Global economy more than six times of tear rifls. Ariffs. I recognize my responsibility to serve all of you and appreciate the input, cooperation help, advice and assistance that you do. We really appreciate this robust dialogue with the clamham lerber and its members. We want to continue to fulfill or obligation operating as a strong Law Enforcement association while helping our businesses remain competitive in the global marketplace. Thank you all very much. Thank you commissioner. We have a few minutes for questions. If i could just ask you to state your name and who youre with to ask your question. Who would like to start it off . You did cover a lot of ground there, thank you, sir. I thought we had one back here but i will just lead off with questions while there is a vocal group up here so i know you guys will have one soon. So spencer, get up there. Commissioner, thank you again for addressing the clam berhamber and broader membership from other organizations as well. We appreciate your partnership, as always. My question is in regards to your international comments. We obviously see the trade facilitation being a big component of the agreement moving forward to remove customs barriers at borders. You mention that u. S. Customs can play a big role in the international environment. How do you see u. S. Customs taking its best practices and exporting those programs but also improving your processes as well and seeing what you could do to modernize to rise to the standards of the tfa. I think were fortunate to have two things going on right now. One is that with assistthe assistant secretary at the helm of cbp and now being the assistant for dhs, we clearly recognize the value that cbp can bring to other currents. Were working hard as you look at things and changes in the world, were working hard to expand our International Footprint and to put more people there. In my relations with the department of state and many of the ambassadors that ive had an opportunity to work with, every ambassador in a foreign country that has a member of cbp within that embassy, almost universally tells me how valuable and helpful they are. They bring a perspective and information to that. So i am intent on moving forward with expanding our International Footprint in cbp. Right now of course many of you flow that were in negotiation. We receive letters of interest from 25 airports around the world to expand preclearance, the same type of preclearance we have and have it in canada for a number of years. So i think thats particularly important. The other is that and we havent done this for a while but over the course of the next day and a half or thursday and friday well be taking all of the Senior Leadership within cbp out to our advanced Training Facility at Harpers Ferry for a day and a half, perhaps away a little bit from blackberries and schbstelephones and spend some time saying how can we better align. Were all busy, we all have these silos we end up operating in. How can we harmonize within cbp to meet some of the goals that i mentioned here. Yes. Microphone is coming to you. My names clark nelson. I we are a provider to your old position. Fingerprint system. You alluded in the beginning to the interface and challenges of balancing commerce and security of course whether it is people or goods moving across the border. Can you comment briefly on the variable priorities from cbp on the new entry exit buy metric Border Control versus goods and management of goods crossing. Im sure everythings a priority, but so i think its particularly critical right now when it comes to the identification of people and things like fraudulent documents. There isnt a day that you dont pick up some news article about syrian foreign fighters, whether its people leaving the United States and i think the number is certainly less than 200 but it is people that have either shown an intent or have gone over to syria. Then of course because they are u. S. Citizens could return back to the United States. What danger, what threat do they pose and how are we recognizing that. It is certainly a much more significant concern in europe, the uk and other locations. But the fraudulent document information and stolen passports, not every country will query passports against interpol stolen passport database. We do. Other countries do. But thats important that we show that this is critical. When you apply for and ask for the information to apply to come in to the United States there are now additional sets of questions. And some of you have read that were working with facial Recognition Systems in an experiment at dulles airport. These are going to continue on. So the fraudulent document information is going to be critical. Biometric exit information. Of course, as everyone in the room also knows, our airports really arent designed for exit and theyre designed to get people on to the airplanes but not through certain portals, et cetera. So we have to think through that pretty clearly, how can we work with Technology Given infrastructure constraints to work in those areas. So i think that the verification of people is critical. The agriculture inspections are still going to be critical and then the screening and riskbased analysis of cargo. Mike mullen. Im mike mullen from the express association of america. Thank you for those remarks, commissioner. I was happy to hear you emphasize the relationship you have with the other government agentcies with the context of the effort to implement the single itds window. I think i can speak for a lot of people in this room in saying that we feel of all the government agencies, cbp has the best grasp, the sort of deepest understanding of Risk Management and that thats an area where a lot of the other agencies, for a host of cultural and historical reasons, have a much different perspective. So my question is, i know this is being discussed in the auspices of the beck. How far do you think you can go or how do you see the government implementing a single approach to Risk Management that from our point of view hopefully will look a lot more like cbps than what some of the other agencies use. I think that the fact that we have such a leadership role with the deputy secretary in the border inner agency and having been the United States attorney in los angeles, he clearly kind of has that understanding and that balance. And i think all of us, especially inside the beltway know that the usual parochial way is to close our arms, make no comment, say that we dont make mistakes and things cant happen but i kind of go back and take my experience as a police chief for a long time. No mayor, no city council held me to a crimefree city of seattle or a crimefree city of buffalo. And yet there are times some elected officials like to hold folks like me accountable for no one should cross the border. A security border is that no one will ever get in. And if only we do more things will be better. We need to not do more whether it comes to huge expenditures. We need to do more when it comes to being smart, to being good partners to using intelligence to using tech noll. Gi whether it choms to border security, trade security or people coming in to the country to do that. I think the more we can talk about that in a very direct way, the more cover or protection it gives to my colleagues and other federal agencies. Commissioner good to see you. Im with u. P. S. Can you give us a few thoughts about your work on beyond the border around how youre going to move forward just working with cbsa on opening the preclearance. So cbsa will still require through the government of canada legislation to allow that. I think we will be able to move a little bit more quickly when it comes to that. I think given the strong working relationship that the two agencies have that hosting and sharing with cbsa, their ability to do some of the work after legislation here in the United States where they can be to work within the United States is absolutely fine. There are so many now there are so many systems now that are available to verify the work thats being done, whether it is video systems, trafficking systems, et cetera, that an overarching concern that, well a representative from canada is doing this, or it is a representative from the United States. We should be able to trust each other. Of course, we also have those systems in place. So i think that i think that that greet that has received so much support will continue to receive support from industries on both sides of the border as they work with both our United States congress and canadas legislature and government to move forward. Over here. Good morning. Thank you so much for taking the time to meet with us. I apologize if i bring up a subject that you already discussed but i was a little late. The question has to do with many in the industry are very concerned that who now enjoy the benefits of i was just wondering if you see in any way possible that the solution could be reached that would satisfy National Security concerns and at the same time preserve this great benefit for some of the companies that need it and deserve it. Thanks. You really hit me with a question that i even couldnt begin to answer. Just so you know. I was worried it might not come to your level but i decide to ask it anyway. Somehow i think it will now. Im sorry what did you say . I think it will get to my level now. Okay. The trade and labor went through just a horrible slowdown in the ports on the west coast thats just being alleviated right now. Customs was somewhat of a bystander in that. But im asking you must have gone through that, too getting briefings all the time. Are there any Lessons Learned from customs having gone through that kind of experience on the west coast and the huge impacts it had on trade . Yeah i think there are, bill. I know you just stepped off coac and we thank you very much for your service on that. That was tremendously careful but we watched that very carefully. It kind of hit home because i hear from people in Washington State about the apple crop that actually was not able to reach an export market. So the costs were tremendous and youd like to see some type of labor piece because when i was the police chief in seattle, we had six years we had the slowdown also. So it creates difficulties. Todd owen, both in his position now but also in his position at long beach in lax, todd worked very hard to have in place a whole series of Additional Support mechanisms whether when it was actually going to be settled, and now things were going to be moving more quickly would we be bringing in people tdy, would we be bringing people in on overtime, would we have extra shifts, what are the Different Things that we could do. Those port directors have been pretty amazing, whether it is oakland, seattle, et cetera, of being able to shift some of their resources away from other locations when it came time that the out cranes were operating fully and the cargo was coming off and there wasnt a new holdup and it wouldnt be us. So we learned lessons from six years ago and we learned a few more lessons this time. That thanks, bill. Time for one more question back leer. Hi, David Richardson with southwest airlines. Thanks for coming out today. Just a congratulations on the preclearance agreement with canada. Could you please address the possibility of possibly some sort of preclearance agreement with mexico in the future . I think mexico is a little further off when it comes to the preclearance. By the way government of mexico and several of the airports mostly in the high tourist destination, have sloanhown an interest in doing that. I think weve made a good first step with the mute all recognition arrangement on trade and cargo security where were both recognizing our mutual programs for vetting traders trusted trader programs. I think that we can expand upon that when it comes to passengers, also. I think it is a little further i think it is a little further down the road for the preclearance in mexico. But it was good, thanks. Commissioner, clearly a lot of progress has been made under your leadership. Terrific job. Thank you. I guess i just want to give you the opportunity, anything that you havent been asked this morning that youd like to hit on or anything that the chamber and our members and the private sector can be doing more of in the next couple of years with you and your team . Yeah. I think the burden falls on us quite a bit. People like todd and brenda and maria luisa are very busy. But i have never seen them not take the opportunity to attend one of your meetings, one of your conferences to have some other very smart people like steve and others to be able to brief. And we do that a lot. We spend a lot of time and effort in that and i think it is time and effort that is well spent. So you should not be and i dont think you have been. You should not be the least bit hesitant in asking and demanding of us that we continue and do more. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner. Appreciate it. Congress is busy today trying to wrap up legislative work before heading out for a twoweek spring recess. House earlier passed a bibill known as the doc fix. That changes the medicare payment formula to doctors. Members had passed 17 temporary measures before today. The legislation also reauthorizes the Childrens HealthInsurance Program known as chip for two years. Yesterday the house approved the 2016 republican budget plan and today the Senate Continues working on its version of the budget plan with votes on more than 60 amendments possible throughout the day and overnight. Theyll also work on the doc fix legislation that the house passed. Reminder, you can watch live coverage of the house on cspan and the sflat onenate on cspan2. This sunday on q a, eric larson on his new book, dead wake, the Last Crossing of the lucitania. It gets complicated when the question becomes what happened to the lucitania . Why were they allowed to head into the irish sea without escort, without the kind of detailed warning that could have been provided to captain William Thomas turner but was not. This has led to some very interesting speculation about was the slip essentially set up for attack by churchill or someone in the admiralty. And its interesting. I found no smoking memo. Believe me i would have found a smoking memo if it exists. That is, there is nothing to say from churchill or to Jackie Fisher or to someone else saying lets let the lucitania go into the irish sea because we want to get something. Nothing like that exists. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. With live coverage of the u. S. House on cspan and the senate on cspan2 here on cspan3 we compliment that coverage by showing you the most relevant congressional hearings and Public Affairs events. On weekends, cspan3 is home to American History conservative with programs that tell our nations story including six unique series. The civil wars 150th anniversary. American artifacts touring museums and Historic Sites to see what artifacts reveal about americas past. History bookshelf. The best known American History writers. The presidency, looking at the policies and legacyies of our nations commanders in chief. Lectures in history with top College Professors delving into americas past. Our new series reel america, featuring archival government and educational films from the 1930s through the 1970s. Fcc commissioner were on capitol hill recently to answer questions about their recent open internet vote classifying the internet as a common carrier like telephone service. Last month the fcc approved a long party line, new open internet rules designed to prohibit Internet Service providers from blocking or diskrim flating legal content moving through their networks. Commission members testified before the science transportation committees. This hearing will come to order. Its great to have all five of our fcc commissioners with us. We want to welcome you and generate a bit of a crowd. Interest in some of these subjects i think here, senator nelson. So let me just start with my remarks and then were going to ill yield to my distinguished Ranking Member, the senator from florida, senator nelson for his remarks and then were going to ask the fcc commissioner to confine their remarks to three minute so we can get to the question and answer which is what i think everybody around here is interested in. So welcome today oversight hearing. Every day every single american relies on some part of our nations vast communication system, the internet, telephone, television, gps or the radio. Efficient Effective Communication system is the bed roc of our nations economy and the tie that binds together our 21st century society. The fcc sits right in the middle of americas digital world. This is more true followed the fcc decision to turn or broad band internet infrastructure into a public utility. It is apparent from that action last month that the fc contraction is threatening an Unpredictable Agency that it struggle to operate designed nearly so 0 years ago and. To be clear todays hearing is not a response to the title 2 order but clearly no discussion about the fcc can ignore one of the most significant and most controversial decisions in the agencys history. My views on this subject are well known. I believe there should be clear rules for the digital road with Clear Authority for the fcc to enforce them. I put forward a draft bill with my house