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Welcome to the Power Hour, a podcast by the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate and Environment. Hosted by Jack Spencer, Travis Fisher and Rachael Wilfong, The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the week’s most interesting energy and environment policy issues with top national experts. This week’s guest is long-time energy policy insider and President of MWR Strategies, Mike McKenna. With experience working in the private sector and in government at both the state and federal level, no one knows energy policy like Mike. If you want to know the latest on energy policy, you don’t want to miss this one!Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcastsSign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agendaListen to podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The National Independent Panel on Military Service and Readiness was formed in October 2022 and tasked with identifying policies or practices in the Defense Department that reduce military readiness and recommending remedies. After months of review and research, the eight-member panel is today releasing their findings that conclude that issues of low recruiting and retention can be traced in part to the increasing politicization in the military, to include a sweeping embrace of a diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology, the lowering of entrance and occupational standards for the sake of inclusion, and the blatant support of partisan goals like increased access to abortion. The panel provided multiple recommendations designed to restore the warfighting ethos in the military. Our national security depends on a military geared toward fighting and winning wars, not toward advocacy for social justice.On March 30, join us as members of the panel, including its chairman, Congressman Mike Waltz, release the Report of the National Independent Panel on Military Service and Readiness and discuss their findings and recommendations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The U.S. Coast Guard is a vital and unique instrument of national power, protecting American lives and interests in the maritime domain. It is responsible for a wide range of missions, from peacetime activities like search and rescue and policing our waters against illegal fishing to enforcing U.S. laws and supporting the Navy during wartime. This versatility makes it a key tool in America’s national security apparatus, whether in competition with China, protecting U.S. interests in the Arctic, or targeting illegal narcotics shipments off the coast. The Coast Guard is in high demand.The Coast Guard has always been famous for rising to the occasion, but with the growth in global challenges increasing the demand for the Service both domestically and abroad, it is long past the days of its old tagline of being able to “do less with more.” Although it is in the midst of the Service’s largest recapitalization effort since World War II, the Coast Guard fleet still consists of many ships commissioned decades ago. Covering over three million nautical square miles of U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone territory and around 13,000 miles of coastline, responding to increasing mission demands abroad is no easy task. Add to that a tough recruiting environment, aging equipment and infrastructure, and increasing mission demands, and one can see how the Coast Guard must consistently adapt to remain Semper Paratus – Always Ready.Hear more about both the opportunities and challenges facing the Service and how it can effectively protect America’s maritime interests and promote maritime governance across the globe as Admiral Steven D. Poulin, Vice Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, joins Heritage’s James Di Pane. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Power Hour, a podcast by the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate and Environment. Hosted by Jack Spencer, Travis Fisher and Rachael Wilfong, the Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the week’s most interesting energy and environment policy issues top national experts. Our guest this week is nuclear energy expert, Paul Dickman from Argonne National Laboratory. In this week’s episode we discuss why nuclear energy is critical to America’s energy future, some history behind the technology, and the policy issues that have yet to be resolved. If you are interested in nuclear energy, you don’t want to miss this one! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Chinese Communist Party is the most persistent and consequential threat facing the American people today. Our homeland is not secure, and the consequences for Americans will be severe if our country does not soon take action.To that end, The Heritage Foundation is releasing its most comprehensive set of policy recommendations for how America should respond to the threat from Communist China, Winning the New Cold War: A Plan for Countering China. Join Senator Marco Rubio, Asian Studies Center Director Jeff M. Smith, leading China expert Michael Pillsbury, and Heritage's Executive Vice President Derrick Morgan for the launch of this significant policy paper. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The rise of social media has unleashed a wealth of new threats on America’s children. Platforms like TikTok bombard and brainwash our kids with inappropriate, dangerous, and, in some cases, deadly content.On March 23, the day TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before Congress, join Heritage’s Kara Frederick and founder of Libs of TikTok Chaya Raichik to discuss how parents can protect their children from internet threats and what U.S. policymakers must do to prevent spying from the Chinese Communist Party and to save America’s most vulnerable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The crime problem in our nation’s capital seems to grow worse by the day. Unfortunately, D.C. Council members have bought into the same radical policies that have wreaked havoc in cities across the country. After the D.C. Council defunded the police force in 2020, a rise in robberies, carjackings, shootings, and other violent crimes followed suit.At a time when violent crime was rising, the D.C. Council decided to overhaul the criminal code, eliminating most mandatory minimums and lessening the penalties for many violent crimes. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, the D.C. Police Chief, and the D.C. U.S. Attorney all raised concerns with this radical rewrite. But the Council passed it anyway. Fortunately, Congress exercised its authority over the District of Columbia and stepped in to stop the bill from taking effect.Join us for an engaging discussion with Senator Bill Hagerty, former U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jessie Liu, and Chairman of the D.C. Police Union Gregg Pemberton on what can be done to stop the radical rise in crime in the District—and around the country. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Power Hour, a podcast by the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate and Environment. Hosted by Jack Spencer, Travis Fisher and Rachael Wilfong, the Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the week’s most interesting energy and environment policy issues with top national experts. We are joined this week by Heritage Foundation Chief Statistician and Data Scientist, Kevin Dayaratna to discuss his (and Power Hour host Travis Fisher’s) new research showing why New Jersey’s plans to build a massive offshore wind farm makes no sense for energy security, economic strength, or the environment. If you want to know the real story behind Big Green’s energy agenda, you don’t want to miss this one!Relevant Links Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcastsSign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agendaListen to podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Forty years ago on March 23, President Ronald Reagan announced to the world his plans to develop a missile defense system that would make Soviet ballistic missiles “impotent and obsolete,” an effort in which The Heritage Foundation played a significant role. Yet, since Reagan established this Strategic Defense Initiative, plans for a comprehensive homeland missile defense system have deteriorated. Today, the U.S. only maintains about 44 ground-based interceptors meant to address the rogue state threat, with a codified policy against using homeland missile defenses to address the more sophisticated Russian and Chinese ballistic missile threats. As North Korea, Russia, China, and potentially Iran develop missiles capable of reaching the U.S. homeland at an unprecedented rate, this 40-year anniversary marks an important time to reevaluate the current state and future of homeland missile defense.Join us to commemorate Reagan’s plans to defend the country and discuss options for the future of U.S. missile defense. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Heritage Foundation is honored to announce that Professor Kurt Lash, the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Richmond School of Law, will deliver this year's Edwin Meese III Originalism Lecture for his speech titled, “Originalism and Fixing the Fourteenth Amendment.”This annual lecture seeks to honor former Attorney General Ed Meese’s legacy of advancing an understanding and jurisprudence of originalism. When the Framers wrote the Constitution, “Their intention was to write a document not just for their times but for posterity,” Meese said in a 1985 speech to the D.C. Chapter of the Federalist Society Lawyers Division. Meese reiterated the theme of Original Intention in several speeches, warning of the danger of “seeing the Constitution as an empty vessel into which each generation may pour its passion and prejudice.” The Great Debate that he launched over three decades ago placed the idea of judicial originalism at the center of American jurisprudence and fundamentally altered the constitutional landscape of this nation.Today, originalism is no longer a novel concept; instead, it is now widely embraced in legal circles, including academia and the judiciary. Building on the work of Ed Meese, this lecture aims to continue the conversation he started and examine new trends and themes in originalist thought today. Please join us for our second annual lecture.Professor Kurt Lash: Professor Lash is the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Richmond where he teaches and writes about constitutional law. He is also the founder and director of the Richmond Program on the American Constitution. He has published numerous works on the subjects of constitutional history, theory, and law, including The Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges or Immunities of American Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2014), The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment (Oxford University Press, 2009), and The American First Amendment in the Twenty-first Century: Cases and Materials (with William W. Van Alstyne) (5th ed., Foundation Press). In 2021, University of Chicago Press published Professor Lash’s two-volume collection of original documents relating to the framing and ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. Titled The Reconstruction Amendments: Essential Documents, the collection is the first of its kind. He is currently working on A Troubled Birth of Freedom: The Struggle to Amend the Constitution in the Aftermath of the Civil War (forthcoming, Yale University Press). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.