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Number one sea port in north america for the importation of fresh fruit bananas, and juice, concentrate. If you had a banana this morning for breakfast it probably came through the port of wilmington. Our nickname is top banana. The top banana port. Port of wilmington isnt just important for the state of delaware, it serves as a key economic engine in new castle county, its also a key port for the entire United States. So protecting our ports, safeguarding our Economic Opportunity is responsibility that we take very seriously. As the Government Accountability office and other experts have note...

14 grant cycle. 100 million was appropriated for the program this year. Applications came in on may 23rd. The field reviews, as the admiral mentioned, we work very closely with the coast guard. We have a twotiered review process. Captains of the port work with the port area and the local and State Government through area Maritime Security committees to prioritize projects. Those applications are under that field review right now and will be referred for a National Panel review here at the Headquarters Level later this month and then we expect to announce awards by the end of july. And so ill c...

Take their place. Thats the issue that we have to change. Id like to thank both our speakers for what i will objectively say has been an informative and helpful newsmaker. Thank you to you both. Thank you to the Newsmaker Committee of the National Press club that organized this event, and thank you to cspan for broadcasting it live. The meet slg adjourned. Thank you. Today dr. Tom frieden will testify on the u. S. Spops to the ebola virus. Hell be joined by dr. Anthony fauci at this hearing. It all gets under way life today at noon eastern on our companion network cspan. Also coming up this af...

Of policy each of you play a Critical Role and youve got to work to the. So do we. Were always happy to have you with us. Youve done a whole lot of work in this area, were grateful for that and be looking to you for further help. Again thanks to everyone for coming. As dr. Coburn knows were going to start voting in a little bit. And were going to do one of those deals that we perfected where voting starts, maybe hell go vote the first time, and when hes voted hell come back and ill go vote and then well just swap back and forth. Hopefully well be able to keep going and make it all work and be ...

Qualified approved firm. Theyre already approved by hr for doing searches for us. Yes. And short list that, bring it back to the commission, and process there. With my goal to do this as quickly and efficiently as possible, i like the aspect of working with the professions within the departments that are the different departments like you did in the past, commissioner walker, just to make sure weve got everything done correctly before we do send out before we select and do send out the job application information. So, with that, ill ask one question. Do we have a list . I dont know, pam. Do we...