Actually it is. Its under water. Youll see a bunker sticking up out of the water about 500 feet out. It used to be about 500 feet on the land. Now its 500 feet out in the water. Something is going on here. We dont make this stuff up. The key is for us how can we have cleaner air, how can we address the issues of rising waters . Delaware is the lowest lying state in the country. Its a real problem for us. In order for us to address this, we need to figure out how to do it together. And im not interested in seeing epg jam anything down your throats, but we need to figure this out together. It seems like you export a lot of electricity. Any understanding of the rules being contemplated here, you dont get a lot of credit for that. The credit goes to california and those other states. We have to be able to figure out how to deal with that. I want to ask you a question of the lady from california. It sounds to me like youre doing pretty well and you possibly have a cleaner environment and a
Icon, a National Hero of unimaginable proportion and a legend whose name will live in history long after all here today have. Forgotten. Fate looked down kindly on us when she chose neil to be the first to venture to another world. To have the opportunity to look back from space at the beauty of our own. It could have been another. Ow it wasnt. It wasnt for a reason. No one, no one, but no one could have accepted the responsibility of his remarkable accomplishment with more dignity and more grace than Neil Armstrong. He embodied all that is good and all that is great about america. More from the Memorial Service for Neil Armstrong thanksgiving day on cspan at 10 oom eastern and just before 11 30, a behind the scenes look at life as a teenager in the white house with susan ford baal and Lyndon Johnson rob, and after one, how Scientists Use game skills and theories to solve world problems. A conversation with president obamas biographers after his reelection. Hear from journalists ron su
Increasingly this complex, global, integrated that oldfield or marketplace. Such is the nature of war and risk we have to understand better. Secondly, cyberspace. My good friend, general mike hayden has talked about the coming pearl harbor in cyberspace and i agree with him. Its going to happen and we are willfully bug prepared. The third area i was stressed is the growing demographic shift worldwide. For the first time as of last year more people live in cities and that trend is accelerating. If you like in societies like africa, what does that mean in terms of demographics or resources . These changes will accelerate and we need to be better prepared for the acrosstheboard. Those are three large general chunks we should focus on. Was focused a little tighter for a minute. You have been quoted as saying that there are very likely as many or more spies working against u. S. Interests inside the u. S. During the cold war, which was a head snapping quote when i read it. Who are these peo
Within ten years, but i dont think we can count on that. So lets plan for the worst, right . Yep. Thank you. Thank you, senator graham. Senator blumenthal. Thank you, mr. Chairman, and thank you both for being here today. Thank you both for your extraordinary service. To our nation. I would agree with my good friend, senator graham, in his assessment that we are on a path to repeal the very unfortunate and unwise cola cuts in retiree pensions that were a flaw in the bum agreement. I would disagree with him only on his reference to glide path which implies an ease and unimpeded track that is rarely pound in found in the congre. And i think it will take some doing to have of that path achieved, but i think the debate and discussion here this morning, and your testimonys been very helpful to reaching that path which i think we have an obligation to do. I voted for the budget agreement like so many of my colleagues. I did so with the understanding that that flaw would be corrected. And tha
Believes we need to simplify. We cannot have the tax code that has higher rates and more complexity than anywhere else in the world. We have got to address the system that really hurts innovation and High Technology economy. We did not worry about those when we were doing well, but they are getting in the way of progress we have got to go through the process in a simpler and more logical and efficient way. This is the number one thing thousands of Business People said was the biggest barrier to investing in the u. S. We have got to upgrade our infrastructure, but we have got to focus on those that are economically important. We have got to understand the things that are driving up the cost of doing business. We know what those are, but we need a plan for Going Forward we need to create a framework for rapidly developing and the windfall. We have a path to energy independence. That is a bridge to renewable energy. If we can move to dass, we get tremendous benefits if we can move to gas,