ms. harrison. she is the chief executive officer of the recycling partnership, a national nonprofit dedicated to protecting the planet by fixing recycling and activating a circular economy throughout the united states. she is an international speaker, media pundit and environmental author dedicated to engaging companies in making measurable, lasting change in communities. under her leadership, the recycling partnership has grown significantly, engaging more than 70 funding partners and reaching more than half of american households. our next witness is the director and principal investigator of the university of minnesota and its app center for sustainable polymers. he joins the department of chemistry faculty in the university of minnesota in 1997 and is currently the mcknight presidential endowed chair in chemistry at the university where his research focuses on the synthesis and self-assembly of all the functional polymers. he served as an associate editor for the atf journal from 2018-2017 and

ms. harrison, ms. harrison is the chief executive officer of the recycling partnership, national nonprofit and activating a circular economy throughout the united states she is an environment to offer dedicated tont engaging companies and makg measurable lasting change in communities. engaging more than 70 funding partners in reaching more than half of american households. of minnesota for sustainable, he joined the department of chemistry at the university of minnesota in 1997 and it's currently the t presidential endowed chair chemistry at the university.e where research focuses on the synthesis and self-assembly of multifunctional polymers, doctor hill myers served as an associate editor for the acs journal from 2018 - 2017 and he has been editor in chief since 2018. at the university of michigan and served as a director of the center for sustainable systems. he also holds appointment as a professor in the school for environment and sustainability. in the department of civil and environmental enginee

ms. harrison: how we put this together. that's what i look for i'm inspiring young people and young diverse people to be involved. when we think of how we engage kids into this space, i think we often think about campaigns. we have all seen those. what we really need is to spark the innovation of our youth and look into the system solution we keep talking about. we can't just r&d our way out. we can't just look for a singular technology. we have to really think about pivoting from how we respond to the problem to how do we prevent it in the first place? how do we know from the very concept of design whether it's an advanced plastic material like we were talking about or packaging? we know whether it's going to be linear, landfill. or circular. it can become something else. that's what the partnership is doing to have diverse knit this space to bring young minds to think about it holistically. >> i move on to my next question so i can get another one in. if somebody wants to amplify. this is for dr. hill myer. -- dr. hillmye

ms. harrison's opening testimony. >> madame chairwoman and hemembers of the committee, thank you for the opportunity t to speak with you about this important topic. as you know i'm the ceo of the recycling partnership and we are a national nonprofit that works with companies, communities and policies to strengthen the u.s. recycling system but you may remember recent campaign in d.c. to boost recycling. that was an example of the type of grants that we give an how we thousands of cities across the county and across the country. the recycling partnership is designed to bring together public and private sectors because without coordination, recycling will never deliver the solutions that we aller nee. recycling is when something old because something new again. we need to ensure that is by plan and not just by chance as is the current case. we are here today to talk about how to execute that plan. a shared vision for the future. one of a circular economy moving away from eight linear economy will retake raw materials from the planet, make stuff out of it just to bury all of that value back

ms. harrison said after returning. >> [background noises] [inaudible] submit are you okay?ood i am good. >> said a little prayer but we are good. welcome to fox news live hi eric. spirit hello everyone i'm eric shawn everything is okay. that plane is a military of a boeing 757. it is called bitsy 32. a backup similar plane is expected to carry the vice president on the first trip to latin america since president biden tapped her as the point person on the border crisis more than two months ago. her visit to guatemala and mexico follows two straight months of record high migrant encounters that the southern border. this is the white house faces growing criticism from former president trump's remaining mexico policy. for abandoning that republican said the decision is encouraging asylum-seekers to cross the border illegally but the administration said were waiting across the border in the policies not working vertebrate life and out on the southern born she is in la jolla, texas with the very latest on the situation there. >> hi eric there is so much activity happening on the

ms. harrison said after returning. >> [background noises] [inaudible] submit are you okay?

ms. longoria, your current role as with the election administration, you are the administrator for harrison county. how long been in that role? >> six months with 10 years under -- rep. steil: so you are not the election and miss trader at the time. ms. longoria: i was number three in the office. rep. steil: so not the administrator. that's helpful. you have never been the elective administrator for an election previously, is that correct? ms. longoria: if you're asking about my resume i can provide edge, but yes i do run elections in harris and have for the past 10 years. rep. steil: but have you been an election administrator, having previously been the administrator for an election in your rear? rep. steil: know everyone -- ms. longoria: i started six months ago. rep. steil: i just want to make sure that you have previously not had the opportunity and you will in the future to be administrator for an election. that's important for the record as we understand the analysis of how we are doing this. let me dive in for harris county. last year, congress appropriated $400 million in the cares