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
Fellow on the board at the Atlantic Council welcome to this session we are delighted youre here. This event is part of the center from International Security. We are followed on twitter so all of those there online we encourage you to join the conversation if you have questions you can send them and we will try to incorporate them. The conversation is about the book the darkening web via Alexander Klimburg you can pick that up by your local bookstore. It is an outstanding book i have read parts of it and i recommend it. Though whole series of sight cyberseries is to bring experts in of the public together in conversations of the importance so we have a terrific group here today and you all know that we have had a lot of incidents in the last few weeks. Like ukraine, rand somewhere , and multiple sets of questions. The internet raises issues that the originators and never really thought about. Is say public good or the International Public good so who will keep a good . Have to do that
Call them in the order that i receive them. With that, i will go on to item number one, which is roll call. [ roll call] we have a quorum. We will move one to item number two which is approval of minutes of the september 27, 2016 commission on the environment regular meeting. explanatory documents september 27, 2016 draft minutes discussion and action. All those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay. [chorus of ayes] so approval of the minutes has been passed. Clerk, please read item number three. Item number three isPublic Comment members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Seeing no speaker cards we will move on to item number four. Item number four is4. Review and approval of resolution file 201612coe commending tom owen, retiring deputy City Attorney, for service to the department and commission on the environment. explanatory document draft resolution 201612coe sponsor and speakers commissioner jo
[ roll call] we have a quorum. We will move one to item number two which is approval of minutes of the september 27, 2016 commission on the environment regular meeting. explanatory documents september 27, 2016 draft minutes discussion and action. All those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay. [chorus of ayes] so approval of the minutes has been passed. Clerk, please read item number three. Item number three isPublic Comment members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. Seeing no speaker cards we will move on to item number four. Item number four is4. Review and approval of resolution file 201612coe commending tom owen, retiring deputy City Attorney, for service to the department and commission on the environment. explanatory document draft resolution 201612coe sponsor and speakers commissioner johanna wald and deborah raphael, director discussion and action thank you for commissioners and thank you pre