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President ial directive 39. Interagency and white house then began focusing on threats aimed largely within the United States and pdd 62 was born. I came aboard to nsc to implement president clintons protection against unconventional threats to the homeland and americans overseas focusing on domestic cbrn preparedness and response missions. Whereas we had the usual core players state fbi justice cia, cod and joint stas we were adding hhs and other departments and agencies which played important ...

Not every black congregations issue is that we dont want it to be. Were shamed. What we have done is we have taken a real life situation that is jermainegermane to every congregation in american and turned it into an issue. And folks dont deal with issues. They deal with people. One of the things were trying to surface is how many of us as human beings are impacted by this system . Whether it is as victims and, by the way, the new language is not victim, it is survivors. Because if youre a survi...

Thats our homeland, our way of life. I think the answer my personal answer is yes. And so im an optimist about this. Not without our challenges. We continue to deal with those challenges. Weve got the best and brightest people. I can tell you. I wish you could meet a lot of them. Phenomenal people working these issues. Im really proud to work with them and be their deputy director. Im humbled to do that. Theyre doing some really important work. And i thank you all again for your contribution to ...

Protect our watershed. Were also involved in a project with the Forest Service, bureau of reclamation city and national tore rest foundation to treat the 634,000 acre watershed that drains into the cc craigen reservoir. The projects were currently involved with highlight the need to improve federal policy to more efficiently make progress in restoring our forests and protecting our watersheds. Specifically there is a need to improve both Fire Suppression budgeting and the planning and compliance...

They are they are becoming a critical partner for International Cooperation as well. One of our most significant cooperative efforts in codevelopment is with the advanced version of the sm3, the 2a, and that is being produced in japan. South korea is obviously has an immediate proximate stake in preventing missile strikes from north korea. Weve worked closely with south korea to ensure that as an alliance we can maintain the capacity to do that. Ive already talked about some of the things we bri...

Port of entry. What in your overall system today categorically prevents that . So we have a notification system. When we refuse an entry that electronic notification system not only notifies customs and border protection, but all the other fda district offices imports. And so how is that batch tagged indelibly so that that notification is meaningful so that those other ports can identify the same batch were talking about. So as you may be aware, weve been looking working for many years to try to...

Priority of the agency now. I have one more question. You recently stated that the sole basis for recommendation to the ban of most widely used chemicals was cumulative Risk Assessment which found the majority of Citizens Advisory Panel recommendation which found the majority of risk associated with chemicals was from another chemical, dehp. Can you explain concerns for using cumulative Risk Assessment as a basis for such regulatory determination . Thank you. The chap and the proposed rule is of...

Because two men in that office came up to me and said we think you could do more than type and file. Do you want to know what we do . They mentored me, took a chance on me, gave me a helping hand. In all my career, all my life people have taken a chance for me. Its also true that its still different for women in some ways. Women in positions of authorities are caricatured differently, scrutinized differently, because its different, its new. Ask that and that sometimes makes it very hard. The way...

To you that with this in mind what actions have you taken in the past year to provide relief to companies with respect to costs of Third Party Testing requirements . Thank you congresswoman. One of the areas we found interesting, and this was discovered by Small Business ombudsman, i dont want to get the commissioner upset since it involves his prior occupation, but we found a lot of Third Party Labs are testing for services that are not required and so our Small Business ombudsman and his Offic...

The forests. Over the last few years, we have prioritized the readiness of our forces. These are the forces you can count on for an immediate response. These are the forces that help the evacuations of americans and south sudan, yemen. These forces train the iraqi army and protect our embassy in baghdad. These are the marines in the pacific. I can assure you that your deployed marines are well trained, well bred, and wellequipped. We have had to make tough choices to face sequestration and reduc...