Quorum call mr. Thune mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune mr. President , i know of no further debate on the motion to proceed. The presiding officer is there further debate . If not, the question is on the motion to proceed. All in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the bill. The clerk calendar number 55, h. R. 636, an act to amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to permanently extend increased expensing limitations and for other purposes. Mr. Thune mr. President , i call up substitute amendment number 3464. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk the senator from south dakota, mr. Thune, proposes an amendment numbered 3464. Strike all after mr. Thune i ask consent that the reading be waived. The presiding officer without ob
Done . No sir, that, that is not my testimony. We are checking to tsa itself has increased the number of the inspection of the place by fivefold just in the last five months. We do that ourselves. You dont have enough resources. You have to get the airports to do it. And they are doing that, airport by airport. Will give us the report. Thats coming your way. I wanted to give you good specifics from the vulnerabilities system that we conducted so i could give you specific answers airport by airport to exactly the question youre asking. Those are all do this week as the deadline for getting those inches will compile them and get it to the committee. Why havent that been done in time to report to this committee . That was such an obvious question that you are going to be asked westmark. I think the answer i would have that is i did not have, i felt adequate specifics to satisfy this committee on the specific measure taken. That is why we went back and i ordered a very specific Vulnerabili
Updated its concept of operations to focus on riskbased deployments. The question is, have the events of the last two months since the budget was released convinced the administration that doubling of the vipr program is needed to address current threats . I appreciate the Attention Congress is giving to tsa resources and i will tell you this, mr. Chairman, if i were to receive more vipr teams, i would be aible to put them to use you an put them to use across the transportation system. I would be able to deploy them more effectively with our partners in the surface world and would deploy them to more public areas of our aviation environment. Let me just ask one last question here in the year past year and a half, we have seen repeated abuses of airport cita badges that grant airport workers access to secure areas of the airport, badges used by airport and Airline Workers to bypass tsa checkpoints in this case facilitate criminal activities like gun and drug smuggling. These incidents r
T. S. A. And for the men and women on t. S. A. s front lines and i look forward to your questions. Thank you, administrator neffenger. As you mentioned, and of course you were there, the brussels attack was directed at aviation infrastructure but it wasnt just an attack on that. It was also the metro car as we mentioned between stations which killed 13 people and injured a lot more. Rail and transit are very open systems, much like the nonsterile areas of airports and could easily be perceived as soft targets. What have you, or i should say how have you communicated with surface transportation operators about the potential for a brussels like attack on a u. S. Transportation system and do you believe that transit systems and passenger railroads in particular are prepared for an attack like the tragic events in brussels . Mr. Chairman, thank you for that question. That is a question thats been op everyones mind, certainly since the brussels attacks. I will tell it yous been our minds fo
Protocols, including isolating the patient. The symptoms usually dont present themselves until 2 to 21 days after a person is exposed. And exposure requires a person come into contact with someone who is already infected. Contact with bodily fluids, especially. That can make Health Care Workers among the most susceptible. As for any patient with ebola, there is no cure and only the symptoms can be treated. Some of my best students became physicians and they know what theyre doing. I just wish they would have told us sooner. Reporter the centers for Disease Control says monitoring a patient is vital, especially when you consider that other diseases like malaria can often present some of the same symptoms. I think its very important that any faculty of the University Take the right precautions to protect themselves and be knowledgeable about the situation going on today. Reporter lets put this in perspective. Since late july, there have been 100 consultations. Thats where a local hospita