[inaudible conversations] good morning. Good morning. Im congresswoman Donna Edwards and i represent marylands fourth Congressional District. Welcome to the Fourth District. [applause] i am really delighted one to see this packed house. He wasnt really difficult to do with all the work we do around the community and in this region centered around some of the most fabulous women that you find anywhere so thank you very much for joining us today. I have the privilege of representing this Congressional District and representing a state that the center for American Progress has said is the number one state for women in the country. [applause] now of course we take great pride in that but we know we have a lot of work to do. Im honored, really honored to be here today with our senior senator, our mentor and our friend, our senator Barbara Mikulski. [applause] and most delighted to welcome somebody who is not a stranger either to Prince Georges County were to maryland or the Fourth District
Its a tricky question, and thats going to matter a lot for natural gas. No one mentioned nuclear yet in the institution. Yeah, id like to. If theres questions, i want to get to nuclear in a second, but, vivian, to what extent does the Development World ham strung by resource shortages, you mentioned renewables need to be Cross International boundaries. Is there an economic incentive to develop fuels, and do they have enough like africa or india . Well, it varies a lot depending on the country. I mean, one of the exciting developments in recent years has been the huge gas discoveries in africa, actually. Nigeria and angola are major producers, but mozambique came from nowhere to be a major producer changing the problem for africa in terms of changing to fossil fuels in the energy transition. Not only is natural gas attractive, but for the local pollution is minimal compared to coal which is also a domestic pollution issue in india and china. Theres a lot of scope for moving in that dire
Of all, theres a couple of committees that have jurisdiction. Its not just us. Ways and means and you got icea and the government reform committee. I dont know what is precisely going on in the senate, but were going to continue our oversight role as we showl. We have two subcommittees. One is the subsubcommittee. A lot of questions relating to the security of the individuals information that they put into the system as well knowing that they are changing a number of the lines to try make it work. So theres a lot of issues that are out there, and i dont know that we will do a hearing every week just on this. We have a lot of other issues as well whether they be energy, telecommunications, trade, etc. , so theres only so much time in the day. Did the contract ost have an affirmative responsibility to warn c. M. S. That more testing was needed . We heard one say, its not our job. Im not sure they offered the response, remember, they are under oath so they were a little careful in terms o
With leading experts in their field. A world renowned sports physician helping us with this, and we worked with the government very closely, their advisers, to prepare those and it was really a big surprise we were not allowed to proceed yesterday because, up until that point, we had been given no indication there were issues there. And i was particular surprising because, as tanni knows, i run a Large Business in the uk, across europe, so we had the ability to test in the real world the protocols that we are putting in place in the uk, notjust puregym but the whole industry. We welcomed over a Million People to our sites in switzerland and denmark in the last six weeks, its been tested by the authorities there 60 or 70 times and passed all those tests, and as far as we are aware, we havent had one infection or transmission in those facilities. Adding to the concerns tanni so clearly raised, evidence that is been provided. Sorry to interrupt you. We have heard today from a scientist wh
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