Committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to address the most serious threats confronting our homeland. Before i recognize myself, i would like to take a moment to recognize the newest member of our committee, don bacon. He served 30 years in the air force. Experience will prove greatly beneficial to this committee. Thank you, sir, for being here. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. I would like to thank each of , elaine duke, christopher wray, and Nick Rasmussen for joining us today. You represent thousands of patriotic men and women who go to work to ensure the safety of their fellow americans. Everyone on this committee is extremely grateful for your service. For over two decades, you felt navigate an unprecedented landscape and combat terrorism around the world. You have been a great friend partner to me in this committee and i would like to call you a friend. Wish you the best of luck i hate to say retirement. In whatever you do
From capitol hill, this runs just shy of three hours. Committee on Homeland Security will come to order to examine the most serious threats confronting our homeland. Before i recognize myself for an opening statement, i would like to take a moment to welcome the newest member of our committee, don bacon. He served nearly 30 years in the air force and his experience in Cyber Security and airborne reconnaissance. He will prove greatly beneficial to this committee. Thank you, sir for being here. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. I would like to thank each of the witnesses, elaine duke, christopher ray, cdc director nick for joining us today. You represent thousands of patriotic man and women who go to work every day to ensure the safety of their fellow americans. Everyone on this committee is extremely grateful for your director, two anades, you helped navigate unprecedented landscape in terrorism around the globe. I would like to call you a friend. And we all wish you the
Some of the major problems that were dealing with and then a lot of people see live stock as part of the solution to Climate Change. That is a really healthy discussion. Wed like to invite you all to have it with us over lunch. Were not going to get into the debate too much during this panel. Were not going to have a panel. So can we transform our food system . Can we solve for this food water, and Climate Nexus with these intersecting issues . I believe we can but we have to talk about something that makes us all very uncomfortable. That is meat. So were in a consumption crisis right . I dont want to villainize the animals themselves and say theyre inherently evil as many maybe who advocate for plant based diets might share that perspective. They certainly play an integrated role in lots of farming systems that have been really critical to development of our agriculture over time. But we are in a consumption crisis at this point where live stock are a core driver of Climate Change, de
Increasing the soils viability and helping with the you get he more plants the bigger and the more roots backhe more carbon you put in the soil. Out did a wonderful project in california. Of land great plots and returned dry grasslands back to viable land and they in turn that by putting one year f commercial dairy maneuver spreading it out over the field, increased by 40 their carbon return to the soil. You find the Big Industrial d you hink that the waste is a huge problem. If its all confined its waste. Spread out if becomes a fertilizer and a good one that kills crobes. Mike so well continue this discussion with you if you like us later at lunch and also with the panelist from this to join us ld like and discuss this transformation agricultural and wed love to there. Up next the final discussion the american arenewable summit. They discuss corporate polluteers and other issues. Is a little over an hour half. Can yall hear me . Hanging in lks for there. All morning with the exceptio
The river party only lasted a few weeks, though. We did what any river loves would do. We floated it. By canoe, paddle boards. And eventually by foot crossing the shallows. I believe this is the colorado. Generally the real colorado has no water in it. But as you can see, its a pretty nice river right now. It looks amazing. Usually this part of the river is completely dry. Its sand. It has been many years like that. On may 7, after nine, 13hourlong paddling days we crossed 90 miles of the delta and reached the sea. It was the first and only paddle board crossing of the new delta. And the first time the Colorado River kissed the sea in nearly two decades. On many levels, it was a preposterous journey foolish, even wrong headed. I dont feel like im getting anywhere. The most absurd paddle Board Mission ever. Also beautiful and symbolic. And with a relative trickle, we can bring a river back to life if we try. [ applause] ill just say a couple words before we move on to bob and american r