the defense department , because i have authority as president for the defense department and interior department to get vaccinated. that's an authority i possess. tonight, i'm announcing i will require all of nearly 300,000 educators in federal paid program, head start program, to be vaccinated to protect our youngest, most precious americans, and give parents comfort. and tonight, i'm calling on all governors to require vaccinations for all teachers and staff. some already have done so. we need more to step up. vaccination requirements in schools are nothing new. they work. they are overwhelmingly supported by educators and their unions. and all school officials trying to do the right thing for our children, i will always be on your side. let me be blunt. my plan also takes on elected officials in states that are undermining you in these lifesaving actions. right now, local school officials are trying to keep children safe in a pandemic while their governor threatens picks a fight with them and even threatens their salaries or their jobs. talk about bullying the school. if they will not help, i

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at this time, i am proud to welcome the secretary of the united states department of interior, deb haalands a department which employs more than 70,000 people, whose mission it is to protect this country's natural resources as well as our beautiful and absolutely powerful cultural heritage. would you all please join me in welcoming secretary deb haaland? [applause] >> thank you also much. president bush, thank you for your words. madam vice president, i am very honored to be here with you. families, friends, active-duty service personnel, thank you so much for the opportunity to join you all on this anniversary. 20 years ago, i was waking up to get might -- my first grader ready for school, and i was stunned by the news on the radio. i rushed to turn on the tv and was in disbelief. like many parents, i nervously took my child to school. the pickup line was longer than usual that day. i know parents just wanted to hold their children close, as soon as they could. instead of being in a rush to get to their next event, soccer practice, or home for homework, parents, students, teachers, and sc

because i have the authority as president of the federal system, the defense department and the interior departmentget vaccinated. that's authority i possess. >> laura: will your state consider legal action here? >> without question we will consider legal action, lawyers are already communicating amongst one another -- here's the disappointing thing. the president tried to pick a political fight with republican governors when the reality is he is picking a real fight with hardworking americans. 80 million americans, this president is saying to them you can either get vaccinated or i as one individual is going to threaten your ability to feed your family and that is just wrong. >> laura: but he says he wants to protect the workers, it's about protecting them and this is about their safety, they do all sorts of things to ensure their safety. covid is a hazard in the workplace, why isn't this under their purview? >> this is a power grab by the federal government, we seen this time and time again by the biden administration. we have seen their unwillingness to attack the border crisis, we saw their inc

barack obama and bill clinton as the deputy secretary and chief operating officer at the department of interior. we are also joined today by bobby jindal who served two terms as governor of louisiana and also represented the state as a member of the u.s. house of representatives and chairman of the republican governors association. governor jindal served in the george busch association is the secretary of the u.s. department of health and human services and has held numerous advisory and board leadership roles for healthcare, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and information technologies. and he's currently an operating advisor for the management and serves on the board of offshore services. and the final guest today is bill white, vice president and d head of u.s. offshore wind and renewables, one of the leading providers of clean renewable power in the u.s. and prior to this, bill spent the better part of the decade in massachusetts government developing their offshore wind market, including transmission planning, supply chain, workforce development efforts, as well as the new bid for the marine

an inner agency working group already here at the federal level reaching out through the department of the interior and the department of energy together to begin talking about what's going to be needed and how the federal government can help work with states which are the traditional leads here in terms of electric infrastructure. so it's -- and we have to think for the long term. we have to recognize that we are going to have an enormous industry by 2030 and how can we put the infrastructure in place now that will enable that growth, that will provide the certainty needed for the industry to make the investment and i think it's the perfect case example for the importance of passing the infrastructure -- bipartisan infrastructure legislation that is going through. it's an area that we've neglected too long in our country. if we're going to transition to clean energy and modernize our energy system and make it more efficient, we have to invest in it. and off shore wind is certainly going to be an area where i'm hoping we can bring everybody together and make smart decisions and smart investments. >

senate is about to vote on the nomination of robert anderson to serve as solicitor of the department of interior. and i'm here to tell you, madam president, that i oppose this nomination. if confirmed, mr. anderson will serve as the department's chief attorney. and also as the principal legal adviser to the secretary of interior secretary holland. he would oversee more than 430 attorneys and a staff within six legal divisions. he would be responsible for ensuring the business conducted at the interior department follows the law and is done transparently. he would be granted tremendous powers to shape how the department fulfills its mission by issuing final legal interpretations on all matters with jurisdiction of the department. these decisions directly impact homes and businesses in wyoming and throughout the nation. these decisions can make or break our nation's ability to protect our environment, to use and enjoy our natural resources, to create good-paying jobs, and to pay for services such as public education. over the course of his career, mr. anderson has both taught and practiced law pri

because i have the authority as president of the federal system, the defense department and the interior departmentget vaccinated. that's an authority i possess. tonight i'm announcing that we will require all or nearly 300,000 educators in the federal head start program must be vaccinated as well to protect our youngest, most precious americans. and give parents comfort. tonight i'm calling on all governors to require vaccination for all teachers and staff. some already have done so. we need more to step up. vaccination requirements and schools are nothing new. they work. they are overwhelmingly supported by educators and their unions. all school officials trying to do the right thing by our children. i'll always be on your side. let me be blunt. my plan also takes on elected officials in states that are undermining you and these life-saving actions. right now local school officials are trying to keep children safe in a pandemic while their governor picks a fight with them and even threatens their salaries or their jobs. talk about bullying in schools. if they'll not help, if the governors won't h

department, because i have the authority as president, with the defense department and the interior department, to get vaccinated. that is the authority i possess. tonight i am announcing that we'll require all of nearly 300,000 educators in the head start program must be vaccinated as well to protect your youngest, our youngest, most precious americans, and give parents comfort. tonight i am calling on all governors to require vaccination for all teachers and staff. some already have done so. we need more to step up. vaccination requirements in schools are nothing new. they work. they are overwhelmingly supported by educators and their unions. and all school officials trying to do the right thing by our children, i will always be on your side. let me be blunt -- my plan also takes on elected officials in states that are undermining you in these life-saving actions. right now, local school officials are trying to keep children safe in a pandemic while there governor picks a fight with them and even threatens their salaries with their jobs. talk about bullying in schools. if they will not help,

because i have the authority as president of the federal system the defense department, and the interior department, to get vaccinated that's authority i possess tonight, i'm announcing i will require all of nearly 300,000 educators in the federal program, head start program, must be vaccinated as well to protect your youngest, our youngest, most precious american, and give parents the comfort. and tonight, i'm calling on all governors to require vaccination for all teachers and staff some already have done so. we need more to step up. vaccination requirements in schools are nothing new. they work. they're overwhelmingly supported by educators and their unions and all school officials trying to do the right thing by our children, i'll always be on your side let me be blunt. my plan also takes on elected officials in states that are undermining you in these life saving actions right now, local school officials are trying to keep children safe in a pandemic while their governor picks a fight with them and even threatens their salaries or their jobs talk about bullying in schools if they'll not help,

department because i have the authority in the federal system, the defense department and the interior department to get vaccinated. that's authority i possess. tonight i'm announcing that i'll require all of nearly 300,000 educators in the federal head start programs must be vaccinated as well to protect your youngest, our youngest, most precious americans and give parents the comfort, and tonight i'm calling on all governors to require all vaccinations for all teachers and staff. some already have done so. we need more to step up. vaccination requirements in schools are nothing new. they work. they are overwhelmingly supported by educators and their unions, and all school officials trying do the right thing by our children. i'll always be on your side. let me be blunt. my plan also takes on elected officials in states that are undermining you and these life-saving actions. right now local school officials are trying to keep children safe in a pandemic while their governor picks a fight with them and even threatens their salaries or their jobs. talk about bullying in schools. if they will not he

federal overlap, head start teachers, teachers who teach through the defense department or department of interiortion act and he talked about partnerships with giant retailers with amazon, walmart and kroger. talk about those pieces as sort of a buffer for our kids. >> yeah, any koem. this is actually an extraordinary speech and one of the most effective strategies we have seen in a long time when it comes to going after a major public health crisis. this will go down in the annals of major public health wars against things like smallpox and polio. as far as children in schools are concerned, he was very specific. in fact, we saw a kind of earlier release of the plan today, and it is the opposite of puffery. it is filled with absolute hard-core programs and recommendation for everything from teachers and parents to businesses and so on. actually, it is extremely encouraged by what i heard today. a very impressive show. for parents though, i think it really is important that they do whatever they can as individual parents for their own children, but as well banning together with other parents who

we at the interior department will live up to that sacred responsibility by being good stewards of this memorial for generations to come. i appreciate everyone who works so hard every day, including our national park service employees and volunteers to care for this land. to honor it for those who were lost so that we may never forget their sacrifice. my child is grown now. many like them have little if any memory of that day when our nation came together in grief. thanks to this memorial, they and other children will know the story of what happened here. a set of brave individuals who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. their story will live on. to continue our remembrance, it is my honor and privilege to introduce our esteemed vice president, kamala harris. [applause] vice pres. harris: it is my pleasure to be here on the stared stage with you today. governor, superintendent, madam secretary, and the president of the families of flight 93, it is truly an honor to be here with you at this field of honor. we are joined today by the family and friends of the 40 passengers and cr

as detailed in my written testimony the 1991 congress directed the department of the interior to submit a report on contaminating land. partly the department of interior report asserted that anc's would not be held liable for prior contamination and reinforce the law that requires the federal government to clear the abandoned contaminated properties up on by federal agencies of the united states. in 1998 the department of interior greed to take a leadership role to facilitate the cleanup of contaminated lands. a 2018 update by the alaska department of them our mental conservation and environmental protection oversees cleanup of the site. this 2016 update also stated that it does not have the authority to provide lightality relief for previous landowners that consisted of federal agencies during that period. contaminating -- also detailed in my written testimony is this report. the detail of the historical failure of numerous governmental agencies to accept a leadership role to take the lead to cleanup our lands contaminated by the united states government. i am here today to share my fi

we at the interior department will live right now.ed to san francisco before the passengers and the crew members stormed the cockpit. >> including mark being on his famous words in a well, let's roll. there was a rumor that it was supposed to circle back and slam into the white house, which is why you just heard her say you cannot calculate how many lives they saved by storming the cockpit shanksville, pennsylvania is sacred ground definitely. and like she said that memorial is there for people to visit to pay their respects to those in that we're going to continue to bring you live looks at different ceremonies that are happening across the country this morning on this 20th anniversary. >> of 9.11. we do want to bring in your home. there was a ceremony in san francisco that wrapped up just a bit ago we'll have a live report from there in just a bit. but first, we want to give you a check of your weather forecast. dave spahr sanding by. so it's going to be in the 80's and lunch today yeah, noel marty well. let's just like marty when t

there was a great statistic from the department of the interior about how, as of a couple of years agoe united states was like fully reliant on foreign sources for about 20 mineral commodities including rare earth here. i know your company has been trying to change that with regard to rare earth specifically. i wonder if you can give me the dumb down reason about why it is important for us to be able to source more of our material at home. >> the u.s. is now at peak rare earth production relative to any time in its history. that is thanks to the work we're doing at mk materials. we are now producing more rare earths than we ever have. that is the good news. the bad news is, if you look around the world, look at the scaled investments, regardless of the world leaders and where in the bifurcated global economy you said, we will need a lot more of this stuff to tackle climate change and electrify. there is clearly hundreds of billions and into the trillions of investments coming. if we do not have these raw materials, we need to make more of them. i think we are making a lot of progress b

on twin metals, we continue to wait for the department of interior. they have to issue a legal opinion for we know what direction we have to take. reporter: you mentioned the doj has a case against tyson. how much of the profiteering and lack of competition do you think is illegal and what are you going to do about it? >> i want to be very clear that the president's executive order directs the department of justice and the ftc to train their enforcement on potential illegal activities including price-fixing and rice gouging. we are going to leave that to the enforcement agencies. that is not for the white house to interfere with. what we are focused on here is policy issues that can help to get at the underlying issue of concentration. for example, the investment in encouraging more small and new entrants into this market. that is the kind of step we can take to help encourage more competition and with respect to that specific enforcement issues as they may be ongoing, we would leave that to the ftc. reporter: how much of this problem is illegal? rega

it is vast the central utah projects, $10 million to address damages from wildfires, department of interior, brrm -- bureau of reclamation, small business administration, disaster loan programs, $1.2 billion to support $6.2 billion in low interest loans to help businesses. nonprofit organizations, homeowners, renters, helping them to recover from disasters that are beyond their control. this is the proper role for the federal government to be engaged and involved in these efforts. we have federal highways, $2.6 billion to reimburse states and territories for damage from natural disasters to roads and bridges in our national highway system. community development block grants which is a lifeline to our communities. $5 billion long-term recovery relief. restoration of housing and infrastructure, economic revitalization, and mitigation measures. as i said years ago in the aftermath of katrina, a journalist wrote that government had a convenant, if you will, with our communities in the face of natural disaster. when he wrote about can tina, he levees broke, that convenant was broken. we do not w

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for hazardous fuels activities and $220 million for postwildfire restoration efforts at the department of interior and forest service. suching a tifts are -- activities are critical for habitat and burned area recovery in our national forests. these investments are essential to meet these current needs in such a critical time. i yield back my time, and i urge everyone to support this bill. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from connecticut reserves. the gentlewoman from texas. ms. granger: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to include the text of the amendment in the record immediately prior to the vote on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. granger: mr. speaker, my amendment would provide $1 billion to replenish israel's iron dome security system. four months ago, israel was under attack from terrorists. the rocket fire into israel was on a scale that had never been seen before. countless civilian lives were saved because of the iron dome system that the united states has supported year after year. because of the attacks this spring, iron do

so all teachers that teach as part of the department of defense, school system and department of interior, we are insisting, the president is insisting on the vaccine of all teachers across the country about 90% of teachers and staff at schools are vaccinated. but that should be 100%. and many states have put in place vaccine mandates for teachers and school staff and the president is calling on all governors to do the same. our kids should be with vaccinated teachers. >> the u.s. justice department is taking the state of texas to court over its strict abortion law. u.s. attorney general merrick garland blasted the legislation, it bans abortion at six weeks before most people know they are pregnant. texas clinics have stopped providing the procedure and activists worry it may drive some to desperate measures. dianne gallagher reports. >> reporter: department of justice suing over the abortion law alleging it violates the constitution. >> the act is clearly unconstitutional under long standing supreme court precedence. >> reporter: the biden administration hoping the lawsuit will eventuall

the national, the national forest, everything that deb haaland is now in charge of in the department of interior, was land taken by the federal government without treaties from, and should be restored to the appropriate native nation. and including the national parks which were, are, were the most sacred places for native people. why wouldn't they be yellowstone, yosemite, grand canyon? now tourist sites. this idea, you know, land back is very important because i think mostly people who think about changing the united d states, you know, progressive people want more democracy and more, that is mostly urban, urban people, and they don't understand the importance of the land that even today, george washington, the real estate men, even today real estate is still the main basic commodity. we could see that in 2007-2008, that was the crash of the real estate market. so land is central to the united states, and so very, very few historians, scholars, activists i know outside of native scholars, activists and just ordinary people know that, you know. and that knowledge is so important to spread. nativ

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department. he's now the interior minister.rnments navigate the issue of working with the taliban in this way? i think this puts the us, certainly, in a very difficult position. i don't see the us engaging with a taliban government in which sarajuddin haqqani is a part of that government, so i think that certainly puts the us in a difficult position. i do think that there are certain governments, right? so the taliban may be able to get... i think it's more regional recognition rather than international recognition. it may be more thinking about these countries that i mentioned rather than western recognition. so i don't think it's the entire international community engaging with this government, i think it's going to be a part of the international community. right. yeah, madiha, on that regional recognition, pakistan, of course, one of the countries that you mentioned, and yet there have been anti—pakistan protests in the country, haven't there? some speculation that they've funded and supported the taliban. how much influence

all teachers that teach as part of the department of defense school system and department of interior. the president is insisting on a vaccine of all teachers across the country. about 90% of teachers and staff at schools are vaccinated. that should be 100%. many states have put in place vaccine mandates for teachers and school staff. the president is calling on all governors to do the same. kids should be with vaccinated teachers. the other thing the president did today was to make sure that all teachers and educators that are part of the head start program, almost 300,000 educators across the country, must also be vaccinated. >> it's interesting, when you get 90% across the country, it makes new york look worse. i'm shocked by that. a key question though is whether -- what the president said today -- his frustration came out. that was clear. will it reach the 85 million americans who, as you point out, who have at this point very clearly chosen not to get vaccinated? i want to play for you an example of how these individuals feel. this is an exchange with an unvaccinated man in miss

it is vast the central utah projects, $10 million to address damages from wildfires, department of interior, brrm -- bureau of reclamation, small business administration, disaster loan programs, $1.2 billion to support $6.2 billion in low interest loans to help businesses. nonprofit organizations, homeowners, renters, helping them to recover from disasters that are beyond their control. this is the proper role for the federal government to be engaged and involved in these efforts. we have federal highways, $2.6 billion to reimburse states and territories for damage from natural disasters to roads and bridges in our national highway system. community development block grants which is a lifeline to our communities. $5 billion long-term recovery relief. restoration of housing and infrastructure, economic revitalization, and mitigation measures. as i said years ago in the aftermath of katrina, a journalist wrote that government had a convenant, if you will, with our communities in the face of natural disaster. when he wrote about can tina, he levees broke, that convenant was broken. we do not w