It is important that this receivee is able to briefings and other communications. To oversightard responsibilities. Have you adhered to the applicable interest . Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan is the nominee to be Deputy Defense secretary. At his Senate Confirmation hearing he promised to divest requested by a duly requested committee or to consult with the Committee Regarding providing such documents . Yes. In the interest of time, i will submit my Opening Statement for the record. I know that will come as a terrible blow to the other members of the committee. I can see how upset they are in missing that and maybe with a little luck, senator reid will do the same. It is your lucky day, mr. Chairman. I just want to welcome mr. Shanahan and senator cantwell. Thank you. If i may also, senator shane wanted to be here, but she is delayed in this terrible weather. With that, i ask permission to submit the statement. I would ask the committee to consider a list of 195 pending military nom
It is important that this receivee is able to briefings and other communications. To oversightard responsibilities. Have you adhered to the applicable interest . Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan is the nominee to be Deputy Defense secretary. At his Senate Confirmation hearing he promised to divest requested by a duly requested committee or to consult with the Committee Regarding providing such documents . Yes. In the interest of time, i will submit my Opening Statement for the record. I know that will come as a terrible blow to the other members of the committee. I can see how upset they are in missing that and maybe with a little luck, senator reid will do the same. It is your lucky day, mr. Chairman. I just want to welcome mr. Shanahan and senator cantwell. Thank you. If i may also, senator shane wanted to be here, but she is delayed in this terrible weather. With that, i ask permission to submit the statement. I would ask the committee to consider a list of 195 pending military nom
Testimony, briefings and other communications of information. So it is standard for this committee to ask certain questions on order to exercise its legislative and oversight responsibilities. Have you adhere to applicable laws and regulations governing complex of interest . I have. Will you ensure that your staff complies with the deadlines established request to communications, including questions for the record in hearings . I will. Will you cooperate in providing witnesses and briefings in response to congressional requests . I will. Will those witnesses be protected from reprisals for the testimony or briefings . Yes. The you agree to appear and testify upon request before this committee . Yes. Do you agree to provide documents including copies of electronic forms of communication and in time and when requested by duly constituted committee or to consult with a Committee Regarding the basis for any faith, later denial and providing such documents . Yes. Have you send any duties or
Important is in terms of how do you support really standg up or evaluating real life use cases or proof of concepts or pilots if you will and thats what we see other countries doing is getting these systems up and running to learn from them as quickly as possible. That takes infrastructure support. That takes things the government is best equipped to help execute and manage. I think thats another big area where we would really welcome the support of these agencies. So when youre talking about infrastructure, were planning smart cities. We need to be thinking five years ahead, ten years ahead in terms of the ability for us to have Smart Devices and the like. Exactly. The Vehicle Infrastructure piece of it the markings on the roadways, basically equipping the infrastructure to be ready. If were talking about large investments we should be looking into that. Federal and state. I think ann harbor is a good example. They have come together to create a test bed on the campus grounds. You wer
Enforcement. And i think that thats part of it. I think its part of it, sort of thinking about what is it we want our officers to be doing . What is their role, you know, and sort of just acknowledging, like, what we ask of them when we put them on the front lines. Rose and we continue with comment and perspective from charles blow, a columnist for the New York Times. There are two things happening simultaneously here, i think. There is a focus, necessarily, on interpersonal racism, what you and i may share back and forth, whatever biases i may have, whether im aware of them or not aware of them, and thats a very real conflict when people come into contact with each other, particularly in heightened situations of kind of stress. There is another conversation being had about the systemic forces of racism, the kind of racism that does not require any active participation by any particular person, and those are the sorts of structures that push these two populations of people into contact