Friday to offer our weekly congregational prayers. Its a great honor to host its a great honor to host our neighbors and guests from our Congressional Districts today for this important discussion with our representative in congress. Please make yourself comfortable. This is our main prayer of all our sanctuary. Note that the doors please forgive us for any shortcomings. Let us know if you need assistance. There will be several volunteers wearing badges like me. Id like to invite our director here at the Islamic Center to welcome our congresswoman. I serve as the religious director here at the Islamic Center of irvine. This is beautiful. Ok. Well, i lost my words. You know, i like your tshirt, stronger than hate. I am from pittsburgh, actually. I would like to welcome all of you here in our humble facility. How many of you are here for the first time . Almost everybody. Well, your dream has come true. We actually invite all of you and will have our annual open please, come and join us
Center of irvine and i hope that you will take up the offer to come back and visit. Ive been honored to get to work with the folks here. I do a lot of Community Service and go to a lot of Public Events for homelessness, the environment, virtually every event i go to, i the Islamic Center of irvine, out in the community volunteering. So thank you for your hospitality. I want to give a special shout out to the Irvine Police department. [applause] we have a number of city former city officials, including our current sitting congresswoman. I meant councilwoman. Its a habit. I said congressmen more i have said congressmen katie porter more times than i can count. So i want to talk for a a couple of minutes. For how many of you, is this your first town hall . Great. I run these town halls so your voices can be heard and theres an equal chance to be heard. Then weor five minutes will draw questions out of the center. If we dont get to your question, know that i go through all of them, and the
I am the chairman of the board of directors here at the Islamic Center. For those of you who are curious, we serve about 5000 muslims in the area, 2000 come every friday to offer the weekly congregational prayers. Host. A great honor to [laughter] honor to hostat our neighbors and guests from our Congressional District for rur discussion with ou representative in congress. Please make yourselves comfortable. The doors on my right have restrooms for women and on the left restrooms for men. This is the first time we have had an event like this. Forgive us for any shortcomings. There will be several volunteers with badges like me. I would like to invite our religious director at the Islamic Center to welcome our congresswoman. [applause] peace be with you. Good afternoon, everybody. At the as the imam here Islamic Center of irvine. This is beautiful. Well, i lost my words. Strongertshirts than hate. From pittsburgh actually, so yeah, it is a great city. [applause] look all ofike to you he
Length is of the Television Providers giving affront receipt to democracy. Interior secretary deb haaland testifies on President Bidens 2025 budget request before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee. Witnesses feel questions on oil and Gas Production on federal land and the Land Management its about two hours. Amino come to order. This morning they will can express fiscal year 2012 at 201t for the department of interior. I like to welcome the secretary holland asked acting deputy davis and denise a flanagan back to the committee. I want to thank you all three forr joining us today. To set the scene demonstrations request 18 billion the interior department for the fiscal year 2025. 9 30 35 million or 5 increase over fiscal year 2024 i think it is important to note for contacts congress has provided the department was 50 billion in additional annual appropriations in the last three years to the bipartisan infrastructure law and inflation reduction act. I look forward to dis
Take it a capitol hill for the interior secretary will be testifying before the Natural Resources committee. You are watching live coverage on cspan 3. The committee will come to order. This morning the committee will discuss the president s proposed fiscal year 2025 budget for the department of interior. I would like to welcome secretary holland haaland and Denise Flanagan back to the committee. I want to thank you all three for joining us today. To set the scene the administration is requesting a 2 million for 2025. That is a 5 increase over fiscal year 2024. I think it is important to note for contexts that congress has also provided the Department Almost 50 billion in appropriations over the last three years to the bipartisan infrastructure law an Inflation Reduction Act. I look forward to discussing how the department is implementing those laws using the historic funding and justifications for the increase. It has been a year to the day since you were last before the committee for