Nuclear deterrents. Having recently served as a commissioner on the strategic, Posture Commission is incredibly urgent that we look at deterrence in a broader lens. Looking at strategic deterrents of which of course Nuclear Deterrents is a key foundation. The reason we need to look at this more broadly is we are facing new threats. New threats of escalation. New domains that can lead to rapid or inadvertent escalation in competition or conflict with china and russia. New domains such as space, cyber. Adversaries might be able to take more risks and we have Strategic Systems that are vulnerable, for example in space. And that could lead to miscalculation or rapid escalation to Nuclear Weapons use. To deal with these new threats we need to also think about innovation in terms of concepts and technologies. This is why im excited about having our three panelists this morning to discuss those issues and the challenges and opportunities ahead. We will first hear from professor andrew ross wh
About how hot its going to get this weekend morning, john. Yep, you wont know where youre at because were all looking high. Its not a coastal escape kind today. Its going to be a coastal lay on the beach and catch the rays can today. We are looking at a very warm one and we can attribute it to those dry offshore winds. Your view outside at San Francisco from about from mount tam, you can see the wobble that camera has that is that strong wind that is working its way from the interior out towards the coast. And its really putting a stop to any sort of cool coastal breeze that pushes inland. Thats temperatures are going to skyrocket and no cloud cover. No fog whatsoever. Right now were already at 70 degrees in alameda. Honestly, we pretty much hung out there all night long temperatures last night for a lot of spots. Actually state are really, really mild throughout the course of the evening. And today will continue to rise as the sun comes up. More and more mid to upper 70s along the coa
Conflict between israel and hamas and the russiaukraine war. Appointing before a Senate Appropriations on the 2025 budget request. Youre watching live coverage on cspan3. I want to call this hearing to order. Good morning. I want to welcome our witnesses, secretary austin and general brown. We appreciate you being with us here today. General brown, this is your first appearance before the subcommittee. Your position today, and i want to thank you for your commitment and Longstanding Service to our nation. Secretary austin, lester, when you testified before this committee, we discussed the default. Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed and we were able to come together with a bipartisan matter to avoid a catastrophic Government Shutdown but we have failed miserably in getting the budget down on time. Here we are, more than halfway through the fiscal year and you just got your budget, albeit six months late. These repeated delays have real impact and i hope you will illustrate for us the im
After brief opening remarks members will receive testimony from our witness today and the hearing will be open to questions. Good morning once again. Welcome to todays hearing receive testimony from the secretary of agriculture. I think my colleagues participating and secretary bill sec for his time we have a lengthy hearing ahead of us. I will be brief and might remarks nearly three years ive traveled across the country to different farmers, ranchers, foresters, Rural Communities and everyday consumers. Many of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle jointly for those travels. The message we have heard from those folks was very clear. They need a government to work for them, not against them. These men and women have struggled with a fractured supply chain, considerable input cost, relentless inflation, natural disasters, volatile markets and labor shortage each consistently worsened by illconceived halfbaked executive action. What seemingly is a daily occurrence taxpayer dollars be
After brief opening remarks members will receive testimony from our witness today and the hearing will be open to questions. Good morning once again. Welcome to todays hearing receive testimony from the secretary of agriculture. I think my colleagues participating and secretary bill sec for his time we have a lengthy hearing ahead of us. I will be brief and might remarks nearly three years ive traveled across the country to different farmers, ranchers, foresters, Rural Communities and everyday consumers. Many of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle jointly for those travels. The message we have heard from those folks was very clear. They need a government to work for them, not against them. These men and women have struggled with a fractured supply chain, considerable input cost, relentless inflation, natural disasters, volatile markets and labor shortage each consistently worsened by illconceived halfbaked executive action. What seemingly is a daily occurrence taxpayer dollars be