Make is that also critical to dealing with these set of enduring challenges is the continued economic and technological leadership of the United States, which as former secretary gates and others have said, is National Security imperative for us. Now i would like to talk a little bit about the relationship between intelligence and National Security. We always say its the first line of defense. This time going forward, we really do mean it. The benefits that it gives us is it informs our National Security policy. If youre the president and top advisers and trying to make sense of this wide array of challenges, intelligence is the first thing you need to have to understand the world in which youre dealing with. Then for our operators and war fighters, our intelligence capabilities enable what we call Intelligence Driven precision operation. When directed by the president , the Intelligence Community provides additional options in between diplomacy and the overt use of military force. The
One of the things i would like to leave you with is the tremendous change thats taken place in our intelligence capabilities over the past decade, and even greater change that we foresee looking forward. One of the aspects of this is the revolutionary impact Precision Targeting has had across our intelligence enterprise, whether its in Counterterrorism Operations, whether its in cyber operations, or classic human intelligence and espionage. To illustrate this, i would like to tell a joke that my former boss, secretary bob gates used to love to tell about the old way we did business. Many, many years ago, supposedly, an Intelligence Officer was working in a foreign capital at a diplomatic cocktail party, trolling the Diplomatic Service as we often do, looking for hard targets and unfortunately this officer had a little too much to drink. So his mission attention wandered a little bit towards more amorous pursuits. Across the room, he spotted what he saw was a vision of loveliness in a f
Institutions subcommittee will get underway with a hearing that will look at the impact of high student Loan Interest rates and debt and the impact on the economy. Among those testifying today, the Financial Aid director a washington dc teacher will testify and others as well. At the subcommittees chairman will introduce legislation that would allow individuals without Student Loans to refinance at a lower Interest Rate being offered to new borrowers. This comes as fox business reports the numbers are startling. 1. 11 trillion in Student Loans outstanding. Of two toulon hearings we are covering today on the cspan network. The Senate Budget Committee Debt and you can call that getting underway right about now online at cspan. Org. Thank you all for joining us. One decade ago, we begin to see the warning signs of problems in the housing market. A few years later, we watched accommodation of wall street greed and attentive regulators inattentive regulators helping to destroy our economy.
Deserve our support, our respect, and our prayers. They e they demand the fullest response, diplomat exand economic. I think its wholly appropriate that these brave martyrs be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and everything that can be done along these lines should be done. I yold back. I tweeled two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from california, mr. Lavon. The gentleman is recognized. I thank the gentleman for yielding and congratulate him and the other leads of the for expeditiously bringing this resolution to the floor. Mr. Speaker, the exhilarating express expressions of support for democracy in china have inspired the world. The horrors we have witnessed in china in the last few days have shocked the world. Beijings brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrators deserves our harshest condemnation and i believe will prove the undoing of this regime. I urge my colleagues, mr. Speaker, not to forget that this latest atrocity comes on the heels of a similar military suppression of dem
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