Good afternoon. I call this meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules now we have set up any mileage us to which members can send anything they wish to submit they wish to submit in writing in any of her hearings or markups. Our hearings or markups. Has been provided to staff. The first order of business is consideration of the energy and Water Development appropriations bill. For fiscal year 2021. Captornow recognize this ms. Captor to present the bill. Please let me also add my you for your honorable and dedicated service to our community and nation and for your recognition of the full potential of this bill. You will truly be missed. I am pleased to consider the energy and water bill today. It is a good bill. A bill that captures the spirit of ingenuity and independence of the American People. Are actually able to provide the most important Climate Change bill congress will pass this year. This bill provides the foundation of critical investme
Assistant secretary bob cadlic here today to talk. Welcome to todays meeting. I am executive Vice President of worldwide government, legal, and Business Affairs at mcandrews and forbes incorporated. I will be presiding over todays discussion. I will have the privilege of leading a conversation for 30 minutes, and then i will open it to questions and answers. We will end promptly at 1 30 as you might imagine. These gentleman are very busy right now dealing with coronavirus. So, lets just start looking back over roughly the past decade, emerging Infectious Diseases played a recurring and ominous theme, be it the h 1n 1, ebola, zika, and now the 2019 novel coronavirus, the threat is clearly not dissipating. When it coming to nondisease natural disasters, stafford act provides Disaster Relief fund to enable immediate response. By comparison, theres small Infectious Disease Rapid Response need more stafford acte mechanisms to enable a quicker response to research these threats. Maybe ill ta
Good morning, everyone my name is and needed kumar im a White House Correspondent and associate editor at politico. Im so glad to be joined by the maryland governor, the chairperson of the National Governors association this year. We have a lot of things i want to talk about so we will talk about the environment and the Opioid Epidemic and well talk about security at the polls and of course we will talk a little bit about politics. Lets go ahead and get started. Good morning. There is a battle brewing between maryland in the epa over the chesapeake day cleanup. Youve expressed pennsylvanias lack of progress in reducing pollution on that day and them unwilling to do anything about it. What do you think is behind that, do you think that is because the Trump Administration is unwilling to go after pennsylvania in an Election Year . The Chesapeake Bay is a National Treasure ive been focused on the whole five years ive been governor and trying to focus on bay restoration and cleanup room. W
Think about, you know, possible strategies for moving forward. There is one piece of good news that ill mention, that in the recent appropriations package to talk about threats to Global Health could not be more timely. I am pleased to convene the meeting. Welcome to the council on Foreign Relations meeting. I am frances townsend, the executive Vice President of Worldwide Affairs at mcandrews inc. And i will be presiding over todays discussion. I will have the privilege of leading the conversation for 30 minutes, then i will open it up to questions and answers. We will end at 1 30 p. M. These gentlemen are very busy, as you can imagine, dealing with the coronavirus. By looking back , emergingast decade Infectious Diseases played a recurring and ominous theme, be it ebola, the zika virus, and now the novel coronavirus. The threat is not dissipating. When it comes to nondisease natural disasters the stafford act provides funds to enable Immediate Response by and by comparison there are s
City county task force on opiates that was done across the u. S. We had 20 elected officials at the city and county levels, intensity officials intent county officials. The mayor of little rock, arkansas, it was a cochair on the city side and i was a cochair on the county side. Youll be hearing from one of those Panel Members today when greg speaks. But our work that was done, seems like ages ago. Well be talking about that. I want to thank those of you here in person as well as those f you that are here virtually. We know this is being broadcast live stream and a special thank you to a. R. C. For your partnership. What we do in county government is all about partnerships. We partner with each other. We partner with various agencies especially great partners like aoc, we are thankful for that. This event is the culmination of a year Long Partnership to strengthen the local response on the opiate epidemic across the 13state region. A. R. C. Is a unique federal, state and local partnersh