Run toward justice, and hands that serve your purposes. Empower them to be faithful to you and their calling to do your will on earth, inspiring them with your presence to live above reproach deliver them from the pride that leads to shame, providing them with the humility that comes with wisdom. And lord, keep us all on the right side of history. We pray in your great name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , june 12, 2020. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable steve daines, a senator from the state of montana, to perform the duties of the chair. Signed chuck grassley,
Morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. Were here to examine the deferred maintenance needs of the public Land Management agencies. This is a topic i care about. I know each of you certainly, the folks on this committee, have expressed concern. Not just coming into this hearing today, but, really, over the years. When we consider deferred maintenance, we most commonly think of the 12 billion maintenance backlog accrued by the National Park service. We consider that here in the committee at great length and it rightfully continues to attract a great deal of national attention. But somehow and sometimes overlooked in this conversation are the deferred maintenance needs of the other federal Land Management agencies, including the Forest Service, the bureau of Land Management and fish and Wildlife Service. Combined with the park service, these four agencies face a deferred maintenance backlog totalling 19. 4 billion. Thats worthy of repeating. Within these four agencies that g
And whats a bit of both . So hang on for a wild ride. For in nature, and in the world of animals, the truth is always stranger than fiction. Just ask the kangaroo that lives in the tree or the dog with webbed feet or the bird that can look an elephant in the eye or the frog that looks like a tomato or any other astonishing animal you might meet. Lets start with a startli statement. Thats both so false and so true. Confused . Consider this. The river or nile hippopotamus, which is the great behemoth pachyderm most of us are familiar with, as well as the much smaller and much rarer pygmy hippopotamus, dont have true sweat glands. A thick red substance from their pores called, yes, blood sweat. Okay, its not blood, and its not sweat. But it does make the pygmy hippo shine. It even creates a foam behind the animals ears. Despite being thickskinned, hippos have very sensitive skin that needs to be k kt wet most of the day, which is why, more often than not, if you happen upon a hippo in the
Headlines today. Michael mckee examines how hurtas import ban could its consumers. Olivia sterns looks at option plans for sothebys. Lets begin with Phil Mattingly at the white house with the latest on those airstrikes in iraq. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Wasted littletion time making good on president to get rid ofed artillery pieces and iraq. Fighter jets dropped 500 pound bombs targeting a single or tillery peace. The reason why . A president related out last night. Take a listen. In recent days the terrorist s have continued to move across iraq and have neared a city where american diplomats and civilians serve at our consulates. , i havethe advance directed our military to take targeted strikes against isil convoys, should they move toward the city. We intend to stay vigilant and take action if these terrorist versus threaten our personnel or facilities anywhere in iraq. Officials say that didnt fact happen. Artillery was targeting kurdish Ground Forces in an area where u. S.
The foreign intelligence context, could we be running up against constitutional problems . Yes, absolutely. There are many constitutional issues implicated here. There is obtaining content of peoples communications, which is obviously going to raise Fourth Amendment questions. There is the reasonableness requirement and how that would apply in a National Security setting. And there are not only the rights of u. S. Persons communicating with other u. S. Persons, which has been the primary focus in the statue so far, but there are also constitutional issues raised when a u. S. Person is communicating with a nonus person. Half of that medication is constitutionally protected, of that communication is constitutionally protected, but has not received that kind of attention at all. There are many issues at play. Thank you very much to all of the witnesses. Thanks to the witnesses on this panel and to all of the witnesses on the board that made this possible. You can see the comments related