Straighter Peter Neffenger testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on alleged misconduct at the agency this is about two hours and 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] the meeting on government and oversight reform will come together. Without objection, we will reconvene at any time. The public comes in regular contact with Transportation Security Administration, we have a fairly new administration who has had a chance to visit with, but it is important as the Oversight Committee that we continue to take a look at what is happening or not happening. What is not happening at the tsa. Today we will have a second hearing examining the misconduct and Management Practices that we have heard about, seeing about, and investigated at the Transportation Security Administration. This time of year traveling public picks up kids and families and people are traveling, sometimes at record levels. People get frustrated, they go to airports, there are long lines, there ar
We recognize, we cant do it alone. This goes to the staffing issues. Theres going to be in National Guard component. Theres going to be another sector component to it. The dhs component to it. A Law Enforcement component so bringing the whole Community Together for response to Cyber Threats is a great lesson out of the ukraine. Two things i wanted to put a fine point on. One, the physical cyber convergence, the attack surface growing exponentially. When we Start Talking about the internet of things and the internet of everything, making security into the design of architecture becomes that much more important. Secure coding and the like. And i might note that one of the greatest deterrence and ive been an outspoken critic that we havent really articulated a cyber deterrence strategy and i think we in essence blame the victim. We blame entities rather than penalize and put pain and cost on the perpetrator but thats a longer conversation but maybe one of the best deterrence is the abilit
Conference with the senate. Live coverage of the house is on our companion network cspan. Coming up at 4 00 p. M. Eastern, its a look at programs for military members including medical care, education, housing and Legal Services and how effective they are and whether they should be privatized. The Wilson Center is the host of this event, live coverage is on cspan. Also at 5 30 eastern the federal reserve, how much its changed since its inception and what its role is today and in the future. This from the Washington Post today, North Carolina governor filed a lawsuit against the United States Justice Department asking a federal court to rule its socalled bathroom law is not discriminatory. He complains the federal government of baseless and blatant overreach. Bypassing congress by attempting to rewrite the law and set poll tis for employers across the country not just North Carolina. This is now a National Issue that applies to every state and it needs to be resolved tejada federal love
Their tune. By a had faced pressure from carl icahn and others who urged them to their marketplaces and payment business. With this move, don hoe will eave once it is completes. American express dan shulman is c. E. O. Designate of the new palpal company. Is it a good idea . I have been asking various members of the paypal mafia that question. Here are some of their opinions. There are still a lot of synergies between ebay and paypal. No matter what happens, whether they spin t out or keep it in, there has to be a firm agreement. I think that is a priority. Will paypal grow faster if it were not within ebay . Maybe, maybe not. Would it be valued differently the market or have a better mull. . I dont really care. If it spun out and had its own stock, you could motivate the Management Team to do more direct they would be compensated on pal pays performance. The relationship to ebay has to be extremely strong. Should paypal be spun off from ebay . I think there are very large synergies be
The coste is cutting of it cloudbased services. Google will decrease about 5 . Amazon cut its prices in response. Now to the lead. Oracles new coceos are laying out a vision for the company ellis after very Larry Ellison step down. Oracle has fallen to number two in application. Mark hargaret heard urd is discussing this. Are focusing on is the cloud. Large cory johnson is live. I have the ceo of oracle,mark hurd, congratulations on the title. Is there an important distinction of both coceos being called ceo . I dont know. Talk about the job and what it means and how its different. At oracle, there is probably not a lot different. We have been working together a long time and we feel great about oracles position in the market and we feel great about our technology. Our job right now is really focused on execution. We have a real exciting few years ahead of us. There has been a lot of criticism of the notion of a dual ceo. We have seen a lot of businesses over the years with deuce with