Minutes. This subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness response and communications will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to review our ability to timely and effectively alert and warn the public in the case of an emergency. I want to welcome all witnesses here this morning on issue that is vital to the protection of americans. Effective and reliable alerts and warnings. Numerous disasters and terrorist attacks weve witnessed over the past few months have illustrated that timely communication is critical in emergency situation and ability of critical information, the ability of critical information can help individuals protect themselves from harms way. While some of us grew up in Emergency Alert warnings through television, radio, and im old enough to remember when they told us to get underneath our desks because there was a siren warning, many alerts today are also received through mobile devices, internet and even social media. Considering the Technology Advances that h
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John considering ge does business in every country on the planet. Jeff people see globalization from 30,000 feet dont know how globalization works. John and immelt even talked about his own future. Have you thought about life after ge . John all that and all that and more coming up in my conversation with jeff immelt. Trumps ban on people from some muslim countries being able to visit your head office. What is your reaction to it . Jeff i sent something out to all of our employees because we have a lot of people who live outside of the United States and they are afraid of what is going on. We speak out to say, gosh, we understand that safety is really important. But we also want to be able to be but we also want to be able to work with the people of ge, and still travel in and out of the United States. And we dont want to lose our contact us with customers around the world that want to buy products, not just from ge but boeing, caterpillar, u. S. Manufacturers. Again, we set our peace