Why despite the reform activities in the process are taking longer in fiscal year 2015 is an average of 95 days to process the secret clearance and 179 days for the secret clearance. In 2016, it took an average of 166 days to process and 246 for the topsecret clearance. Thats quite a job in the timeline it takes to get there. More than a decade ago that processes were transferred from the department of defense and now there is talk of transferring the process back to the department of defense. We also have the newly created the opm and the dod have a shared responsibility to make sure we stop moving the organizational boxes around as we transition, we need to talk about the efficiency and make sure at the end of the day we are protecting and securing the United States of america. Theres a tremendous amount of people that are working on these issues. We will have additional hearings and discuss that. I personally believe and i would like to draw this out, attracting and retaining the pr
Are open for business, we are working, were doing the public work, work very well, i think. So there are two current members, im the acting chairman. Im a republican. And i have my colleague, terrell mcsweeny, whos a democrat. But the thing to remember about the ftc is we are generally a bipartisan agency. Were an enforcementoriented agency, so our rules allow us to have a quorum with as few as two commissioners, so that isnt affecting our work. But, of course, we have to Reach Agreement to take action. Fortunately, most of the work that the ftc does is very much focused on real harms to consumers, fraud, we review mergers, we review antitrust issues, and those are areas where there is a lot of agreement. The other thing thats happening, you know, under hi leadership as chairman, ive asked staff to go back and take a look at some of the things that were doing that maybe need to be better focused or perhaps have a more limited impact on business or are our civil investigative demands to
Establish process. And was a plan to make enough to the be no loss of federal funds for north go on at this time in conjunction with the announcements from the department of education, justice for this guidance for transgender students . As alleged North Carolina inconsiderate page hb2, a policy decision that was made hb2, even as agency was considering whether or not the implantation of hb2 would put a range of federally funded programs at risk in the state of North Carolina. A decision that was made was to not withhold any funding until the enforcement action that was announced by the department of justice had made its way through the courts. So that was a very specific thing and that was a response to developments that occurred this week with regard to the situation in North Carolina. This guidance is guidance that has been in the works for years. And, but it is guidance that is broadly consistent with the kinds of principles that this president and this administration have long fou
Guest there are little bits of overlap into canada from the eastern grid and down into mexico, i guess, from the texas grid, but by and large, youre talking about three grids. Host how are they assembled . Guest well, they are assembled, there are 3200 parts to it in the sense that there are 3200 electric companies in this country. And whereas in the old days we used to have verticallyintegrated companies that produced power or communicated it across large, vast spaces of the country and downloaded it to the customers, these days some of which produce power, some of which convey power, others of which delay power x from a Commercial Point of view, that works out very well. Power can be purchased in the country from wherever it is not needed, for example. Winter time, florida doesnt need as much electricity. The big problem is the power, the use and the consumption and the production of power. Has to remain in perfect balance. The only thing that is capable of maintaining a perfect bala
No experience in Foreign Policy some. Schieffer well talk to one of them, wisconsin Governor Scott walker. Well get latest on that u. S. Attack against isis from the new chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, devin nunes its all ahead because this is face the nation. Good morning, first the train they have asked fbi to investigate the possibility of projectile hitting amtrak 188 just before it derailed tuesday night. We begin with Robert Sumwalt a member of the National Transportation safety board. Point man on this investigation. Is it possible that this thing that hit the train windshield that we now know about possible somebody shot at that train . Were certain lear going to be looking at that. As we pointed out were going to to have the fbi with their Technical Assistance to analyze what sort of fracture pattern may be on that windshield. Schieffer any way that that could have been connected to the crash in this m way . It would be completely coincidental or causal thats wha