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The hearing will come to order. This hearing is entitled congress and the frank bringing congressional mailing standards into the 21st century. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Happy halloween everybody. I am dressed as americas most maligned superhero, congressman, to be able to fly across the country in six hours on alaska airlines. We were thinking about titling this hearing frankenstein, have houses ghoulish mailing standards have haunted members for deca...

Next, currents and former public official officials on the importance of military and civilian Service Programs. The event hosted by the Brookings Institution lasts just over an hour. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Im john allen, im the president of brookings and on behalf of the institution and our partners at service here alliance, i want to welcome you all to this event today. I want to welcome those coming in over the especially with web cast and of course we always welcome the media. T...

Its my happy duty to introduce and moderate the second panel. Let me just begin by introducing myself briefly. Im bill galston. Delighted to be a small cog in in the Service Alliance machine that produced this meeting. I want to thank two people in particular. Belle sawhill for conceiving of this day and working tirelessly over a period of at least six months to bring it about. And also our president john allen for lending his vast experience and immense moral authority to our enterprise this mo...

Second panel. Let me just begin by introducing myself briefly. Im bill glass than, a senior fellow in the government studies program, here at brookings. Delighted to be a small cargo in the brookings Service Alliance machine. That is produced this meeting. I want to thank. Two people in particular bell sol hill, for conceiving it is day and working tirelessly for the past six months to bring about. To bring it about. And also our president john allen for lending his vast experience and immense m...

Subcommittee will now come to order, the subcommittees meeting to hear testimony on hr 20 4 20 yeah the National Museum of the american latino act. On, Committee Rule 4f, any Opening Statements and hearings are limited to the chair and ranking minority members. Therefore i ask unanimous consent that all of her members Opening Statements be made part of the hearing record if they are submitted to the course by 5 00 p. M. Today. The hearing no objections, so ordered. In addition to the broad inter...

Conference on Immigration Law and migration at the u. S. Mexico border. Kevin mcaleenan was scheduled to deliver opening remarks, but left the stage after being interrupted multiple times by protesters. This portion of the event also included a Panel Discussion on immigration policy and the 2020 election cycle. Good morning. This time, im interrupting you, for real. Good morning, everybody. We will to those of you in the room and work on those to you joining us on cspan. I am the president of th...

Area or it was donald trump before he changed his mind a few times. He also said this i would rather see it where you went with simple votes. You know you get 100 million votes and someone else gets 90 million and you when. I quote him not for irony but because he is right and his affinity for the popular vote may reflect his instinct that a president who was elected without winning a majority is perhaps not so legitimate. Think of all the factors that have contributed to voter cynicism and alie...

And were live this morning awaiting the start on the forum from the center for strategic and international studies. Live coverage should start in a moment. Thank you all for we really appreciate you joining us. Thats better. Thank you all for coming today. Really appreciate you joining us here today. Thanks for coming out this morning. I think weve got a really exciting morning of discussion. First of all, breeief introductions, im Whit Saumweber director of the stephenson ocean security project...

Good morning these subcommittee will now come to order, the subcommittees meeting to hear testimony on hr 20 4 20 yeah the National Museum of the american latino act. On, Committee Rule 4f, any Opening Statements and hearings are limited to the chair and ranking minority members. Therefore i ask unanimous consent that all of her members Opening Statements be made part of the hearing record if they are submitted to the course by 5 00 p. M. Today. The hearing no objections, so ordered. In addition...

Excellent panel and were start off with heather. Thank you so much. I think the arctic is the best place to talk about the intersection of climate stress and security. In many ways, the arctic is telling us, both polar regions are telling us theyre under the most stress as the arctic is warming two to three times faster than anyplace on the planet. In many ways, were now dealing with a very new ocean. In fact our former coast guard commandant called the arctic americas fourth coast. I thought th...