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1994 federal assault weapons ban. This is two hours. All. I apologize for being late. I really dont have any opening remarks and i welcome all of our colleagues here to these introductions andill turn it over to senator feinstein. Mister chairman. As you can see we have four nominees before the committee today. Id like to welcome the majority leader, thank you for being here. We have not had a Senate Confirmed director of the atf since march 2015. And in fact, weve only had one confirmed head of the agency since the director position was subject to Senate Confirmation in 2006. So im really very pleased that members of this committee will have the ability to question mister canterbury, not only on his record but also on his priorities for combating gun violence should he be confirmed to this position. I really have been at this for so long and ive seen us experience so ....
Being late. I really dont have any opening remarks but i welcome all of our colleagues that will do introductions and alternate over to senator feinstein. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. As you can see we have four nominees before the committee today. I would like to welcome the majority leader, thank you for being here. We have not had a Senate Confirmed director of the atf since march 2015. In fact, weve only had one Senate Confirmed head of the agency since the director position was subject to Senate Confirmation in 2006. I am very pleased that members of this committee will have the ability to question not only on his record but also on his priorities for combating gun violence should he be confirmed to this position. I really have been at this for so long and i have seen as experience so many senseless t ....
[laughter] all right, everybody, lets do the next session here. Im not lamont from connecticut. Im really the warm up and phil scott, whos really on the front line of what disasters are and what governors have to do. A lot of people and determine what battles they want to take on. Governors, the battles come to us. I think we have learned that the hard way as governors over the last four years. I think phil is right on the front lines there as well. When phil and i first got elected, one of the first things we did was a tabletop exercise when it came to a cyberattack. We thought it was going to take down a power plant in massachusetts if memory serves, and how the rest of us were going to respond. Then it was just six months later that we got hit by covid. We had to learn how to Work Together not just across disciplines within our own state, but throughout the entire region and country as a whole. That is what weve got to learn goi ....
[laughter] all right, everybody, lets do the next session here. Im not lamont from connecticut. Im really the warm up and phil scott, whos really on the front line of what disasters are and what governors have to do. A lot of people and determine what battles they want to take on. Governors, the battles come to us. I think we have learned that the hard way as governors over the last four years. I think phil is right on the front lines there as well. When phil and i first got elected, one of the first things we did was a tabletop exercise when it came to a cyberattack. We thought it was going to take down a power plant in massachusetts if memory serves, and how the rest of us were going to respond. Then it was just six months later that we got hit by covid. We had to learn how to Work Together not just across disciplines within our own state, but throughout the entire region and country as a whole. That is what weve got to learn goi ....
[laughter] all right, everybody, lets do the next session here. Im not lamont from connecticut. Im really the warm up and phil scott, whos really on the front line of what disasters are and what governors have to do. A lot of people and determine what battles they want to take on. Governors, the battles come to us. I think we have learned that the hard way as governors over the last four years. I think phil is right on the front lines there as well. When phil and i first got elected, one of the first things we did was a tabletop exercise when it came to a cyberattack. We thought it was going to take down a power plant in massachusetts if memory serves, and how the rest of us were going to respond. Then it was just six months later that we got hit by covid. We had to learn how to Work Together not just across disciplines within our own state, but throughout the entire region and country as a whole. That is what weve got to learn goi ....