Agencies in the federal government. Im confident that the commission will continue to function effectively after my departure, and i wish my colleagues all the best. Their work, together with our dedicated staff, will enable the n. R. C. To remain an effective, independent and trusted regulator. I greatly appreciate the opportunity to speak with you all today, and im happy now to answer your questions. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much, professor macfarlane. Do you think the United States Nuclear Energy industry will ever recover from fukushima and start growing again . Hat will make that happen . Well, i think that i would separate that out. I wouldnt say that the Nuclear Industry is suffering necessarily because of fukushima. I think there are larger issues at play here, mostly economic issues. What would help that would probably be some price on carbon, my view. Most u. S. Nuclear facilities are more than 40 years old, and most want to extend their lives to 60 or even 80 years
Region. While the administration cites a drop in the children, the fact is that the conditions in el salvador, honduras, and guatemala continue to be very grave. I convened the second hearing because my colleagues and i are mindful of the high levels of Gang Violence and the lack of opportunity right here in our hemisphere, not only affects the lives of millions in Central America, but affects the United States too, as weve seen. Indeed, the pursuit of peace and prosperity throughout the western hemisphere should be a Key National Security objective of the United States. As round reagan said back in 1984, Central America is a region of great importance to the United States, and it is so close. Since salvador is closer to houston, texas, than houston is to washington, d. C. Ive consistently been supportive of u. S. Efforts to assist the region to build capacity to strengthen their Respective Police forces so they can build better confront the high levels of criminality brought on by gan
And saved many lives and thanks for your considerable effort there. The dedicated u. S. Team that joined the response effort deserves our gratitude and as you already mentioned mr. Chairman and Ranking Member mentioned, six of our marines paid the ultimate price to help the nepal ease people and they will be forever missed. And as soon as i heard, i remember this, the ambassador voicing his concern to us as we drove through there about the stone buildings and brick buildings and vull vull vulnerability. You but longterm maybe preventing more people from losing their lives down the road and how we can assist. Thank you for what you have done and i yield back. The chair ms. Meng would you like to make an opening statement. Ms. Meng new york city is home to thousands of citizens from nepal and we have districts throughout the burrough of queens. I want to thank all of your departments for the Immediate Response to the crisis and your ongoing efforts. A tragedy like this one every minute a
On bitcoin i think it might prevent bitcoin from being around in 2050. Sorry. The issue of the crypto currency these are all completely solvable if there is a pointer to it. The amount of security that you have to put in to make sure that they can be secure or outside of what i would even be willing to deal with with a masters and computer security. You have to really protect your self and its best to have a laptop, separate computer that you keep off line that you are only using to keep your wallet. There are some other ways to do it, but as it shows there are a lot of issues in the exchanges. We are still new to this and trying to figure out how it is entirely solvable but it has to be usable for people. There has to be a demand that we are not getting through paypal or credit cards or other things that is going to make it as an exchange for you and me. As far as the brought a change this might be familiar to some of you. This was written in 1996 the declaration of cyberspace. The go
Boat because the resolution is not helpful to achieve dialogue and peace between russia and ukraine. Mr. President , it has been nearly eight months since the crisis in ukraine broke out and as we speak, the conflict is has five still spreading. The crisis is getting increasingly protracted and complicated and it spillover effects for are penetrating and affecting the likelihood and breaking for instability to our already turbulent world and causing concern. During the recently concluded debate at the u. S. General u. N. General assembly, state leaders from around the world express they the views on ukraine. The Common Thread is that most countries count on people to cease fighting the soonest. They called for greater humanitarian lee for the people of ukraine who are affected by the crisis and they called for joint International Efforts to mitigate the spillover impact, especially developing countries and they called for unity to avoid confrontation. These appeals and demand should be