The transatlantic space to support ukraine. And i do think that our leadership in this is recognized. We are having as spirited a debate as is going on theres also a transatlantic debate so that question gets asked also in our diplomacy. But europeans come at it from both sides, depending upon where they sit. With regard to ukraine and the things that need to be done, and that has been appreciated, very much by my by most of us, i would have at this point significant difficulty coming to work each day with these decisions lingering and the way that they have and us, again, not taking the steps that that many people within the administration, as i understand it, feel needs to be taken. And yet we continue for some reason not to do those things that weve acted as if we might do. I have a number of other questions that ill send in writing. And i thank each of you for being here. I realize that in all cases, yall are messengers and not the ones that have these decision memos sitting on you
Screeria nigeria. As chief of Naval Operations and id like to thank you, admiral green ert, for your 40 years of distinguished service to our navy and i wish you and darleen all the best in the future. In the last three months, some of americas most strategic thinkers have offered this committee a clear, unified assessment of worldwide threats and u. S. National strategy. As dr. Kissinger testified on january 29 tth, the United States has not faced aid more diverse and complex array of crises since the epped of the second world war. The actual global challenges we face are compounded by the limitations of the budget control act and sequestration, which were a selfinflicted National Security crisis. Indeed, all four of the military Service Chiefs have testified that defense spending and sequestration levels would put american lives at risk. Now more than ever, a strong navy and marine corps are essential to our nations ability to deter adversaries, assure allies and defend our national
The federal governments job to determine what your mission may be. And certain if youre a private forprofit, were not here to dictate your organizations mission. But a forprofit institution has no special right to federal funding. And if youre going to receive billions of dollars in federal subsidies, we think its reasonable as we endeavor to reauthorize the Higher Education act that we tie some reasonable Public Policy strings to those dollars. And all we are saying is that we want institutions of Higher Learning, and especially their leadership, to wake up every morning and think not first about profits, not think first about how theyre going to market to find more customers, but think about access and affordability. And what were saying is that different institutions may have Different Missions. A Community College has a different mission from a Training Institute and a fouryear institution has a different mission than a graduate institution. And thats all fine. And thats why weve e
Folks who have an oepiate disorder, they will often tell you and you will see they started with early tobacco, early alcohol and early marijuana use. But mr. Botticelli, thats a logical fallacy, thats true but that begs the question that millions of americans, 4 50 million, have used marijuana and didnt go on to other drugs. We have to desegregate the addictive personality from the recreational occasional user. I mean nothing norm tif by this. I said in my opening statement, im a child of the 60s and leery of legalizing any drugs. Ive seen the damage. But i want us to be basing fact on the matter is the war of drugs doesnt look like it work very well in Public Opinion and demand. Whereas other campaigns that are voluntary. Actually have worked. So maybe we could learn something from that as opposed to incarcerating, especially minority populations in this country and that doesnt seem to work either and doesnt seem to reduce demand. Representative connolly, i think just focusing on mari
Was released publicly. Broad public notification, yes. Notified about the malware and spend the next few days containing, disabling and removing the malware. January 10, we started notifying the public and customers directly. To both companies have policies in place on how you would do this consumer notification . We have several crisis communication plans and we enacted them immediately upon finding the crisis. Know, senatoryou leahy has a bill on some of these notification issues. I think some of the issues senator feinstein raised are worth discussing. We also have to realize that smaller retailers will have different situations than bigger retailers. We recently found out that hotel chains are being affected by this and were going to have to put something in place. Senator hatchhy, has asked to make a small statement before i recognize you. Thank you, senator. Came up todayt starts out by saying that u. S. Intelligence agencies will ask the Obama Administration to check the Governm