Committee in january of 2019 and i quote, the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next pandemic where large scale outbreak of contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase calls from the United States for support. We must ask ourselves what are the warnings and what can we do right now to protect the American People from other threats. Before the unthinkable happens in the future, how can we exercise strategic and precisive foresight to the best of our ability today to ensure are a nation prepared for tomorrow. That same worldwide threat assessment Cyber Attacks is a top global threat with china, russia, iran, and north korea. Raging a silent war capable of shutting down with such Information Systems and critical sectors in america. The report states, and i quote, our adversaries and strategic competitors increasingly use the Cyber Capabilities including
The special counsel. Partisan democrats and their allies were crushed. A few months ago when the report cleared the president of conspiring with russia during the 2016 campaign and now the hyping of the special counsels congressional testimony has fallen flate once again. But the conspiracy theories and reckless accusations have to continue. Too many people have invested too much time in the hysterical eco Chamber Simply wind it down and join the rest of us and the real world the outrage Industrial Complex needed a new target, and thats where i come in. Mitch mcconnell, the hawkish Foreign Policy conservative who spent decades pushing back on russia every way i can think of was accused of what amounts to treason by multiple Media Outlets within a couple of hours. These absurd smears were not thrown out there by anonymous twitter account. It was pushed by big time. The smear that i am a russian asset ran in the opinion pages of thege Washington Post. The quote that i am unamerican was b
Singled out as an adversary and opposed for nearly 20 years, Vladimir Putin. This was less than 24 hours after the outrage Industrial Complex was disappointed yet again by special counsel mueller. Partisan democrats and their media allies were crushed a few months ago when muellers report cleared the president of conspiring with russia during the 2016 campaign. And now their frantic hyping of the special counsels congressional testimony has fallen flat once again. But the conspiracy theories and reckless accusations had to continue. Too many people had invested too much time in the hysterical echo chamber to simply wind it down and join the rest of us in the real world. The outrage storm system complex needed a new target the outrage Industrial Complex needed a new target, and thats where i come in. Mitch mcconnell, the hawkish Foreign Policy conservative who spent decades pushing back on russia every way i can think of was accused to what amounts to treason by multiple Media Outlets w
Preparedness response and communications will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony on the state of First Responder communications. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. I want to welcome all witnesses here this morning on an issue that is vital to our Homeland Security. The ability of our First Responders to communicate. As noted in the 2006 national interoperable baseline survey, there is a, quote, direct correlation between effective communications, interoperatedability and First Responders ability to save lives, end quote. In my hometown of new york city we know this all too well. Both the first both the office of Emergency Communications and First Responder Network Authority were established in the wake of the communication failures of 9 11 and later in hurricane katrina. We have made a great deal of progress since those fateful disasters. States and localities have invested billions of dollars in their Communications Networks, including
As a significant as it was during katrina . Holy cross, it came and went. Here it stayed and stayed for weeks and weeks. Was this middleclass . High net worth. You can see theres a little mentioning even in a house leak that, actually a house like that was 250,000 which is a lot, and you know, considering. These nights maybe these newer ones and closer to the lake, the more expensive. But yeah, these are 350, 400,000 houses. And some of you know, the two story ones, the pool. Not like a neighborhood no this neighborhood is very challenged because again, severely, severely damaged, however, they have a very strong neighborhood association, and they have done a lot. Weve been working with them. Weve been working with them quite a bit. And south lake view, in fact, is a Historic District that is coming back. Lakeview will be back. It is going to take a while because of the amount of damage. But most of the people over here, they had insurance, they have more means. And this land always go