And your attendance here today and we look forward to hearing from you. The subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness response medications will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony on the state of First Responders medications. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. I want to welcome all witnesses here this morning on an issue that is vital to our Homeland Security. The ability of our First Responders to communicate. As noted in the 2006 National Baseline survey, there is a direct correlation between effective medications, interoperability and First Responders ability to save lives. In my hometown of new york city, we know ther this all too well. Both the first, both the office of emergency medications and First Responder network of authority were established in the wake of the medications failures of 911 and later in hurricane katrina. We have made a great deal of progress since those fateful disasters. States and localities have invested billion
Will come to order. The update on first net and this exciting effort to deploy the nationwide interoperable Public Safety Broadband Network. Im glad to convene a hearing and an accord tuesday a attendants from a good friend ended 2012 bin that to lead the development of that Public Safety Broadband Network. With those communication failures in the other National Emergencies including Hurricane Katrina it with those Reliable Communications network to support the essential work. So with those firstsp responders across multiple jurisdictions to provide lifesaving Emergency Services. In to establish the broad base and network. And how it intended to meet the needs of each state of the regular Access Network. In with reliable coverage and into a number of murders of the subcommittee. Subcommi so those with user fees would be affordably priced to First Responders since the time much has happened to open the innovation and test lab with those new applications to be used by c First Responders.
Will come to order. The update on first net and this exciting effort to deploy the nationwide interoperable Public Safety Broadband Network. Im glad to convene a hearing and an accord tuesday a attendants from a good friend ended 2012 bin that to lead the development of that Public Safety Broadband Network. With those communication failures in the other National Emergencies including Hurricane Katrina it with those Reliable Communications network to support the essential work. So with those firstsp responders across multiple jurisdictions to provide lifesaving Emergency Services. In to establish the broad base and network. And how it intended to meet the needs of each state of the regular Access Network. In with reliable coverage and into a number of murders of the subcommittee. Subcommi so those with user fees would be affordably priced to First Responders since the time much has happened to open the innovation and test lab with those new applications to be used by c First Responders.
Thought and i have a this the bias as well. There are those who say we should try to turn out more of, if you well, the traditional white republican vote and get that percentage up higher. I reject that. I do not think it will work. It cannot work in the long term. The party has to be competitive amongst young people minorities , particularly hispanics and asians. We also have to do better in the black community. Down to 10 there. Demographics may be destiny, and a certain sense, but voting groups change behavior based on that appeals they hear from political parties. The message of the Republican Party is what matters. There is no reason why we cannot be competitive with hispanic and black voters, a jiggly after president obama is no longer the candidate with these special appeal he had to that community. If we have a message that talks about upward mobility economically and dealing with problems of education and employment. The message of the party matters. Young people in the last e
Exclusively into honduras from, dead strips or bits of that land, offload and then take off again or just destroy the airplane. The hondurans with no military help from us some advice and encouragement and started to occupy and move their military command these are very remote areas of honduras moving their military out there. Drug traffickers no that they are there. A a civilian. A us pilot, and chances i am guessing he was on his way i dont know what he was doing. But all of the drug flights come out of venezuela. You alluded you said that the policies are a clear return to cold war tactics. How could that translate into account plantation. Bomber patrols if in fact they happened. Confrontation could escalate not in the midst of an october type of scale another jfk idealist, but on the lower level. I dont think much of all. I think just a nuisance. We watch them come and go. Very little possibility of them having a confrontation with us ships and airplanes because there arent any dow