this