Out of. If you could perhaps speak to that issue, protecting and hardening it to our terrorisms. Thank you for the question, chairman smith. I will defer to my colleagues specifically in relation to power africa and those engagements. I can tell you the recognition that we encounter from Energy Companies and energy agencies, ministries in our International Engagements to an everincreasing degree recognize the importance of protecting infrastructure. One of the things the department of energy does is to enter into cooperative engagements with Key International partners. We do this at their expense, at the expense of the host country to help them identify older abilities, vulnerabilities. Plan their systems so there is resilience to in the threats, at all hazards approach whether one is talking about severe weather, cyber attack or physical attack. We have found that this is an area where the United States is in a position to add tremendous amount of value from our experience. I will hav
At least 13 or 14 cities over 15year period that you can take a look at as one of the models thats doing an incredible job of connecting Law Enforcement young people in a role where theyre still Police Officers but their role very much different than what it would normally be, helping create broader relationships. It is called the ok program. Yes, sir . Clear up Something Real quickly. Not a word has been mentioned about the Civil Rights Division of doj. I spent 39 years in the fbi. I ran the fbis civil rights program. This criminal section of the Civil Rights Division will look at every single case that comes up that meets certain basic requirements such as in ferguson or the rodney king case. People are rioting based on the presumption that justice has not been served. It is not over yet. People have to understand that. And my question to the leaders of these communities, have there been coalitions of leaderships whether it is ferguson, cincinnati or wherever to dispel the mispercept
Saying how delighted i am to have made my very first trip out of europe, as the very first also european commissioner for immigration, here in the United States of america. Europe and the United States are longstanding allies and partners. We share the same fundamental values. Freedom. Peace. Democracy. Our joint meeting here yesterday and today is another concrete example of how together we can be more effective in upholding and defending our common values. Needless to say, the relations between the European Union and the United States in the justice and the Home Affairs Area reflect the strategic character of our partnership. Not surprisingly, our meeting this morning with attorney general eric holder and his team was very successful. Very positive. Very friendly. And very productive. I also had a very fruitful meeting yesterday with the Homeland Security secretary, jeh johnson, which helped make the days meeting very a success. Today, as was said before, we discussed the future of t
Are pose a high risk for terrorist financing, or perhaps the weak spot may be with the other federal regulators, that the other federal regulators arent focussing and emphasizing on whether or not these banks are in compliance with the counterterrorist financing regulations under the bsa. But it seems to me its unacceptable, two banks, if you look at the actual orders issued, only two banks where i could find references in those orders to threats regarding terrorists claims. Yes, sir. In that light as we look at our partners throughout the world, we have relationships with him, many of whom we give tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign aid, its always of concern to me of how we are not honored by our relationships with our partners and particularly in this situation thats so critical for the National Security and for theirs as well. To what extent, what would you advise us as a congress in Going Forward and how we could put greater pressure on these respective countries an
Its binding components will only come into force in 2020. This means the other components must test the needs to increase substantially our investment and resilience now. The economics of resilience are compelling. For every dollar we can save 4 in the cost of relief. For every dollar invested in Early Warning we can save up to 30 in reconstruction. The cost of an action arising. Economic losses from Natural Hazards have hassen from 50 billion from each year in the 80s to just under 200 billion a year in the last decade. Along with economic losses, ensured losses from weather events have also increased significantly. Estimating that over the past ten years insured losses from weatherrelated events are growing as a proportion of global gdp. The gap between overall losses and insured losses has been widening. 75 of catastrophe related losses worldwide are still uninsured. That the World Bank Group we will use our track record for financial innovation to look for ways to raise the onetime