Federal officials will testify on the Coronavirus Response before a house subcommittee. Watch that live thursday at 2 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan 3. Online at cspan. Org, or listen live with the free cspan radio app. U. S. Forest service chief vic Vicki Christiansen testified on if the president s 2021 budget request before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee. During the hearing they discussed forecast management, recreational permits, Sexual Harassment in the workplace, Forest Restoration efforts and Fire Prevention. The meeting will come to order. Okay, first first Budget Hearing in the energy committee. This morning we will consider the president s budget request for the u. S. Forest service for fy 2021. Chief christiansen, its good to welcome you back to the committee. Thank you for being here. We say around here that the president s budget request is just that, it is a request. It does start the annual budget process. It gives us here in congress the opportunity to lea
Something i know its something we didnt see as an ideal tool in our institutional context. And i think, you know, different Central Banks around the world did Different Things and we can observe how those things work, but i dont think we regard that as a firstorder tool or something we would be likely to use. There are other things that we need to look at. And i would say yield curve control, sort of shortterm yield curve control is something thats worth looking at. Not at all something that we havent looked at it, but it will be something that we look at when the time comes and the last thing ill say is, you know, i think our tool kit, well use it aggressively to the extent we need to. Yeah. To achieve our mandate. So one of the questions i got from someone today, who knew i was going to be asking you questions, was, is there an unintended consequence of in a reasonable growth, low employment near the target rate inflation rate, is there an unintended consequence of easing into that e
Game of governing and politics. Phil, you made a point that tweeting wasnt the same. Some people dont know what the hell it is now but it has changed dramatically since 2008. I put it even further context in, when i was in the white house, a couple of oust would meet up with leon panetta every night and we would look at the three tvs, abc, cbs, whatever the other one was and, see whether our good stories had risen or whether the bad stories had gone down. You could see wolf kind of standing out in the yard there without even an umbrella sometimes. That was a good day if your good story was up. Or down. That was all we dealt with. Now the, the onslaught of information, moving information all sorts of sinister reasons has fundamentally changed governing and strategies. Just three things that kind of pop out to me. And just in phrases. Its, what i hear you guys saying is that that youre underlying fundamental belief that people are coming to washington to get something done. You have look
Partners to combat the greatest risk to Border Security National Security and public safety. And ygn ultimately the articles answer those big three questions. Why we changed how we changed and how to answer whether were winning or not. With that ill turn itb j n back over to stephanie. Thank you. Thank you both. Im going to exercise the moderators prerogative and ask each of our guests one question first before opening it up to the floor. The first question i have is for chief fisher, and that is regarding your hopes for this trilogy of articles. As i mentioned earlier ive been impressed with thought leadership and strategy and having authority for the border control. I can understand from an audience perspective im not in the Border Patrol i can take these articles using my own experience. But your hope for what folks in the field will take away from these articles what was your intent from a border e g patrolspecific perspective. Thank you stephanie. For the Border Patrol agents, my
To talk about the campaign at the secretarys level how that is meshing what were doingnl . at the portsv we want to make morrow bust in the future. So help us t wout. If i, qcould turn e ÷ robert to follow up on that r2cquestion. Robert, youre in a unique position having been on the hill now for a while and i wont put you in an awkward position into what politicians will do in the coming congress but in terms am what you would Like Congress to focus on from a Border Security issue from a risk based strategy issue, what would you like to see happen . B81 what kind of key topics would you like to see addressed early on in this congress . This question ties in with what the gentleman asked and arizona. 9pf when they asked me what should you focus on i was asked at 4 1 99 recently what did we after thinking about it thereszp÷ only two states. Thats the dialogue completely. Im hoping the articles continue to change that ti log. I hope one of many articles that Border Patrol agents will ta