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Is, we are a nation of immigrants. And proud of it. Our rich, diverse heritage would not have been the same without the contribution of immigrants that have come from around the world. Contributions that have become a very part of the very fabric of our lives and our society. Millions of foreignborn millions of foreignborn who have come to the United States legally have become successful, patriotic citizens of the United States and we have been the beneficiary because of the opportunities that o...

Something you heard from me over and over again. There is not such thing as 100 security. No matter how good you are and you are good. And no matter how good the first two rose here are, good and they are good. Something could happen somewhere so, my question is, what are you doing to prepare america for the day after a possible attack . Well, i have a lot of faith in this country. I mean we, we have agencies, systems in place for emergency response, for disaster response. Ii have a lot of faith...

Our system, all of it was customized and developed in the 50s and 60s. Weve replaced that system with those expenditures. But we still have over 50 applications that need to be replaced. But to show what weve been able to do that, that refund app got 200 million hits last year. 150 million returns across just 85 are processed electronically. That was not only not possible, it was inconceivable 15 years ago. We have made substantial strides. But the 300 million on the Affordable Care act are all ...

Theres much that we can learn from this 13year experience in how to take a more comprehensive approach, and to recognize while kinetic actions have a value all of their own certainly and thats blatantly obvious, nonkinetic actions do as well. We can do much better at that than what we have done. Thank you. General matt is my time is up, but do you have any you want to add . Very quickly senator i would point out we have to improve the process assuming there is a process. Ive been unable to ident...

Chris riley and the at t vice president. We believe at the end of the day, internet need strong rules to protect neutrality. Those needs include Reasonable Network Management and they need to be effectively enforceable every the problem we have now is where the Net Neutrality issue has gone. I think there is a lot of consensus around the rules, but its focused on the sec Legal Authority to adopt rules and the theory they sit use. Our concern really is that theyre going to undo potentially a regu...

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome editor and chief and copresident of the atlantic, James Bennett and the Foreign Policy panel. [applause] good morning, everybody. Welcome. We have five very strong panelists here, whom i am going to introduce you to in a moment and a really long list of potential initiatives and crises that we could talk about this morning. I am sure we will hit a number of them this morning, including the pursuit of peace in the middle east and ireland, bosnia, the twists an...

Thank you, mr. Chairman. Commissioner, welcome. I joined with other members of this Committee Last year on a letter to you after it was reported by the Inspector General for Tax Administration that more than 1100 employees had been awarded over a Million Dollars in cash rewards and more than 10,000 in timeoff awards. You made no commitments nor did you set any deadlines. And i know that youve talked a little bit about this already this morning. I just wanted, for the record to get you to speak c...

Thats overseas, bringing that money back and raising taxes on that money to pay for the plan. So the bottom line is is infrastructure is traditionally a bipartisan issue. Everyone agrees our infrastructure is outdated and needs to be modernized. It also supports good supporting middleclass jobs right away and it sets us up for competitiveness in this global marketplace. With that ill hand it back to josh. Thank you, guys. Well open it up for questions. Who wants to be first . Mr. Kunan. Jeff, i ...

U. S. Feels about this new peace proposal from france and germany, particularly in the context of merkel coming here next week and these discussions about whether to send lethal aid. Im also wondering if you have anything on that magical piece of paper to share with us, feel free to do so. Purely administrative issues. That better not be the case. Let me say a couple of things on this. The United States has been saying for some timing that it will that its a diplomatic negotiation thats required...

United states, like we were by bush, to authorize an aufm. Abdi youothing but an abdication of our obligation. Adam shift tried to sunset out the aufm that we gave to which has been used by president obama. Not understand how we in congress can continue to what the constitution says is our responsibility. James madison once said, the power to declare war, including causeser to judging the of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature. Not believe sincerely, because when this this ob...