Us. The other imminent threat is giving up a piece of the grid. And giving Law Enforcement the tools of intelligence, the single greatest asset we need have and also giving them the electronic tools, i dont think we do nearly the job we should be doing in terms of protecting against cyber attacks. Weve seen just last week what happens when supposedly the chinese have now hacked into the personnel records of upwards of 20 million government employees. The one positive out of all of that, it is the only hope we have of maybe recovering lois lerners emails from the i. R. S. , get them from the chinese. But it is a serious issue that we need to put first and foremost as a serious threat to the safety and security of our communities. I know that there are some sheriffs representing interesting states, maybe like iowa, might have interests there. Some other states like florida. I see one of those sheriffs is about to take the stage and id like to ask him to take the next question. Governor i
Members of congress, distinguished guests colleagues from the department of defense, past and present. Members of the Vietnam Commemoration Advisory Committee the, thank you for being here today. Thank you to the organizers an commemorative partners of this important event and thousands like it across the country and the entire vietnam commemoration effort. Most importantly, thank you to the vietnam era veterans and their families who join us. You honor us with your presence. In a year of anniversaries for this years marks the 150th anniversary of the end of our civil war, the 70th anniversary of the end ever world war ii, the 65th anniversary of the start of korean war, today we gather to remember the vietnam war and to honor those who served in it. We remember the 50th anniversary of president johnsons executive order establishing the Vietnam Service ribbon and we honor our 7. 2 million living vietnam era veterans. Fair fallen comrades in arms including those still unaccounted for an
Please welcome the speaker of the house of representatives. Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable john boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. [applause] john boehner ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, welcome to the United States capitol. In a few weeks americans will mark 70 years since the end of world war ii. When that war concluded on the deck of the battleship missouri, General Macarthur spoke of his great hope that the carnage of that war would be a foundation for a future based in his words on the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom tolerance, and justice. We know that world failed to emerge, especially in asia. And within a few years america was called upon to lead the free world against communist tyranny. President kennedy would later call this the long, twilight struggle. This struggle led us, first, to korea in the early 50s. Later it led us to vietnam, a country few americans at that time had ever heard of. Today, we g
Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable john boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. [applause] john boehner thank you. Ladies and gentlemen distinguished guests, welcome to the United States capitol. In a few weeks americans will mark 70 years since the end of world war ii. When that war concluded on the deck of the battleship missouri, General Macarthur spoke of his great hope that the carnage of that war would be a foundation for a future based in his words on the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom tolerance, and justice. We know that world failed to emerge, especially in asia. And within a few years america was called upon to lead the free world against communist tyranny. President kennedy would later call this the long, twilight struggle. This struggle led us, first, to korea in the early 50s. Later it led us to vietnam, a country few americans at that time had ever heard of. Today, we gather to celebrate the vietnam commemoration and t
The obvious infrastructure deployment requires the expectation of a healthy return on capital. That should be taken as a given but all too often in my experience the issue of return on capital is either ignored or misunderstood in policy forums. Its not a matter of whether a business is or isnt profitable. It is instead a matter of whether a business is sufficiently profitable to warrant the high levels of Capital Investment required for the deployment of infrasfrur. We that in mind, in 2014, the Largest Companies in the cable industry earned a very healthy return. The physical assets of comcast, time warner cable, charter and cablevision, the four publicly traded Cable Operators in 2014 all earned healthy returns in excess of their cost of capital with returns ranging from 13 to 33 . Those returns were unusually high for a capital intensive industry. On the other hand it should be noted the cable industry earned returns below the cost of capital for decades. Any longterm return on Net