I well and welcome the Hudson Institutes dialogue foreignpolicy series. Im walter need your fellow at Hudson Institute is my pleasure to be joined by a Sabrina Carter the chief Foreign Policy advisers for the Vice President and bank and former deputy secretary of state and deputy of National Secretary National Security adviser. During his career mr. Thomas lane has held a number of distinguished government positions. He was National Security adviser to Vice President biden during io bomb administration but also served as the senate staff director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008 and the National Security Council Staff during the clinton administration. During his time at the state department mr. Blinken played an instrument to world the diplomatic effort to counter ice is pretty worked on the global refugee crisis and rebalance of asia. His a contributing opinion writer for the near times and the Global Affairs analyst for cnn. Its good to see you and thank
Law enforcement following the militarys involvement in recent protests around the country. They were asked about alleged russian bounties against u. S. Troops, and the debate over military bases named after confederate soldiers. Military bases named after confederate soldiers. Chairman smith i call the meeting to order. I welcome our witnesses, secretary of defense esper and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley. We appreciate you being here today. I do have to read an Opening Statement here about procedure in light of the fact that we do have members who are participating remotely in his hearing, in accordance with house rules. So i will do that and then a couple other programming notes and we will get started. I would like to welcome members who are joining todays markup remotely. Those members are reminded that they must be visible on screen within the Software Platform for the purposes of Identity Verification for maintaining a coram participating, and voting. We will not be
Out of the house of representatives, the george floyd reform in policing act. That bill is languishing in the senate. We wanted to highlight today the efforts of the Congressional Black Caucus. Inspired that people can understand this is not one tragedy, and anomaly. It is a manifestation of deeper problems in our country. I am very proud to be joined by members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who have been on the frontline in the house of representatives fighting for change. They will share those areas they have been fighting for. After you hear messages from congress, i will i have the open it up for comments. Representative of introducing barbara lee. She is the founder of the task force in the house of representatives to address poverty. We have a slogan in the house and in her district. Barbara lee fights for me. She is always on the front lines fighting for social and Economic Justice in our communities. You,e bring before congressman barbara lee. Thank you madam chair. Thank
Many liberals think obama didnt do enough. He was given an emergency opportunity and should have pushed harder for a bigger stimulus to repair the country. So House Appropriations subcommittee is going to review 2021 spending levels for transportation and housing and urban Development Department as well as other related agencies. No changes are expected before sending it to the full committee, but we do expect statements from members. Good morning, everyone. Subcommittee will come to order. I certainly appreciate everyones flexibility and good humor, as we gather around under these socially distanced circumstances. The covid pandemic has certainly made for some unique challenges, but it hasnt deterred us from conducting our critical appropriations work on behalf of the american people. So im proud to unveil this fiscal 2021 transportation, housing, and urban development and related agencies appropriations bill. I want to briefly mention some of the bills highlights, but i want to first
The country that gave us hot rods and hula hoops has a new fad, skateboards. It looks like some inventor combined skating and skiing. Skateboarding started off as just another toy. What made it into big business was the discovery of a new type of plastic that allowed the skateboards to go faster and maneuver more easily. That is when the wheels really began to roll. With the speed and flexibility of new wheels, every child began to act as if walking was obsolete. The dangers of skateboarding on city streets brought about dozens of skateboard parks where Safety Equipment can be rented. Like a ski slope, there are runs for beginners and half pipes for advanced. And bowls for variety. As in competition, there is freestyle where you invent your own trick. In just a few years, these youngsters have raised the pasttime to the level of professional sport. Practicing to enter a competition, this young man is polishing his freestyle routine. At speeds of up to 60 kilometers per hour, the racers