Which are used to sequester carbon dioxide. While we support wyomings protecting their Natural Resources and environment and we encourage other states to follow their to implement and enforce this Important Program under the Safe Drinking Water act. You. Ank carper. Senator carper mr. Chairman, delaware is right in he middle of a lot of busy corridor in the northeast. A lot of people live in the northeast. Heres a lot of traffic in the northeast. I95, 295. Through myomes right state. 80 of the pollution, particularly northern delaware, comes from sources outside of state. Generated by sources outside of our state. Fortunate of being downwind from a lot of the comes to that delaware. It keeps us out of compliance some of the area pollution, clean air requirements, that others are able to meet because places like wyoming and oklahoma where they dont have all those millions of cars coming ks and advance through there every month. Of e happens to be a couple coal fired plants. Three in pen
Virtually. And all of you, thank you. Are, a week later. Not quite a week, but in the next week since we passed the heroes act, im so very, very proud of the substance of it. I have said that our chairs of the committees in jurisdiction were dazzling in how they put thether initiatives to meet needs of the American People. Three and im proud of the courage of my members to support the legislation and couldnt have been more proud than to hear the debate on the floor. When they talked about meeting the needs of the American People while the other side was talking about taking a pause. Well, we dont agree with that. We dont take a pause because again, hunger doesnt take a pause, paying your rent doesnt take a pause. The list goes on. The legislation had three main pillars, all of which have been supported in a bipartisan way. In one or the other of the previous covid bipartisan legislations. First, honor the heroes. Health care providers, first responders, police fighters firefighters, ou
Note a quorum is present. We we will hear testimony from e department of education implementation of borrowed eventual. Pursuant to commingle 7c statements are limited to the chair and Ranking Member. I want to thank secretary devos of being with us today and thank her for a green to hold enough time in the schedule all of the members present to have amendments confinements of questions pursuant to house rules. Especially thankful because this cheer im exercise my prerogative to go last in question order so it she were to leave early i wouldnt get to ask questions. I want to thank you for agreeing to stay with us for the fulltime. I recognize myself enough for the purpose of making an opening statement. We are here to examine the department of educations implementation of the borrower defense rule. I want to thank you, madam secretary, for appearing before the committee to discuss this important issue. Borrower defense is a rule grounded in basic fairness. Student borrowers who are def
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Other emerging defense technologies at a conference hosted by the National Defense industrial association. In washington, d. C. Thank you, michael. The job of deputy secretary of defense is widely known to be one of the toughest in government. It is, after all, the chief operating officer for the largest employer in the world. Beginning her Government Service as a president ial management intern, and spending time both in and out of government, dr. Kathleen hicks was quite familiar with the demands of the job before she was sworn in. She was well prepared to take them on. Just prior to her current position, she was the Senior Vice President Henry Kissinger chair and director of security at csi us. She was sworn in on february 9th, 2021. I think its interesting that the title of her dissertation at mit was, change agents. Who leads ny, and the execution of National Security policy. Given the swirl of strategic and technological change all around us, i would say a change agent is exactly