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Senator grassley, we set a member number of occasions we find it there is a use and value to having an independent legal representative in the fisa Court Process in the appropriate circumstances. We would not advocate or recommend having one for all of the procedures that go on there. Many of them like a normal criminal cases are routinely done in an expert databases. They are done usually with a fair degree of asked etienne and efficiency and we think a permanent public advocate might impede th...

Immediately notified of the senates action and the senate resume legislative session. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Donnelly i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Donnelly madam president , i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 440, s. Res. 447. The presiding officer the clerk will repo...

Mesherment that shows that in a more compelling way. Each has a security plan, right . Yes. Has Homeland Security done an analysis of what the total cost would be to bring it up how much total for all of the tier one ports would we need to spend to bring them where they need to be. Do we have that . Do we know that . Im not aware of that analysis. Thats an important question because if you dont know what they need, i know you know where the weaknesses are. If the total bill for bringing our tier...

Trials because they are being treated in places that are not running trials. We need to move this out in to the community, make those folks eligible. And im on the committee in the lung map trial, and i have really urged that we make sure that we are out there in the community so that anyone who has lung cancer has an opportunity to participate in the research and perhaps, have a more effective therapy. So, i think the Electronic Health records that its a huge different area that we are working ...

Areas, and sustaining existing capabilities. But, again, that measure can be better. On the administrative management side, weve made progress in measuring our ability to effectively, efficiently release the funding, monitor programmatic use of the funds, monitor grantee Financial Management of the funds, monitor the closing of the awards and grantee draw down. Were making progress, mr. Chairman, weve got an opportunity to make even more. Thanks. Yes, sir. For us, i think its about getting good,...

This process. Ill just this is a long time ago, but ill share an experience with you. I bought a company in puerto rico, put it into four containers, all the equipment. Everything that was there. All four container arrived at one of my plants here. All the seals were there. When we opened the containers, everything of significant value that could have been marketed was gone. But the seals were still there. So the fact is, and that was way before 9 11. That was in the 70s. But the fact is, that p...

And im on the committee in the lung map trial, and i have really urged that we make sure that we are out there in the community so that anyone who has lung cancer has an opportunity to participate in the research and perhaps, have a more effective therapy. So, i think the Electronic Health records that its a huge different area that we are working on and how to do Clinical Trials utilizing the infrastructure that is emerging. Right, thank you very much. Chair, thanks, gentle lady, and now recogn...

Authority. Releasing Authority Means you can go out with a message that youre the commanding general, second marine division. You dont give those, that authority away, and thats why i brought up that point that whoever signs that, basically the secretary, the way i understand it is concurring with all those decisions that are made. Its on his or her watch, correct me if im wrong. If its signed for general hickey by one of the staff yes, this is the official comments. Okay. All right. In terms of...

Now again, we come back to the nsas dual functions and see over and over again whenever they weigh Information Assurance it gets surveilness, this side wins. So its very unclear how this weighing process is going to play out. And actually one of the reasons its unclear is that theres no transparency built into it. I think one of the key things we continually talk about throughout this is the need for Greater Transparency and how things are being applied. And they havent talked about if any numbe...

Are responsible for, you know, getting tough on crime and throwing the book at people and implementing the policies that we enshrine into law. But i will ask you both, youre both members of the bar. Youre both attorneys. Youre licensed to practice law. And you know that when a person suffers a a felony conviction even misdemeanor convictions in many states, they are barred from being able to be licensed to practice law. Do you believe that those types of barriers which are collateral consequence...