now 8 jewish political appointee in the us interior department is resigned in protest against president joe biden, support for israel as war on gaza. lead. greenberg cool, who worked on the binding election campaign, is the 1st jewish appointee to publicly resign over the war traveler towns. he brings us the nicest on this from washington. a very greenberg coal is the 1st to bite a pointy to resign. as a result of joe, by this complete acquiescence to israel's slaughter in garza. but in fact, actually another jewish member of the administration did resign on monday, a career military officer in the defense intelligence agency. she talks and has asked her about how she was a true believer in the bite administration. having worked on jo byers's presidential campaign, however, she writes, i can no longer in good conscience continued to represent this administration and its present bible's disasters continued support for israel genocide in gauze. and she actually goes on to say, present bite and has the blood of innocent people in the, on his hands actually particularly centers or oppositio

now a jewish political appointee in the us interior department has resigned in protest against president joe biden support for his wells, one gaza lily green bag. coke, who works on the bobs and election campaign is a fast jewish official to publicly resign over the war. let's go to shepherd. tom sees live for us in washington dc, shap, so ciocca sore. exactly. what's been announce is an interesting thing. yes. is a fast jewish appointee in the by the administration to resign, but in fact a member of the defense intelligence agency on monday he resigned who was also have jewish this time. but he wasn't an appointee been working his way out of the system . the d, i is the pentagon equivalent of a c a, but i'll give you some choice, bit strong from the vector itself. he talks about how much she believed and by the fighting for a bedroom america. but then she says that she, if she was thrilled to join the development ontario, but, but what she suggests what's, what's the point of power if you contact your use of i can no longer in good countries continue to represent this administration. an

greenberg call, who was previously the special assistant to the chief of staff of the us department of the interior. in his letter of resignation from the us government, he wrote: "with the continued disastrous support of the biden administration for israel's genocide in gaza, i can no longer in good conscience." the authorities are concerned about the consequences of these imbalances, not for israel and palestine, nor for the american people they are not informed. they also don't know how politically disastrous this is for them. do you hope that your resignation will be successful? i hope that this action of mine will be an inspiration to other officials of the american government so that they too can clearly state their views about the palestinian people. i also hope that my action will inform the jewish community so that they understand that we should have stood up a long time ago and distanced ourselves from what was done against the palestinian people in our name. to a carrier the weapon that was going to the occupied territories was not allowed to dock at the port of cartagena. according to s

department of interior. i like to welcome the secretary holland asked acting deputy davis and denise a flanagan back to the committee. i want to thank you all three forr joining us today. to set the scene demonstrations request $18 billion the interior department for the fiscal year 2025. 9:30 $35 million or 5% increase over fiscal year 2024 i think it is important to note for contacts congress has provided the department was $50 billion in additional annual appropriations in the last three years to the bipartisan infrastructure law and inflation reduction act. i look forward to discussing how the other departments in promoting those lawsuits in this historic funding in addition to hearing the justification for the increase for fiscalis year 24 enacted levels. it is money or to the days and she will ask before the committee for the physically or 2024 budget hearing. there been some highs from renewing the compacts of the free association which would finally accomplish as part of the consolidated appropriations act passedd in march. two achieving record level energy production. most of supported of efforts by interior to work collaboratively to distribute billion

internal department memos, they also don't help reduce omissions or overall demand for these types of energy. according to the energy administration projections which i know are used by the interior department, the united states will remain a net exporter through 2050 and global demand will continue to grow. when it comes to production from federal law the departments on environmental analysis show there will be less global omissions by holding more offshore oil and gas sales in the u.s. we have some of the strictest standards in the world. energy produced in america displaces dirty production elsewhere in the world. unfortunately the story around efforts for the critical supply chain is no better. in the last three weeks they interior department also announced the final environmental impact statement effectively canceling the road in alaska that is necessary for producing critical metals in the united states. also congress directed the interior department in the bipartisan infrastructure law to provide a report on improving and expediting the criminal mineral supply change. the report we received which was many months late clearly failed to meet requirements set by congress and

been emboldened to ram through harmful policies and rules that are driving us straight toward a cliff. the department of interior continues to hold domestic energy production back by releasing a five-year leasing plan for oil and gas production that contains the lowest amount of lease sales in history. with the option for the secretary to cancel any one of them as she deems necessary. the bureau of land management has issued rules that weaken our domestic energy production and create additional more red tape. the environmental protection agency has issued rules that weaken our domestic energy production and limit consumer choice for vehicles. the department of energy has issued rules that weaken our domestic energy production, limit consumer choice for natural gas appliances in our houses and places a pause on liquefied natural gas exports. makes no sense. even the securities and exchange commission has now decided it wants to get involved with climate policy, releasing a greenhouse gas disclosure rule that would lead to mountains of burdensome paperwork for companies and higher costs for consumers. the sec is m

whether it is department of agriculture department of interior, they have different rules on the way they do things. there are rules on how to use those firefighters and work frustration and stuff. the national firefighters group is starting to work hard on it. but there are still some nuances there. between the government and the different agencies, it is an issue. and part of it is pulling in that emergency management so we can bring in public works, law enforcement, fire, we can bring in emergency management, and have that coordinated collaboration. >> the central point of contact in the midst of an emergency would be most helpful to cut through some of these different bureaucracies. what you say? >> i would agree with that. >> i will move on to something i know is really important to you and to all of us. we need to respect a wildfire. how do we do that? we need to give it the same respect we get the disaster of hurricanes. we need to be proactively ready to prepare. we see at coming. we know it is coming. but we cannot wait until it crosses this particular road for you to do something or any of these other groups to do anyt

interior i minister on state tv. of course we have been talking a lot about iran but this does have interesting implications around the world and we are getting a line in from the us state departmentarrying the iranian president and foreign minister, so the state department saying they are closely watching all these reports coming out of iran. my colleague is still with me. for viewers who are joining us, we are seeing these pictures that state tv showing of this fog and rain in this area where the helicopter came down. what is the latest we know about what has happened. latest we know about what has happened-— latest we know about what has hat-ened. , , . , happened. these pictures tell you exactly what _ happened. these pictures tell you exactly what is — happened. these pictures tell you exactly what is going _ happened. these pictures tell you exactly what is going on _ happened. these pictures tell you exactly what is going on and i happened. these pictures tell you exactly what is going on and that l happened. these pictures tell you | exactly what is going on and that is that search and rescue teams are searching for a helicopter in very difficult conditions. thick fog we a

us back. it is such a breathtaking giveaway of our public lands that former department of interior solicitor john lesche said it should be called the mining charity act because of the giveaways for these mining companies rather than the chairity act. this bill allows anyone to put a stake in the ground on any open land and pay less than $10 a year to make a claim to those rights forever. our public land managers have long said that once there is a mining claim in place, they cannot do anything mining-related on that land. if this bill becomes law, the mining industry would be free to pick and choose which of our public lands to lock away and then permanently bury to destroy watersheds, to pollute our communities, and to do whatever it wants on those lands that it's tied up. the unintended consequences of this bill go far beyond mining and could hurt our communities irrevocably. i want to reiterate, this bill empowers anyone with a few dollars, including foreign companies, including inadversarial nations to take over mining claims and block uses of this land. this will & grace create chaos and not

the department of justice looking at how we enforce the regulations with interior we have all received resources from the inflation reduction act so as we look at how we develop those grants and use the information and at the data and technology we are trying to be sure we leverage the resources together in this whole of government approach. it does take coordination but the development of the enforcement regulations and grant programs is being done in concert with not just the doj that the enforcement standpoint and interior and others as well. >> my time is expired. unanimous consent to submit for the record materials including statement on the strength of the united states economy. over 15 million jobs have been created a sense. that's more than populations of delaware, kansas, nebraska, new mexico, new hampshire, oklahoma and west virginia combined and with today's unemployment rate under 4% for the longest consecutive month set in the late 1960s. it's been under 4% now for more than 27 months in a row. inflation has been under 4% for more than two years and it's falling by ten percentage points. thank you for joining us and you are recognized. >> i want to start by thanking