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Mitigating climate change risk. The hearing will come to order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare recess at any time. Members are responsible for controlling their own microphones. Members can be muted by staff to avoid inadvertent background noise. Welcome. Thank you for joining this remote hearing. Today we are going to talk about cities and states working to protect their communities and how to increase resilience to climate impacts. I recognize myself for five minutes for Opening Statements. Members, as congress continues to work on muchneeded Infrastructure And Job legislation, the climate crisis keeps proving that we need generational investments that will create a stronger and more resilient america. The west is facing a recordsetting mega drought, increased risks of heat waves and wildfires, and shrinking Water Supply for millions of americans. Severe storms, persistent drought, massive flooding, and other climate related disasters cost our nation nearly 100 bi
Was held online in 2020 is courtesy of due cane university. Okay. Guys, were ready to start. Thanks for your patience and for logging into class again today remotely during this unpleasant coronavirus situation. Which will hopefully pass soon. Im glad to see youre all well and also that you safely moved out of the dorms. I took a little walk through campus today. Since were social distancing here, dr. Kristen Coopy Isnt here with me in the room. But shes there with you on zoom video. Say hello. There she is. She can answer any questions about your papers afterward online. Today we get into one of my favorite chapters in the whole year, and that is the chapter on Richard Nixon followed by Gerald Ford in this president s and constitution book. The Nixon Chapter was written by the late stanley cutler. He was a professor of history at madison, wisconsin, one of the great scholars of the watergate era. This chapter was one of the last things that he wrote before he passed away in 2015. As y
Im glad to see youre all well and also that you safely moved out of the dorms. I took a little walk through campus today. Since were social distancing here, dr. Kristen Coopy Isnt here with me in the room. But shes there with you on zoom video. Say hello. There she is. She can answer any questions about your papers afterward online. Today we get into one of my favorite chapters in the whole year, and that is the chapter on Richard Nixon followed by Gerald Ford in this president s and constitution book. The Nixon Chapter was written by the late stanley cutler. He was a professor of history at madison, wisconsin, one of the great scholars of the watergate era. This chapter was one of the last things that he wrote before he passed away in 2015. As you can see from the introduction, Richard Nixon was a man of many paradoxes. He was born in a modest home in california that his father built, he said, using a sears kit. His mother was a quaker. Tried to instill in him a set of moral values. B
Coronavirus situation. Which will hopefully pass soon. Im glad to see youre all well and also that you safely moved out of the dorms. I took a little walk through campus today. Since were social distancing here, dr. Kristen Coopy Isnt here with me in the room. But shes there with you on zoom video. Say hello. There she is. She can answer any questions about your papers afterward online. Today we get into one of my favorite chapters in the whole year, and that is the chapter on Richard Nixon followed by Gerald Ford in this president s and constitution book. The Nixon Chapter was written by the late stanley cutler. He was a professor of history at madison, wisconsin, one of the great scholars of the watergate era. This chapter was one of the last things that he wrote before he passed away in 2015. As you can see from the introduction, Richard Nixon was a man of many paradoxes. He was born in a modest home in california that his father built, he said, using a sears kit. His mother was a q