White house budget director young testified in President Bidens newly released 2025 budget request. She outlined some of the priorities laid out in the proposal including tax cuts for the middle class, lowering healthcare costs, childcare investments, and protections for Social Security and medicare. Other topics included funding for ukraine, National Debt, and inflation reduction. This is two hours. All right, let me call this hearing of the budget to order. All right. Let me call this hearing of the Budget Committee to order. Let me thank my colleagues for indulging the late start at 10 15 instead of 10 00 today because i had a presentation to make at the supreme court, so thank you for indulging that. I was presenting to the judicial conference. I dont know which one is which. [ laughter ] so, let me first say good morning to our Committee Members present and offer a special welcome to Shalanda Young. Director, it is always a pleasure to have you here before the committee. There is
Here you have the volume of the reservoir, the existing zeya hydroelectric power station is 11 cubic kilometers , the planned nizhnezeyskoe and zelendzhinskaya will add another 7. 5 m³ to this, so the zee silendzhi flow will be under control by 85 and the destructive power of floods along the coastal territories of russia is 4. 7 times and even in distant khabarovsk by 20 . And blagoveshchenko is already very close. You can sleep peacefully and the village. Yes, yes, they will sleep earlier in the soviet union. Hmm, there was a plan from the time of the guru when the soviet union actually flowed from one large construction project, hydroelectric power engineering, to the next construction site, and, uh, there were entire generations and families of hydroelectric power engineers, in fact, moving from one construction site to another construction site here. Eh, well, my personal dream and the hope of the entire rushydra company is that we will resume plans like this. Well, and another c
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Ballots are being counted in the race to see if there will be a former football great or liberias Vice President who will lead the nation the next six years. Im Richelle Carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the kremlin wants a new investigation into alexina bawling over his call to boycott next years president ial election after he was barred from running against Vladimir Putin. Mosul slowly comes back to life five months after the end of a brutal operation to retake the city from. A show to go on to play both of those terms. But. Listen to. The look back on the Political Violence that took the life of this couples six month old child in kenya. They began in liberia where polls have officially closed in the president ial runoff vote its the first democratic transition of power in the west african nation in seventy three years but turnout was pretty low choosing between former footballing superstar george way and experienced political operator and current Vice Presiden
Thank you, jim. Thank you, christine. Christine, you have a good voice. Lets move on. [laughter] let me join jim in welcoming you all to phoenix. I am pleased to see some any western governors here. We have a Great Program planned, and im delighted we can share this time together. Over the next two days we will have visits with Top Administration officials including the secretary of labor , the secretary of u. S. Foreston, service chief who will be visiting with us momentarily. And although he was not able to stay for todays activities, we visited with the secretary of agriculture. We will hear to other keynote speakers. The president of the arizona cardinals, and john ratzenberger. Most of you know john as the clavin from the tv show, cheers. Johnnk we will all enjoy speak about that. Johns comments will touch on one of the greatest challenges our nation faces which is vital to expanding our Economic Vitality in coming years. That is workforce of element. My initiative as chair is foc