Book. I do invite you whatever suits you, if its a cocktail, if youre on east coast, maybe not on the west coast, whatever you would like but we hope youll participate in the conversation. Im going to stoppages saying what everybody in the audience knows about cecilia munoz, which is she would much rather talk about other people than herself. She would much rather promote and help other people to put yourself forward. Given the facts what we know about you and given the fact thats why so many of us love about you why did you write a book about yourself . So thank you, everybody, for being here. Its amazing, and it didnt set out to write a book, sort another book about myself. When i left the white house i did write i think frankly a lot of, certainly when they do, which is i found wonderful work at new america and they kept my head down and focus on that work. A number of people, women in particular, challenged me, annemarie, you were one of them, to think about whether i something to
This beautiful sunny day but we appreciate this regardless and we plan to be back and stronger than ever in2021. We had a great series of online events. They are all archived and available for replay at our page and you can click on raven bookstore at the top of this page to get to the list of archived events. A couple other things about how this is going to work. Marie is going to give a short author talk and show us photos from her book and we will open it up to questions. You can ask a question by clicking the ask a question button at the bottom of your screen or click it into the chat window. We appreciate you asking questions to keep the discussion moving and we want this to be a participants event as much as we can in this strange online setting and another thing to note at the bottom of the screen is this button that says buy Americas Harvest here and that will take you to the raven bookstore which we are where we have these in stock or if youre in lawrence we can deliver it to
Human services. The Health Committee holds a courtesy hearing on the nomination of the secretary, the finance committee receives paperwork, it will vote on the nomination. Senator murray and i will have an Opening Statement and former secretary and former governor of utah Michael Leavitt who we welcome today, good to see you and have you back and senator young who is a member of this committee will introduce alex azar after his testimony then senators will each have five minutes of questions. We have a lot going on in the senate today but we have a good turnout so i anticipate a good, vigorous questioning period. Alex azar, if confirmed will be did the of health and Human Services, you will be running 1. 11 trillion organization, that almost equals the total of 12 Appropriations Bills Congress Passes each year to Fund Everything from National Parks to National Defense to national laboratories. You will be overseeing medicare and medicaid, the nations government run Insurance Programs f
Many states across the u. S. Have been dealing with drought this summer. To up states deal with the droughts the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Held a hearing focusing on drop trap preparedness and Water Management. Ge Water Technology division and state water agencies gave lawmakers the recommendations for increasing Water Supplies. This hearing is little more than one hour. [inaudible conversations] this hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources a committee on water and power will come to order. The purpose of todays hearing is receive testimony on water supply and drought issues. We will hear testimony on a range of water related topics including infrastructure and supply, certainty in planning, and innovative Management Practices that are critical to maintaining secure Water Supplies. This includes items that are crucial to arizona such as the Colorado River drought planning and watershed restoration, better use of existing reservoirs, reliable water supply
Television which i heard about from one of my brothers who betrayed the family when he moved to massachusetts and became a patriots fan. What i want to do very briefly is share with you some thoughts that are top of mind today for the fbi. And then i want to take questions that i will try to avoid answering from the great mike leiter. And im determined not to make news. First thing, i want to talk briefly about how the fbi is thinking about our cyber strategy. You hear me okay . How the fbi is thinking about our cyber strategy. Then i want to talk about a unique challenge to all of our work in the form of u bbiquitou encryption and why it means so much to the fbi. The first cyber strategy. To state the obvious for this room, all the threats the fbis responsible for come at us through the internet. Counterintelligence, all the criminal threats are responsible for. And terrorists in the following way. To communicate to inspire to direct. Not yet to use the cyber vector as a way to have d