Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Gutierrez, for five minutes. Mr. Gutierrez id like to congratulate the speaker and the republican majority for coming to their senses and allowing the house of representatives to pass a bill funding the department of Homeland Security for the rest of the fiscal year. Seems odd i would have to come to this well to congratulate the majority for funding one of the largest and most important departments in the u. S. Governme
Actually awarded for the grants and do you work with the cyber center at Homeland Security at the nddk to on how these grants are distributed or the technology that theyre developing there . Explain a little bit how that process works. Id have to go back and ask staff. Most of what we see with states using our funds ren hansment in their centers. Id have to go back and ask. I know we have work to expand eligibility on what grants can do but theres also within the cyber world still a lot to be determined, whats the best practices and how of this is an it investment versus Homeland Security grant. Id have to go back and ask. Our role is funding states i met with a big city Emergency Managers a couple of weeks ago. This is at the top of their list. They were talking about what to do during communications in an emergency. We said what would happen if communication went out and they said thats our earthquake plan. We get our units to go out and start patrolling the area. If the center cant
Because it got wiped out. We need to move beyond that. We have to look at not just Building Back to what we always looked at cost benefit analysis and make investments. This gives us the ability to move beyond just looking at one set of criteria. It seems that your mitigation effort has to be focused on the actual hazard. In this budget youre looking at additional funds for Hazard Mitigation but i would certainly want to know that is based on the actual hazard itself and mitigate both the hazard and longterm cost for the federal government and the locality. And that has been the criteria for determining Hazard Mitigation. I can show you example where we have had predisaster mitigation. States have taken that like in oklahoma to do grants to families to build safe rooms for tornadoes. Our goal is to reduce risk. Theres a lot of driving factors of that and changing environment but when we want to look at, what are things as taxpayers if we can spend money on the front end and reduce futu
Here. Let me begin with a topic that the chairwoman is familiar with, Cyber Security, particularly the faa. I had the privilege really of watching the chairman work and superb job of pending the intelligence bill and no one knows more and more thought 68 about the issue than senator collins, but i understand that within the faa there is a huge need to protect the system from Cyber Incidents and intrusions. But that there is organization in the air Traffic Organization that basically has to borrow funding in order to help promote Cyber Security from other agencies and borrow personnel, that there are different experts within the faa that disagree as whats the best approach and how to deal with it. Its it is a critical issue. And it seems not only is it a resource issue but its an organizational issue so let me ask you, mr. Secretary, what are you and the director who i have great admiration for doing to get this done. You know, we are late. We wont see problems on the road. We are alrea
Improving conditions this evening. Look at that. Its up to 60 degrees in allentown. Its only 50 in willmington and in mt. Holly and in dover. What a nasty, nasty day. We needed the rain. And then the question is when is it going to be moving out . Well meteorologist Sheena Parveen has more on that timing. Thats right, glenn. So if youre doing any Holiday Travel for the memorial day weekend tonight, or tomorrow morning, conditions are at least going to improve after midnight tonight. Some areas tonight if you are traveling, youll be running into some rain. Heres a look at future weather. Its mostly south jersey and delaware dealing with the rain tonight over the next few hours. The rain continues for the most part. Heres 8 00 tonight. 7 00, 8 00 this evening. So if youre going to be traveling at this point to any of the delaware beaches or the jersey shore, temperatures will be in the low 50s. Still chilly well see the rain around especially along the shore and the beaches. If you are t