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I call this hearing of the subcommittee on fisheries, wildlife, fisheries, water and wildlife, to order. We are here today to discuss innovative financing and funding to address americas deficient Water Infrastructure. The purpose of this hearing is simple, today we will be discussing americas current approach towards Drinking Water and wastewater investment Wastewater Infrastructure investment. Many members of this committee including myself often reference the American Society of Civil Enginee...

Thank you for being here. What did secretary carter mean when he said he would accelerate the digital effort against isis . He has publicly acknowledged that we are flying Cyber Capabilities against isis in iraq. The a publicly acknowledged we are adding cyber as another tool in the broad set of capabilities we are trying to ring together for the fight against isis. Charlie can you explain to me how cyber tools can be used in fighting isis. What are you talking about . Adm. Rogers you could view...

Meandid secretary carter when he said he would accelerate the digital effort against isis . He has publicly a knowledge we have publicly acknowledge that we are adding cyber as another tool. In the fight against isil. Charlie can you explain to me can be used in. Ighting isis it. Rogers you could view as a capability we will talk about it much more broadly, as opposed to specifics you could use cyber as a tool, how much you have an impact on social media efforts. How much you have an impact on t...

Management system fail under your leadership in this instance . In this instance, it would be much to the case i that have. As you wished they would have asked more questions and pushed harder. Is that a yes or no . In this particular case, with respect to to the water issue, thats a fair conclusion. Its a very important issue, since it negatively impacts the health and well fair of children, impacting their ability to laesh and be successful in life. Your own former adviser, dennis sheranack le...

Discussions to address those in terms of the resources we had currently available to us. In terms of going back to your list, the color and odor of this water was not good. You dont want to see people drink that if you can help that. But we didnt have all the resources then. They were working on these issues. In terms of e. Coli, in terms of other issue, we would continually go through mr. Snyder my administration, and ask the experts another article. Yes. The National Journal which i hold up he...

Rep. Chaffetz i will never mind recognize the gentleman from georgia for five minutes. Mr. Mccarthy, i am sure that you either saw or you were briefed on the hearing of is held by this committee the past tuesday, is that correct . Gina mccarthy i was briefed on it. Then you are aware that susan hedmun testified under oath that she acted immediately upon the the high level of lead in the water. In the same hearing, dr. Edwards , whom you just referred to ago in the hero and an expert, repeatedly ...

His political activism my question for you is, dont you think that there is no document as closely held to our heart as the constitution happens to be, that it is not sacrosanct. In other words, we have to have a constitutional convention, perhaps once every hundred years. Trying to have an allout process where the populace the constituents, 300 million would participate and then do a referendum, trying to have the documents revised to reflect the realities of the day rather than allowing it to ...

Japan was closed. Oil coming off the best week since august. Bond markets are closed. This morning its the largest tech deal in history. Dell agreeing to buy emc for 67 billion. You will hear what ceos of both companies told cnbc. We will hear where things stand now with inbev and san miller. And twitter planning companywide layoffs. A big move from newly installed ceo, jack dorsey. Dell agrees to acquire emc in a cash and stock deal valued at 67 billion. Transaction includes a special stock tha...

They would interfere with somebody else. Id hesitate to tell you how much more efficient it would be because you would laugh me out of this room, but were talking not about tens of times of improvement, or hundreds or thousands, but millions of time improvement, and thats not as crazy as it sounds because from the time of marconi until now, we are a trillion times more efficient than we were in mar coneys time. So the thought of being a billion times more efficient in the next 20 or 30 years is ...

Us on cspan. Its great to be with you. Kristina peterson of the wall street journal and rebecca shabad. Congressman, i want to begin with the scenes were seeing in paris today as the unity march continues. Well over a Million People expected to pay their respects to those who were killed in the acts of terror last week, and i mention that because congress is about to debate the future funding of the department of Homeland Security. Do the events in paris change the dynamics in that debate . Well...