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States, tribes and, others to assess and clean up contaminated properties. Its an environment and Public Works Committee hearing is about two hours. [background noises] i call this hearing to order. Senator i call this hearing to order. Good morning, one and all. Senator capito, good to see you. Thank you for helping us pull this hearing together, this important hearing. Let me discuss the Environmental Protection agencys Brownfields Program as we begin to work on the programs of reauthorization...

Going to go right into our conversation. Elizabeth alexander is a prize winning and New York Times bestselling author, renowned american poet, educator, scholar and cultural advocate. Her memoir, the light of the world was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. And one of my favorite books and National Book critics circle awards. She composed and recited praise song for the day for president barack obamas. 2009 inauguration and is currently president of the Andrew Mellon foundation, the nations larg...

I call this hearing to order. Good morning, one and all. Senator capito, good to see you. Thank you for helping us pull this hearing together, this important hearing. Let me discuss the Environmental Protection agencys Brownfields Program as we begin to work on the programs of reauthorization. For nearly three decades now, brownfields has proven to be an important source of Helpful Community forced to contend with. The Program Provides federal assistance for communities to clean up contain him u...

Good afternoon. My name is roy brownell, and im pleased to be the moderator of participant for the third and final panel. Title for this panel is real world scenarios illness catastrophe and governmental response. The idea is to give a sense of the practical realities of the 1947 statute. Now i have the great honor introducing our distinguished panelists. Dr. Joseph j fins he is the e William Davis jr. Md professor of medical ethics at wild cornell medical college. Hes also visiting professor of...

That mean that exit subway at china town had takes a stair case or escalator. Escalator goes down and they have emergency evacuation stairwells that come out and go to the street. Trap doors in the street emergency hatches from the inside you can open and up get out. There are elevators. There is in the a lot of combustible materialless in the stations. And the trains are not combustible. But as you remember in the 70s there was the transbay tube fire and an oakland worker was killed there is po...

Stories for page a1. He previously reported for newspapers new york city and durham, North Carolina. Hes a veteran of more than 20 years as a newspaper reporter and has covered stories ranging from politics to civil rights to Higher Education. A 1990 graduate of North Carolina university with a degree in english i have one of those to look at us both employed is my eagle pen writing well very nice yes huh. Ernie also a Harvard University nieman fellow. He is currently on the nieman board of trus...

Eastern here on cspan. You can follow it online at cspan. Org and on the free cspan now mobile app. Thanks for being on the program. We will have Election Results tomorrow at this program at 7 00 eastern. We will take you live to the American Enterprise institute and a panel looking at the politics of immigrants. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] midterm elections. We will hear from our paneli...

Naturalized immigrants and their u. S. Born descendants. The American Enterprise institute hosted the discussion. Its an hour and a half. Good afternoon, and good morning. Welcome to the enterprise american institute. Im so used to hosting events on the afternoon. Good morning. Welcome to the American Enterprise entered institute. I am delighted to host this event on the politics of immigrants. A warm welcome to our online viewership and our tv viewership. For online viewers, submit your questio...

To us a little bit about general we are pleased to welcome David Eisenhower. He is going to talk to us a little bit about general eisenhowers military surveys and how it developed came into a leader. It eventually led to him being the president. I always allow our panelists and speakers to introduce themselves. They can tell us what they want us to know about them. I will turn it over to you, david. Take it away. Thank you very much. Samantha, on, meredith, i hope you are there. Mac, if he is ar...

I. Will with Everyone Welcome and thank you for being here at the 2022 texas book festival, live from austin, texas. My name is brian sweeney. Im the proud member of the Advisory Board at the texas book festival. And though i am biased, i firmly believe it is the best one in the country. So thank you for being here. We are absolutely delighted today to have two unbelievably talented authors on our panel talking about the environment both past and future. Im going to start at the end. Id like to ...