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Necessary tunneling capacity under the hudson and tunnels currently serving extraordinary number of passengers on amtrak side and very diplomatic, mr. Chairman. Much painful history. Those tunnels are over 100 years old. Your first, do i agree, that it is an essential investment . We absolutely must do something about those. I believe were approaching 110yearold tunnels. They not only constrain capacity but at certain point they will become a real safety risk. And you know, think about the uphea...

Number one sea port in north america for the importation of fresh fruit bananas, and juice, concentrate. If you had a banana this morning for breakfast it probably came through the port of wilmington. Our nickname is top banana. The top banana port. Port of wilmington isnt just important for the state of delaware, it serves as a key economic engine in new castle county, its also a key port for the entire United States. So protecting our ports, safeguarding our Economic Opportunity is responsibil...

There is a role when one senator ofugns the character another, you can rise in a point of personal privilege. Aere is no rule that allows person to rise on that same point of personal privilege. Forth isd canard put money is not speech. That has been repeated over and over again. I would note any first year law student who put that as his or her answer on an exam would f because it is obviously demonstrably false and it has been false since the dawn of the republic. Speech is not just any on a s...

Authority. Releasing Authority Means you can go out with a message that youre the commanding general, second marine division. You dont give those, that authority away, and thats why i brought up that point that whoever signs that, basically the secretary, the way i understand it is concurring with all those decisions that are made. Its on his or her watch, correct me if im wrong. If its signed for general hickey by one of the staff yes, this is the official comments. Okay. All right. In terms of...

This committee, both perspectives is great. Whatever we do will impact business, it will impact individuals, will impact our competitive nature around the whole planet. With that, i yield back to the chairman. Chair recognizes mr. Clever. Thank you, mr. Chairman. To the Inspector General. There have been problems, obviously, with xm bank. Has there been something so egregious and monstrous that congress should give the xm bank a certificate of distinction . Offersly the decision if xm bank is st...

Up next on c span 3, a hearing on Port Security. After that, senator al franken introduces legislation that taelts to prevent companies and government organizations from tracking a persons location on their smart phones wow their consent. Later, a forum on Cyber Security from bloomberg government. Discusses syria civil war. The look at the growing phenomenon of children illegally entering the u. S. Without their parents. Well talk to usa today reporter alan gomez. U. S. Customs and Transportatio...

Of policy each of you play a Critical Role and youve got to work to the. So do we. Were always happy to have you with us. Youve done a whole lot of work in this area, were grateful for that and be looking to you for further help. Again thanks to everyone for coming. As dr. Coburn knows were going to start voting in a little bit. And were going to do one of those deals that we perfected where voting starts, maybe hell go vote the first time, and when hes voted hell come back and ill go vote and t...

Would you like to see set . I would like to see those in the cyber arena, those are going to be much more broad than the u. S. Cyber command, that would be part of it. Command,thin the cyber do you have the authorities and the policies to do all of that effectively. My confirmed need to be otherwise the level of expertise is required for potentially damaging operations, this is definitely lowered allowing achieve somes to level of success. How does this impact the allies and the foreign partners...

Capacity online in the next major evolution is how we broadly across the u. S. Government to apply those issues. There is also the issue of bothing out to utilities financial utilities and public utilities. Is that something where you would need either funding or authorization or encouragement from congress . At this stage, i dont know. I do make the commitment that if i am confirmed, i will assess that and if i do believe that money or authority or support from a legislative site is required, i...

Through the volume of the imagery. China also helps satellite images before releasing them to the public. Part of it is not telling the other guy what you got. The reason for that is theres some capabilities that a lot of countries want to keep hidden. One of those capabilities is how fast can you take a satellite image and actually analyze it and use it in an operational sense . Many countries see that as a very closely guarded operational secret. The search from the air see equally complicated...