Screeria nigeria. National review host an idea summit examining conservatism. Next, a hearing on seafood industry and regulations. Louisiana senator david vitter has introduced legislation that would increase inspection standards on imported seafood to ensure foreign inspectors meet Safety Standards. This hearing is an hour and 20 minutes. Good afternoon. Were going to start our hearing today on the impact of federal labor and safety laws on the u. S. Seafood industry. Thanks for joining us today. Were going to be hearing from two panels of expert witnesses and stakeholders a federal panel who ill introduce in a minute and then a stakeholder panel. I want to thank all of our witnesses for being here today to testify on these important issues. As anyone who has visited louisiana knows, we enjoy great quality seafood and that plays a major role in our culture and in our economy. And this is true for other states in the United States. It is an important part of our economy. In louisiana t
I want to try to explore some of the different Delivery Systems that youre talking about there, whether its space heating, efficient design, housing technologies. I was out in an isolated territory with the secretary of state on friday. You realize how isolated these communities are, even communities of significant size and significant resource. But the challenges they face, they also are exclusively powered by diesel. And expensive. Extraordinarily, extraordinarily expensive. So how we deal with this. And weve got so much to learn from one another. And this is where i think we have certain advantages coming at us as we take over the chair of the arctic counsel, how we can be partnering with our northern neighbors in understanding some of the best technologies that are out there. But i would encourage us to look at what we have, developing in alaska, whether its the Cold Climate Housing Research center, the Innovative Technologies that have been coming out of there in regards to sustai
Facts of this case the Economic Situation are somewhat different that are ordinarily true in this industry because as handlers the hornes actually assumed the full financial responsibility for the raisins that were not turned over to the department of agricultural. The producers in this case were fully paid for their raisins. This is a factual finding to be found in the judicial officers opinion at 66 a of the appendix to the petition. The hornes paid the producers for their raisins corn to the judicial officer, those raisins became part of the inventory of the hornes. When the risen Administrative Committee which i will refer to as the r. A. C. Came after the raisins it was the hornes and the hornes only who bore the economic burden of this taking. I thought the growers were paid only for the volume that they were permitted that was permitted the permitted volume and that they were not paid for what goes in the reserve pool . Justice ginsburg that is true in the ordinary coarse. That
In Rural Communities, and we think the need is largely met in that program, not only through federal funding, but through state and private sector funding, but we do allow people to come in through our outreach funding to get at the same issue. They could come in for outreach funding or Network Funding for a request in the budget and do the same thing in the sense they can develop a program that seeks to purchase supplies and put them in the communities. The remaining need out there, it can be met through the outreach program. And the hospital Improvement Program youd continue is a 25 Million Program . Yes, sir. That in the current Year Spending 25 and preparing another 25 next year . Correct . The 20 this year for similar purposes goes away in the president s budget . Yes. The program, theres no request for that, funded historically at 15 million and the other 5 million is request for emergency devices program. What are the what obstacles do you see in telehealth. We have people telli
Think, would have made things clearer and simpler and responsibility for the immigration mess were in now lies with congress not with you, and with congress for failing to pass the senates bipartisan bill, which i was strong supporter of. I would like to talk about cybersecurity. There is going to be cyberweek on the senate floor. There is work in the house. We have bipartisan bills pending on information sharing between federal agencies and the Big Communications providers. On Agency Public reporting on the cyberthreat to increase Public Awareness of coordinating National Notification when companies have data breaches. And updating some of the criminal penalties. When we first were working on comprehensive cybersecurity legislation, another main piece of this effort was on the Critical Infrastructure piece. What i hear quite widely is that the dhs led framework process that has pulled together a great number of Critical Infrastructure Industry Sectors is going very well. As a result o