Workplace morale among tsa agents. This is 90 minutes. Good morning. Today well consider the nomination of admiral david picoski to become the next administrator of the tsa. Having spent 32 years in the coast guard after graduating from the Coast Guard Academy in 1977, admiral picosk sichlt a well qualified nominee to become the next tsa administrator. His leadership experience ranges from serving as the commander of the coast guards pacific area in Coast Guard Defense forces west where he was in charge of all coast card operations in the western hemisphere to becoming the 26th vice commandant of the u. S. Coast guard in 2009 where he served as second in command, the chief operating officer and the component Acquisition Executive of the coast guard. Admirals nomination to become tsa administrator comes at an important time. Security threats remain a persistent challenge for both aviation and Service Administration and were tasked with protecting the modes and ensuring the movement of p
Thank you for the interest and byhusiasm you have shown your attendance and participation in the series. Foring with the candidates state office, hearing their views on the issues, engaging them in question and answer discussions helps us as responsible citizens to enfranchise ourselves productively and responsibly. It will be of interest to our guest today to know that so far in this series we have been addressed by the candidates of all parties for treasurer, controller, attorney general, and lieutenant governor, and one of the gubernatorial candidates, mr. Brown, was here yesterday. Im pleased to tell our guest [laughter] [applause] im pleased to tell our guest that there are four sponsors of this series. Company, the employee association, and the two unions that represent the genie employees. Pg e employees. In tune with the spirit of the coming season, may i say that there are only four more shopping days left for governor. It has been a long and interesting campaign. It has been
Thank you for the interest and byhusiasm you have shown your attendance and participation in the series. Foring with the candidates state office, hearing their views on the issues, engaging them in question and answer discussions helps us as responsible citizens to enfranchise ourselves productively and responsibly. It will be of interest to our guest today to know that so far in this series we have been addressed by the candidates of all parties for treasurer, controller, attorney general, and lieutenant governor, and one of the gubernatorial candidates, mr. Brown, was here yesterday. Im pleased to tell our guest [laughter] [applause] im pleased to tell our guest that there are four sponsors of this series. Company, the employee association, and the two unions that represent the genie employees. Pg e employees. In tune with the spirit of the coming season, may i say that there are only four more shopping days left for governor. It has been a long and interesting campaign. It has been
I dont want folks to believe it was because of a lack of production. If you all were ready to go, the whole congress wouldve been ready to go. I would agree with that. With Great Respect the last time i checked your Party Controls the house and the senate. It seems to me that Homeland Security bill that was negotiated in good faith between the house and the senate should move on its own merit and then you can bring up legislation anytime to deal with the immigration issue. I would welcome that. I support comprehensive Immigration Reform. Certainly, you may disagree with the president s actions but there is no reason when there are such threats in the world today. Just look at what happened in paris last week. That you would hold up a Homeland Security bill because of the immigration issue. Lets have a real debate. I welcome it. With respect, it is true the last time you checked we did control both houses. After time we passed the on meet omnibus bill, we did not. What i thought to unde
In 2024, it becomes the entire dod budget. That will not happen obviously. What highlights is the danger of that crowding out of other defense investments and acquisitions and capabilities that we will need in the future. Brad talk to lead a bit talked a little bit about how we make sure we have the right mix of capability that we want in the future . There is a question of who you trade off current capacity for readiness for future capabilities . Even if we are looking at only the 500 billion in cuts over 10 years, money has got to come from somewhere. There is a limited number of places where you can generate that from. Secretary hagel and the vice chairman, when they announced the results of the strategic choices in management review back in july, they want to prioritize and emphasize the feature capability and we are willing to take some risk in current capacity. I think in an ideal world, all of us would say that. I would say that there is a bit of a danger. One of the things we h