Mr. Chairman, are you ready to begin . Please begin your five second countdown. Chair pappas five, four, three, two, one. Good afternoon. I call this hearing to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. We have a number of members participating remotely today. And before we proceed, i would like to go over some items for our members participating remotely. First, if youre experiencing connectivity issues, please make sure you or your staff contact our Technical Support so those issues can be resolved immediately. Members participating remotely must continue to use the video function for the duration of their participation in the hearing, unless they experience connectivity issues or other technical problems that render the member fully unable to participate on camera. It is committee and subcommittee policy that members participating remotely will remain muted when not recognized, just like turning on your microphone on and off during an inperso
Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of the universe, thank you for giving us another day. Throughout the country people mourn those whom they have lost. People lament the loss of businesses of normalcy. 100,000 have now died of covid19. They were democrats and republicans, they lived in urban areas and now more and more in rural areas. They were the desendents of men and women who were colonists or founding fathers, and immigrants who had recently become citizens. They were disproportionately people of color, but not only of color, and of every religion and culture in this nation. , when o lord, will we come to understand that we are all in this together . If we do not stand together we risk falling together. Heal the divisions within our body politic, within this chamber so that your healing power through our actions and good will can be manifest in our United States. May everything done this day and in the days and weeks to come be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro
Localities. Now when people talk about federalism, they usually use the term to refer to the balance of power between the federal government and states. But last time we were talking about the debates between state and local level power. And those mirrored debates at the federal level and if anything they were much more contentious because so much governing authority was located in the states and localities. And what were talking about was a system of layered authority. Where states had control over the rights of citizens and the Public Interest. But they gave local areas Broad Discretionary Authority over a wide range of matters involving the Public Interest. So basically the states then handed over all of the discretion over this broad area of the Public Interest to local areas and so these jurisdictions that operated simultaneously, with local areas doing their thing and states doing their thing. And this contained a conflict between two different kind of visions of law. So we had a
Maybe that assignment. Watch book to be on president s day on cspan2. Book tv. Next Prime Ministers questions from the british house of commons. Boris Johnson Field of domestic and Foreign Policy questions from eber Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn and other party memos in the house. Just other party members. We continue to work closely with our partners to help those affected and to keep people safe. In addition we can make that today. Question number one mister speaker on the defense and security review. We will continue to transform through the budget large and the timing of that review will be announced shortly. May i urge the Prime Minister to recall what happened to the last confined security and defense review which was done within a straitjacket of fiscal neutralitys. It meant that every extra pound spent on the site or security was a pound for the conventional arms forces. It will not face such a straight jacket. It would be concluded before or after the comprehensive spending revie
Keep people safe. Meetings with colleagues and others in addition to meetings later today. Closed question one, mr. Speaker, on the defense and security review. Mr. Speaker, we will continue to transform the u. K. Economy through the budget in march and the comprehensive Spending Review later this year. The timing of that review will be announced shortly. Im grateful for that reply speaker. Maybe i may i urge the Prime Minister to tell what happened to the last review, which was done within a straitjacket of fiscal neutrality . Its meant that every extra pound spent on cybersecurity was a pound to be cut from the conventional armed forces. Ensurere, will he try to that the next attempt at a provide combined security and defense review will not face such a straitjacket and will be concluded before, rather than after the comprehensive Spending Review . Mr. Speaker, i understand the point my right honorable friend makes and i can assure him the integrated review will be the deepest in For