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Epitome of the pure partnership. Its the most important event of the year for transportation, and it represents a group of people that go off and do their own business separately, but here theyre partners for the greater good of the overall. Were very excited to be a part of this. We would like to think that we can help in any way we can, but we hope to get to work with all you guys for the next two days and learn a little bit about where things are going, and hopefully make some impact for the greater good of the whole industry. So with that in mind, i have a couple things. One, dont forget w...

So when you do those conversations that leave you scratching your head a little bit. What are you asking for . What could washington do to make this easier for you . Short of comprehensive . I dont know. Short of comprehensive reform what they can do. President obama has chosen that course and we can agree or disagree with it, but hes not saying as the rest of us arent saying we dont need a comprehensive solution because when you pick up pieces like Border Security and dealing with health care and dealing with the dreamers. Youre still leading a big segment of the population in the communities...

Actually awarded for the grants and do you work with the cyber center at Homeland Security at the nddk to on how these grants are distributed or the technology that theyre developing there . Explain a little bit how that process works. Id have to go back and ask staff. Most of what we see with states using our funds ren hansment in their centers. Id have to go back and ask. I know we have work to expand eligibility on what grants can do but theres also within the cyber world still a lot to be determined, whats the best practices and how of this is an it investment versus Homeland Security gran...

Because it got wiped out. We need to move beyond that. We have to look at not just Building Back to what we always looked at cost benefit analysis and make investments. This gives us the ability to move beyond just looking at one set of criteria. It seems that your mitigation effort has to be focused on the actual hazard. In this budget youre looking at additional funds for Hazard Mitigation but i would certainly want to know that is based on the actual hazard itself and mitigate both the hazard and longterm cost for the federal government and the locality. And that has been the criteria for d...

Here. Let me begin with a topic that the chairwoman is familiar with, Cyber Security, particularly the faa. I had the privilege really of watching the chairman work and superb job of pending the intelligence bill and no one knows more and more thought 68 about the issue than senator collins, but i understand that within the faa there is a huge need to protect the system from Cyber Incidents and intrusions. But that there is organization in the air Traffic Organization that basically has to borrow funding in order to help promote Cyber Security from other agencies and borrow personnel, that the...