Conference here in washington, d. C. [ applause ]. I am a counselor with the center for American Progress and i am excited to moderate this discussion on the Climate Crisis and our response to it. This past year has shown we are in the thick of it. The sort of ground us on this, i want to read a quick paragraph that struck me in a recent New York Times magazine piece. It is describing the impact of wildfires in the northwest. Here is a quick description. The sun turned blood red always all but plotted out. Disappearing along the city skyline. The sky turned green or scipio or nearly tangerine. Sometimes there were weeks where you were advised not to open your windows or exercise outside. Sometimes there were long stretches when you were not supposed to breathe the outside air at all. So, we are in the thick of this crisis and we are also in the thick of a start of a response to it. As folks have mentioned it several times today, last Year Congress passed the largest investment in addre
Highlighted Infrastructure Investments and Natural Disaster response. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy visit ncicap. Org] excellent. I am a counselor with the center for American Progress and really excited to moderate this discussion on the Climate Crisis and our response to it. The past year has really shown that we are in the thick of it. And to sort of ground us on it. I wanted to read a quick paragraph that struck me in a recent New York Times magazine piece sort of describing the impact of wildfires in the northwest. Heres a quick description. The sun turned blood red, or all but blooded out, disappearing along with the city skyline. The sky turned gray or eerily tangerine and ash floated down like snow. Sometimes there were weeks you were told not to open your windows or exercise outside. Sometimes there were long stretches you
4156550001. Enter access code dial 14156550001 access code 2594 606 8619 password sfgov speak clearly. I will now call the roll. President ahn . Here. Vicepresident , wan . Commissioner stephenson . Here. I will start with the land acknowledgment. The commission of the environment acknowledges the homeland and recognize the mother earth and as well as all other people who reside in their territory. We recognize we benefit from living on their land and wish to pay our respects to the ancestors and elders and the environment of the community. We must embrace indigenous knowledge around how we care for San Francisco and all its people. Thank you for attention during this important acknowledgment. Welcome to tonights meeting. We should know that the worlds meteorology cal report according to the forecast there is a 98 chance that one of more of the next five years will be hotter. We simply adhere to Sustainable Practices and make sure we continue our mission here at the department of the e
Committee of the whole house on the state of the union for further consideration of h. R. 2936 which the clerk will report by title. The clerk a bill to expedite under the National Environmental policy act of 1969 improve Forest Management activity on National Forest system lands, on public lands under jurisdiction of the bureau of Land Management and on tribal lands to return resilience to overgrown, fireprone forested lands and for other purposes. The chair when the committee of the whole rose earlier today, a request for a recorded vote on amendment number 7 rinted in house report 115378 offered by the gentleman from new mexico, mr. Pearce, had een postponed. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, proceedings will now resume on those amendments printed in house report 115378 on which further proceedings were postponed in the following order. Amendment number 2, mr. Khanna of california. Amendment number 3, mr. Ohalleran of arizona. Amendment number 7 by mr. Pearce of new mexico. The chair
A convergence of two anniversaries. The new yorker is celebrating its 90th this year. It was one of the First Western media to have access to china after the revolution . 1949. And of our five distinguished guest panelists tonight, one who is not a guest, our own Orville Schell, they have collectively over 100 years of observation and writing on china. And i think you will all find this very enlightening and no doubt entertaining. This includes of course our own Orville Schell whose asia societies center on u. S. China relations, arthur ross director and the founder districter. Were pleased to have janet ross here with us tonight. Hello, janet. Ive learned that orvilles first contribution to if new yorker was in the 70s. Almost whole issues on china solely devoted, quite a thing in the 70s. Ive also learned that orville with us so delighted with his first paycheck that he went and bought a tractor for his ranch in california and this was following the directive in the cultural to head