And i want to thank everyone for coming today. My name is jamie horwitz, member of the National Press club and the newsmaker committee. On behalf of the club and committee, i want to thank you for joining us for this very special newsmaker, an unprecedented newsmaker. We will hear from two federal Immigration Judges this morning. Before i introduce our guest, i want to take care of a little housekeeping. We have usual rules. For this particular newsmaker we have unusual rules. To questions each. Members of the press club and any credentialed journalists may ask questions. You identify yourself and any News Organization and will recognize you if you have a question. I shouldrules say that our guests, although both are federal judges, they are here in the capacity as leaders of the National Association of Immigration Judges, affiliate of the National Federation of affiliates and technical engineers, the union that represents not just Immigration Judges but other judges like administrativ
Directors and think about ways you can help and a lot of Information Available at securethegrid. Com that will give you more information and more backup for this. But the name of the game, the answer to your question, maam, really is lets stop this disaster from happening. Rather than try to cope with it after it does. Just one point. This is a very serious threat. One of the things that frank wasnt able to get into is where the threat comes from. Both theres a concern obviously about cyber terrorism and we have three electrical grids in the united states. Theres only three. Three. We know that terrorists have looked at this issue. But also nation states. Its been widely reported that both russia and china have mapped the u. S. Electrical grid. So if there were ever a dustup over territory, or war, these you could expect that they would try to shut out the lights in the united states. And you can imagine what a distraction that would be to the National Command authority who may be invo
I would say a better life for americas middle class. We have been hearing a lot this year about a grand bargain, how to reduce the deficit, how to pay down the debt. How we go about trying to create jobs. All of us would agree that the one constant that is without the entire stream of things has been the growing inequality that exists in our system. I saw it described a couple days ago as our country is determined with the least amount of opportunity and the most inequality in our society. The president was very focused on what we need to do to create jobs to pay down our debt and deficits in a way that is fair and balanced and how to create the equality of opportunity for all of our citizens. I came away from the meeting today feeling very good about our prospects going forward. I think we are poised to do with the American People would like to see us do, a better deal for working men and women. With that, i yield to the vice chair. Thanks, jim. Thanks to the leadership. The first que
Cybersecurity, is that going to mess up peoples Social Security . It, the iraq hes already have the money anyway. So what is the use of having cybersecurity . We are living in a country where we have a democrat for president , i think youre doing a good job. He needs to do more to fight those people out in iraq. Thank you, lloyd. Next, we have another caller. What state are you calling from . I noticed legislator in the state of New Hampshire for 30 years, but we do not depend on the government. Governor in this state, we insist, become leaders. The leaders in the state do not depend on government for anything at all. Stills why were prospering without a Government Income tax. Concern about any cybersecurity . We are very concerned about that. Family living out an arizona, and im very concerned about that. We have a bunch of people moving in. We are going to move on. Thomas is in south carolina. In i. T. Myself. Onave a couple of questions what our states can do in cybersecurity. Had t
Individuals hail from virtually every denomination of faith, christian or buddhist who suffer horrifically because of their faith. Met with a great buddhist leader who has been relegated to his pagoda, he cant step one foot outside of that pagoda without the secret police rushing in. He told me if he took one step out with me to say goodbye, there would be an onslaught of these bully boys who would push and shove and worse mistreat him. A great democratic activist who was being mistreated a only one of many. Not just the religious leaders in particular or individuals who are victimized by the government. Entire communities are also targeted by the regime. One testified at our april 11 meeting and told my subcommittee. Bout the brutality experienced individuals have been beaten to a pulp. Some have died and they have confiscated their property. April 11 meeting, we heard of a sister of a vietnamese woman who was forced to work in a brothel. To liberate those women, it was the embassy in