Things that impose burdens on us like that might be the sort of thing that presents problems for us. Im not speaking, again, not speaking with respect to any proposal, but thats the kind of consideration we take into account. Okay. Im going to go ahead, go ahead. A point on that, again, not talking or addressing any specific proposal, but if we were required to for a provider to disclose the number of orders served on them, that gives the adversaries ad go ahead indicators, perhaps, depending on the relative numbers whether to use that Service Provider or not, and its difficult to accept. If i may add to that, one thing the pam is aware of, the dni announced a annual report of the number of orders issued under various provisions of fisa and the number of targets affected. The executive branch is trying to the extent possible to take steps towards transparency to be taken consistent with operational effectiveness to delineate the number of orders and targets expected by fisa orders with
An alternate standard, obviously there are a number of alternate standards that can be applied. But the important thing to remember is that this program is a discovery program. The whole idea of the program is to identify avenues that warrant investigation into rollout avenues that do not warrant investigation. And the more that you require of the more that you add on to the standard that is required before you can even investigate less useful tool becomes. For example, if you talk about reason to believe the number me lead to contact in the United States, that is exactly what we are trying to find out here. We have got a number. If we have a terrorist phone number, what exactly we are trying to find out is do we have information to think that this may lead to the drooping investigation in the United States . One quick thing, raj, if i could. On the question of followup, there is a very close review of the ras determination itself. What is your review of how the fbi uses the informatio
To discuss the reason why some individuals have seen their plans canceled by providers as the law has gone into effect. Its become a hot topic on capitol hill among some talking heads but said the right stay away from the politics and discuss the mechanics at play here. Why are some people receiving cancellation notices . Guest these are people who buy their own coverage because they dont get it through their jobs. These are folks folks who arent Small Business owners. They are selfemployed. An increasing number of contract workers by their own. Many farmers by their own so there is an estimate of 5 of americans who buy their own coverage. That is who this affects and many of them are getting these notices. We dont know exactly how many but many people are getting these notices saying their current policy will be discontinued by the end of the year and they need to enroll in a new policy. That is because many of these policies dont meet the requirements of the Affordable Care act. Host
That are necessary to respond to the explosions. I am troubled by the prospect of thousands or maybe tens of thousands of these facilities operated under the radar screen in there used to be a sense of urgency on this issue at all levels. It is essential between osha and dhs and the coast guard and state regulators and there has to be enough Information Available to identify those facilities that could pose a risk. That information needs to be shared. The next challenge is to ensure that dhs analyzes the facilities that provide information and gao has told us that when it comes to assessing and assigning risk, arguably the most essential aspect of the program is neither reliable or consistent. To that point the blue rhino facility exploded scented fireballs into the night sky and it was not determined by dhs to be high risk. But i believe with a lot of work and smart people in this program, we can do better. That is why we have called on the president to bring together experts to tackl
Again, i appreciate everybodys concern with the process here but you put a situation with all these amendments were things would get messed up. Last congress is any judge, this is a committee that had 77 restricted rules, and 55 closed rosato think anybody will have any problems for limiting the number of amendments year. But i would also say this about those who were talking about oversight, oversight, oversight. We have borrowed like 1. 5 trillion for wars and iraq and afghanistan. And have argued have not been given oversight. And time and time and time again we tried of an miniature called for more oversight. We dont get them allowed. I mean, i which is to say these are people in our country who are hurting and they need money now. And i think you have done a very good job of scrubbing what the requests are to make sure that this is all needed. There will be future oversight as the funds are given out. But i will also say its hard to do the kind of recovery in a piecemeal fashion.