Around to make a lot of changes to a lot of things in the ways in which the United Kingdom conducts its business. One of the many questions that arises, and there are lots about currency, foreign investment, defense, nato commitments, and all sorts of things that are out rights, aut pension share of the sovereign debt of ,he on and United Kingdom mr. Salmon, who is the first minister of scotland, said he expects there to be a seamless transition. That is not what leaders of the European Union has said. Others have said that if scotland leaves the United Kingdom and wants to join the European Union, it will have to take its place in the queue and apply like every other candidate country and would require unanimous consent of everyone of the 28 members of the eu. I would be surprised if all that got done seamlessly in 18 months, but we will see. It is clear that there are some with bits applying for membership in the European Union. It is one of a number quite complex questions that woul
Some procedure was frustrating in terms of getting information you may need. But nonetheless we have the protection and we have that walther that protects the surveillance. Its not what you would find in any other country. I spoke to a company who had been working closely with the fbi and as a result of the intel that they were gathering in the cyberworld they were able to basically figure out the 500 million had been siphoned off from various Bank Accounts across the globe. One of the things that this individual was siding was the cooperation there between a private company and in this case the fbi. Is that how the fbi but is that how we go after the cybercriminals . Lets take the private sector the exchanges for instance. What we want to do is as we have done in other areas to go out and develop relationships with the security individuals in those particular exchanges are Financial Institutions so that they know who in the fbi has proficiency in this area and it named with a face in
I call this hearing of the green jobs and new economy subcommittee to order. Just yesterday the president made a historic announcement moving forward with the proposal to tackle the single largest source of climate pollution in the United States coal fired power plants. This action could not have come too soon. What were seeing already are real impacts of Climate Change, impacts that are being felt today, on the ground, its no longer a conversation about hypothetical events or computer models, what might or might not happen in the future, its a conversation about the real costs to our Natural Resources in our Rural Communities and our economy right now. A few weeks ago the National Climate assessment came out with the most uptodate review of climate sense and particularly focused on the impacts we are already seeing across the United States. This report combines the expertise of dozens of the most preimminent scientists to conduct a comprehensive review of the scientific literature to
And its rougher. And it costs more money to fight. These stories go down the list and i can just tell you that a couple years ago, we flew in to down around by billings, they were having record floods. The next year, same people whose houses were under water one year were being burn out the next. Same land. I dont know whats going on. I dont know if the airs getting warmer. I dont know if were just in a cycle. But i can tell you we can talk about all the things that need to be done here. We can talk about how its going to impact farmers and ranchers and sportsmen and all that. But if we end up passing on a climate to our kids that doesnt allow our kids to move forward with an economy that helps support, i think were making a huge mistake. Now, last year we had a record crop. I can tell you right now its going to be a pretty open summer for me if we dont get some rain pretty damn quick. Those kind of variations in weather farmers always talk about as being normal. But this is this is ab
2,600 homes came from our own facilities. Gsa is also working to improve our partners understanding of their energy use as directed in the december 2013 president memorandum on federal leadership on energy management, gsa is partnering with the department of energy and epa to prepare a Green Button Initiative that will increase our partners ability to reduce energy consumption, reduce greenhouse emissions and meet sustainability goals. Taken together these efforts have led to a significant reduction in the energy use intensity. In fy 2013, gsa reduced energy usage per square foot by 20. 8 ahead of statutory targets. Since 2011 these reductions saved 192. 7 million in avoided costs. Also in fy 2013, gsa achieved an approximately 50 reduction in Greenhouse Gas emissions, exceeding our 2020 target. This amount of energy we no longer use is enough to power over 60,000 homes for one year. Gsa is also preparing for the potential impacts of Climate Change as part of the president s Climate Ac