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Experienced National Security staff. I think the people on this panel are aware of that. They have a lot of interaction with the people on our staff. We do rely on their expertise and their history of navigating the most sensitive subjects imaginable. We recognize that there is tension between national between selfgovernance in this country and national selfpreservation and selfprotection. Theres no question about that. And we are not dismissive of National Security concerns. We do take them ver...

Years. Plus. Isil is on the defensive and isil is going to lose. Tough words from president barack obama but can he convince congress to authorize military force against isil . And 100 minutes after it launched europes space plane smashes down on schedule into the pacific. Hello ukraines president has warned if a ceasefire deal has not reached in talks with germany, france and russia, then it will go out of control. We go to the belarus capital of minsk. On the ground the top u. S. Mill commandm...

Business z to thrive need the ability to mauve capital to move capital and talent freely without hassle and across borders. As we see the increase in the nationalism around many fronts in the world, we see that at odds in the multinational businesses that become less capable of dealing with localized politics. This is creating conflicts certainly, between the business. Within the businesses. We are seeing as well a significant increase in the amount of the Gross Domestic Product globally that is...

Is funded by taxpayers. Our speaker is chair of the Organization Since mid2014 and we hope to hear bro adams plans for marking that opportunity organization. Its politically eclipsed in recent years 146 milliondollar budget grants generally go to state Humanities Councils museums, research and educational institutions. Than native of michigan adams has degrees from Colorado College and the university of california and santa cruz. His formal education was interrupted by three years of service in ...

Important because they touch local communities. Every one of them is about a local community in some way. We have to keep making that pitch. We also need to make this argument about the public relevance and how not only how much poorer we would be without them and the work that we do but how incapacitated we would become if we did not have these entities doing what they do. With only two years left of the Obama Administration how do you approach priorities to get as much done as you can . I was ...

Help up here on the hill and we lose months. We move loose four, five, six months to hire Replacement Program or we dont have time. So shipbuilding gets held up. Projects get held up. People were tired and that loses that trust with the industry. So precluding getting sequestered as helpful and in the continuing resolutions having a similar effect in that we are not doing any new projects and some of these are pretty critical as we move into the years and need to modernize. Senator the first com...

Absolutely. Yes senator. General wasser wants to ask you about comments that have come to my attention that were reported to have been made by Major General james post the Vice Commander of air combat command and he is reported to make these comments when addressing a group of airmen this month. What he is said to have made in comments to the airman was anyone who was passing information to congress about a 10 capabilities is committing treason and is part of those comments he also said if anyon...

Understanding that we are doing our kids and grandchildren a great disservice if we dont own up to the infrastructure problems we have right now and we work with the governors around the country to move forward on this issue. So mr. Chairman thank you very much. Snack thank you senator. Let me make this comment. We are very proud to have all of you here. We had some al masai think so the full panel was not here but i appreciate very much your coming. Its important i believe when i look at this p...

And local governments have the tools they need. This is a very important topic. We learn a lot when we got involved with Hurricane Center recovery and we are taking the larynx that we derive from that and trying to build into more of our programs routine resilient construction. For instance we found that stoplights needed to be waged in the ground deeper to be more resilient. And when that local leaders in my state are working hard to address whether its new york city or projects to improve side...

Numbers say two things about what is contrary to what some people thought were the conventional wisdom. One was that the need for and the demand for spectrum was not as great and we hear that often. We hear people say that there is no spectrum crisis and i think the value of what is being given suggested there is a tremendous need for this spectrum and then the other piece of conventional wisdom that i think is interesting to at least think about as we heard a lot about how certain spectrum is m...