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[inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. The committee will come to orde order. We are here this morning to review ongoing Recovery Efforts in puerto rico and the Virgin Islands in weeks of Hurricane Irma. We are now over two months removed from when Hurricane Irma devastated st. Thomas and st. John on september 6. Its been nearly 60 days since Hurricane Maria hit st. Croix and puerto rico. This is a little over a week ago that senators cassidys, franken and i, along with senator carper ...

Hero and vermont founding father ethan allen. He was the first, then commandant of the Green Mountain boys. They were the largest paramilitary source in north america, if not for the actions allen. Alan ethan a visit to the Lake Champlain maritime museum. Lake itcas first great is a 140 miles long water superhighway that cuts between the Green Mountains of vermont and the adirondacks of new york. Cspan cities tour of. Urlington, vermont sunday at 2 p. M. On American History tv at cspan3 working ...

[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is kevin had and the curator history of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum here in madison. Thank you for joining us today. Featuring author Jon Kerstetter and his new book crossings. Id like to think the medicine public library, the Madison Public Library foundation at all of our sponsors for helping make this incredible celebration possible. Before we begin please take a moment to silence all mobile devices so as to not interru...

We will call the hearing to order today we are welcoming the administrator of the federal Emergency Management agency to discuss the Response Recovery to hurricane harvey, irma and maria and the wildfires spread across california. Thank you for being here to join us. The magnitude of the disaster we are experiencing this year is unprecedented. I want to thank you and the thousands of personnel who deployed and continue to work tirelessly to help the communities and families get back on their fee...

Muslim minorities are a particular focus of our International Efforts to make sure we protect people. Not just in this country but around the world. If you are not willing to call the threat by the name it is, we are not willing to confront it and we need to confront it. Ms. May c 51 does not do what the Prime Minister said. It fails to bring any efforts to confront the risk of radicalization. Can abort terrorist plots without c 51. Toronto,e 18 in arrested young people about to leave montreal. ...

Flattened how they are preparing for this monster hurricane. The president set to hold a News Conference this hour with the amir of kuwait, a day after the president shocked republican dealers. And new reports are out about a possible trump schumer deal. Plus the News Conference live. All of that is on tap. The dow is the biggest loser, and disney is one of bob iger warned about apple is taking a hypothetical wall street journal set reporting that the new iphone is plagued by production glitches...

Bipartisan committee for responsible federal budget said its initial analysis of this plan shows the plan would add 2. 3 trillion to deficits over the next decade. Good afternoon. Like to start by saying that the president and all of us at the white house were thrilled to see congressman scalise back on the house floor today. Our thoughts and prayers have been with him and his family for many weeks now and well continue to root for him as he works towards a full recovery. Today the president is ...

Ms. Sanders good afternoon. I would like to start by saying the president and all of us at the white house were thrilled to see scott congressmans the least back on the floor today. Our thoughts and prayers have been with him and his family for many weeks now, and we will continue to root for him as he makes a full recovery. Today, the president actively engaged in the Recovery Efforts in puerto rico. He received an update from the femur at the fema administrator. The full weight of the United S...

At the white house this afternoon, we got an update from the Trump Administration on how they are handling the humanitarian crisis on the island. Thanks, sarah. Good afternoon. President trump has put people first and paperwork second. He has had us call out and pull out all the stops to provide as much federal relief into puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands as we can muster. I am here to take questions. I know you have heard parting from sarah, so i if i could jump in. Reporter on the jone...

Being here. On the jones act, critics say the white house should have moved forward quickly in waiving the jones act. Why is that an unfounded complaint . Mr. Bossart it is an unfounded complaint. The jones act is a rule that favors u. S. Flag vessels. If there are not enough to make the need, we waive the jones act. At this point, we had enough to exceed the requirement in need of diesel fuel and other commodities. Now we are seeing backlogged diesel fuel needs in the island. It was misundersto...