I will answer your initial question if i could and i will turn it back to ed. First of all, on speaking to the m. T. I. s at lackland, a lot of people have spoken to them. Ed, of course, the leadership and the team have all talked to them. The individuals that you talked to might not have been there. The number one i took away with the meetings with them is that those people, and the passion they have for this problem they feel the way i do. Thats our air force. Our military ought to be leading this effort. We have a structure, we have the ability to command, control, educate, and oversee, we have the ability to punish. We all the tools in place to be the role models for this. We owe the American People for that. General, please, time has expired. Please finish that answer for the record. Mr. Nugent. Thank you, mr. Chairman. My big concern, having been a sheriff and prosecuted and investigated Sexual Assault cases is the victimization. How do we deal with those victims and in particula
If there was reasonable evidence suspecting somebody of terrorist activity they to do surveillance. They could dig up the records on any american at this point for any reason. They are just looking for suspicious activity. One of the things they are looking at, my wife and i had done some traveling. The medical records these things i find very troubling. I love my country. But when i see stuff like this i find it troubling, particularly when the protection we have had from the legislative branch now they are worried about fiscal cliff and guns. It is almost like a stealth program that is moving right by us pass moving right by us. If they suspect me of something then fine. I am not doing anything wrong. They just need to leave me alone. Guest he said the right to be left alone is the most important right in the constitution. He did not say freedom of speech, he did not say due process, he said the right to be left alone. I am afraid your fears are well founded. This president has given
Two crises, and other ones, turkey, i could run on, were not valid for them. Because they were socalled developed economies. And so what i thought i would do here is just run through some of the lessons that we learned there that i think, unfortunately, shut up and looked at by the europeans. And they are only now starting to realize that they could have cut down the present negative situation because lets face it, europe as a whole, with a few exceptions, is in either a recession or stagnation. First, each country is unique. This is something they didnt want to see. Greece adding the situation by longtime mismanagement on the fiscal side and raid the banks. In the case of ireland, it was the banks the drag the sovereign is sovereign as. In the case of portugal, with some portuguese in the audience here, it was basically a decade of no growth in portugal. In the case of spain, it was a bubble in real estate that was financed by mainly the savings and loan institutions, some of which ha
Cartridge . He was involved in overseeing a number of these activities, yes, there was a relationship. Were they so concealed that the first attempt to find did not find them . Yes, the method used was one of the best we had ever encountered. So mr. Alawlaki is by not an american citizen by where anyone in america would be proud . He was part of al qaeda, and it was his determination to kill americans on behalf of al qaeda. Thank you. Is it true that in the last four years the fbi has arrested 100 people, either planning, conspiring, or trying to commit a terrorist attack on this nation . Yes, they have arrested a lot of people. That is because of good, sound intelligence. I think what people forget is that they will kill us if they can and it is extraordinarily difficult if you cannot get into where they were hiding. Would it have been possible to have arrested mr. Alawlaki where he was in the yemen . We work very closely with yemenis to see if we can arrest individuals. If we can, we
Country. Department of labors tracking entrepreneurs. As the president was implementing his spending agenda, that agenda that took us from record high deficits of the bush administration, to record deficits three times higher in the Obama Administration. The number of new establishments, entrepreneurial activity, for the yearending march 2010 march, 2010, was lower than any other year since the series began. Since they began keeping record, mr. Speaker. In 2010 under this administrations stimulus policies, entrepreneurial activity was at the lowest level in america since we began keeping records. I dont mean at the lowest level of people succeeding. I mean the lowest level of people trying. The lowest level of people trying, mr. Speaker. What does it mean about us . What does it mean about our future when we have beaten the enthusiasm to try out of our people . Frightened it out of our people. Mr. Speaker, thats not just a department of labor report. We talk a lot about that. What is i