The committee on rules and administration will come to order. Good morning to i want to thank amy colleagues for joinin us today. Id like to welcome our nominees to todays hearing. Shawna bashard, sean cooksy and alan dixon are the president s nominees to be members of the federal elections committee. As our witnesses are joining us remotely i also understand that their families and friends are watching today and so i welcome them as well. This is a big responsibility, its a significant president ial nomination, and significant to the work of this committee. And i know youre proud of your Family Member as they have moved forward to this opportunity. Let me say a little bit about a couple of nominees and then im going to turn to another committee member, senator cruz to talk about the third nominee. Allen dickerson is the nominee to be a member of the federal Elections Commission for a term, expiring on april the 30th, 2025. Mr. Dickersons been practicing law for 20 years, primarily in
A success rate of nearly 95 percent. And a country without a leader parun was plunged into political crisis after the in the room. President steps down, but peruvians are celebrating in the streets following days of deadly protests. And flying drones near airports can calls danger as well as travel chaos. German researchers say they have successfully used Radar Technology to stop the havoc. Its, youve identified drones, trouble me, im off to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world. Welcome. We start here in germany and the wrangling over more or less lock down. German chancellor Angela Merkel and been expected to announce tougher restrictions to the 2 week old partial lockdown, which is known as lock down light. But that did not happen today. Speaking after a meeting with leaders of the countrys 16 states medical said, the state leaders had objected to introducing stricter measures at this stage and that they would meet to discuss further measure
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Vaccine the u. S. Drugmaker, mud dharna, says its vaccine has a success rate of nearly 95 . And a country without a leader, peru plunged into political crisis after the interim president steps down, but peruvians are celebrating in the streets. And flying drones near airports can cause danger as well as travel chaos. German researchers say they successfully used rain threat radar technologies to identify drone troublemakers. Im brent goff. To our viewers on pbs, in the United States and all of you around the world, welcome. We start here in germany and the wrangling over more or less lockdown. German chancellor Angela Merkel had been expected to announce tougher restrictions to the partial lockdown, known as lockdown light, but that did not happen today. Speaking after a meeting with the country 16 states, she says the state leaders objected to introducing stricter measures at this stage and that they would meet to discuss further measures next week. The restrictions imposed had not ha
Looks at responses to disasters in history with an emphasis on research and writing. Over the semester, we have examined various disasters from different perspectives. First of all, the psychological and physical problems from jamestown. Disasters, responses to fires, hurricanes, and epidemics in colonial america, famine suffered by the donner party en route to california, irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine and the ability to create new lives in this country, disaster tourism, the johnstown flood of 1889, the impact of the fire in new york city, and disaster art that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. So, today, we are discussing david oceanfys Pulitzer Prize winning book polio an american story. You all received questions that i posted and im really interested in the topic because i also teach a seminar on the 1950s and of course thats when this takes place and i think just looking at polio, really, so many different issues that affected that decade. Before starting, though, i