Committee. This seems more appropriate for the subcommittee on Human Resources at the Foreign Affairs committee, if theres issues with implement, disagree was with the administration it would seem like it would be more appropriate setting instead of at impeachment hearing where the ambassador is not a material fact witness to anything, any of the accusations that are being hurled at the president for this impeachment inquiry. I have several questions i think, mr. Castor wants to get to. I know ms. Stefanik him give a few quick question for the ambassador. Yield to you, ms. Stefanik. Thank you, mr. Nunes. Ambassador yovanovitch, the gentlewoman will suspend. What is the interruption for this time . It is our time. You are not recognized. Mr. Nunes, you are i just recognize under 660 youre not allowed deal time except to spin is the Ranking Member yield a time to another thats not accurate. That is accurate. Ambassador yovanovitch, i want to thank you for being here today. You are not re
Now you wanted to finish your extended tour correct i did what did you want to do after that did you know i wasnt sure theres nothing wrong with georgetown its a fine place right its a wonderful place but its the only choice at the end of a distinguished career after all that its not the end of a hallmark movie its the end of a really bad reality t. V. Show brought to you by someone who knows a lot about that. Why did you. You previously testified that you sought advice from ambassador susan lyne at this time about what to do is act her act and. Why did you reach out to the ambassador. Because this was clearly so political and was not going to be. You know that the state department was not in a position shall we say to to manage the issue it didnt appear to me and so i asked ambassador some and who said that he. You know he was a political appointee he said he was close to the president and. He had just been in ukraine for a ship visit with some of his colleagues from brussels and so i
Cyber espionage. The hack of opm is the latest example. Do the chinese steal our Naval Technology and apply it to their navy, and as a corollary to that, are you aware of any evidence concerning china stealing u. S. Civil Nuclear Technology and diverting it to its nuclear navy . Sir, im not personally aware of any instances of another nation stealing our Nuclear Technology and applying to their navy, including china. That may be happening, im not briefed on any intelligence that would implicate that. I think its wellunderstood that there is Cyber Espionage that occurs. We have concerns from time to time about our cleared defense contractors for example in their Cyber Security. I think Frank Kendall and at l is working hard to tighten that up as best we k. I was reflecting on this earlier we talk about Nuclear Matters. As a sort of graduate of the Navy Nuclear Propulsion program. One of the things that has intrigue said me intrigued me over the years, the element of Human Performance th
Its going to predict how it would react under a stress event. And so was the key one of the key issues is what how are investors anticipating this . Is this part of their Investment Strategy . And do prices reflect it, and do practice Risk Management practices reflect that . I think that there are two issues we have to separate as we address the questions you offered. Is there a liquidity crisis . The first is are we in the midst of a transition from one type of market to over. If over night, we say that ever bond dealer who works in a bank can no longer deal bonds, the next day it will be a little harder to buy bounds. No question about it, and sell them as well. But what will happen afterwards, the banks will sell their operations to hedge funds to other companies, to the employees themselves and theyll get reorganized to find the capital and make money, because there are opportunities to make money when people demand liquidity, by the way, theres no such thing anywhere of free liqui
Chesapeake Bay Foundation has Environmental Education centers on smith island and tangier island. Inhabited islands in the mid bay. Residents of smith and tangier are losing their homes. They are losing their island. Day after day, week after week, losing their home. On a property in the chesapeake Bay Foundation, in just the last 25 years we have lost an entire pine forest, several dozen acres, several hundred trees to sea level, bay level rise. Ive submitted my testimony, but let me just summarize briefly. The impacts of Climate Change are multiple, but let me tell you about three for Chesapeake Bay. Warmer waters have a decreased capacity to hold dissolved oxygen exacerbating the bays dead zone. Temperaturesensitive species like eel grass and many others are really, truly at risk. Second, the bay region is particularly vulnerable to Sea Level Rise exacerbated, exacerbated by land subsidence. Approximately one foot of net Sea Level Rise in the chesapeake over the last 100 years is ro