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Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. As we begin our final day of consideration of the fy21 spending bills, id like to thank you all for your kind words and well wishes and ask you, please, to indulge me in just a few more reflections. I came to congress in 1989, one of just 31 women in the house and senate and to this committee in 1993 alongside only six other women under the 64member panel. This body is better for the 100 women serving in the 116th congress and for the many women in the room today. Its my honor to address the full committee for my final time as the first woman...

Good afternoon. I call this meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules now we have set up any mileage us to which members can send anything they wish to submit they wish to submit in writing in any of her hearings or markups. Our hearings or markups. Has been provided to staff. The first order of business is consideration of the energy and Water Development appropriations bill. For fiscal year 2021. Captornow recognize this ms. Captor to present the bill. Please let me also add my you for your honorable and dedicated service to our community and nation an...

People handled . Just to give you a few numbers to think about as we start off, according to the un, there are 272 million migrants in the world, so were talking about people who have moved from country to country. That is a large number. 3. 5 of the global population. But another number more striking is 70 million displaced persons and if you think about that, we are living at a time where we see more people forced out of their lives and out of their homes, sometimes out of their countries than at any time in history, we see these people on the move. Over half of them, over half of the refuge...

For the international and adversity hosted this discussion. The topic of this discussion were about to have his immigration, finding solutions. And i think the first thing we have to do is say what is the problem exactly. And when you start thinking about what is the problem, it goes in a lot of different directions. You have an issue of global migration, you have immigration and immigration policy in the United States, refugee and displaced persons and you have the treatment of people and human rights and how are these people handle. Just to give you a few numbers to think about as we start o...