Im sure senator murkowski will be here shortly. As some people noah 7. 9 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of alaska with northwest warnings issuesed for activities that were expected the warning for the tsunami waves have been recalled and no doubt im sure the senator is dealing with lots of things related to that. I want to thank our witnesses, chairman mcintyre and mr. Walker for being here and the staff people that are here and blade we are back in operation. So we look forward from hearing all of the witnesses on the subject of the reliability of the grid and its performance. Last year, secretary perry and the staff viewed the liability of the fuel mix and i was relieved when i saw the staff report in august which i thought was balanced. It carefully distinguished between reliability and resilience and introducing Renewable Resources rgs synthetic i inertia and frequency response and resilience metrics needed to be developed. Unfortunately, secretary perifiled the report as a
Pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida, ms. Roslehtinen, for five minutes. Ms. Roslehtinen thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to strongly oppose the december 17 announcement by president obama on policy changes toward the cuban communist regime. The cuban regime from day one was planning on using alan gross as a pawn to receive concessions from the Obama Administration and their strategy worked. In april, 2013 when asked about a possible swap for mr. Gross secretary kerry testified before congress that, quote, we have refused to do that because the
I would hope that the Lgbt Community would recognize me to continuing that progress is the key to the progress weve made so far which is engagement and political engagement. And what also recognize that both the Supreme Court and elsewhere around the country we have systematically than limiting what was a limited democracy to begin with and making true selfgovernment harder and harder and would recognize if our political progress and progress on race and gender and a series of other things are intimately tied up in making this really into a self functioning democracy again i recognize that commonality is political. I would say that we need to recognize issues of race, class, sex is some are lgbt issues and we have an investment not only in cases like this one, but comprehensive Immigration Reform in access to health care. All of these are lgbt issues because people look like the rest of the country. We shouldnt get so into our silo that we forget that. Theres something about being a mi
These employees strongly believe in their mission. You briefed me on security measures also prior to the super bowl. I believe that the local federal and private sector collaboration that took place there is a model of how our apparatus should work at home. I understand there is much to be proud of at the i look forward to your vision and perspective in the coming years. With that the chair recognizes the gentleman from mississippi , mr. Thompson, for any statement he may have. I am pleased that our committee is the first in congress to hear your vision for dhs. I understand as the fourth secretary of the department of the Homeland Security you went to new york city. That quiet account a reflects the appreciation of the magnitude of the job. First and foremost, dhs was established to help make sure that america never experiences a day like that again. Specifically dhs was established to improve terrorism prevention and safeguarding aviation and other Critical Infrastructure from physic
With killing three people at two Jewish Community sites in kansas. He served three years in prison on weapons charges and plotting the murder of the thousand founder of the southern poverty center. We will speak with mark potok as well as a broadcaster interviewed miller. Then banning the program of spying on muslims. Whats not only were they acting as clients is a organizations, they were actually would have someone who would be the deciding figure on my board to have access to donors and information and financial information. I think we keep learning the program is just more outrageous. It creates psychological warfare. And deadly environment. Nearly 1000 karmiel activist and land defenders have been killed in the last decade. The death rate has risen in recent years to an average of two activist a week. Among the dead, a brazilian conservationist who campaigned against clearcutting trees in the amazon rain forest. That is when the logging industry started to arrive. And that is when