Good afternoon and welcome to the foundation for defense of democracies. My name is toby dershowitz. Many of you know we are a nonpartisan policy institute focusing on National Security issues. We are a source for research, and analysis and policy options for congress and the administration and for the media and certainly for the National Security community. We take no Foreign Government or Corporate Funding and never will. To learn more about fdd, please visit fdd. Org. I want to welcome the online lifestream audience and also those watching on cspan today. We invite everyone to join in on the conversation which we will be live tweeting fdd. The center on economic and financial power. We provide actionable recommendations to policymakers on how the u. S. Can leverage its economic and financial power to achieve its National Security objectives. In a moment well hear from our featured speaker, david peyman, deput,deputy assistant secretarf state for counterpart finance sanctions. Mr. Pe
To maintain and enforce sanctions specifically those aimed at iran and venezuela. This was held at the foundation for the defense of democracy. Good afternoon and welcome to the foundation for defense of democracies. My name is toby dershowitz. Many of you know we are a nonpartisan policy institute focusing on National Security issues. We are a source for research, and analysis and policy options for congress and the administration and for the media and certainly for the National Security community. We take no Foreign Government or Corporate Funding and never will. To learn more about fdd, please visit fdd. Org. I want to welcome the online lifestream audience and also those watching on cspan today. We invite everyone to join in on the conversation which we will be live tweeting fdd. The center on economic and financial power. We provide actionable recommendations to policymakers on how the u. S. Can leverage its economic and financial power to achieve its National Security objectives.
Museum of the Civil War Soldier located near petersburg, virginia. He previously served as the first president of the association for the preservation of civil war sites from 1990 to 1994, an early version of what today we know as the American Battlefield trust. Hes also spent time as a historian including local fredericksburg in spotsylvania. Hes also served in other capacities. Dedicated researcher, a prolific writer, he has published more than 20 works on the civil war, on stonewall jackson, st. Petersburg, virginia, 1861 to 1865, and my favorite, the final battles of the petersburg campaign. His latest book, a campaign of giant is certainly a mustread a campaign of giants is certainly a must read for all civil war enthusiasts. I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to do the maps for buck. I said, you know what . Youre doing good work and he gave me an opportunity to showcase that so that im most grateful. Will is certainly a historian that we all look up to but hes not just
Is you talk about how we can learn from our global war and bring to back to the United States. H5n1 here in the United States obviously is a serious issue right now. Theres a lot of lessons thatso were ignored through we are going to leave this here and take you back now live to the u. S. Senate. Here onof cspan2. Vote the clerk ms. Baldwin. Mr. Barrasso. Mr. Bennet. Mrs. Blackburn. Mr. Blumenthal. Mr. Booker. Mr. Boozman. Mr. Braun. Mrs. Britt. Mr. Brown. Mr. Budd. Ms. Butler. Ms. Cantwell. Mrs. Capito. Mr. Cardin. Mr. Carper. Mr. Casey. Mr. Cassidy. Ms. Collins. Mr. Coons. Mr. Cornyn. Ms. Cortez masto. Mr. Cotton. Mr. Cramer. Mr. Crapo. Mr. Cruz. Mr. Daines. Ms. Duckworth. Mr. Durbin. Ms. Ernst. Mr. Fetterman. Mrs. Fischer. Mrs. Gillibrand. Mr. Graham. Mr. Grassley. Mr. Hagerty. Ms. Hassan. Mr. Hawley. Mr. Heinrich. Mr. Hickenlooper. Ms. Hirono. Mr. Hoeven. Mrs. Hydesmith. Mr. Johnson. Mr. Kaine. Mr. Kelly. Mr. Kennedy. Mr. King. Ms. Klobuchar. Mr. Lankford. Mr. Lee. Mr. Lujan. Ms. L
The, there are on average 3 Train Derailments in the United States every single day. 3. Thats more than 1000. 00 derailments every year. Most of those are not serious enough to make that summer disasters trains to rail walk hurrying, dangerous chemicals or petroleum products. They catch fire, they contaminate land and ground water, they lead to the death and farm animals and sometimes even Railroad Employees and members of the public. Why is safety such a serious issue with the American Railroad industries . Why is the United States so very far behind the rest of the developed world when it comes to its railroads . And why has the government over the course of decades over the course of a century . Done almost nothing about it. Im john curiosity. Welcome to the whistle blowers. 2 2 2 2 2 2 here in the United States, were proud of the fact that we invented railroads. They were a product of American Ingenuity in the middle of the 19th century. It was the railroads that opened the west fo