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Welcome one and all. Great to see our witnesses. Great to be here with senator johnson, and well call this hearing to order. I appreciate the effort of all of you to get here today. Im glad were having the hearing today, and not tomorrow. If we were having it tomorrow we might not be having a hearing. Todays hearing, as you know, is focused on the costs of not being prepared for extreme weather events, and exploring the ways that our federal government can increase resiliency in our communities,...

A precursor for the rest of the year. Heres the thing. A lot of people will look at us being down. Compare to it 2008 remember 2007 we also were lower on the s p 500 for the first day of the year. But through october of that year it looked great. Its what happened next that raised some eyebrows. We talk about the historical precedence but its just one day. Were not panicking yet. Maybe the dip buyers are still on vacation. For all of 2013 and 2012 the s p 500 was never under water. In other word...

Power to the parliament. An investigation of crimes committed over the past three months of the crisis,. Fourth, the forming of the Coalition Government in ten days. But the three Foreign Ministers who brokered the deal are calling for caution. The polish minister is trying to remind everyone that whats being agreed to isnt initially. Its a draft. Its not a full blown signing and the draft is only a starting point. But that said, it certainly is a positive step forward. Because that means the en...

For several years on the communications commission, also as administrator of the Rural Utility Service and now is head of pcia, the Wireless Infrastructure association which is what, mr. Adelstein . Guest this association represents the company that builds Wireless Networks, basically, the ones that deliver all of that content to your cell phone, your smartphone, your tablet. The big Cell Phone Companies are on there, at t, verizon, sprint, tmobile as well as companies that own and build the cel...

From Anbar Province in the 1991 gulf war, and now it gets to the long range rocket threat to israel from southern lebanon in 2006 or from gaz a saw let me intervene. You just listed examples to allies in the midst of war. If its 1972, the American Public is facing 25,000 Nuclear Weapons targeting it. So thats where i think the, in terms of it may be existential to those local actors, but in terms of the American Publics viewpoint of it, is it viewed that, to me, is the disconnect. We dont view i...

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Security here. We are honored to have a distinguished panel to discuss the new Cyber Security framework. Essentially, the document represents the best efforts of the administration and industry representatives will Work Together to address what president obama has called one of the greatest national advantages the United States faces. Im looking forward to hearing more about how the framework will be. We are taking a moment to remind ourselves that the framework poses existence owes its existenc...

Mr. Reid is the vote pending still . The presiding officer anyone wishing to vote . Anyone wishing to change their vote . If not, the yeas are 97, the yeas are 1, the bill as amended has been passed. Mr. Reid move to lay that on the table. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid mr. President , i move to proceed to calendar number 329 which is the bill to support sovereignty and democracy in the ukraine. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk motion to proceed to calend...

Which is the constitutional inquiry is just a probabilistic inquiry into a persons true i. Q. Score, but true iq scores themselves are a statistical concept. It is the score the you would get on a hypothetical test that has no measurement error. Then this is the point, true iq is not the same as intellectual function. Iq tests themselves, however perfect and maybe dont perfectly capture verses the selection of function. Antigen that argument, but that does not seem to be consistent with your poi...

Citizens all, whose votes have populated this peoples house. Each member of this house has been given the sacred duty of representing them. Today we mourn the loss of former congressman ike skeleton a true Public Servant and staunch supporter of our military. May he and his family find solace and peace at this time. Bring each of us, at last, to that place where our hearts will rest in you. Bless us this day and every day and may all that is done within the peoples house this day be for your gre...