Overlooking the river thames, our home for the next couple of hours, as we mark the opening of a new parliamentary session. Its been a time of National Crisis since the last State Opening, back in december 2019, and the governments new programme will no doubt include measures to recover from the effects of the terrible pandemic. The queen will attend todays event, her first major event since the death of the Duke Of Edinburgh. Her majesty will be accompanied this morning by the Prince Of Wales, but the usual display of Ceremonial Splendour will be more or less absent because of the current restrictions. The other big difference is that the number of mps and peers here today is rather limited. The queens speech is being delivered just a few days after the extensive elections in scotland, wales and england, which gave new impetus to the debate on the constitutional future of the United Kingdom. Earlier this morning, the Prime Minister borisjohnson left number 10 for the Houses Of Parliam
and other consumer products can do that disclosure so can an agency that regulates nuclear reactors and we have bipartisan support for this. going forward will each of you commit to providing advance notice of your meetings and your travel and providing information about the topics intended to be discussed at each meeting? starting with the chairman. i commits to providing to the degree that i can because my schedule changes on a daily and sometimes hourly basis and as i sure does yours. certainly for my travel advance notice of my travel and other meetings to the degree that i can. commission or svinicki. spare would request the opportunity to respond for the record. i won t have any trouble doing that. at my confirmation hearing i promise to make my calendar available. i have done that from the moment i have been on the commission that i have published my calendar continuously and i have not made a practice of putting a lot of detail on my calendar. thank you beca
soldiers, and that is a statement they should be able to make in the very near future, and we will give them the help they need in order to be successful. thank you. newest member of the committee is front and center on energy policy and global affairs, and we appreciate his expertise. .wo final questions one, ambassador green, you have talked about this several times in your answers, and i am concerned about i would like to hear some other views as well ukraine, yes, but all of eastern europe, and that is the saturation the russians have created with their broadcasting .nto the region of coarse, it is not open-ended broadcasting in terms of use. it is very directed by the state. what should we be doing to quickly increase our level of engagement in this region so that in addition to a series ofly created social networking platforms, that there is additional opportunities for multiple ?oices to be heard senator, i would argue that we should boost those programs. used
year. the prince actually hadn t attended the state opening i don t think since 1996 before last year, though he had attended several before then. so this is the second time that they ve attended as a couple, and they are now arriving at the sovereign s entrance under the victoria tower, and what we ll see a little later on is charles and camilla seated at the queen s side just on the right-hand side of the main throne in the ceremonial chairs, the chairs of state which are being brought in for them. so this is a relatively new development that we re seeing. a real sense as well, nick, last time, although these obviously are things that we deal with sensitively, that is by the way the duke of norfolk, he is in charge of the really big events of state, including coronations, state funerals, really significant events. he is here today because really he s the organizing mastermind of the state opening. i just mentioned the sensitivity around the understandable process of looking
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