Desperately needed. We were happy to do that. I think the record the record will stay open for 14 days for questions and comments. I want to thank the full panel here, especially mayor nevarre, via teleconference. Youre here, which is good. We appreciate that. Especially because youre dealing with a real live issue on the ground. We thank the panel here and thank you for your written testimony, theres a lot of suggestions that you placed in there that will examine. This committee that deals with emergency disaster first responders, fema and others, this is an important issue and i have a feeling as you described very well, mr. Hubbard, that the summer is just beginning and were already seeing a lot of issues. Thank you all very much. The meeting is adjourned and record will be open for 14 days. Thank you. On the next washington journal well focus on president obamas threecountry, fourday trip to europe. Our guest is stephen szabo. And well mark the 70th anniversary of dday from the wor
Mesherment that shows that in a more compelling way. Each has a security plan, right . Yes. Has Homeland Security done an analysis of what the total cost would be to bring it up how much total for all of the tier one ports would we need to spend to bring them where they need to be. Do we have that . Do we know that . Im not aware of that analysis. Thats an important question because if you dont know what they need, i know you know where the weaknesses are. If the total bill for bringing our tier one ports is 2. 5 billion, were 12. 5 years from bringing that. By that time youll have replacement needs so the question is dont we think its important to know and heres the total cost to get us where we want you. Which one of those top eight ports, which one has the greatest vulnerability and should we not be spending maybe 70 million at one port and 30 million at the other eight on the basis what the total need to to get them to the level where we feel confident. Well take a close look at th
U. S. Student loan debt. Later, discussions about Cyber Security and business. Now a Senate Hearing on training firefighters who respond to firefighters. Mark begich questioned officials representing the Forest Service and firefighters about the resources needed with increasing firefighters in Populated Areas. This hearing is an hour. Thank you so much for being here. Its a pleasure to have folks here. This is the subcommittee on Emergency Management intergovernment relations in the District Of Columbia. I apologize. I have a cold so im suffering through a cold. So i appreciate you being here. I want to thank the witnesses to be here especially on short notice to lend their expertise to our discussion. We are here to look at the problems that are serious and concerns to many states for a while now, and thats wildfires. This is a challenge that confronts communities of all towns, villages, cities, states and the federal government. As a former mayor myself i know firsthand how important
Deserve our support, our respect, and our prayers. They e they demand the fullest response, diplomat exand economic. I think its wholly appropriate that these brave martyrs be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and everything that can be done along these lines should be done. I yold back. I tweeled two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from california, mr. Lavon. The gentleman is recognized. I thank the gentleman for yielding and congratulate him and the other leads of the for expeditiously bringing this resolution to the floor. Mr. Speaker, the exhilarating express expressions of support for democracy in china have inspired the world. The horrors we have witnessed in china in the last few days have shocked the world. Beijings brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrators deserves our harshest condemnation and i believe will prove the undoing of this regime. I urge my colleagues, mr. Speaker, not to forget that this latest atrocity comes on the heels of a similar military suppression of dem
Good morning. Im Melissa Harrisperry. The question on everyones mind today, are we going to war with syria . The United Nations chemical weapons expert left syria early this morning, about three hours before scheduled, wrapping up their investigation into whether chemical weapons were used in the attack last week in the suburbs of damascus that left more than 1,400 people dead. The Obama Administration believes the Syrian Government is responsible for the attack. And yesterday, both the president and secretary of state john kerry laid out the case for American Military strikes against the regime. Military strikes that the president says will be extremely limited. Were not considering any openended commitment. Were not considering any boots on the ground approach. What we will do is consider options that meet the narrow concern around chemical weapons, understanding that theres not going to be a solely military solution to the underlying conflict and tragedy thats taken place in syria.