you want to help black people, nothing would help them more than free college, student loan relief, andhang wage. you want to help them? that will be the way to help him. but joe biden comes in and does none of those things. you understand what i'm talking about question must be one oh, i do understand. >> they are all signals. we are signaling that we want to help the minority community but we are not actually helping them. n so that is what identity politics is. it's a big diversion. the joke i say if it was 1860, the democrats willcs be bragging about their first transgendered slave owner. when i'm trying to tell people is when you vote for them, when you vote for somebody inside the democratic party no matter what they say, no matter what they believe, they are want to go along with nancy pelosi and nancy pelosi goes along with goldman sachs. when you are voting for someoneg inside the democratic party, you are voting for goldman sachs. they are not standing up to those people. the idea that we have progressives inside the democratic party is actually more than the progressive movemen

who worked on the vindication of the civil rights and at the koramatsu center, what's hardest for me andha a lot of asian-americans is how people express toan us, allies even, h surprised they are that we're being targeted. i can't believe that people in this country are capable of such cruelty. i say to them why can't you believe it? this has been happening for hundreds of years. if you're surprised you don't know the history of vincent chid and the chinese exclusion act and post-9/11 scapegoating and the internment of 120,000 american citizens in camps on american soil. o if i sound frustrated, this is beyond frustrating. what's really hard is trying to give voice to so many people in this country who have a target on their backs when we have for too long been invisible. >> i guess part of me wondered if this is tied in somewhat to the model minority myth that i've grown up with. i know many of us have grown up with this idea that asian-americans have it fall, right, that they're successful, that they're the model minority. and now how can this be es happening to asian-americans who have

andha it's zany that this is happening. the moment for me out to my editor at the new yorker and said we have to write about this. this is insane. and his question was, sounds cool but can we get quote unquote real access is what he said? my next trip was to go out to california to talk to them and then vice president of the company to figure out if i could get real access. how could i embed with them? >> am always curious about that. how did that conversation go? and acts as a double edge sword with a reluctant where they excited? you do not get access with this great idea. had that initial conversation go? whether other subsequentor conversations? how much work to dictate? >> it took a little bit of work. there were surprisingly receptive. i will tell you for couple of reasons, one of which is that they had to come off this horrific crash. i said i wanted to get in there when emotions were raw. i wanted to watch them work. one thing to watch this new vehicle from scratch. and at that point the company's pr had primarily b

taylor builds forklifts andha a wide variety of material handling machines for both industry and defense purposes. mr. taylor has first-hand experience with the topics we will cover and i know he and other members of the panel will make it a valuable contribution to the discussion. >> i've been a professor at duke and i value the center there and i've spent a number of decades with global a supply chains andi thank my neighbors and friends want to talk about that topic. not necessarily for good reasons the last couple of years as we know covid, the pandemic is introduced many disruptions and shortages of products and supply chains have come to the public consciousness but it was the white h house report released lt month on resilient supply chains and it's been a part of globalization in the u.s. economy. a couple of points in my written testimony and about the nature of the supply chain research and to the concept of resiliency and then i want to give a kind of bottom-up perspective of supply chains and include a couple of recommendations. supply chain research is surprisingly recent in

the census bureau, as you know, provides a critically important service to our nation andha you talkedbout that in your opening statement data support activities all around the country, businesses and nonprofits, census data for planning, state and local governments bursting spending business. $1 trillion a year based on census data so we got to get it right. and of course census data support redistricting process essential part of our nation's democracy and its especially timely census bureau more responsive in regard to this responsibility. the current delay providing census data for redistricting has negatively impacted the number of states in thismp o coy and ohio that representing you concerned about that because clear choice of what this process we need the data i have been assured by the census enbureau that they have now agrd to provide redistricting data to ohio by august 16. we cannot let that slip. the census bureau must be done. look forward to hearing your views on the calendars we. >> you and i discussed the director of ice position is very important for a critical agency

in areas where faxing coverage is low, cases andha hospitalizations are starting again. over the last week we have averaged 239 deaths a day, an increase of 48% over the prior week.in each death is tragic and even more heartbreaking when we know the majority of these deaths could be prevented with a simple, safe, available faxing. areas with limited faxing coverage allowing for the emergence and rapid spread of the highly transmissible delta their interbreeding cdc released estimates invariance across the country and predicted the adoptive parent now represents 83% of sequenced cases. this is a dramatic increase from 50% the week of july 3. and some parts of the country, the percentage is even higher, particularly in areas of low vaccination rates. to date, our data indicate vaccines are available to neutralizeze circulating variane in the rest and provide protection against severe disease, hospitalization and deaths the message from cdc remains clear, the best way to prevent the spread of covid-19 variance is to prevent the spread of disease and vaccination is the most

community is to maintain that learning environment as we go and use different tools and techniques andhare is the wildfire lessons learned center and others that actually helps to disseminate this information. so the experience of, again, getting the right people in the room with a shared experience that i believe eric spoke to earlier, you getet a lot of peoe in the room talking about the same thing and you can come up with some fairly amazing ideas and we have made changes to our systems anden tweaked our processes in order to get w betr just because of thefe experienc that we have had with our -- with our fellow firefighters from other countries. >> thank you.u. that's very helpful, i appreciate your testimony and responses and i will yield back. >> gentleman yields back. mr. casten is recognized. >> thank you, madam chair, and thank you to our witnesses. dr. clement, i'd like to start with you and one of the things that's always sort of struck me as theal hardest thing to deal with on climate change sews logically is there is all these nonlisten yartees and we do a bad job of anticip

and the economy is demonstrate their investments have been responsible to the growth of our economy andha the rope of working-class families. i want to take up another thing that i feel strong about. there was a credit meeting in a bipartisan -- with the opportunity to work with chairwoman waters representative barr with h.r. 6930 for which requires the fed to. all national recognized agencies uniformly so that more creditworthy companies get access to emergency landing. i knew i would run out of time. i don't know if you'll be able to speak to these. >> just briefly at the very beginning of the crisis we had to get these facilities up and rrunning and we worked with the big three and we consistently expanded over and over again expanded the group of agencies that we worked with. we can talk more about this off-line if you'd like. >> thank you, yield back. >> the gentleman from missed -- wisconsin mr. steil is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you madam chairwoman and thank you mr. poker beard today. as you know i am a bit of a broken record on this issue but is so important to famili