number one, mr. speaker. the prime minister. thank you, mr. speaker comes to the whole house will wish to join me in paying tribute to warrant officer ian fisher of the first the type who was killed on operations in afghanistan on tuesday the fifth of november. it is clear from the tributes paid he was a professional and well respected soldier who made a huge contribution to the army over many years on a number of operational tours. our thoughts and condolences should be with his family and his friends. this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further such meetings later today. i m sure everyone of us will want to in this season of her members we will always remember their service to our country. hear your. mr. speaker, in piece across the house will have memories of the nightmare unfolding across the bank. does the prime minister share my sense of his belief that a person such a
post-high school, junior college, and the like, is the basic approach. but it is a very, very difficult problem. to bring the federal reserve into it for a moment, as i said there s not much the federal reserve can do about very long-term trends like this that don t really have much to do with monetary policy. but over the shorter period, our efforts to put people back to work, and we are making extraordinary efforts to try to increase the number of jobs in our economy, that s going to be important factor reducing inequality, because obviously the unemployed will be much better off if they have work, and labor income. now we will in sequence have the most loaded and least loaded two questions in the pack. from ed wyler, how would you respond to criticism that quantitative easing has provi d provided, quote, trivial relief for main street, unquote, and then absolute coup for wall street. i don t want to shock you i hate to shock you but i don t agree with that. who d h
coast. we also did initial over-land and overflight assessments in some of the inland areas, as as well, working with our dod rkini colleagues. our initial assessment was that. l areas were the worst affected so that was the first priority for focus.at as that situation has started to stabilize, maybe too strong a word but let s say head in the e direction of stabilizing, we iln have also began looking further afield in partnership with government of the philippines fe colleagues to try to reach someo of those inlandll areas. i would emphasize as well that our initial prioritization of the coast also reflected what we were begin by the philippine government. so from the early days we were talking to mayors and governors from the affected provinces to get their input on where they ef would advise we focused at first.ocwed we followed that guidance fairly closely. we are getting better visibilitg now on what is the situation inland. and while the loss of life is es obviously le
directly impacted and they are worried about their well being.h they also are frustrated becaush they want to help, and how can they help? que and that s a question we re try going to try to focus on during this hearing, is how can individuals help in the responss effort, what is the best way to deal with it?deal w i thought the meeting with billy was particularly helpful, but it was clear to me that we have to keep a focus on what is happening, and that brings me ts this hearing, the purpose, of course, to get an update where the circumstances exist today ie the philippines, what is the government doing, what is the w international response, and wha role america is playing on thise latest humanitarian need. with that, let me turn it over to senator rubio for his comments. mr. chairman, thank you for a holding this timely hearing. over the past week, our hearts t have been broken by the news ans the images that have been comina out of the philippines, entire towns and villa
absolutely that is a serious concern. and trafficking, and i know t t that that scot can talk more to the trafficking aspect in particular. on the usaid side we have sent a protection adviser on to the adisaster assistance response team to look into exactly this set of issues. we have also been in all of our partnersship so far, ensuring that we do a technical review o those that takes those kinds of issues into account to make sure that nothing that any of our partners are doing could inadvertently be supporting or enailing that. and going forward, i think we re going to look into more specific program options to ensure that that is addressed.ras my last question is more on the geopolitical realm, but po critical long term as we go to the american people and justify our ability.ustify if you look at this as a multifaceted response it looks e as our aid agencies, diplomatic response, it also has a military component in terms of being able to deliver aid and ss forth and c