Good afternoon. Good afternoon. This afternoon the president is looking forward to officially announcing the new chairman of his board of advisers or the White House Initiative on historically black universities. Johnny c. Taylor judge junior taking on this Important Role is the former. Of the thurgd marshal fund and currently for the society of Human Resource management. As you know the president previously signed skuft order promoting excellence and innovation at hbcus. He believes it will advance the Human Potential and with todays announcement he demonstrate his commitment to hbcus. Before taking questions i want to highlight the historic obstruction by Senate Democrats, an issue that represents a threat to americas interests and security. Compared to the four Previous Administrations this senate has confirmed the fewest nominees senator schumer tactics led to 73 fewer confirmations than the next closest administration. Half of president owe President Trumps nominees are still wait
We will call this hearing to order. Welcome, everyone this hearing is entitled the first power system [inaudible] including the cyclone. I would like to start by calling on the Ranking Member to get her opening statement. Thank you, and good morning to everyone. Im sure senator murkowski will be here shortly. As some people may know, a 7. 2 magnitude earthquake off the coast of alaska impacting kodiak and parts of the Pacific Northwest with tsunami warnings were issued for activities that were expected and those warnings for tsunami waves have been recalled but no doubt, dealing with lots of things this morning related to that and other issues. So i want to thank the witnesses, chairman mcintyre and mr. Walker for being here and many of the staff people that are glad w you are back in operation. We look forward to hearing from all of the witnesses on the subject of the reliability of the grid and its performance. Last year the secretary and staff reviewed the likability in regards of t
Be here shortly. As some people may know, a 7. 2 magnitude earthquake off the coast of alaska impacting kodiak and parts of the Pacific Northwest with tsunami warnings were issued for activities that were expected and those warnings for tsunami waves have been recalled but no doubt, dealing with lots of things this morning related to that and other issues. So i want to thank the witnesses, chairman mcintyre and mr. Walker for being here and many of the staff people that are glad w you are back in operation. We look forward to hearing from all of the witnesses on the subject of the reliability of the grid and its performance. Last year the secretary and staff reviewed the likability in regards of the changing mix and i was relieved when i saw the report in august which i thought was balanced. It distinguished between the reliability and resilience and described the emerging techniques to integrate more Renewable Resources including synthetic and frequency response and also recommended t
Improving the Voter Experience, but most of the panel i think will be focused on data and the importance of data and how we use it in the Elections Community. Weve got a great panel here for you. You have biographies in front of you, but my staff has provided some abbreviated biographies which i will read and we will start hearing from the panel. Ive asked each to speak for about five minutes or so from their perspective on this panel, and then i have some questions for them and then we will go to questions from you. Before get started, though, i want to thank you all for being here. Im really excited to kick off the 2018 elections. Its hard to believe its already 2018. Were kicking off the elections, but Election Officials have already started working on this the day after their last election. I know those of you who are Election Officials in the audience, this is not a kickoff for you. As others have said, its just the kickoff in january, but you all have been working on this electio
Have 9 members show up at every meeting and one of the members is the board of supervisors and we have only just recently gotten a board of supervisors on so that meant we were at 16 so if we ended up at 12 or 13, part is the nature of the fact that we have 5 people who are complinets who go through periods where they Mental Health issues and cant show up to meetings and the other is Family Members so they have a client in the family that goes into the crisis on the day of the meeting. Some of the nature of the board but maybe i emphasize we need quaurm too much. I have actually done very well. Terri, a board member, we havent missed quaurm in a year. My apology maybe just me saying we always need to keep quaurm there is 17 members is there a reason the body has to be so large . If you condense oo 7 or 9 . When i arrived in 1999 it was 17. I believe we are acchel the largest membership in the state and so i donti havent been able to find history that explains why we have 17 members. Th