Think, would have made things clearer and simpler and responsibility for the immigration mess were in now lies with congress not with you, and with congress for failing to pass the senates bipartisan bill, which i was strong supporter of. I would like to talk about cybersecurity. There is going to be cyberweek on the senate floor. There is work in the house. We have bipartisan bills pending on information sharing between federal agencies and the Big Communications providers. On Agency Public reporting on the cyberthreat to increase Public Awareness of coordinating National Notification when companies have data breaches. And updating some of the criminal penalties. When we first were working on comprehensive cybersecurity legislation, another main piece of this effort was on the Critical Infrastructure piece. What i hear quite widely is that the dhs led framework process that has pulled together a great number of Critical Infrastructure Industry Sectors is going very well. As a result o
Here is the gallup hold that breaks down americans level of worrying about environmental problems. The top of the list is the pollution of Drinking Water. Americans were worried about this a great deal in 2014, versus those in 2015. 47 of americans were worried about pollution of lakes, rivers, and reservoirs in 2014,5, lower than in 2014. And only 32 say they are worried about Global Warming or Climate Change. Even as Global Warming has received greater attention from politicians and the media americans worry about it is no higher now than when gallup first asked about it in 1989. Part of the excavation for this may be because the results are quite different when you break down the survey responses by political party. The gallup poll shows that democrats are much more worried about Environmental Issues and republicans are. 13 of republicans in 2014 2015 said they were worried about Climate Change, which is significantly lower than 2014. For democrats, more than half of them said they
Mention the endangered species reform act, people say, just putting some controls and limiting it, that youre antispecies, antienvironment. What were talking about here, just like all the things in life are updated from time to time, this needs to be updated. Im pleased to work on this working group together with the chairman and others to bring about some sensible reforms. And the reason we do this is because farmers, ranchers, folks back home, farm bureaus, have been hit with lawsuits and i appreciate what the gentleman just said, its lawsuits, not science, that seem to be pressuring some of the some of this along. In 2007 they entered into an agreement with fish and wildlife that added a thousand species. But no one affected were allowed to participate. I have another bill, sue and settle that would have taken care of that, we passed it out of this house. It was said earlier when you take the e. S. A. You dont take a meat cleaver approach. I think the problem is not a meat cleaver a
Hassan rouhani has taken a different approach that his predecessor and appears willing to work with the west and indicates iran will not seek nuclear weapons. Two men in chicago are under arrest accused of the shooting that left 13 wounded, including a 2yearold boy. World leaders are in new york city for the 68th United Nations General Assembly session. More than 130 heads of state and government will spend the next few days discussing the worlds most pressing problems. Today president obama and iranian president Hassan Rouhani will deliver remarks, and there is a possibility that the two leaders will meet, but Nothing Official so far. It would mark the first meeting between a u. S. And iranian president in more than 30 years. A big week ahead for secretary of state john kerry. On wednesday hes expected to update the status of talks between israel and palestine. Thursday hell attend a meeting on Irans Nuclear program. Friday well monitor speeches from russia and china who may address t
Some procedure was frustrating in terms of getting information you may need. But nonetheless we have the protection and we have that walther that protects the surveillance. Its not what you would find in any other country. I spoke to a company who had been working closely with the fbi and as a result of the intel that they were gathering in the cyberworld they were able to basically figure out the 500 million had been siphoned off from various Bank Accounts across the globe. One of the things that this individual was siding was the cooperation there between a private company and in this case the fbi. Is that how the fbi but is that how we go after the cybercriminals . Lets take the private sector the exchanges for instance. What we want to do is as we have done in other areas to go out and develop relationships with the security individuals in those particular exchanges are Financial Institutions so that they know who in the fbi has proficiency in this area and it named with a face in