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second engagement with the cut which is evident and the second thank worries me is really unchangeed from last year and hasn't changed much in relation to this strategy, and it's the same thing i spoke to in the readiness hearings. and that is that we do have pretty intense pressure on what we call our low-density/high-demand assets, the j-stars, the rivet joints, the i.s.r. fleet in its total. all of those things that are sized to about one conflict and not two and now as you know some of those are deployed as less than one-to-one ratio, and the ability to sfrond one conflict to the...

stagnation in numbers. there should be no glass ceiling or any other kind of court of appealing that prevents women from going forward in so far as we can make the work environment successful for you. so we'll keep working on that. [ applause ] >> good morning, madam secretary. my name is doris mcbride. i'm in the bureau of economic and business affairs. as you know, even though there are some agencies that are growing, we are not the only agency that is facing difficulty in terms of resources. you mentioned earlier, for example, the department of energy as well, but you didn't menti...

can be more effective, more impactful, how we can go further on less because will's no guarantee in these austere times that we'll have what we ideally like, that starts a conversation. in kind of the office groupings, the subject matter groupings, the affinity groupings, have that conversation and come with ideas either through the sounding board or directly to people in positions of responsibility and let's see where it leads and we'll do our best. [ applause ] good morning, madam secretary. my name is leon gallanis, i worked for undersecretary kennedy. in your opening letter in ...

>> madam secretary, we received two very similar questions that ask you about your vision for us. from the most senior employee to the most junior, in an era of limited resources, what is the one thing that we can do every day in our work and ourattitude to make sure we reflect the vision within the reality of the resources that we have. and your vision of smartpower. >> well that, is a very important question that would probably deserve a much longer answer but let me just say that part of the vision is in the qdtr. that is what drove our doing the qdtr and asked so many of you to p...