The Forest Service must comply with well over 50 separate laws like clean water act and ep endangered species act. Three years. Not to mention the threat of frivolous lawsuits. These are fundamental and systemic problems contributing to the National Forest system. Its time that congress and the administration advocate for solutions that imfriewf management of our forests. Tough decisions will have to be made for policies that promote stream lining so the Forest Service can conduct this kind of work. If anything changes, everything goes up in smoke. I recognized distinguished member and offer any remarks she might have. Thank you, this is a an very important hearing and we appreciate all of the witnesses giving time and perspective and exter pis. I would like to give a thanks to chris wood, and so so happy that you are here and look forward to your input on the critical issues. This summer was as we know another recordbreaking wild fire season. We know that our thoughts and prayers are
Have decided any contest between march 1 and march 15th must award there are delegates in proportionality. Republicans being republicans, they have a looser definition than democrats. So, what that first means is, if you are an republican voter in a state that votes during that time, your vote counts less than a state that votes afterward, just because your vote to delegate ratio is going to be lower. Secondly, for some reason, the very conservative states of the south and the midwest have all decided to lockstep vote in that window. Onality when you read the polls about ted cruz gaining and ted cruz telling you how he will unite all aspects of the movement, he will walk out of those key smallerith a much delegate lead. States more heavily influenced by moderates, particularly in the midwest midwest and northeast have adopted much more winner take all approaches. Someone who wins new jersey will get 51 delegates. For deepave to win Southern States by a large margin to get the 51delegat
The senate gavels in at 2 00 eastern for general speeches. At 5 30, senators will vote to move forward on district judge nominations for virginia, massachusetts and nevada. You can watch the house life on cspan live on cspan, the senate on cspan2. Deputy National Security adviser tony blinken talked about the u. S. And European Response to isolate russia after its intervention in ukraine. He talked about the effectiveness of the sanctions and why the annexation of crimea will eventually prove to be what he calls a strategic loser for russia in the long term. He spoke at a conference on europe hosted by the brookings institution. Its about 45 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, i hope youve had a chance to enjoy some lunch. It is, of course, a brookings sandwich lunch, so, you know, theres limits to the enjoyment, but nonetheless, we hope youve had a good lunch. Were extremely pleased to have tony blinken here to finish off and wrap up our annual conference for us today. Tony, unfortunately,
Get broader sanctions. And thenians seernational community crimea as lost, at least for the short term. I do not think we could afford to see effective occupation twoee de facto operation in inces inive provoin Eastern Ukraine. Whatever can be done to find moscow accountable would be very important. My second question. In much broader question about the future of nato and the future of article five protections. I agree europe will certainly react if there is a movement of troops across the border. The idea is that they are protected under the mutual defense covenant in nato, but russia is perfecting a new form of warfare in which they dont march troops across the border, in which they very slowly but methodically contest areas, gain control of areas with a range of tactics from intimidation to bribery to provocations to little green men with no russian uniforms. So this is a longerterm challenge for us. But is article v still a sufficient protection for countries along russias border .
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