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Going as it should. I want to thank the people of fema. I want to congratulate him on his nomination. I hope that goes very quickly. It should go quickly. He has done a fantastic job. Maybe i will wrap up. And you can Say Something and we will take some questions. Here at you for being the fema National Response and coordination center. Ground, then on the entire administration has been preparing and we are responding. It is one of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the country. The skill and expertise of the entire response and relief efforts are in the field today responding. Again, the best response to a disaster is one locally executed, state managed, and federally supported. We have strong partners in Governor Abbott and edwards to fight. You acted quickly to authorize for texas, louisiana, and arkansas. Prepositioned aspects, they are responding today conducting search and rescue assessments and other types of assessments. Customsdeployed protection as well. Another administrat
Coupleted in committee a weeks ago and had over 650 amendments submitted to the official mark of the chairman and the subcommittee marks. We process to those amendments and adopted 475 amendments in. Ommittee i want to thank our staff for the incredible amount of work to work with members and various interested parties to get us to that product. I am very pleased we were able to get that done and pass the bill out of the Armed Services committee unanimously 560 with broad support. I want to thank the Ranking Member of the committee for his incredible leadership during this process. Partnereen a terrific as the chairman of the committee and as the Ranking Member. As heill be his last ndaa is retiring from congress. I want to thank him for his great work and leadership. I want to emphasize a point i have made many times, the Armed Services Committee Works in a bipartisan way and produces a legislative product in a manner i think should be an example for all of congress. That does not hap
With all of our upcoming events, podcasts and publications and more on our website at wilsoncenter. Org and in particular, i want to invite you to give a listen to our podcast reference to the x article and the newest podcast, the russia file. Let me just remind everybody tut the conversation and weve already gotten quite a few of them, you can submit questions by email, and please list your name and affiliation as if a live event at the wilson kennan center, and im more likely to call out than if youre unidentified. And fiona hill from Brookings Institution and as many of you know for the Russian Affairs on the National Security council. That was 201719. From 2006, National Intelligence office for russia and eurasia at the National Intelligence council ap coauthor of the wellreceived and widery read book mr. Putin, operative in the kremlin, an update of a previous book. And i want it note that the two of them authored a useful piece still for those of us thinking about russias develop
Freemarket economics in judeochristian principles. During this session several members of the House Freedom caucus discussed u. S. China relations and how it impacts their districts. Welcome back to the center. We had an actionpacked day. You are about ready to see the best of the best. These are the heroes in congress from Freedom Caucus and the conservative caucus. My good friends up in d. C. Still fighting the fight, that we are still china today and on going to go one by one. We have three panels of four u. S. Congressman so we are honored to have all of you here today, and lets just start off with brian babin from texas, and bryant, im going to leadoff with the other brothers from congress who can do this in the back room, hello, brothers back there, and sisters. I can hear you in the back room. They are all my friends. Con babbitt, want to ask you all kinds of first hurdle is upon which anything else depends is the sense of how did china send us this virus . Was it intentional in