There has been many, many cases of i asked my question. Im sorry but there is a body of law associate with First Amendment activities on the mall. Let me give you a for instance. The chamber of the Lincoln Memorial is not available for First Amendment activities. So thats in statute, or in regulation. Nor is the chamber of the jefferson, but the plaza is. In the case of the world war ii memorial, the entire memorial is open to First Amendment activities. Except in this case when the barricades were put up because of, well, i dont know, maybe we will really find out where that came from. Last question, and im over time and i try not to do that. I really try to hear to that in my committee. I guess the obvious question is, is all of this decision that was made regarding restricting activity, was that your decision . Yes, sir. It was. Totally your decision . Yes, sir. Was. Thank you. I want to recognize now mr. Defazio. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, this is a photograph from the
We closed and secured all the 401 National Parks across the country. And furloughed more than 20,000 of our employees consistent with the antideficiency act. Approximately 3,000 flows were excepted from the furlough to respond threat, the safety of human life, and the production of property. The closure has far reaching impact across the country on families with planned visits, businesses, gateway community, and employees. The National Park system welcomes more than 383 Million People every year. The park are loved not only because they are beautiful and historic because they are well managed, protected, and interpreted and maintained by a professional work force, a work force that is now largely on furloughed. The National Parks are incredible economic drivers. In communities near National Park and contribute 76 million each day to the National Economy. In response to the Economic Impact of the closure the secretary announced on october 10th. They would consider agreement with governo
Latest. The first opportunity weve had to ask President Biden questions in a formal setting hen even though fox wasnt called on initially right after the president spoke about a goal of 1 million vaccines a day, i got his attention. I know he always asked me tough questions, always as an edge to him, but i like him anyway, go ahead and ask a question. Think you, mr. President. You think within three weeks or so, we will be at the point where there are 1 million vaccines per day. I think we will get there before that. I misspoke. I hope we will be able to increase as we go along until they get to a million and five a day. Thats my hope. Republicans had already been pointing out a million shots a day is a low bar. Thats not a big new goal, thats exactly what they inherited from the Trump Administration and operation warp speed. So President Biden is raising his goal for the first 100 days. With the grace of god and the creek not rising as the old saying goes, we may be able to get that t
These can be cured either by the. Rrival of a figure with that, i will conclude. Thanks for that, jeff. Thanks to all of you for coming out today for lunch. Bitgoing to deal a little with the opposition politically where jeff left off in his presentation. Ive been dealing with the Syrian Opposition now for about. 3 years it has changed a lot over time. Disorganized it is. They are unable to plan. All of these things are true. But does not mean they are not worth investigating. Everyone has different theories about why this is. Some people have argued that everyone else funds different groups and they have different clients inside of the country and it is what is coming the division. There might be something to those theories. He goes back between the older thesition and inside of group. There is a certain psychological aspect that is overlooked. An agent is to my segment of this work with it. People whou have emerge from the living under to radical system like the assad regime which is
It is 4. 5 hours. Like sows everybody doing out there . It is a privilege to welcome you to a celebration and commemoration. On this day 50 years ago hundreds of thousands of people came together to be part of a call to action. It would defy not just the Civil Rights Movement but it reminds us of who we are as americans. What is the dream . Was delivered right here. Imagine what it was like to be here 50 years ago. Hundreds of thousands of people came together to be part of a call to action. There were rumors that coming here would be dangerous. There were fears that nobody would show up. In the end, it was a success because people believed in the power of standing for something. That speech by dr. King was not called, i have a dream. It was called, normalcy never again. It was about opportunity for all people. It was about looking forward to where we need to go as a country, which reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from 50 years ago. He said, the future does not belong to those w