to continue their hard work and make progress for the maritime academy. sen. cantwell: including working with us on drafting legislation? rear adm. phillips: yes, chair. yes, chair cantwell. i will work with you on the drafting of legislation. sen. cantwell: it is important across every agency we oversee, particularly when there is this element of safety and oversight, we have just got to get clear about where agencies are and where we are and what we can do to implement them. there is just so much change happening, we have to be more in sync and working together. if people don't support something, they can tell us, but we have to get some common ground on many of these issues. do you support the jones act? rear adm. phillips: yes, chair cantwell. i support the jones act. sen. cantwell: thank you. lastly, back to you, mr. putnam. i mentioned to you this issue of the california spill. part of the issue is that, you know, we have so much anchorage. we just need additional safeguards in this system. will you commit to reviewing the regulations in light of the cal

the congressional support to establish the maritime national maritime committee to facilitate consultation with industry on standards development. we work with the international maritime organization or imo's to address risks posed by foreign vessels. we are committed to a transparent approach as we balance the urgency of cyber threats within foreign rulemaking. the cyber threat is dynamic . as we continually evolve to address emerging needs will only congress is continued support. we are grateful for the fiscal year 2021 appropriations . investments by additional capability for our service and serve a key role in protecting the mts. the establishment of 22 mts cyber advisors in the field are key notes for coordination and collaboration are field units . we look forward to the continued dialogue with congress on this issue and appreciate the opportunity to testify and look forward to your questions . >> mister kevin dorsey. >> chairman, ranking member graves and distinguished members of the committee. thank you for inviting me to testify on securing our nation's infrastructure in an evolvi

phillips: the maritime administration -- >> i am asking you personally. this is a yes or no question. do you have a hostility to oil and gas projects? this should be a simple question. adm. phillips: i do not have a hostility to following the law -- >> i didn't ask you that. i asked, do you have a hostility to oil and gas projects? adm. phillips: senator, i am thanking you for your question. and i am stating i will follow the law equitably -- >> highly disappointing to set that you --that you are not even willing to say that you have a hostility to these projects? i am asking if she would have a hostility to oil and gas, if you ask a witness if you have a hostility to airplane manufacturing, i would be willing to bet they would be pretty upset at that. the biden administration is singling out texas and refusing to invest in texas. >> i think she is saying she is going to get in there to what the law ours. >> i would like to move to senator markey if i could. >> thank you, madam chair. i want to ask dr. cliff to focus on the issue of seatback safety. cvs p

vaccine mandates -- diversity and inclusion within the service, and maritime security. oversight hearing. members of the senate subcommittee will be hearing from coast guard commandant >> call the subcommittee to order. i want to thank you for attending this afternoon's hearing for the coast guard. it is an honor to take the time to, in the oceans and great lakes subsidies to hold this important hearing. this committee, and the senator working on a number of important initiatives that impact the coast guard, including the fiscal year 2022 funding bills. historic investments in american jobs and the infrastructure bill, and protecting against the impact of climate change through the build back better budget. nfrastructand finally, what is y underway on drafting the next coast guard operation bill. the administration budget request for fiscal year 2022 seeks to make significant investments to improve the readiness and capabilities for the coast guard and to improve the quality of life for coast guard members and their families. of the 13.1 billion dollars requested for th

a maritime safety and regulatory agency. the men and women that i represent today truly make up the finest coast guard in the world. our dedicated coast guard members are on the front lines every day carrying out operations globally and protecting our homelands, maritime domain from constantly evolving threats. your support ensures they can focus each day on the difficult missions with the full knowledge that their housing, health, and family are well taken care of. i am extremely proud of the entire coast guard work force and their ability to persevere through the covid-19 pandemic and the myriad of challenges we face as a nation. as i travel around the country and speak with the troops our morale is high. our dedicated work force understands the importance of their service to their nation and the challenges we must overcome. the current challenge i am most concerned about is the ability to retain the work force needed to operate our cutters and boats and aircraft. as we replace our aging assets new cutters, helicopters, an

and c then to the maritime approaches.hen we can do with africa or south asia. >> and then to submit your questions. >> and then i will plug the book and how to get your copy. and so that anti- hegemonic coalition. >> so it is. >> and then to go so that's quite aty bit important i think we can deal with the ramifications from afghanistan. and then to say that if you are in japan come i thank you can see this in taiwan and vice versa. and if the americans basically say that chinese are just too strong then that is what china once is just to take on a few of these guys and the message goes around then you will be under the microscope but that is a very real possibility. so they been to before the wind blows. if they think they are left out to dry than they were cut aa deal. >> and then to deter that type of attack and those by punishment but then by denial with the objective of the enemy and that comes down very .strongly in denial can you talk about that? >> if you can get away with it you can make it work because it basica

san francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for san francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] >> fire station 35 was built in 1915. so it is over 100 years old. and helped it, we're going to build fire boat station 35. >> so the finished capital planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on sea level rise. >> the station 35, construction cost is approximately $30 million. and the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. it is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. >> we're looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. the historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. >> this totally has to incorpora

the bill also includes several reporting requirements on issues maritime cargo flow at u.s. ports and anti-competitive business practices. by addressing these challenges, congress seeks to counter trade imbalances with foreign exporting countries making reciprocal trade one of the f.m.c.'s mission. i am proud of the committee's work on this important legislation. i look forward to ensuring this legislation, h.r. 4996, is signed into law. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california yields back. the gentleman from california, mr. garamendi reserves. the gentleman from south dakota is recognized mr. johnson: i would thank mr. carbajal for his leadership. i yield three minutes to the ranking member of the subcommittee on coast guard and maritime transportation, the gentleman from ohio, mr. gibbs. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized for three minutes. mr. gibbs: thank you, mr. chair. i also want to thank representative dusty johnson, garamendi for their work on this bill. while i rise in supporter this bill, do i have concerns a

the maritime business continues to be a beacon of hope for the port's long and short-term recovery. we are expecting record numbers of calls in 2022. the real estate group, the primary workhorse for revenue has been executing leases and keeping viable tenants in place. they took tremendous amount of time and energy. we had staff who persevered and are committed to our organization with the commission's leadership, port leadership and our evolving strategic plan, this talented staff will ensure the path of civility and recovery. to equity, i have some highlights in our equity work that i would like to discuss. in 2021 the port strengthened our commitment to creating a waterfront for all and a cultural -- a culture of inclusion. tenants partnered with staff and community-based organizations on new programs, including the youth sailing program to introduce and invite bayview youth to learn to sail. this may well inspire a lifelong love affair with the san francisco bay. we also issued north of $800,000 in loans to 23 diverse businesses. nearly 75% of those loans have been made to women

it's after ukrainian naval vessel approach, rushes, maritime bordering crimea. the move, the kremlin slammed as a provocation. also voice and concerns over nato's behavior in the region. of course has been sent to draw ukraine into nature. such irresponsible behavior is an unacceptable threat to all security provoking serious risks for all parties involved ought to a large scale conflict in europe. and not so long ago were heard from the russian foreign ministry. regarding the latest incident in the crimea encouraged trade, where the ukrainian ship called don boss, had approached russian territory walsh's and then turned bank without reporting to the russian coast guard. also, on saturday, december, the 9th russian flies, his is halted, 5 u. s. and french miniature aircraft over the blank see, according to the russian national defense control center. and the russian foreign ministry added that nato supports ukraine and its aggressive actions instead of holding it back at the f as b has called the actions of the ukranian ship. don ponce in the sea, a bizarre, a p

we are dealing with a maritime challenge. of course, the capabilities matter. it is not simply a numbers project. what do you see as the appropriate size and character of the navy? what is that going to cost? >> my main focus on that criticism was to move us to that question. i don't pretend to know exactly what the answer to that question is, but i have some ideas, but others do as well. every time we did one of these big studies, the main focus was we have to have a big number so we look ambitious. that drove me insane. you need flexibility and capability. i'm not say building a 100-should navy and they will be so magic they have all the capability you need. you need a certain number, but so much of the focus in discussion is that out. we can debate the relative capability that it, but -- of i t, but it was designed to meet a number as a closer capability. that would be an example of why i cap obsessing about the number, ok? so let's talk about the capability. the point sec. kendo made about does this scare china was a pretty good place to -- secretary kendal

with all due respect to a distinguished retired general officer i think strong suit is aerospace maritime warfare and that their wheelhouse and countries like japan taiwan philippines australia may be in the future the indonesia's of the world we are trying to use a maritime forces and air forces to get there project and sustain military power they. their think we could do a good job especially when the japanese have quite a good navy and air force as well. that's going to be dependent on how much other countries are willing to do. if japan's not willing to step up we may need more and we may have to work with vietnam. what happens if china threatens vietnam? the idea to put a finer point on it is if we can develop a military strategy to allow us to defend those countries we don't have to do crazier things later there will be more costly for us. >> excellent. one of the central themes in your book and you talk about it to the point where you must have gotten tired of writing about the anti-hegemonic coalition he suggested is perhaps the key to defeating the chinese but can you talk about

. >> maritime smugglers have been doing this for decades.tels pay attention to what were doing they know ice is been decapitated. the secretary sent a memo to ice two months ago and they're sending a memo being the country illegally on its own is not enough to make an arrest. he said if you're in a country ice is not going to arrest you just be there illegally that has been used from the cartel to get more people to come to the united states putting themselves in positions vulnerable position to the united states. the chances are you will be detained, this administration has released over 600,000 people into this country since january, 600,000 ice detention last year was at 55000 now there at 20. people know the cartels you can enter the united states you will not be detained and even if you lose your case ice is not looking for you this is a major that should be no surprise that results en masse migration both across the border in maritime. neil: it's a lot tougher to come through via water then through a porous border. i'm just wondering w

if the chinese are going to get out there going to push out through the maritime approaches. if we can hold them there, speaking of churchill one of my favorite quotes is, he said before when the decisive battle in the primary theater, we can set everything else right again after. if we can hold china at the first island chain or thereabouts, we can deal with africa, south america, asia, we'll get a ratchet because we will be in an advantageous position. but if we lose in the first island chain we will be imperiled everywhere else. >> i would remind our audits to submit your questions. we are taking questions and we'll get to those in just a moment and i would also, i'm going plug the book again, "the strategy of denial," information how to get your copy is on a a webinar tab. this anti-hegemonic coalition, how would china think that taking the apart like a can opener? >> exactly. i think if it kind of like short-circuiting. the focus and sequential strategy is basically you don't want to catalyze the whole coalition to fight you. the mistake the germans and japanese made in

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conflict. moscow slammed the west over fueling tension after you cried dangerously. approaches rushes, maritime borders near crimea. we get reaction from residents on the peninsula that promote this was blatant provocation. they wanted to paint russia is guilty. they always claim russia for everything post on the senseless. they are likely doing it on purpose to anger. russia. all the shapes of the jets is just unpleasant when provoked people and an american billionaire is forced to return $17000000.00 worth of antiquities. he'd been hoarding for decades. but his anger after it's a great that his cooperation means he won't face criminal charges. ah, a saturday morning at 9 here in moscow. good, happy with this. we can tom, calling bray with the world news from hearty international. first the dr. you for journalism is how julian assigned to support is reacted to the british high court ruling that the wiki leaks found a can be expedited to the united states. washington wanted to appeal against a previous decision blocking a song from being sent to america to face trial on espionage charges or can

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so far, the international maritime organisation was unsatisfactory, as a result, in the environmentale the eu, eu member states, also countries like the eu, eu memberstates, have also countries like the eu, eu member states, have decided to take the matters in hand and to regulate shipping at the regional level so we can kickstart the progress —— process until it catches up. fantastic. thank you so much for taking us through all that. on tuesday the world meteorological organisation recognised a new arctic temperature record after the arctic town of verkhoyansk hit 38 celsius injune 2020. professor grande 70 is the rapporteur on extreme records of the world meteorological organisation and was part of that team that worked on verifying the temperature in the arctic. in order to make sure that our records are right, we have to make sure that they were taken into the correct manner, that the instrumentation was the proper instrumentation, that the sensor was calibrated, that it was reading the correct values, that it was sighted in the specified place and it was at a specified level. the

if the chinese are going to get out there going to push out through the maritime approaches. if we can hold them there, speaking of churchill one of my favorite quotes is, he said before when the decisive battle in the primary theater, we can set everything else right again after. if we can hold china at the first island chain or thereabouts, we can deal with africa, south america, asia, we'll get a ratchet because we will be in an advantageous position. but if we lose in the first island chain we will be imperiled everywhere else. >> i would remind our audits to submit your questions. we are taking questions and we'll get to those in just a moment and i would also, i'm going plug the book again, "the strategy of denial," information how to get your copy is on a a webinar tab. this anti-hegemonic coalition, how would china think that taking the apart like a can opener? >> exactly. i think if it kind of like short-circuiting. the focus and sequential strategy is basically you don't want to catalyze the whole coalition to fight you. the mistake the germans and japanese made in

the cartel and the caribbean are taking advantage, maritimes smuggling is out.ant to make something clear. why is it the southwest border vulnerable? if you are someone who wants to come to this country and harm us, you can't go on a plane because of all the database checks, you can't get a visa because the visa security unit do a myriad of databases. if there is any derogatory information and any database, you can't get a visa. he can get a plane ticket. so if you are a terrorist, i do come to the united states do us harm? the same way 20 million others did across the southwest border. the same way 600,000 more were released this year, 400,000 got a ways. because half of the board ritual is off the line. that is how you get into the united states and that is what is make this a national security issue. >> jesse: just fly to cancun from anywhere in the country and take a little trip up north and for law. you are in the promised land. tom, everyone. thank you so much. coming up, biden turns to our rescue dog, and the boy bent to save his agenda. harry potter's fa

we regulate aviation security, maritime security, nuclear and chemical facilities. why not cybersecurity? the need is no less compelling. fourth, we must bolster mandatory reporting to the federal government of certain categories of critical infrastructure. i am pleased to see there are bipartisan efforts now to insert such a requirement in this year's national defense authorization act. tom fanning, chairman and ceo of southern company's and a leader in cause for greater cybersecurity of the utility industry, has gone so far as to argue that the country needs "a real-time view of the battlefield" that allows u.s. cyber command to monitor critical systems at the same moment and at the same time as the operators of the systems do. fifth, we must recognize that a cyberattack on a pipeline or a power grade can now cause as much physical damage and suffering as a natural disaster. the good news here is that the bipartisan infrastructure investment and jobs act signed into law by president biden in november creates a cyber response and recovery fund to be administered by

it is also common sense by freshman law we regulate aviation, road safety, maritime security. medical facilities, why not cybersecurity? the need is no less compelling. 40's, we must bolster mandatory reporting to the federal government of certain categories of cyberincidents within critical infrastructure. i'm pleasedded to see that there are bipartisan efforts now to insert such a requirement there this year's national defense outization act. tom fanning, chairman and c.e.o. of southern companies and a leader in calls of greater sinner security of the utility industry says the country needs a "real-time view of the battlefield" that allows u.s. cybercommand to monitor critical systems at the same moment and same time as the operators of those systems do. fifth, we must recognize that a cyberattack on a pipeline or a power grid could now cause as much physical damage and suffering as a natural disaster. the good news here is that the bipartisan infrastructure investment and jobs act siphoned into law by president biden in november creates a cyberresponse and recovery fund to

along with all due respect to the distinguished retired general officers strong suit is aerospace maritime warfare and that's her wheelhouse in countries like japan and taiwan philippines australia maybe in the future china has to use maritime forces and air forces to get there and project sustained military power. the japanese have quite a good navy and air force as well so that's how i think. that's going to be dependent on how much other countries are willingea to do. japan's not willing to step up we may need others to carry us along. we may have to work with vietnam. then what happens if chinaha threatens us? the idea to put a finer point on this if we can develop a military strategy that allows us to bring those countries for it we don't have to do crazier things later that will be more cost to us. >> one of the central themes in your book and you talk about it to the point where you must have gotten tired of writing about the anti-hegemonic coalition and he suggested it is perhaps the key to defeating the chinese. can you talklk about the dynamis and how we manage such an anti-hegem

president biden spoke -- testified at his confirmation hearing along with other nominees for the maritime administration and transportation department. watch the senate hearing live at 10:00 eastern on c-span, c-span.org or c-span now are -- our new video app. this year the u.s. supreme court took up two cases that could decide the fate of roe v. wade. it's landmark ruling on abortion rights. sunday on q&a, joshua prager, author of the family roe, talks about the complicated life of norma mccorvey, the woman behind the case and the impact mccorvey's action had on her and her three daughters. >> her life is such a mirror and window into this whole big thing of abortion in america. the pro-life wish to say, look at the cost of abortion. well, she never had an abortion. what she actually is is a fascinating sort of testimony to, is the cost of adoption? she struggled a normally -- enormously for what it meant to relinquish our three children to adoption. >> you can listen to q&a and all of our podcasts on our new c-span now app. >> download c-span's new mobile app and stay up-to-date with li

lobster catches are plummeting in southern new england but skyrocketing in maine and canadian maritimes. as lobsters move north in search of cooler water. luke peters comes from a long line of lobstermen here on pei. >> looking for place wrest historically, there weren't asment caught, in newfoundland and whatever, definitely their catches are going way up. >>reporter: dr. adam f fennech s saying. >> they know that the landings are going to continue to be large. >> reporter: but that boom could quickly turn obust. >> the temperatures are going to continue to increase. and some of the industry as we know it, both in aqua culture or other shell fif industries like lobster are going to eventually disappear from this island here. >> reporter: conditions that dowdle says are already costing stress to his lobsters. >> i get worried how it's going to fare out in the end. >> reporter: a feeling he shares with many fishermen in the area. jeff berardelli, pei. >> l tiger and his rising son, his 12-year-old son. >> oliver: ten months after a terrible car crash tiger woods is back. today woods retu

this week, we are passing the ocean shipping reform act, a bipartisan bill to bolster the enteral maritime commission, strengthen the supply chain, and ensure fairness and ocean shipping. this is strongly bipartisan. the national retail federation yesterday wrote, while the bill cannot solve all current supply chain disruption issues, it will go a long way to address some issues that existed well before the covid-19 epidemic -- pandemic. this is one of several bills that we will pass that build on the success of the bipartisan infrastructure law, the $17 billion for arts and waterways for commerce to run more smoothly. build back better includes billions to identify and fix disruptions in the supply chain. we are building back more efficient, more productive, with lower prices. lower prices for the middle class. tomorrow, we haven't legislation to the heart of democracy. under the leadership of the chairman of the intelligence committee, we will be passing legislation to secure our american democracy, the protecting democracy act. the package of democratic democracy reforms to restore the

you're wondering what does a guy from the peris of south dakota care about maritime law? of manufactured and agricultural goods. we've had the foreign flagged ocean carriers, many chinese owned and they've not been playing fair with american exports. 60% of the containers that they've been hauling back the asia have been hauling back empty. that is terrible. >> neil: so how do you resolve that? >> the ocean shipping reform act would do that. they passed it out of the house. it's headed to the senate. i think the senate will october on this. >> neil: what did you do? >> sure. it does a few things. it tells these for rip flagged ocean carriers they're not allowed to discriminate against american ag experts or any american cargo and makes it clear to these ocean carriers that they're not going to be allowed to hit american businesses with big fines and fees if those american businesses haven't done anything wrong with regard to the supply chain crunch. >> so if the issue is that we're not getting enough from areas in asia, china in particular, how would it address that? >> a

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provocative and threatening action. russia slams ukraine for attempting to dangerously approach its maritime borders. nay. crimea taking tension between the 2 states to a new level. we get reaction tonight from rest.