Violence or Law Enforcement. If you will a war let it begin with us. Or go into trouble across the us over the next week to meet those groups and their leaders to find out how far theyre ready to go to fight for what they believe to stupid for this country. We are in virginia members of a group called the Boogaloo Boys the Boogaloo Boys have been around for several years now but theyve recently came into the media spotlight during the summers and say lockdown and government protests in august several dozen heavily armed men and Tactical Gear carrying the big guns showed up for a rally in virginias capital richmond to. Be. Among the demonstrators were the blue boards who could be identified from their bright line shirts they were many of their bulletproof vests this became one of their symbol their style if you will has been reported in the american. That many of the movements and here are preparing for a 2nd civil war. So now were about to meet one of the most prominent voice might a f
Good afternoon, everyone. The subcommittee will come to order. T purpose of todays hearing is to receive testimony on 15 bills pending before the pin lands, are forest and mining subcommittee. Because of the large number of bills on todays agenda, i wont go through all of them right now, but the complete agenda will of course be included in the record. I want to note that we have a former member of our committee here, former senator mary landrieu, and we have members who will be joining us shortly who have another Committee Assignment at the moment and others who will be joining us telephonically. I also want to begin by recognizing the staggering loss of life that has occurred embedded within what has shaped up to be a really horrific wildfire season. More than 36 people have perished in infernos raging throughout the western United States this year, dozens more are missing. In oregon, my colleague senator widens home state, thousands have lost their homes and over half a Million Peop
Works subcommittee will address options to address the wild fires and Forest Management. This includes testimony from an interior Deputy Department official and deputy chief of the u. S. Forest service. Good afternoon, everyone. This subcommittee will come to t order. The purpose of todays hearing is to receiveands testimony on i bills pending beforece the publo lands force and mining subcommittee. Because of the large number of t bills onhe todays c agenda, it going to go through all of them right now. But the complete agenda will, of course, be included in the record. I want to note at the outset weve got a former member of our committee here, former senator from louisiana, longtime member of the senate and this committee is in the back. Weve got members who will be at t who have tly another Committee Assignment at the i moment. E. We have others who will be d eme joining us dtelephonically. As i want to recognize the staggering loss of life that has occurred embedded within what has
Very briefly putting the role of mc just to say hello and welcome you before i hand the baton to tom bowman of National Public radio who will be our moderator. Tom is a very distinguished and accomplished npr reporter, also really thrilled he would join us. He spent ape lot time in a field field in afghanistan and elsewhere embedded with u. S. Combat units and other parts of the broader effort there that now is approaching the end of its second decade pretty soon. Next to tom and beforehand the baton to them i will just entered is my copanelists Laurel Miller who was the acting special representative for afghanistan and pakistan in the stick up romcom numerous other jobs in that capacity and that organization as well, has been at the Rand Corporation subsequently where she recently completed a coauthor 200 page study study on age proposed afghanistan Peace Agreement written as as a simulated or perhaps model agreement that parties themselves could perhaps consider because even though w
Staff. Beths colletti is the Senior Vice President for worldwide Human Resources at amazon. They are going to be interviewed by nikki waller from the wall street journal. Please welcome them. [applause] we are going to do some case studies, and we have a short amount of time. Quickly, lets bring everybody up to speed. First, beth, everybody here caught the headlines about the 7 million amazon plans to spend to upscale workers. To us a quick overview. Facts,ou got the basic 700 million, 100,000 workers over the next six years. Aggregation of a series of different upscaling programs, starting with Fulfillment Center workers. Our frontline workers where we give them a program where they prepay even before they start their classes, 90 of tuition and books so that they can learn skills in things like medical things that will train them for jobs outside of amazon purity is a unique program because we realize that amazon may be one step in their career path. In addition, we have programs like