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It is equally important we fund this strategy which could take as much as 5 billion over five years to fully implement. We believe again that there is reason for optimism about Central America. The three threaders of the northern triangle have taken tough decision and are investing in their own national budget. We have a vision and plan and we want to work with you to help Central America and help protect u. S. National security. Thank you very much. We move to mr. Kaplan. Sorry, ms. Hogan, sorr...

Carl levin and representative ralph hall. This thanksgiving week cspan is featuring interviews from retiring members of congress. Watch the interviews through thursday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Much as weve accomplished in 36 years i dont want to look back at that so much as to look forward to the next couple of months. In the next couple of months theres a couple of things i would like to do. One is to get my Defense Authorization bill passed. This is an annual effort, a major effort involving lar...

And then i mentioned the 21 days added on, we need to fight against that and try to inject reasoning into that. The infrastructure, so i have been kind of not intentionally but finding myself playing a role of a spoiler in some of the meetings like this. Not that im opposed. Sometimes there are realistic expectations. These are the sorts of settings. This is an ebola treatment center, the upper one is in the creek and the epicenter of the outbreak. Many other pictures, of course. These vary a lo...

Are entering the most risky phases of development. There are still technical hurdles to overcome. Particularly with the orion spacecraft which is addressing challenges with the parachute system and heat shield among others. There is also considerable development and testing ahead for orion in terms of the human support systems. Meanwhile, sos is continuing to pursue the earlier launch dates of december 2017. While nasas urgency is understandable, the schedule for achieving the earlier date mostl...

Shortfall. e the president s budget to keep sls and1f orion on budget and s 8g schedule. I realize thisus a tough question for you to answer because you have tow2 efend the president s budget request, but congress is ultimately responsible for funding this program insuring taxpayer dollars are sufficiently spent. Given [ that nasa has delayed the launch, what funding level will keep the date on track . I would say that the recent review we did that christina talked about, we committed to a joint...

Get the turks and the turks wont do it unless we go after assad. So are we getting sucked deeper and deeper, and back to the original question, what should we do, jim . Well, i mean, i think theres no doubt that isis eventually will be driven out of the Population Centers in iraq or at least lose control of them. I mean, they may go underground but they will lose control because theyre a minority of the sunni population which is a minority of the iraqi population, and so the kurds and the shia b...

And its my conclusion that the president could not make an do on his own authority an executive agreement which looks like a traditional bilateral tree because that exposes the United States government the treasury to reciprocal liability for cuban claims. That doesnt mean he cant negotiate a framework agreement. I think the president does have authority to negotiate an executive a formal executive agreement with cuba which would provide a framework for cuban guarantees to american investors who...

Partnerships to address a broad range of global challenges, building cyber space capability and confronting uncertainty with agility and innovation. This is a particularly difficult job today as we see a resurgent russia, and rising china, challenging us with Nuclear Capabilities, space and cyber space, as well as countries like north korea and iran, seeking greater roles in these domains, proliferation of technology, and information has increased risks, posed by nonstate actors in many of these...

And thats an understandable perspective if youre looking ahead sixth months. This is not the time to drop the strategic agenda. We should be thinking about what will happen when we come out of the cycle. Right now with things like low Interest Rates a light jpgs competitive advantage, this is the critical time to act. There are a lot of suggestions in the book, probably hundreds of them but i pulled ten that are still relevant right now that i think we ought to think about. We had to take care o...

Its an opportunity to learn about innovation thats happening in the marketplace and how that will impact my job at the fcc. I look at new televisions i think what is that going to do for television standard. When i think about head phones, what is it going to do for raf and things like that. Satellite products and video products, its whats the impact on so many different items we have before us or items that may come before us and i get to learn a number of different products that may come to ma...