Coordinating counsel. You have five minutes for opening statement. Thank you. Thank you for inviting me to testify today. My name is tom fanning. I am the chairman, president and ceo of southern company. Also the immediate past chairman of the electric institute. The association that represents all u. S. Investor electric companies. However im addressing you today in any role as one of three cochairs of the electricity sub sector coordinating counsel. We clob rate with colleagues from public power utility and Rural Electric corporatives. Im pleased to address the subcommittee and share the steps the electric Power Industry is taking to make Energy Infrastructure smarter and resilient. Allowing us to continue delivery affordable and reliable power. The 2017 Hurricane Season highlights the critical importance of corporation and coordination among electric Utility Companies. The government and other key Infrastructure Industries to ensure fast, efficient recovery for customers. The electr
Okay second panel. Are you ready . Just like before start out with Opening Statements from all the panelist followed by questions of members. I recognize thomas. Hes here on behalf of the electricity sub sector coordinating counsel. You have five minutes for opening statement. Thank you. Thank you for inviting me to testify today. My name is tom fanning. I am the chairman, president and ceo of southern company. Also the immediate past chairman of the electric institute. The association that represents all u. S. Investor electric companies. However im addressing you today in any role as one of three cochairs of the electricity sub sector coordinating counsel. We clob rate with colleagues from public power utility and Rural Electric corporatives. Im pleased to address the subcommittee and share the steps the electric Power Industry is taking to make Energy Infrastructure smarter and resilient. Allowing us to continue delivery affordable and reliable power. The 2017 Hurricane Season highl
Americans will have air strikes insurgents in ni iraq. Up to 35 when the Islamic State in june. Ame apparent that question also asked if were ameanable to expanding strikes to insurgents syria. 65 said they were. Army ked about the u. S. Urdish military oh against the insurgents, 68 said they would be in favor of that. To does the president need say to the American Public. Guest they need to make the case. War is bad. War is bad in the moral sense. Nations tely civilized have to resort to it to protect innocent people and protect their own citizens. Convince ent needs to the American People that this is the right thing to do to realistic threat, not the hype, but the real poses and lay s out at least the outline of the action s actions he feels we should take. A big fan of the president stridently delineating what were not going to do. A military standpoint, its nice to keep the enemy off balance. Elling him right up front what were not going to do, x, y, and z, gives an advantage to t
We must continue to strengthen that community and reach out to likeminded partners across the globe. We should reinvigorate our economies by enhancing economic ties. More trade. More mutual investments. I welcome the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and canada, and i hope to of a rapid conclusion negotiations on the transatlantic trade and Investment Partnership between the European Union and the United States. Freer trade and greater investments will create jobs and set a strong example for others stronger, and a Economic Partnership will boost our ability to protect and promote an international rulesbased organization, whose benefits we all enjoy. We should strengthen the Strategic Partnership between the European Union and nato. We share 22 members. We share a positive vision of a europe whole, free, and at typicalut we also share neighborhoods, so we should work even more closely together to deal with those threats and to protect stability. New members into nato and
Tensions build in houses of parliament. Now for all the details 50 years ago, a town of pakistan occupied kashmir was destroyed and drowned. Once again this manmade disaster is repeating here. Pakistans hunger for energy is once again proving to be fatal for the residents. Tens and thousands of residents are rendered homeless as water enters their homes. Entire cities drowned. This is not a natural calamity. The city is drowning because pakistan has decided to raise the height of a dam, due to which water levels have gone up, and the entire city is flooded. Pakistan is planning to raise the water Storage Capacity of the dam to 1242 feet, which will spell disaster for this city. More than 1000 families would be affected by this foul action. It is the repeat of history. The dam was built on the grave of the ancestors of these people. Now this generation also has to go through the same ordeal. When pakistan decided to raise the height of the dam, locals showed resistance. Their voice was