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Here. Paul woolford. Here. Fady zoubi. Here. Vice chair is present. Acting chair we have 3 members present and a fourth coming in. Quorum is 3. We have quorum. Thank you. Before calling the next item i have a quick announcement i intend to recess for 15 minutes the middle of the meet to stretch our legs and have a snack and take a quick break. And i plan to ooh journal by 2 p. M. I will do my best to be sure we do adjourn by 2 p. M. Are there requests to amend the order of our agenda today . Sec...

U. S. Student loan debt. Later, discussions about Cyber Security and business. Now a Senate Hearing on training firefighters who respond to firefighters. Mark begich questioned officials representing the Forest Service and firefighters about the resources needed with increasing firefighters in Populated Areas. This hearing is an hour. Thank you so much for being here. Its a pleasure to have folks here. This is the subcommittee on Emergency Management intergovernment relations in the District Of ...

Hawk. This years proposal just reversed it and wants to retire the u2 and keep the global hawk. When you flipflop completely within one year it doesnt give you a lot of confidence these poem proposals have been thought out. If you talk to commanders in korea they want to keep them both with the volatile young leader now in charge in the north. But the other reason im not willing to accept many of the administrations proposals is that im not willing that we have to accept that we have to have a s...

Threatening your state are stark reminder of this present danger. Before the hearing we spoke with tom wescott. He estimates that a vast majority of his membership will be engaged in those efforts before the fire is finally brought under control. The scourge of wildfires has become epidemic and will i am peril our nation. Changing the way in which federal government budgets for wild land Fire Fighting. It makes sense and should be done but only a first step. For decades firefighters are battled ...

Mr. President , mr. Speaker, senator mckinney, representative cafero, lt. Governor wyman and my fellow state officials, ladies and gentlemen of the General Assembly, honored members of the judiciary, members of the clergy, and all the citizens of our great state who are watching or listening today thank you for the honor of inviting me into the peoples house to address you. Id like to offer my sincere congratulations to the newly elected leadership of the democratic and republican caucuses in ea...

Community including the American Academy that we have been through, it is not an extensive study. But the literature that the staff has been working. Much of what we already had, trying to devour. The most interesting meeting is with an interfaith group. Not only the traditional mainstream protestant churches, the Catholic Council of bishops, but evangelicals. They are reluctant to engage in is because it is may be an attack on a cultural thing related to gun ownership and the like. All these gr...

Were going to build that within next years springtime exercise. Thank you. Lets go ahead and move over to a discussion of resources and theres a number of resources that dod brings to bear whether its personnel or equipment or systems that they have. As i look back to my experience with the 20032007 fires, the one that stands out to me is the use and integration of helicopters. I can remember after the 2003 helicopters doing a field hearing with Duncan Hunter about the integration of helicopters...

Ones out. We do have an ongoing relationship with cal fire, im in contact with cal fire all the time. We have good Situational Awareness whats going on in the state of california. They normally put us in an alert stat us so were prepared to respond in an attack mode. I dont often work with chief chaney in southern california, about a month ago we had 9 aircraft at our peak working fires throughout Northern California if that answers your question. Any other responses . I wanted to touch can you ...

Ones out. We do have an ongoing relationship with cal fire, im in contact with cal fire all the time. We have good Situational Awareness whats going on in the state of california. They normally put us in an alert stat us so were prepared to respond in an attack mode. I dont often work with chief chaney in southern california, about a month ago we had 9 aircraft at our peak working fires throughout Northern California if that answers your question. Any other responses . I wanted to touch can you ...

Commanders, we follow their coordination, typically were the last ones in and the first ones out. We do have an ongoing relationship with cal fire, im in contact with cal fire all the time. We have good Situational Awareness whats going on in the state of california. They normally put us in an alert stat us so were prepared to respond in an attack mode. I dont often work with chief chaney in southern california, about a month ago we had 9 aircraft at our peak working fires throughout Northern Ca...