I call this hearing of the Senate Environment Public Works Committee to order and would like to defer to the Ranking Member senator harper. I thank the chairman. I apologize to our witnesses, some of them who come quite a distance. The democratic leader and senate is caused for the emergency caucus meeting to discuss the issues leading up to the dismissal of james comey as fbi director and to discuss how we might move quickly to ensuring that a special prosecutor is assigned and put to work right away. And if i have the opportunity, i will come back and perhaps my colleagues i really appreciate the understanding of this and give me a chance to give the opening statement, first. Good to see you all, thank you, this is important stuff. In the lessons that youve learned, challenges that youve faced and what you think we need to know. Im not sure we could have gathered a more knowledgeable or relevant panel. All together our witnesses represent nearly a century of Natural Resource environm
Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac delays of over certain period of time. So we have tried to help the traveling public and to know what their rights are and thats right on our website. Im not so sure what the protocol is but im going to make this point. 21 did streamline procurement, but the procurement of faa equipment is still a problem. We are still dealing with vacuum tubes and paper strips. Theres such a long gap of what we need to do. So without being disrespectful i wanted to respond to the ranking on that, that despite air 20, theres not been that much improvement, unfortunately. Ms. Chao, thank you. I wanted to talk to you about drones and drone legislation. Maneuver 750,000 owners have registered their drones. Congress is happy about this accomplishment in relatively a short amount of time and looking forward to getting to 100 . But they ruled that the faas regulation requiring drone registration for Recreational Use is illegal. My bassic question is what are we going
Thank you for being here to join us to talk about title 9 protections for students across our country. Leader pelosi, thank you for being here. You have been a tireless advocate on this issue throughout your career. And representative franco thank you for your leadership on the democratic working womens group. Youve led this group to confront tough and very important issues that weve been facing here and e certainly want to thank all of my colleagues as well. Under title 9 law schools are legally required to remedy hostile education environments. After years of reports from students that their schools are not responding appropriately to cases of Sexual Assault, the department made a push in the last few years to enforce this critical law. In recent days weve been shocked by comments by the department of education that seem to downplay this trauma of Sexual Assault and undo the progress weve made. Comments like this are disqualifying for me public official, but its appalling to hear thi
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