And help them do their jobs helping whistleblowers frouds the agency. Mr. Chairman, i think to summarize the themes, 1 of our coalition recommendations, one would be to close the loopholes in reprisal protection, such as a. I. B. Proceedings or referrals to licensing boards that can cause black listing. A second is to restore due process by an internal proceedings. The idea is to eliminate roadblocks to accountability but actually its backfired and the lack of due process is being used to Railroad Whistleblowers out of the agency. The 1 3 is to abolish the conflicts of interest for the agencies checks and balances institutions. Thats kind of the core causes of behind our frustration. And i would just add, i think to your note of ensuring that employees know about the different channels and how they interact, i think theres massive confusion and i think thats evident from the first panel today. That employees simply dont understand the different lines between the i. G. , the o. S. C. An
Comply with new regulatory mandates than it is for a larger institution . A very small institution, we recognize there are burdens involved. We have often tried to tailor our regulations so that there is less burden and fewer rules applied to smaller institutions. There has been an increase in capital standards that apply to those institutions but most of the things we discussed today, stress test and other things, liquidity regulations apply to those institutions and tried to make many efforts. To simplify the Regulatory Regime and capital regime for those institutions. The number of changes negatively affect the community to offer products and services to consumers more than it has affected larger institutions . I dont know that it has affected smaller institutions more than larger institutions. I would submit that it has because to be honest i dont know how you started this. I dont know how you start business in this economic environment. Dont know how people could secure capital or
Statement, you outlined Real Progress thats been made within isil in terms of limiting their Financial Resources and the reality of inspired terrorist attacks that have global reach including here in the homeland as we have seen this week. What progress is being made in degrading isils ability to inspire terrorist acts through the digital or even traditional media and how have we learned how to measure that progress . We are trying to go up stream and find out who is responsible for spewing the information into the internet that inspires these individuals to carry these attacks. And working with our military partners, we are trying to make sure that the appropriate actions are taken in syria and iraq where a lot of this emanates from. In addition, we are trying to share as many information with Global Partners because its not just upstream activity but the downstream of this but it also gets to issue that we were talking earlier about which is what is the governments role as far as bei
Attracted to the ideology, on the second question, the relationship with russia has been very complex and not to beat around the bush about it, russia is a player in syria and went in there to preserve their interests and at least to preserve it temporarily. But the russians will be key in moving him out at a certain time. Were in Constant Contact with the russians here and we have channels in geneva and people talk to them every single day about the ceasefire and in very extensive and detailed conversations. Our intelligence people work with them to resolve issues of fact. It is challenging at times. Very challenging at times. But i think it is fair to say that the ceasefire has been held in important areas in the country and it is always being negotiated in other parts of the country as well. Secretary kerry has been the best to say, he will not taken in by this and the proof will be in the results. For that matter, the rest of the International Community to advance the ceasefire. Ka
To respond to these crises and to treat People Better in their own kick countries. Paleumbers, of course, compared to the large migrations we see overseas, but for many years we have been the leader in a program taking the most refugees from around the world and bringing them to the United States where they can restart their lives. This year, we are seeking to bring 85,000 refugees. So, an increase, and also to g 10,000 Syrian Refugees [applause] anne r. i get criticized from the right and the left on this one. Because friends in one direction say that is not enough and friends on the other side say we are worried you would let terrorists sneak inside the program. It is the most heavily vetted program of any traveler in the United States and it is ramping up sharply. Right now, we have over 40 of the Syrian Refugees and we will see larger numbers in the coming days. We are all over halfway to 85,000. Stay tuned. We have done a lot to try to meet the targets. I mentioned central america