Surveillance reauthorization, 6038 was the vote. The 60th vote was needed to announce that bill. Also on capitol hill, a number of hearings we covered, a rather lengthy one on Homeland Security. A routine oversight hearing with Kiersten Nielsen kirstjen nielsen. Testified before the judiciary subcommittee on this issue. And also talked with a number of senators about the recent changes in daca and immigration. Here is what she had to say with some senator amy klobuchar. Listening to your answers under oath that you did not hear and i will not repeat this word and give it any dignity, we will collect the word shole. You testified under oath you did not hear the president use that word up a meeting. Correct. Is a possible he said the word at the meeting and you do not hear it . Anything is possible. Yes, maam. A possible he also said that wording you do not hear it . It is possible. There was crosstalk. I unfortunately was not the meeting was unscheduled. Lastminute, when i was notified,
Last week the independent federal Energy Regulatory commission, even one stuffed with trump appointees, rejected secretary perrys proposed power grid reliability rule to subsidize coal and nuclear plants. The ferc commissioners found that the commission failed to meet clear and legal requirements like that the result will be just and reasonable under the federal power act. As an aside here, the theory of the coal industry was that their units provide more reliability than renewables. Well, tell that to iowas electric grid operators who have baked iowas abundant wind energy not just into their flow but into their reliability modeling. Tell that to new englands i. S. O. Which has allowed renewables into its capacity auctions to be paid for meeting base Load Capacity requirements. And of course tell that to anyone who has had to deal with scheduled and unscheduled outages at coal plants. When i went on one of my climate visits to, in this case, tennessee, i heard about a coal plant that h
And whats changed to make sure this never happens again, and i hope we will take positive steps to enact the many lessons learned. Now for our part as legislators, i, myself, believe that we should hold ourselves accountable to make sure that when we send our in our schools to seek shelter and our people to government buildings to seek refuge that these safe shelters really do provide safe shelter from catastrophe anywhere from a Nuclear Attack or a hurricane. So with that i welcome the governor, and governor, i thank you for asking us for the opportunity to attend this briefing. Governor . Good morning, members of the house and senate committee. Thank you for allowing me to be here today. I appreciate your effort to understand what happened last saturday, and i have directed the state department of defense and the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to be fully transparent and forthcoming as they provide you with information about this incident. I have charged general logan to provide
Morning, commissioners. You will hear six items for your consideration and one presentation. First, you will receive a preliminary report from the Public Safety and Homeland Security bureau on its investigation into the false Emergency Alert that occurred in awaii on january 13, 2018. Second, you will consider a second report and order and on recon to enhance emergency wireless alerts and the geographic accuracy of these alerts. Third, an order addressing the remaining issues raised challenging the commissions order connecting the auction 903 in which Service Providers will compete to receive support up to 1. 98 to offer voice and Broadband Service in High Cost Service areas. Fourth, you will consider a Public Notice establishing procedures for the connect america funds phase two auction which will award up to 1. 98 billion over 10 years that commit to offer voice and Broadband Services to fixed locations in unserved high cost areas. Fifth, you will consider an order to accomplish an o
Minutes. This subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness response and communications will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to review our ability to timely and effectively alert and warn the public in the case of an emergency. I want to welcome all witnesses here this morning on issue that is vital to the protection of americans. Effective and reliable alerts and warnings. Numerous disasters and terrorist attacks weve witnessed over the past few months have illustrated that timely communication is critical in emergency situation and ability of critical information, the ability of critical information can help individuals protect themselves from harms way. While some of us grew up in Emergency Alert warnings through television, radio, and im old enough to remember when they told us to get underneath our desks because there was a siren warning, many alerts today are also received through mobile devices, internet and even social media. Considering the Technology Advances that h