There has been historically, if we do a couple of things differently everything would be much better. I dont think thats the case. I think, first of all, this is a very complex business. I think were actually pretty good at it. We had the best military in the world and we have had the best military in the world for quite a long time. I think we can get a lot better and we need to do a better job in a number of different fashions than what were doing. As an industry person or as a government person, i believe that identifying specific things you can do that will actually have an impact, trying them in some case and seeing if they do and attacking on a number of fronts prioritizing those fronts and going after the things you think will have the greatest benefit is the right approach. We have learned from our own experience here. And i think were actually making quite a bit of progress. If you look at the data i think you may be starting to see some changes in terms of results. If you loo
Criminal defenses. Whenever you are in the room you should see a lough red. You should see a little bit of blue and the little bit of blue you should see is around mitigation. In effective assistance of counsel mitigation, and soming aggravation. In general, its not working we again, remember its a subset of cases. It may be more effective in plea bargaining. In cases where theres good evidence of neurological or biological it may never get to trial. It may be a skewed sample. At least in the casing im looking at its not having a huge impact as of yet. Its causing people to ask a lot of questions. The amount of ink the people are spilling and trying to address these issues is increasing in volume. So its an issue that were going to have to address. So in conclusion, the use of this evidence is rapidly expanding, and were going have to figure out what it means for concept of responsibility and punishment. Its showing up in a lot of criminal cases. Primarily in sentencing but also in pre
Thinkprogress. Org. On december 1, is night and day from where it was. The site is now stable and operating at its intended capacity at a greatly improved performance. Here is more. We start at the top of page six on Response Times. Response times, this is the measure of how quickly responds go to a user request. You can see on a bar on the lefthand side that in late october, the Response Time was running around eight seconds, which was clearly unacceptable and very frustrating for consumers. We now have much faster Response Times. The line graph shows average Response Time by day in the last three weeks. You can see the average Response Time is well under one second. The chart on the bottom of page six shows system error rate, another key operating metric. Oftens a measure of how the system presents an error message. You can see the progress that has been made. The far left shows where we were in late october with an error rate of approximately six percent. We got that down to two per
Be funded from our core funding programs, both poor urban and rural areas, including section 53 of seven and 5311. The point being that there is an eligibility that was extended to these mobility Management Options that then can be funded with federal dollars because we would like to see them more and more. I think we had prehundred 25 325,000 dollars was being spent with a eligibility first happened back in 2005, and out is more than 40 million i think per year on these services. We have seen a huge jump in interest. I think that reflects the growing need of our increasingly elderly population. Im concerned that there is a aboutf Public Awareness these services and about the mobility managers. This is an issue that because of america ierica itn followed very closely. And somebody who represents a state by median age is the also havethe nation i a great interest in how we are going to meet this need. Prior to this hearing, i was not aware of these mobility managers. I wonder what is be
To. To follow up with respect with the fema certified with as implemented the Flood Mapping Program with deifies three council. It was created in 2012 to the point in time that it has not yet established by a fema so what is the timeline for that very Important Council to begin reviewing and improving the accuracy . If we refer to the fema flood map . Those rules were created we solicited the applications and i dont have the data but were in the process of implementing that so there was a solicitation. I just have to get you you could tell from many members on the subcommittee and across the country, the issues involving for flood mapping and the law that was signed into law last week are so very critical across the country and we want to work with you to try to ease the pain that this is causing you and so many homeowners across the country. With that, i want to thank you so much for your valuable testimony. It is so clear to me and anyone listening that your local, state, and federal