Senior Vice President at the white house historical association and the director of the David Science Center for white House History. The white house historical association is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with a mission to educate americans about that rich and diverse history of the white house and the people who live and work there. Our guest this evening is michael he is a retired rear admiral from the navy civil Engineer Corps. He served in a variety of assignments around the world and is 29 year military career. Including as commander of Camp David. After retirement thousand ten, Michael Jordan private industry is a chief executive officer of the Building Information Technology company headquartered in his hometown of pittsburgh, pennsylvania. In october 2017, he published his first book inside Camp David the private world of the president ial retreat. Mike travels often speaking about the book has been covered by the wall street journal, the Today Show Cspan and many othe
Witnesses experiencing technical difficulties should inform the Committee Staff immediately. Lets get started. Good afternoon. Welcome. Thank you for joining this remote hearing. Today we are going to talk about cities and states working to protect their communities and how to increase resilience to climate impacts. I recognize myself for five minutes for Opening Statements. Members, as congress continues to work on muchneeded Infrastructure And Job legislation, the climate crisis keeps proving that we need generational investments that will create a stronger and more resilient america. The west is facing a recordsetting mega drought, increased risks of heat waves and wildfires, and shrinking Water Supply for millions of americans. Severe storms, persistent drought, massive flooding, and other climate related disasters cost our nation nearly 100 billion in 2020 alone. Earlier this year, americans experienced deadly and destructive Winter Storm in texas and historic floods in the southe
Mitigating climate change risk. The hearing will come to order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare recess at any time. Members are responsible for controlling their own microphones. Members can be muted by staff to avoid inadvertent background noise. Welcome. Thank you for joining this remote hearing. Today we are going to talk about cities and states working to protect their communities and how to increase resilience to climate impacts. I recognize myself for five minutes for Opening Statements. Members, as congress continues to work on muchneeded Infrastructure And Job legislation, the climate crisis keeps proving that we need generational investments that will create a stronger and more resilient america. The west is facing a recordsetting mega drought, increased risks of heat waves and wildfires, and shrinking Water Supply for millions of americans. Severe storms, persistent drought, massive flooding, and other climate related disasters cost our nation nearly 100 bi
Just know there are a couple of changes for us. We are on the hazy side for a few areas. And we are also looking at a hotter weekend ahead of us. Id keep it local this weekend. Not just because we do have. Wildfires up in the sierra nevada, of course, around Lake Tahoe. But theres also some pretty wild weather shaping up across the rest of the country. So its kind of nice just to hang in the Bay Area this weekend. Youre look outside this morning shows you a little bit of a low grade that we have over berkeley skies are definitely clear enough that you can see down towards the horizon. We will have a couple of foggy patches, though, especially inland in the North Bay where visibility has fallen, especially on some of our hillside. So just be mindful of that, as you venture out there, some patchy fog to be noted. Its back to moderate Air Quality across the entirety of the Bay Area really have to get down to gilroy before you start seeing any sort of good Air Quality hanging on. So we do
15 minutes. We talked about how americans adapted to abundance in the 18 twenties and 19 twenties, despite retailers and others the supply of goods continue to outstrip demand. This wasnt because every one of 106 million americans had everything they needed. It was because they didnt have adequate Purchasing Power, they didnt have adequate wages or income to buy all of that stuff. And it wasnt just americans who were in this situation. So two were our trading partners around the world. They didnt have enough income to buy all of the commodities we were producing in the fields and all of the wonderful things that our factories were making. So by the end of the 1920s, the american economy went bust because you guys all know this. You will know that the Stock Market crashed in 1929 and the World Economy went bust as well. A worldwide economic depression set in that lasted between 1929 and wasnt officially over until 1942. What was called the great depression could be considered a crisis o