Clear your runway to november of any obstacles. Here is the thing. You are sitting tight, they are doing spending sprint pushing minimumwage increase that pulls well with their base and i hate to break it to you, it pulls well with a lot more americans who havent heard your very valid concerns. They are also pushing for Infrastructure Spending even if they cannot account for the 100 billion each year america spends on infrastructure but not a peep out of view, not a word out of you. Even on health care. In the administration keeps moving deadlines in you move to offer a little more than a pointing finger. You say is unconstitutional but they are still doing it, they are still moving it, they are still keeping this why you hate going, arent they . You are not doing squats, are you . You are absolutely convinced americans are with you. I hate to break it to you but right now 53 of americans agree with you but not 100 . Little more than a majority. You are hanging it on 53 who are his off
270 people. So youre urban compared to us. Okay. Let me just go right to the witnesses. Lori dishman had a very, very bad experience on a Royal Caribbean cruise in 2006. Shes also an International Cruise Victims Association board member, which means she wants to follow through on that. Ill read each of the four and then call on one by one. Phil gers extent, a lawyer who represented a 15yearold minor, 15yearold minor who was raped on a cruise ship is also on that same board and chairman also chairman of the National Center for the victims of crime. Im grateful that hes here. Amanda butter letter who i just met outside whose mother suffered a medical emergency on a carnival kus in 2013 and likely passed away likely as a result of a lack of medical care and kim ware who was a passenger on the triumph which caught fire and was stranded for four days. Now, those are easy things for me to say but they are very hard to have gone through and even talk about it. Lets get at it. Im going to call
Reports shortly before the polls closed former governor and his First Cousins watching party was simply saying im a little concerned our primaries have become out of control over allegations and things and i think we have to reestablish ground rules about the allegations that are reasonable. The story says he was speaking on the run of runoff cycle of te longest costly history that is that both businessmen and the representative Jack Kingston for an open senate seat. The next governor of the republican honcho says they argue that the system needs to be overhauled. The director of National Intelligence said today that the terrorist attacks increasing and the former employer in florida spoke at an events to mark the tenth anniversary of the Commission Report. This is an hour and a half. [applause] well thank you very much. I apologize for being late. Im sure you understand. I do want to thank the vice chair and the 9 11 commissione commissioners. The right thing to thank them for is the
For her coverage of the National Security agency and in 2000 received a citation from the education writers association. She will moderate our panel. Thank you so much, and thanks for joining us for our, i guess, officially unsexy panel. [laughter] but congressional reform is probably the most high profile reform that has never fully or really at all been embraced. And in their tenyear report looking at the current state of play for National Security, the commission cites theres actually been a proliferation of committees that are now responsible for counterterrorism and Homeland Security types of issues. Were now up from 88 to 92, so i guess thats some kind of accomplishment that well discuss here. The report also highlights another congressional oversight problem in another realm which is actually too little congressional oversight when it comes to certain types of programs like sensitive intelligence programs, particularly as weve seen recently those that were highlighted in the sno
Commission report. This is an hour and a half. [applause] well thank you very much. I apologize for being late. Im sure you understand. I do want to thank the vice chair and the 9 11 commissione commissioners. The right thing to thank them for is the love of our country. Thats been manifested obviously in each case in many ways but particularly the commitments when they were commissioners when that was going on, but even more importantly the sustainment of that commitment which i think at its root is another reflects the level of the country. And also, i feel obliged to support and thank them for the continued support of the Intelligence Community and our National Security structure that. The past few days and weeks have been in tens with world events. So i appreciate the chance this morning to start by briefly and talk about the journey the Intelligence Community has taken over the past decade. Like all journeys this is the one that is the work in progress. Today we face the most dive