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I dont know what she drinks along with that but i want some of it. Your outstanding leader nancy pelosi. [applause] [applause] joe also went on that trip and it looks perfectly coiffed. [laughter] but give joe a big round of applause also. [applause] i want to thanks danny for the gracious introduction. How javier who helped obviously make this happen and is providing outstanding leadership all the time. Jim clyburn one of my favorite people, just an Extraordinary Gentlemen and leader greatly loved him and Debbie Wasserman shultz, our chairwoman of the dnc, thank you so much. [applause] and th...

Off the coast of the northwest us the earthquake risk which is a very large risk command i think that we can show where we are going and tell you what we think is the path to get us there and then that will give you an opportunity to look at additional tools that you could give us. The stafford act was often times a constraint. In the past year we have responded to haiti which is traditionally the role of usaid. We were asked to support usaid command we did. We were asked to support unaccompanied children in detention facilities so we supported that. We were asked to support the ebola response...

Times the 1st resort for insurable property that was not insured and those losses again it is a decision that we have to look at how to best ensure communities are able to rebuild but at the same time dont support or continue growing the risk. We have to understand there is a a certain amount of risk out there. The exposure for just south florida for a repeat a repeat of the great Miami Hurricane would be in the hundreds of billions of dollars with federal cost exceeding both sandy and katrina. It is, i think something we need to look at. We have to make sure as we go in after a disaster they ...

Actually have very, very stringent and effective rules in that regard. For example, under one particular provision of fisa, were not allowed to target either United States persons or persons within the United States. Sometimes it happens that we think somebody is not a u. S. Person and then we discover, oh, my gosh, this person has a green card. We didnt know that before. And the rules are at that point, you have to go and purge the collection you have to report it to the fisa court. You have to purge the collection and you have to purge any downstream reporting that comes from that, as well a...

And active relationships between our Computer Emergency Readiness Team and certs that are being stood up all around the world by countries. The uk has just stood up a new cert. They had a couple certs before that and stood up a new one to act as a fuller counter part. But there are certs in lots of counties with which they interact on a daily basis. And that is obviously essential. These threats i mean, its most obvious in cyber but it is true across the board, you know, Mother Nature doesnt really know borders and we saw that as we contemplating the potential consequences of the aftereffects ...