Change the House Oversight subcommittee on the environment held its fifth hearing on Climate Change. Everybody sits together we will get started the subcommittee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time so to discuss Climate Change on the future Economic Impact i will defer the Opening Statement for myself and when we spoke earlier i mentioned the fact we would hopefully to do a hearing we have time for Opening Statements but what i would like to do is to give each of you the opportunity to do so. Let me introduce the four of you have all freight oh gomez from the Accountability Office senior director for environmental risk the institute for Economic Freedom doctor greenstone Milton Friedman and the honorable Stephen Benjamin mayor from south carolina. So you are now recognized to give an oral presentation of your testimony for five minutes. I am pleased to be here today how to limit the federal government fiscal exposure by reducing
Everybody sits together we will get started the subcommittee will come to order without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time so to discuss Climate Change on the future Economic Impact i will defer the Opening Statement for myself and when we spoke earlier i mentioned the fact we would hopefully to do a hearing we have time for Opening Statements but what i would like to do is to give each of you the opportunity to do so. Let me introduce the four of you have all freight oh gomez from the Accountability Office senior director for environmental risk the institute for Economic Freedom doctor greenstone Milton Friedman and the honorable Stephen Benjamin mayor from south carolina. So you are now recognized to give an oral presentation of your testimony for five minutes. I am pleased to be here today how to limit the federal government fiscal exposure by reducing risk this is an area on our high risk list since 2013 recent disaster has shown the need for planning
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