Predict weather patterns. This is one hour and a half. Good Morning And Welcome to Todays Environment Subcommittee hearing to discuss the rising problems of Extreme Heat in the u. S. Id like to welcome our esteemed witnesses for participating in this timely and important meeting. Almost exactly a year ago this committee held a hearing on the intersections of Extreme Heat, covid19 environmental justice. I wish i could say things have gotten better since then. While we can credit signs for the rapid development of multiple effective vaccines to combat covid19, Extreme Heat has only worsened. Vulnerable populations continue to be disproportionally impacted by boat. The recent recordbreaking heat that devastated the pacific northwest shattered our expectations of the severity of Extreme Heat. Temperatures reached 40 degrees above average in some places causing pavement debacle, streetcar cables to mount and at least 193 deaths across the region. One of our witnesses, Doctor Shanda went out
Hearing to discuss the rising problems of Extreme Heat in the u. S. Id like to welcome our esteemed witnesses for participating in this timely and important meeting. Almost exactly a year ago this committee held a hearing on the intersections of Extreme Heat, covid19 environmental justice. I wish i could say things have gotten better since then. While we can credit signs for the rapid development of multiple effective vaccines to combat covid19, Extreme Heat has only worsened. Vulnerable populations continue to be disproportionally impacted by boat. The recent recordbreaking heat that devastated the pacific northwest shattered our expectations of the severity of Extreme Heat. Temperatures reached 40 degrees above average in some places causing pavement debacle, streetcar cables to mount and at least 193 deaths across the region. One of our witnesses, Doctor Shanda went out and measure temperatures during the Heat Dump and found in affluent neighborhoods reached 99 degrees compared to 1
Were live from afghanistan. And a new warning that america could lose its perfect Credit Rating because of political polarization and the on going assault on democracy. Good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. It is wednesday, july 14th. U. S. Democracy in peril this morning, and that is according to the american president. President biden is sounding the alarm on Voting Rights and efforts by republicans across the country to restrict them. Were facing the most significant test of our democracy since the civil war. Its not hyperbole, since the civil war. Confederates back then never breached the capitol, as insurrectionists did on January 6th. Im not saying this to alarm you. Im saying this because you should be alarmed. The president also blasting restrictive Voting Laws enacted in state after state describing them as 21st century Jim Crow and pushing for federal Voting Rights legislation. Also, hes calling out those who spread dangerous conspira
detail. we re all on the same page, both tracks, the bipartisan track and the budget reconciliation track are proceeding apace and we hope to have voted on both of them in the senate and house in july. and i m completely fascinated by this, rachel, because nothing like this has ever been done before. i don t know how they re going to do the two bills because if you re the republicans and you re negotiating with the democrats on infrastructure bill, normally you would be saying to them, so this is the bill, right? there s not extra, like, thing your not talking about. yeah, there s this other giant reconciliation bill with taxes and all the other stuff, environmental stuff that you guys don t like, we re going to do that on a separate track. and republicans are supposed to walk out of the room and say forget it. ed markey is here. he s going to be able to explain to me how the senate is going to do something that it s never done before because i have no idea how this works.
that we hope to have voted on both of them in the senate and house in july. i m completely fascinated by this, rachel, because nothing like this have ever been done before. i don t know how they are going to do the two bills, because if you are the republicans and your negotiating with the democrats on an infrastructure bill, normally you would be saying to them, so this is the bill, right? there s no extra thing. you are not talking about it. yeah, there s this other reconciliation bill with taxes and other stuff that you don t like, we re gonna do that on a separate tracked. and republicans are supposed to just walk out of the room and say forget it. ed markey is here he s going to be able to explain to me how the senate is going to do something that it has never done before. i have no idea how this works. i trust senator mark key to know how this can work, but i share your slack jawed skepticism that it is going to perceive in a two track way in any path that results in