Now on president obama desk. What made it dramatic . What made it dramatic, we knew it would probably pass but in the senate there are procedural hurdles requiring a 60vote threshold to move to final passage. Sometimes they can work out a deal where it just requires a majority vote but ted cruz, a republican in the senate, voiced against using that threshold, moving for 60 votes to move on the bill. That would require at least five republican senators to put their necks out on the line on a bill thats politically hurtful to them. So it was dramatic in a way that we didnt know how many and which senators on the republican side would vote to move forward with this bill. And what was most surprising to us was that minority leader Mitch Mcconnel who is in a reelection fight, facing a primary challenge, was one of those who voted to proceed with this bill. He, of course, is the leader of the republicans in the senate and john boehner, the House Speaker, earlier this week, did the same thing
Difference and what is delaying adoption of that one . It is easier to describe how why itke a describe than has been a problem so far. They make a difference because that can be put takeselectronic poll book care of a lot of sort of antiquated paper that is in a place. Much more l up information including signature i. D. And ion and photo cut down on traditional lane problems that have lane that have line problems. They are a low cost simple solution to putting a lot of paper in one place where poll t access it easily. How about the implementation . This goes into the morass we have fallen into with technology. Is that the roblem Certification Program for new systems is fatally broken. New systems are having a great difficulty coming onli online. Because the access it certifica takes so long and is virtually impossible to get some of the solutions are just proving very nettlesome manufacturers to find a market to put them in place. Highlightedaware is in your report as a national eade
We stole him from san jose at the tender age of i think 29 or 30 to come all the way to the National Association of environmental control. If i had half the energy of this guy, i would be president and Vice President. Hes an amazing guy. Very proud of the work that you do. Thank you for joining us today. Our second witness is from a bigger state than ours New Hampshire, and kelly ayotte cant with be us. Dr. Paul is it kirshen . Dr. Kirshen, Research Professor at the university of New Hampshire. What is your mascot there . Wildcats. Wildcats, yes. Weve had some rough football saturdays against the wildcats and the blue hens. Were all the happy to welcome you here. I understand your research focuses on engineering and management as well as Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment adaptation, planning. Its a mouth full but were happy you could join us. Thanks so much for coming. Lindene patton, my mother was a patton, chief climate product officer for Zurich International group. In this ro
Employee initiative. It was an employee setting up the work. Do it according to these ways. Its amazing how to compress as they felt and this is my last question. If that panel an anomaly or do you think thats a fair representation . Congressman i would refrain it does to me that would feel like if i made a comment like that would feel like i was being disingenuous about the real feelings that they have and i wont do that to my employees. Im out there not to say that i would say thats fairly typical. Just so you know from my perspective that they expressed concerns were fairly typical of what i hear out there whether they have spoken about whistleblowing or inviting in conversation. I yield back. Mr. Jolly for five minutes. Thank you mr. Chairman. General hickey thank you for your service and incredible career and i appreciate your clear dedication to your comments tonight. I have a soft spot for the kc135 so i thank you for your career with that as well. Tonight you find yourself repr
At stake for republicans voting in favor of it. The bill is essentially a clean suspension of the debt ceiling for about 13 months. What they are basically voting is if you are someone who in a republican primary contest, there are already arguments being made that republicans essentially voted in favor of giving a blank check for more government borrowing for a little more than the next year. It is the kind of thing that wont play well in republican primaries. Something thes republicans generally didnt want to have to vote for. They ultimately voted against it on the final passage. Observers of the senate know very well that this is not the where the final vote is the one that is really important. The vote that matters is the one with the 60 vote threshold. Which was, in this case,emanded by senator ted cruz the relative newcomer from texas that really wanted that threshold. Among the pieces you are writing, the worlds greatest blog, back toody that vote, you said the Democratic Leade