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Approach to these. Thank you. Just to be clear this proj effect is more about the customs right. To try to speed up between the back and forth with the countries in the new dawn of north america so thank you. Thank you senator. Thank you madam chair. Thanks for having this important hearing on movement of freight when i think of this issue i think so much of Washington State and all the product thats come through on their way to asia. And we have in a short period of time seen Something Like a doubling in the sides of the ships over the last five years so yes, we have a lot more capacity and we obviously have a rising middle class in asia and they want higher they want more u. S. Products. So the question is what are we going to do to meet that demand as it relates to improving our mobility board which was chaired by mr. Downey. I think somebody from the Railroad Association at least participated in that. The question is how do we move forward on those recommendations and would you sup
Chain is only as good as its weakest link. If we cant get the harvest to market then we really cant realize the Great Potential our of agricultural industry. The port of vancouver, the port and labor dispute that we had going on there that now we see going on in long beach and l. A. It is having a great impact in creating dwindling confidence on our global markets, the ability of us to deliver. Thinking about our global opportunity an our competitors continuing to improve in their products. The differentiator for us to win in the long term will be excellent customer service. As has been said, when we lose as senator fisher mentioned, when we lose the ability to deliver customers will look elsewhere to find the same products. I just got a rather haunting email from a Manufacturing Company in montana. They have leading market share. They are the only producer of some of these products that had produce in the United States. The rest are producing in china. So this u. S. Manufacturer, the
Message back to congress and it was please give us the resources and the funding we need to do this job. Do not cut our legs from under us. So we cant continue to say we appreciate your service and work, but yet we will not give them the resources that they need to do the job. So undersecretary taylor, you mentioned that not fully funding the department of Homeland Security would have a crippling effect on Homeland Security, could you explain how if the department of Homeland Security is not provided with the fullyear funding, efforts to prevent foreign fighters and their travel would be affected, since that seems to be a great concern on the other side, how not funding the department will impact that ability. Sir, i think the secretary has made and i have tried to make here today is working under the c. R. Flexibility and investing the threats as they evolve over time and the Grant Funding and our ability to respond to add money to the secret service for additional protection and thos
Of an organization that is how many have grown out of that though. Every time you kill one, you get 10 or 20 more to join the cause. So are we winning . And it has helped the iraqi forces, the partners and kurds Iraqi Security forces retake key strategic areas. In five months, i think there is limbed and preliminary but significant evidence that this combination of limited u. S. Force and partners is working. I appreciate your time. Im out of time. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I thank the member from florida. Well we appreciate the time of all of our witnesses here today. This was a start of a very important conversation so i think as we deal with this, deal with this growing threat from isis and as we deal with the president s request we thank you again. Were going to be submitting some additional questions to our panel. Appreciate your response and we stand adjourned. A reminder that if you missed any of todays hearing you can watch at anytime in our video library. Just go to cspan. Org.