Well thank you all for being here on Climate Smart from farm to building Food Supply Chains. We will review pathways to create a sustainable, affordable food chain that is resill yept in the face of Climate Change. We will examine opportunities for the food systems to be a climate solution while supporting human health and livelihood and i recognize myself for five minutes. Scorching temperatures and widespread disasters are putting lives at risk and harming communities across america. This week, families in southWest Virginia were the latest to face deadly floods like those that swept through Yellowstone National park. At the same time there is too little water across much of the west leading to wildfires and dangerously low levels. And stretched and forcing families and industries alike or risk air potential blackout and europe is facing what could be the worst heat wave in 200 years. So it was disappointing to learn that senator manchin is rejecting investments to address this inves
Of us that are living on the west coast, this is about the time when the dinner dishes are done, the kids homework is done, theyre in bed. You can actually sit down at your computer and go online and try to figure out what might be the best option for you on an exchange. But were being told that the exchange is going to be down between the time that most alaskans and certainly hawaiians that are time hours five difference instead of the four hours that alaskans are, that are not going to be able to go online and to address it there. Thats one aspect of it, is where we are with the exchanges and what thats going to mean if were still going to continue with the deadlines that have been put in place by the administration in terms of when you have to sign up by and when you may be assessed a fine or a penalty for failure to successfully enroll. I mentioned that on friday there were some 5,600 alaskans actually excuse me. 5,360 alaskans who received discontinuation notices from premiera. Pr
Workable are those solutions. I mean, if you just step back from men think about this, any new technology for connected vehicle they put into the marketplace at best will go on 50, 60 million vehicles in the United States in 87 the million globally. Here in the United States you have 303 million vehicles already in the car park and get you are only producing 15 fists or 16 million new vehicles each year. Have the really making effective with it might take utility years for the technology to propagate throughout. So regulators need to understand that legislating something instantaneously does not mean you fix the problem. In fact of you may cause a bigger problem. And you may increase the cost of the technology. So it is much better in my mind to try to work through and facility with the players to understand really what is possible. Can you me, could you do that would be the vehicle . Kirsten looking at this and thinking, well, if by major auto maker can i introduce it in my vehicles b
Well, good afternoon. Its been a long time in coming, but we are here. And its wonderful to have the opportunity to have all of us here today together. I was thinking, mr. Chairman, that when you and i started, i remember when i came into the house, we were kind of at the low end of the totem pole on the Agriculture Committees. And now we both have the honors of working together. And it really is an honor to work with you as we bring this final farm bill home. And thats what were all doing. This has been a wonderful process with our four agricultural leaders, with Ranking Member peterson, with Ranking Member cochran, and our first farm bill to pass the senate with Ranking Member pat roberts. We have had a very important, and i think, precedent setting opportunity to show how to govern. And we also have been working together for three years in a bipartisan way to reform and streamline agricultural policies that work were families and farmers and taxpayers going back to the super committ
Can model and maybe i can go to an example. It works and it works really well. It is a profit maker. It is a government arm, but a phenomenal example of how all things government are not bad, right . We need to figure out how we do that for infrastructure. We need to have a summit approach to that topic alone, because i think ports and rail and airports and all that, this is becoming a bottleneck. The Positive Side is the reason our Energy Market has become what it has become is because we have infrastructure. This countrys pipeline and Storage Networks and energy, which is why it is so important that we do not disable that that is why we have a Domestic Energy sector that is so competitive, to make a point. There is Proof Positive to why your question is something we ought to tackle. We move products all around the world, and our supply chain is world class. It rides on infrastructure, and and we see infrastructure across the world, and we have opportunities to improve the infrastruct