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Just the Arctic Refuge, but the wildlife and the indigenous who depend on this sacred, natural landscape. 1146 earlier. R. This year with my republican colleague, brian fitzpatrick, believe, as do 182 other cosponsors of this bill, that are are some places that simply too important, too sacred to be spoiled by oil and Gas Development. His is the same basic proposition that we were presented with yesterday when bipartisan ssed legislation to protect our coasts from offshore drilling, of use the north coast california is too special to have its fisheries and coastal conomy put at risk for the pr...

Mr. Buck yes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. My amendment specifically amends the bill in front of us. It doesnt ask another committee to take it up. Number one. Number two, it talks about risk factors that are included in our bill specifically page 22 of our bill and makes sure that a veterans use of a a veterans use of a firearm previously is not considered a risk factor because that veteran was serving his country and had authority to use that weapon. I want to make sure we are protecting veterans and it is i believe germane to the underlying bill that were considering. Mr. Nadler im prepared the...

The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 1420 to amend the independent energy act to promote Energy Efficiency via information and computing tech nollings and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from illinois, mr. Rush and the gentleman from michigan, mr. Upton, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois. Mr. Rush i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h. R. 1420. The speaker pro tempore with...

Now come to order. We will see the amendment and witnesses and this morning the chairman is not here, i give the floor to my good friend Mister Mcnulty from california. Thank you for yielding me and i thank the witnesses for coming this morning. Its an incredibly important issue we need to care a lot about and good policy on. We are meeting today to discuss the state of Cyber Security integrated and the continuing threats facing Americas Energy infrastructure. We continue to see increasing threats to the grid originating at home and abroad. Im glad to see the doe and and others taking steps to...

Many levels and i want to take us back to the underlying bill and extreme Risk Protection order act. Which would incentivize states and localities to implement extreme risk laws, which is simply common sense. And i wanted to bring forward our experience in my home state of washington, which became the fourth state in the nation to pass an extreme risk law in 2016. Since we have implemented that law in Washington State, and weve supported it with county resources to help enforce the law by also recovering firearms from people ordered to surrender them by a judge, a number of people at risk of s...