Australian way are used against us. The government is required to respond to these new threats and to make sure that our agencies have the resources and the powers that they need to do so. Thats why weve committed 630 million for our counterterrorism package, as well as introducing to the Parliament Three trenches of legislation that strengthens the ability of our agencies such as the Australian Federal police to deal with these increased threats. Were also working very hard with vulnerable communities to counter violent ideologies and encourage social harmony. Our Law Enforcement and intelligence communities have for years since 9 11 been very effective about keeping australia and australians safe. But we need to constantly refine the way they operate and seek to make improvements when we can. As many in this room know today. The Prime Minister has been very focussed on this challenge and hes shown great leadership in these areas. His government takes National Security seriously. Whet
Development on federal land is what i think we need to get to. Because as senator hoeven says, youre just going to go around your federal lands and then we get no revenue to the treasury it just doesnt make sense. So we need to work in that regard. With that, i appreciate you have given the committee a lot of time and senator cant well if you want to have the final word i would just say thank you madam chair for this hearing and i think a lot of members showed up and a lot of questions across the board and i get your point about federal lands and, yes, im sure that theres a higher percentage in alaska than in Washington State. In Washington State we get revenue from those public lands and so thats been a big benefit to us. I want to work with you as we move forward on trying to think about an Energy Package and what we can do together to bolster our economies and to Work Together on policies that can move us forward. But i feel like we had a broad range of things brought forward here t
We have to do more outreach into the hispanic and africanamerican community. I think the ideas that we offer to those can to those communities are ideas of empowerment, toys, ideas of improving your station in life but if we dont show up, we cannot have those conversations, so it may sound simple to say, but showing up is going to be a big part of that equation. It we can be present we can have a conversation, and if we can have a conversation, we can persuade people of our ideas. Host thank you for joining us. Guest thank you for the opportunity. Host tomorrow, with talk about the conservative agenda and cpac from matt schlapp. Will also hear from ron pollack. Thanks so much for joining us today. Washington journal will be back tomorrow. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] next, a discussion on the obama administrations foreignp
Minutes. When you have 30 seconds left, you will hear a soft bell informing you of that and at two minutes there will be a louder bell. So im going to call in order bob planthold, francisco decosta, eric woo, i believe, zel, i apologize if i mispronounce names, something that often happens to me paul, something rodriguez, i cant read the handwriting, sharon gadberry, fillchen im bob planthoalt. I served on the state Strategic Plan because of my knowledge of muni, bart, caltran, l. A. Metro link. Other systems also are struggling with the issue of the cost of youth transit, both monthly passes or individual fares. I raised two kids in the Public School system. They took muni. If i hadnt been able to get a free pass for myself throughnoje muni Access Committee i would have had great financial difficulty. I think you need to stop and look atykjy whats been overlo. Youth cant work. They dont get a job if youre 8 years old. We heard the discussion that maybe seniors and disabled should get
Link. Other systems also are struggling with the issue of the cost of youth transit, both monthly passes or individual fares. I raised two kids in the Public School system. They took muni. If i hadnt been able to get a free pass for myself throughnoje muni Access Committee i would have had great financial difficulty. I think you need to stop and look atykjy whats been overlo. Youth cant work. They dont get a job if youre 8 years old. We heard the discussion that maybe seniors and disabled should get free passes. You know, im part of that constituency, but seniors and people with disabilities can get access to some money sources. Maybe a Social Security pension, maybe ssi, Social Security disability insurance. The fact is youth dont have that access to money. We, who are seniors, or have a disability maybe we can work part time. Account even though two mayors, brown and newsom talked about free muni for seniors they did nothing to really push for it. The last page of the preparation sho