Good morning. My name is kevin gaines and its a pleasure to welcome you to the Miller Center for a conversation about the postpresidency of barack obama. In his farewell address, president obama spoke of threats to american democracy and called for an actively engaged and vigilant citizenry to preserve democracy. It falls to each of us, he said, to be those anxious, jealous, guardian of democracy, contemplating his future as a private citizen after the honor of serving his fellow americans. Obama pledged, as he put it, that he will be right, right there with you. As a citizen, for all my remaining days, he urged Young Americans to believe in themselves and their ability to effect change. We know what happened next. The Trump Administration sought to undo the policies of his predecessor, and at every turn, trump sought to undermine the democratic norms that obama had extolled and defended. Adhering to political custom. Obama remained largely silent for most of the one term Trump Adminis
Good morning. My name is kevin gaines and its a pleasure to welcome you to the Miller Center for a conversation about the postpresidency of barack obama. In his farewell address, president obama spoke of threats to american democracy and called for an actively engaged and vigilant citizenry to preserve democracy. It falls to each of us, he said, to be those anxious, jealous, guardian of democracy, contemplating his future as a private citizen after the honor of serving his fellow americans. Obama pledged, as he put it, that he will be right, right there with you. As a citizen, for all my remaining days, he urged Young Americans to believe in themselves and their ability to effect change. We know what happened next. The Trump Administration sought to undo the policies of his predecessor, and at every turn, trump sought to undermine the democratic norms that obama had extolled and defended. Adhering to political custom. Obama remained largely silent for most of the one term Trump Adminis
Good morning. My name is kevin gaines and its a pleasure to welcome you to the Miller Center for a conversation about the postpresidency of barack obama. In his farewell address, president obama spoke of threats to american democracy and called for an actively engaged and vigilant citizenry to preserve democracy. It falls to each of us, he said, to be those anxious, jealous, guardian of democracy, contemplating his future as a private citizen after the honor of serving his fellow americans. Obama pledged, as he put it, that he will be right, right there with you. As a citizen, for all my remaining days, he urged Young Americans to believe in themselves and their ability to effect change. We know what happened next. The Trump Administration sought to undo the policies of his predecessor, and at every turn, trump sought to undermine the democratic norms that obama had extolled and defended. Adhering to political custom. Obama remained largely silent for most of the one term Trump Adminis
Good morning. My name is kevin gaines and its a pleasure to welcome you to the Miller Center for a conversation about the postpresidency of barack obama. In his farewell address, president obama spoke of threats to american democracy and called for an actively engaged and vigilant citizenry to preserve democracy. It falls to each of us, he said, to be those anxious, jealous, guardian of democracy, contemplating his future as a private citizen after the honor of serving his fellow americans. Obama pledged, as he put it, that he will be right, right there with you. As a citizen, for all my remaining days, he urged Young Americans to believe in themselves and their ability to effect change. We know what happened next. The Trump Administration sought to undo the policies of his predecessor, and at every turn, trump sought to undermine the democratic norms that obama had extolled and defended. Adhering to political custom. Obama remained largely silent for most of the one term Trump Adminis
This is just over two hours and 20 minutes. Let me call this hearing to order. We are here to examine the implementation of the drinking and wastewater portions of the bipartisan infrastructure law, this is helping to deliver clean Drinking Water to millions of households and schools across our country. Before we do that, let me say how grateful i am to both panels for joining us today, including representatives of Drinking Water and large utilities. We are appreciative of the assistant administrator who leads epas office of water. The love our guests. We want to remember this day. Yesterday, the Biden Administration took a major step in addressing the presence of toxic forever chemicals in our Drinking Water. This announcement was some 20 years in the making, and issue we are dealing with in 48 states. I want to commend the administrator, assistant administrator and all of epa for proposing a thoughtful, sciencebased National Drinking standard. Its a critical step to protecting Drinki