[background noises] i am pleas to call todays hearing to order. I want to thank you all for joining senator capitol and me too explore topics and that is recycling. Specifically we are here to discuss the sustainability policy called extended producer responsibility and how these programs can improve recycling infrastructure and recycling practices. So what exactly is responsibility extended responsibility establishes a system in which financial responsibility for products through the end of their life is ifo producers of those. And how to extendol worker . Well, states or countries adopt policies that may require producers to pay a fee that is associated with their goods to a producer whose responsibility organization. And then these organizations can use the revenues for the expansion of recycling infrastructure. And for consumer education. Consumer packaging materials like plastic, like cardboard or aluminum theory as we know greatly the respect materials such as paper have more via
In colorado. He highlighted supplies to ukraine and training pilots on f16 fighter jets. This is about 45 minutes. You. Thank you for the most spectacular security government i have been to. One name after another, just like hammer blows. Ending with you, jake. Thank you for being here. Let me get straight to it. Bill burns, one of the nicknames big names we had here yesterday. He discussed the failed coup attempt. Putins response to this, not acting on that implied word, trader. He said the emperor has no clothes or if the emperor does have clothes, he is taking a long time to get dressed. I think that is a very memorable way of putting it. Of course, it was about the exposed fragility of putin. My question to you is how can we exist assist this fragility along . Is that a goal . What happened inside russia is for the elements of Russian Society and russian politics to work out. It is not for us to sit around and plot how to change the regime in moscow. We made clear that is not where
Ethis committee will come t order. To help us understand what china is doing. We spend a lot of time on this committee debating whether xi jinping will make a move. This is a question that people continue to debate. I wonder if such an invasion or the preparation for such an invasion which would be incredibly costly as the Ranking Member very eloquently brought up yesterday has already begun. Put differently, the ccb has been attacking us. Government, our defense contractors, our Development Firms in cyber. And they had been robbing us on tech. And they used that to their military modernization. And they have been gathering information on people and companies. Our military records have been compromised. Mine is framed in my office, in my basement. According to the fbi, chinas vast Hacking Program is the Worlds Largest and theyve stolen more americans personal and business data than any other nation combined. But that wasnt enough for the ccv. In the past few years, our intelligence and
Montpelier and outlined his legislative agenda focusing on Public Safety, the economy and disaster recovery. He was reelected to a fourth term winning the majority in every city and town in the state. His address is about 45 minutes. Mr. President , madam speaker, mr. Chief justice, members of the general assembly, fellow vermont. The second inaugural address talks about recovering in the flood of 1927. He said the common watched birds were progress and rehabilitation noting the true spirit of vermont at the time of the diversity and the faith and dollar its opportunity, progress, rehabilitation, catastrophe and opportunity. From the first struggle in the pandemic to the rising waters in july and december, a once in a century opportunity to revitalize the communities, the indomitable courage is as strong as ever. This session lets honor the resilience and strength, kindness and generosity not only in the recovery but working to address specific problems like demographics, housing, affo
For military construction and the department of Veterans Affairs. During the last congress 3 trillion was spent outside of the normal appropriations process. As spending soared, so did inflation. There was danger, damage done to the economy and the work of the Appropriations Committee changed significantly over those two years. Thats why islanderrier this year i asked subcommittee chairs to evaluate all of the funding in the pipeline. When the president s budget finally arrived, i directed them to review each Agency Budget line by line. I want to thank the subcommittee chairs for their work to identify ways to save hardearned tax dollars. These savings have allowed us to reduce overall spending without shortchanging, most Important National defense and Homeland Security and veterans. The bill before us demonstrates our commitment to reduce overall spending and still honor our commitment to our veterans. This bill makes good on that promise by fully funding Veterans Health care while en