Wildfire year response and Recovery Efforts will come to order. Thank you for joining with the deputy chief for forestry at usda. After brief opening remarks, the hearing will open to questions. Members will be recognized in order of seniority, alternating between the majority and minority members. When you are recognized, youll be asked to unmute your microphone, and youll have five minutes to ask your question and or make a comment. In order to get as many questions as possible, the timer will stay consistently visible on your screen. Thank you for joining us here today in washington and online. For this critical hearing on the wildfires ravaging the western United States. We have all seen the footage from california, oregon and washington. It is surreal, and it is terrifying. I want to talk today about what we can do to meet the needs and face the challenges presented by this unprecedented wildfire season out west and elsewhere. Deputy chief phipps, thank you for joining us today an
In hong kong, well tell you when street protests might resume, and well talk about the Business Climate here as well as Business Climate in china. Some fresh views on trade war, what comes next, they are coming up this hour in hong kong. Great stuff connell, first we begin with breaking new in white house, straight to Edward Lawrence with details. Reporter melissa, president putting focus on healthcare now, today he did look at a new marine one he will be flying on. But he is talking about health care, what he did today, was he changed or expanded real of the hell reimbursement Health Reimbursement arrangement rule that now allows company to put in workers to put money to a pot for workers so the workers can look for a right Health Care Plan for them in the individual market. The president opening avenue, saying this i allows companies o sort of subsidize health care in the private market. Expanding Health Reimbursement arrangements or hras, they will allow American Workers to shop for
Each other up. The most important thing we can do. All right. [applause] pres. Obama so it is a womans turn. Ok. Everybody is pointing at this young lady. All of her friends are pointing at her, so she has something very important to say. [cheers] welcome to peru, mr. President. My name is sophia, and my friends and i are students. I know you have met mariana. Remember the school . Marianna acosta . I am a student over there. We are so lucky to be studying their to be studying there to get a job in tech, but there is so many young people without our type of opportunity. So what do you recommend for more quality education or opportunity for young people in latin america . Pres. Obama the program you described is doing great work, and there is a lot of good work across latin america. One of the goals is to make sure that not only are we providing a great education for people at the younger stages, basic reading, arithmetic, all those things, but today, you also need to have some knowledg
Each other up. The most important thing we can do. All right. [applause] pres. Obama so it is a womans turn. Ok. Everybody is pointing at this young lady. All of her friends are pointing at her, so she has something very important to say. [cheers] welcome to peru, mr. President. My name is sophia, and my friends and i are students. I know you have met mariana. Remember the school . Marianna acosta . I am a student over there. We are so lucky to be studying their to be studying there to get a job in tech, but there is so many young people without our type of opportunity. So what do you recommend for more quality education or opportunity for young people in latin america . Pres. Obama the program you described is doing great work, and there is a lot of good work across latin america. One of the goals is to make sure that not only are we providing a great education for people at the younger stages, basic reading, arithmetic, all those things, but today, you also need to have some knowledg
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