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Welcome one and all. Great to see our witnesses. Great to be here with senator johnson, and well call this hearing to order. I appreciate the effort of all of you to get here today. Im glad were having the hearing today, and not tomorrow. If we were having it tomorrow we might not be having a hearing. Todays hearing, as you know, is focused on the costs of not being prepared for extreme weather events, and exploring the ways that our federal government can increase resiliency in our communities, and just to underbehind this, and save money. Save money in the long haul. We have deficits coming ...

It does come down in the short run, come out and the long run, that will be declining his share of the economy for the next several years, but after 2018 net debt will start rising is a share of the economy which is are we will be putting forward more balanced measures on both the revenue side and the expenditure side to assure that that debt is continuing to decline as a share gdp. A lot of you are focused on, understandably, on agriculture growth which is what i have been focusing on so far. It does matter as well have echoed the shared. Matters. You work for companies the sold to consumers ...

Right and the defense marriage act and the decision not to defend it in court. And he talked about restoring civil right and the vote to exfelons. This is 20 minutes. Our next guest is a special guest and we appreciate having him here as we always do. I commend general holder for his willingness to speak to us candidly and openly every year. The fact that our parting gift is going to be a baseball cap speaks to how many times you have been here because all of the gifts we give out have already been given to you. We will give you something you might be able to use. But we have all familiar with...

The first president of the United States, obama, got his start by beating Hillary Clinton in iowa. George w. Bush is another one. The last two president s of the United States launched their campaign in iowa very effectively. In the first halfhour we focused on the issue of medical marijuana. One of our viewers, from vivian host do you have a stand on this issue . Guest we do not have it. A bill was introduced in the legislature, but it was not met. It failed to meet the first final deadline. It will not be debated this year in iowa. Host mike is joining us from muscatine, iowa. Guest good mor...

Request i want to thank you, mr. Chairman, for allowing me to ask that question in case i have to leave. Thank you. Senator heller. Thank you for your testimony and everybody thats here today. Its good to see you here. At 4 30 this afternoon i have the secretary coming into my office and im going to ask him a lot of questions. Im going to ask him obviously about the veterans backlog issue and progress if any are being made. The issue of lack of communication between my office and reno will be another question that im going to ask and hopefully get a good answer for. But there are other questio...