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Pursuant to House Resolution 607 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for further consideration of h. R. 3043. Will the gentleman from illinois, mr. Davis, kindly ake the chair. The chair the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for further consideration of h. R. 3043 which the clerk will report by title. The clerk a bill to modernize hydropower policy and for other purposes. The chair when the committee of the whole rose earlier today, a request for recorded vote on amendment number 4 printed in house report 115391 offered by the gentleman from illinois, mr. Rush, had been postponed. The Unfinished Business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 4 by the gentleman from illinois, mr. Rush. On which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes ....
Maybe for another 45 minutes before this lightens up but not too bad. The system working his way to the east in over san pablo bay, vallejo and into San Francisco. By the time it gets to san jose there probably wont be much left. There are reports of steady rain for a few in marin county and around san rafael. This system will give us like morning rain and keep us on the cool side while it digs in. It will be a blustery day and winds out of the south and it is a front direction and cooler to the north. 60s for most and the cloud cover holding the system up. It is here with light morning rain and 60s to 70s is it. It is cool for june. Speaking of cool for june areas, mr. South. Sal. Looking pretty good in the south bay as we look at that commute and the south bay drive is nice and we hope it stays this way for the opening morning shot, and you can see traffic looks pretty good driving on the south bay commute. We do have a little bi ....
I think there is something to that. The way i would summarize it would be to say the United States is still the most powerful country in the world, but the margins of our lead are contracting. And what that means in terms of policy is that big problems in the world cannot be solved without the United States, but the United States can no longer be solving them alone or be dictating to others exactly how they get solved. So the premium in these coming years for the United States, i think, as the leading power in the world, is going to be on Coalition Building and alliance management. When we think about terrorism, think about cyber terrorism and big ideas of the chinese around the world i think the nature of our ....
We will be back. I went to see if there are any other Opening Statements and i want to make sure we have plenty of time. Any othe other members Opening Statements introduced in the record without objection will be entered into the record. Let me introduce the witnesses for todays hearing. Doctor tim pearson will lea leaf the panel, the scientist in the Government Accountability office in july, 2008 and as such he is a member of the Senior Executive service of the u. S. Federal government and also serves as a director for the center for Science Technology and engineering. Thank you for being with us today and we look forward to your comments. Also would like to welcome from ththe centers ....