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Just a suggestion. [ inaudible ] thank you. We have a hurricane thats usually later in the year but point taken. I want to start briefly by talking little bit about the administration the obama administrations work in this area. And, you know, a lot of this goes straight to the top here. President obama upon taking office said Cyber Threats were one of the most serious Economic National Security challenges we face as the nation. And he made confronting them a priority from the beginning of the administration. Hes renewed that pledge several times with each action taken moving this issue forwar...

The full ten years of experience and assess improvements, changes, how that might operate. The idea was on the competitive side, the competitive marketplace would be that limit. If you go back to 2006 when this law was being finalized after 12 years of effort and a lot of if was focused on the prices shs the products, the flexibility for the Postal Service, there was an issue that got bubbled up toward the back end, which was this idea of prefunding future health benefits. A huge liability. At the time the decision was made, look this makes sense for the Postal Service to start prefunding that...

Clancys the right person to get us there. Well he didnt know about this for five days. Thats true. It happened on wednesday which meant i didnt know about it for five days plus. And found out he said through an email. Instead of up the chain of command. That concerns me a lot that the agency needs discipline, and it needs an outsider in some position there to be sure that were not jeopardizing the president s life, by taking care of people who have been our friends for years within the service. And that smacks to me that that may have happened on the latest incident. So mr. Secretary were look...

Here are some of our featured programs for this weekend on the cspan networks. On book tv, saturday at 10 00 p. M. An afterwards author Peter Wallison says that they caused the financial crisis and it could happen again. And jeffrey sax on a Development Plan to counter global issues. And saturday morning at 10 30 eastern on American History tv, a discussion on the last major speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther king jr. Then sunday afternoon at 4 00, the 1965 meet the press interview with Martin Luther king jr. Let us know what you think about the programs youre watching. Call us at 2...

Access network would cost. Im out of time. Thank you. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. Thank you to you and the Ranking Member for holding this important hearing. As a former prosecutor and cochair along with senator burr of the 911 caucus in the senate, i know how important it is to support our First Responders. Im also the state that had that bridge collapse and while everyone saw on tv the First Responders show up and repeatedly dive into that water to look for survivors and all the work of the Emergency Responders, what people didnt see were the 77 men and women at the Minneapolis Emerge...