More awareness, concern, understanding about the issue now than there was. There is an important recognition on the part in general, that the activities of man on the planet are actually dangerously degrading the ecosystem that sustains all of us. Oceans, airports. We have a long way to go, but at least there is it better public understanding by the legislators, governors, congress, that this is a vital issue. Air, water, soil, rivers, oceans, and so forth. That determines our standard of living in the quality of our lives and all of these resources for many years, it is time we undertake a very serious effort to stop the degradation and help to give nature a chance to do some restoration, at least where the damage has not then irreparable. You mentioned the public and legislatures. What do you hope people will take away from this in 1990 . Sen. Nelson i think the objective, the most important objective of this earth day, are the same as 1970. My purpose than was make demonstrations so
Good morning. Good morning everybody. Thank you so much for joining us and good morning to our viewers on cspan im sarah and president of the alliance for Health Policy, and really pleased to be here today with phil pearce and worldwide, and to introduce the admiral brett who is the assistant secretary for Health Opinion hes our 16th assistant secretary for health in the the United States department of health an Human Services and as i understand it its now two Year Anniversary in the role he serves as a secretarys Principal Public Health and science advisor, and hes responsible for coordinating efforts across the administration to fight americas Opioid Crisis. He also oversees the the office of the Surgeon General and u. S. Public Health Service Commission Core. His office leads many Critical National initiatives including a historic new plan to end the hiv epidemic in america the physical afnght tbliens for americans, National Vaccine plan, with and across Agency Effort to improve th
I am so excited you all are taking it. Announcer there is still time to enter the competition. You have until january 20 to create a 56 minute documentary wantexplores an issue you a president ial candidate to address during campaign 2020. There is a grand prize of 5,000. For more information, go to our website, studentcam. Org. Washingtoncspans journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Coming up wednesday morning, on new years day, we check in with talkshow hosts from around the country asking whether their audience is optimistic or pessimistic about the year ahead in washington. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal live at 7 00 eastern wednesday morning. Join the discussion. Announcer next, a look at workersto protect , directed at Land Management agencies. Subcommittee on National Parks and public land will come to order. Statements are slim to the chair in the ranking minority member. Therefore, i ask unanimous consent that all other members Opening
Increase of federal workers overseeing protected lands in nevada and montana. And a house subcommittee is looking to protect federal workers on federal parks and wildlife refuges and other open spaces spaces. The subcommittee on National Parks and for ests will come to order. We are meeting to hear about antipublic lands extremism. Under Committee Rule 4f, any oral statements are limited to the chair and the ranking minority member. And therefore i ask unanimous consent that all other members Opening Statements be made part of the hearing rect if they are submitted to the clerk by 5 00 p. M. Today. Hearing no objection, so ordered. Thank you all for being here on the subcommittee of National Parks and forests public hearing on combatting the antipublic lands extremism. We are here in part to review the results of a recent Government Accountability Office Report detailing the impacts of government extreermtism on the Government Land managers and facilities. As we will hear the report fo
Statements are slim to the chair in the ranking minority member. Therefore, i ask unanimous consent that all other members Opening Statements be made part of the hearing record if they are submitted to the clerk by 5 pm today. Hearing no objections, so ordered. Thank you all for being here today for the subcommittee on National Parks, forests in public lands hearing on combatting anti public lands extremism. We are here today in part to review the results of our recent Government Accountability Office Report detailing the impact of Anti Government extremism and public land managers in federal facilities. As we will hear, that report found some shocking details about the threats these federal employees faced just doing their jobs. Federal land managers and Law Enforcement personnel have been followed around in stores, had their homes sticks out, and have even faced attempted murder at the hands of those who promote Anti Government ideologies. I hope that we can all agree that this is un