Mr. Pipes good morning, welcome to the Heritage Foundation and our douglas auditorium. We want to welcome those who join us on our heritage. Org website on all these occasions and remind our inhouse guests to be so kind to check your mobile devices to see if they are silent or turned off. And of course for those watching online, you are welcome to send comments or questions at any time. Email speaker heritage. Org. Following the initial presentation, my colleague jim phillips will lead. Veteran foreignpolicy foryst and has worked heritage since 1979, authored dozens of papers on is really an Foreign Policy issues and testified before congress on a wide variety of middle east issues. Hosting and introducing our special presenter is luke coffey who serves as director for the Allison Center of Foreign Policy. Before joining us at heritage, mr. Copy served in the united kingdoms ministry of defense to then secretary of state of defense liam fox. He was the ever nonu. K. First national to b
I think if they take a little bit of a deep breath and what the rule says and what it does, they will see that we follow their call to reduce the uncertainty that was in the system by providing the rule itself. Not just for help that the economy economy and the businesses and manufacturing and agriculture to do Service Tourism and recreation to depend on the clean water to do their job. These are all streamline opportunities. All of the certainty that this will provide a. They have a better direction for they dont have to talk to the federal government if they are not polluting or contaminating the stream or the wetland that is important to protect. The Clean Power Plant is an opportunity for the United States to show significant leadership. I begin talking about the repurposes Global Action is not only necessary to protect Public Health and the economy and national safety. But to get the benefit and the opportunity to move forward on climate. Its proposed by the clean power will cut C
Awareness of the border in the next 18 months. Its take a look at the problems and the conflicts. Lets look at the convoluted process. Lets try to fully coordinate this. Lets start taking the incremental improvements. I come from the manufacturing of the Continuous Improvement root cause analysis. Lets look at these individual problems and working with you with your help with your expertise again i appreciate your service and understand thats what we have to deal with but the only thing that we could become bush in the next 18 months is lets not use piecemeal because i might have the wrong connotation. How about a stepbystep Continuous Improvement process. I think we had that attitude. If the members are willing to work with me. Lets pray our ties those problems so that we can address and start fixing this on a stepbystep basis. Lets thank you mr. Chairman and senator harper. The border search last year was unprecedented. I started doing this job for a long time and ive never seen the
His mission. Mr. Okeefe yes, please, sir . Dana thank you. Dana goward with the rmt foundation. A number of senior dhs officials have identified the susceptibility of the signal to jamming and have called it a single point of Critical Infrastructure. Can you tell us about dhss efforts to limit that the vulnerability . Sec. Johnson i am not in on a particular topic. I know we spend a lot of time we have an assistant secretary for Critical Infrastructure, and we spent a lot of time with Critical Infrastructure and those businesses we consider Critical Infrastructure on single points of failure and the like. We are in a collaborative discussion and exercise with Critical Infrastructure on these types of vulnerabilities. Mr. Okeefe yes, sir, way in the back . Mike mike with senator mark warrens office. As you mentioned, dhs has the responsibility for protecting the government. What would you say in terms of the authorities that you have . I know you got some last year, but in terms of the
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