Said because theres absolutely no opportunity here. And i thought everybody who is young with any sort of drive or initiative, if their dream is to get out of this country this is never going to change. And i thought, well, what are we doing to help remedy this . And thats when i realized the answer was absolutely nothing. Our policy is only aggravating the situation. Instead of being able to bring the International Community together to help reserve pressure toward the castro regime weve isolated ourselves toward the International Community. Theyve run the other way because they dont want to be seen as maligned with this overreaching policy. Its done nothing to help Civil Society on the island, tomorrow power to empower them in any way. Its given us no leverage with the cubans to push for changes. They dont respond to basically anything we say on this side. And it hasnt overall it hasnt achieved its objectives. It hasnt ushered in a democratic transition. So when you grow up your enti
Cboe volatility index . It has awakened now from its slumber. If you played it today, the etf that tracks the bix, you are up 2 . Were also tracking the euro as the march to dollar parody marches on. Now just 1. 10 to buy a euro. Then there is the weather. Just when you thought it was safe to think spring well think again. A serious snowstorm is about to hit the east. Winter storm thor its called. Its epic. Chris hemsworth. Im distracted now. We mentioned the eurodollar trade. The dollar index at its highest point since september of 2003. Good for you. If are you going to europe. On this down day, we got Bertha Coombs at the nasdaq. First to mary and hi mare. As you said the nasdaq or the margin advisory come well off their lows. Its another modest volume session. What we are seeing is an interesting move among the traditional defensive sectors. The drug group, health care group, getting a bid. Thats one of the reasons we see the markets pair their losses todays. Take a look at the hos
Guest that allows the federal government to search the content not just the metadata, but the content of your emails and phone calls. This amendment was offered last summer by zoe lofgren and myself, passed the house. A virtual vetoproof majority and was stripped out. So we came back and said lets offer this amendment again on the freedom act since we know its probably going to pass and itll become law lets try and get some real reforms in there. Unfortunately last night the rules committee decided to allow no amendments to the freedom act. Host whats a back door . Guest a back door is a loophole. So there are two types of loopholes in our security, our National Security surveillance. The first type is where ostensibly theyre going after foreign foreigners, okay . So they say since theyre not covered by the constitution, we can collect the content of their emails and their phone calls. Well, guess what . When they collect all that, their accidentally scooping up your data too because y
Senator donnellys question about your concern about count fitted parts. And i believe you said that you do have a concern about that. I just wanted to ask you one question though. You do have a concern about counterfeit parts. I i heard that correctly. Yes. I was wondering if you are aware of any technological product that can be embedded in parts to ensure it is not a counterfeit part. Senator im not aware of any specific chip or whatever that you can embed in it. What i am aware of is that our Quality Control folks at places like crane indiana that the senator was talking about are exceptionally good at spotting those counterfeits. I am aware of a particular product i would love to talk with you further in a different context. Regarding your Energy Efforts we do need a sustained longterm commitment to research and development in this area and meeting our Energy Security needs and preserving the superiority of our forces in the face of Energy Supply challenges in the 21st century are
Fundingirement for first net. Weve also initiated a further accuracy,location because as wireless usage particularly as it wire linehats connections inside and as g. P. S. Increased, theres been a fascinating reality that location accuracy is actually declined. And weve got a notice going on how do we address that, because matter of life and death. Theou mentioned, we began 2014 review on media issues with expedited delivery date. We closed a loophole that was being exploited to get around the ownership rules using joint agreement. And we brought competition back to the retransmission consent negotiations. We have also continued to press issues that so many of you and i share in important. Eing last time we were together i told you we stood up a task this. To deal with they came back with 154 threeendations, about quarters of those are well along process. To being in they break into two parts, there are procedural issues that you thet associate with administrative procedure act and how