Dakota for over 100 years to my new book from warm center to ragged and takes its title from mister got Scott Fitzgerald who is the author of probably most famously of the great gatsby and if you remember your gatsby from back in high school or college, you remember that nick karoly was from minnesota. Nick karoly went off to war, this would have been world war i and when he came back, he decided that he thought it would be sort of doll to move back to minnesota. Which he saw as the ragged edge of the universe. And he decided to move to new york and he got mixed up in the roaring 20s. On long island with gatsby and all that cast of characters from his book. But in the end, when he sees what happens to many of these characters, he begins to see the old midwest where he came from as the warm center of the world. So that contract is what i tried to draw in my new book, from warm center to ragged edge. In the decades after the civil war, the midwest was seen by many commentators as the pac
Disorient attackers by shutting off lighting or sounding alarms and pilots can depressurize the cabin and knock out the attackers due to the heart rate. It could save the lives of others on the ground. You can assign air marshals in airports to find terrorists and bombs before they go up in the sky. Hiring thousands of flying air marshals after 9 11 was a natural reaction, but it should have been a temporary detail and not a career. Not very many young and ambition people yearn for a career in the airline seat. They said half the job would be flying and the rest would be time to recover and investigating. 14 years later, air marshals tell me there are still not ground opportunities. We should train federal and local Law Enforcement officers to quickly deploy as a reserve air marshals in order to respond to specific threats. Finally all federal employees are reluctant to report money wasted in dangerous security lapses because they do not want to gamble with their careers, and the tiny
Minister, and to rose hudson wilkins, our wonderful chaplain, for accompanying me to the vigil for jo last friday. At the priestly statute in the center of that lovely town. We, all of us, were moved by the energy and warmth of the crowd brought together in grief and solidarity. Ive been very moved when the public outpourings since her death. The hundreds of letters and emails weve all received in solidarity with joes family in their hour of grief. And by the outpouring of charitable donations to causes close to her heart, hope not hate, and the royal voluntary services. Last night my honorable friend the member for south and myself held a vigil outside our townhall. One of hundreds of vigils attended by tens of thousands of people the right across our land who are so shocked i what happened, and what to express that shock and grief. Also what you think of the parties in this house who offered their sympathy and support at this very difficult time. We united in grief at her loss, and w
It will also, this is important, it will also set up a process to to monitor, investigate, and detain terrorists while warranted by evidence. In that way my proposal is far and away stronger than the senior senator from californias for several reasons. First, her amendment is unconstitutional. Last week i mention the problems of the late senator tended kennedy had when his name came up on a watchlist by mistake. He was denied a ticket and airport one of his trips from washington to boston. After realizing the problem he had a lot of trouble getting it resolved. If you can bet Teddy Kennedy had trouble getting it resolved, what kind what kind of have . Fairly he said as much, he said now that they had that kind of difficulty for member of congress, how the world are average americans going to get caught up in this kind of thing. How are. How are they going to be treated fairly and not have the right to be his . Senator kennedy asked the question we all need to be asking right now. A wel
Were going to call this meeting to order. I like to welcome our witness today Central Intelligence Agency Director john brennan. You appropriately note in your Opening Statement that this hearing takes place against the backdrop of a heinous act of violence, perpetrated by a troubled and evil person. The committee has been consistent in consistent contact from the fbi with Early Morning hours on sunday and its been provided a great deal of information on the status of the investigation. I know that your team, along with the Intelligence Community partners are also working to determine if the killer had any connections to a Foreign Terrorist Group like isil. Let me thank your officers for what they do and for the long hours that they are likely putting in to understand this tragedy while also focusing on a wide range of threats facing our nation. Director, i know your organization stands understands the threat posed by isil and theres been much public discussion about progress, the u. S