Just an osc body. It is very much one that we hope we have not met yet, but we will have active participation from the services, from the combatant command, so they have that element of hearing from all parts of the department where there are challenges and what is needed to get them. Like most bodies, there are lower working groups that will feed into this on a regular basis and be meeting more often. When i asked richard to talk to that. Just to briefly say, as someone who has cochaired Nuclear Posture, i think my colleagues and we served as the daytoday cochair working group for the bpr, and i think she has been sick and tire of this when we made all these comparisons through the Nuclear Posture review. But as was noted, i think there were some value there in one of the outcomes and the mpr. As we do npr and plantation, a lot of those issues were identified to have a body to go back to to be the lead for implementation for there was a Nuclear Weapons counsel on the case of policy or
Our second panel. We will start with dr. Go paul who is a former executive and author of a book. He will provide an overview of the evolving supply chain landscape. Then we will hear from the next panelist a senior fellow with the trustee chair and China Business and economics. She will address the rapid rise of we very much appreciate both of your testimony. Why dont we begin with you . Can you hear me . Now we cant. Talk backwards. Ok. Something is happening with our sound with our witness. Do you suppose we could correct that . Because i know i cant. Why dont we move to miss mizzoco . Could you begin while we fix that . Thank you. Thank you, members of the commission and staff of the commission for the opportunity to be here. I have been asked to discuss electric vehicle sector of china. Let me start by saying like with other Clean Technologies like solar panels, china is important in the eb supply chain. Vehicles made in china are affordable and of increasing quality. I can hear yo
Bodies like this, there are lowerlevel working groups that will feed into this on a regular basis, is that correct . Why dont i asked richard and brandy to talk to that . As somebody who also cochairs the Nuclear Posturing view, i think my colleagues and i serve as the daytoday coaches for the bpr and i think she probably got sick and tired of the end of it when i kept making comparisons to the Nuclear Posture review. I think there was some value there in one of the outcomes in the npr, we do implementation, a lot of those issues that were identified had a body to go back to to be the lead for implementation. In other cases, it was policy or somewhere else. As we were going through the process, we realized, number one, just the value of getting this collective group of people and officials into the same room on really a weekly basis, to have these discussions and dialogue and identify gaps and scenes, wherever they may be. And we kind of recognized, we probably should sustain us in som
Representatives, as well as representatives from northern command, because of their singular responsibility for pandemic preparedness and department of defense support to civil authorities. As well as a special operations command. They have responsibility as the coordinating authority for wmd related activities. It is not just an osd body. It is very much one that will , we hope, weve not met yet, but will have active participation from the services, from the combatant commands, so that it has that element of hearing from all parts of department, where are the challenges and what is needed to get after them. Im assuming, like most bodies like this, there is lowerlevel working groups that will feed into this on a regular basis and meet more often. Is e that correct . Yeah, why dont i ask richard and brandi to talk to that. Sure. Just briefly say is somebody who also cochaired the Nuclear Posture review, i think my colleagues, and dr. Vann and i served as the daytoday cochairs working gr
[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 who was just here and senator harris as well as some of our house colleagues visited both st. Thomas and puerto rico. I want to thank both governors, the governor or cello for your hospitality, the time that you gave us during that visit was incredibly important for all of us to see to be on the ground and to be hearing directly from you. I know that some other members of our committee have traveled to puerto rico previously and i thank them for that as well. What i think we observed is that the