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This is just over two hours. I would like to call the hearing to order. First off, i would like to recognize the chairman of the committee for a segment. Thank you. I want to thank the senator for chairing the hearing today. Sen. Casey serving as Ranking Member at senator murrays request. They have both been real leaders on this subject. Senator burr was the original i will call it the all hazards preparedness act. In 2006. The law helps protect us from the full range of Public Health threats. In 2013, senators berger and senator burr and senator casey led the committee. Many members of the co...

Same way they have in the past decade. And will talk more about why this is. Make sure we discuss what our response is going to be to this evolving problem. Weekrchers just last published a major scientific report. The report made it clear if we are ever going to get ahead of the problem the Forest Service needs to respond to wildfires in a fundamentally different way. A self reinforcing cycle of counter effective actions. The same keep using tired approaches we have for the last 100 years. We need to make sure we are focused on getting different results. Common sense tells us our response the...

To stop the Lords Resistance Army, a group in Central Africa and their leader, joseph kony. Live coverage here on cspan. Them alive this morning, a reefing on capitol hill, the tom commission, rights countering the Lords Resistance Army in Central Africa. We expect to hear from the group invisible children and the crisis commission. The cochairs are governor Massachusetts Governor of massachusetts, and joe pitts of pennsylvania. Sarah hi, im the washington director at Human Rights Watch. I am very pleased to be here today to moderate this Briefing Panel on the Lords Resistance Army. A quick th...

Died in a florida nursing home that lacked air conditioning because the power had been knocked out. One press account described the facility as, quote, a death trap, end quote, because the elderly are particularly susceptible to heat related illnesses. Last month, this photo of residents of an assisted living facility in texas, who were trapped in waist deep water went viral. As these recent disasters made clear, Older Americans are particularly vulnerable, before, during and even after a storm. In fact, when Hurricane Katrina slammed into the gulf coast 12 years ago, more than half of those w...

But for those to bridge the gap [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order good morning recently the hurricanes left a path of destruction along the gulf coast of texas and florida and throughout the caribbean. Homes and businesses and entire communities were destroyed and lives were lost then we learned the tragic news that eight seniors ranging in age from 71 through 99 died in a florida nursing home that lacked airconditioning because power had been knocked out. Those that describe the facility as a death trap because the elderly are particularly susceptible to heat related ...