Want to say thank you. I support the priorities in the remarks. As you have heard, from the admirals and generals, the need for more timely and accurate intelligence continues to grow. Crises in the middle east and recent developments in crimea, central africa, and asia underscore the drumbeat for officers with special insight and understanding. We have a responsibility to the men and women to make smart decisions in these austere times to take risks. Maintainand those investments that will ensure our security. Changes to manage risk. To make the choices we need to i will highlight for critical 40s in our request. , collection processes and career broadening experiences. How we have received much of our business practices. Intelligence collection operations, ensuring the defense Cleansing Services is a priority for the Defense Department and Intelligence Community as a whole. Your oversight has helped us mature. Measurable progress in support of defense equities. In all measures, trade
As a percentage of total medicaid spending were spending less on longterm care than we past, not more. Certainly i think governors are innovating to try to get a grasp on the amount of spending we basis, a per person because when you see a lot of people coming thats the one have is how much youre spending on a per person. Asis so relative to the number of people who need longterm care, tore will be fewer dollars go around. And thats important because it real us focus on the is thatthe real problem this is an issue of economic insecurity for american families. Mechanismhe right that with pay for that is the real solution. Almost any american can be devastate bid this need. Absent a requirement that we all share risk for this type of event, heres what youre up against when youre looking for solutions. You have to use government fromy to create fearly scratch a market for public or private insurance that has value most americans. And you have to persuade them to it. And you have to persua
I do not believe that usaids action that were quoted to promote quote democratic societies that are able to realize their potential are in anyway a bad idea. I believe it is what the people of cuba, iran, burma, north korea and other nations need to help communicate with each other and help them achieve usaids stated mission of a quote free, peace full and self Reliant Society with an effective government. I commend you for giving people a less controlled platform to talk to each other, for helping them find a way to connect and share views. Global Internet Freedom programs and use broadcasting for support were human rights activist are components for our longstanding efforts to promote democracy over states. For 50 years, the United States has had an unwavering commit to provide free information around the world. Our work in cuba is no different than promoting this in ukraine, iran, russia, china or north korea. It should be noted there is 76 million set aside to promote global Intern
Thank you, senator. I do want to respond to some of the comments made earlier. The chairman started out by talking about the cuba issue and said i will just bear freeze, it is down, down, and even dumber to essentially shield cuba from the influences that we have on other dictatorial regimes and authoritarian regimes. I could not agree more. I could not agree more. This why i oppose our policy on cuba for so long. Mentioned another senator mentioned that iran is the only country less free cuba. But even iran, we dont shield the people from the influences or the government from the influences of americans traveling there. We encourage it. North korea to my of their government would allow more of it we would encourage more of it. We had a similar situation with cuba praising the education system. If we had bob from peoria our friend from the mind it would say no such thing because they would realize that its a different world than is described by some with travel there was enough for the
It is clear that the u. N. Will likely maintain a political presence. They have a critical human rights mop to having role monitoring role, and were seeing right now the centrality of supporting the afghanled voting process. Those are all things that dont cease to be necessary in the wake of any u. S. Drawdown or even eventually, you know, when all troops are, all american troops are out of afghanistan. Because president karzai has not signed the bsa, the president has not made his decisions about what the u. S. Troop presence is going to look like after this year, and i think the u. N. Is waiting to understand that better. Weve seen just with the monstrous taliban attacks that have occurred in the last few weeks mission to all those that preceded those attacks just how precarious the security is, particularly for civilians who are trying to aid the afghan p population. And so that is a challenge. Thank you. Chairman, welcome. And let me ask you, we talk about the fact that we spent a