Mesherment that shows that in a more compelling way. Each has a security plan, right . Yes. Has Homeland Security done an analysis of what the total cost would be to bring it up how much total for all of the tier one ports would we need to spend to bring them where they need to be. Do we have that . Do we know that . Im not aware of that analysis. Thats an important question because if you dont know what they need, i know you know where the weaknesses are. If the total bill for bringing our tier one ports is 2. 5 billion, were 12. 5 years from bringing that. By that time youll have replacement needs so the question is dont we think its important to know and heres the total cost to get us where we want you. Which one of those top eight ports, which one has the greatest vulnerability and should we not be spending maybe 70 million at one port and 30 million at the other eight on the basis what the total need to to get them to the level where we feel confident. Well take a close look at th
U. S. Student loan debt. Later, discussions about Cyber Security and business. Now a Senate Hearing on training firefighters who respond to firefighters. Mark begich questioned officials representing the Forest Service and firefighters about the resources needed with increasing firefighters in Populated Areas. This hearing is an hour. Thank you so much for being here. Its a pleasure to have folks here. This is the subcommittee on Emergency Management intergovernment relations in the District Of Columbia. I apologize. I have a cold so im suffering through a cold. So i appreciate you being here. I want to thank the witnesses to be here especially on short notice to lend their expertise to our discussion. We are here to look at the problems that are serious and concerns to many states for a while now, and thats wildfires. This is a challenge that confronts communities of all towns, villages, cities, states and the federal government. As a former mayor myself i know firsthand how important
Degree is demonstrable. The cost of earning that degree, however, has become rehibitively expensive for many as College Costs have risen. Average tuition for out of state students reached 22,200 this Academic Year and at private universities average tuition is over 30,000 annually. Many students leave with a bachelors degree in hand, but burdened with tens of thousands of dollars in Student Loan Debt. Many students leave College Without graduating and lacking the paper credential they hoped put them towards middle class stability or better. Well intentioned policies have failed to drive down College Costs. An easy flow of federal student aid has enabled students to take out sizable Student Loans with little, if any credit check or consideration for their future earnings potential. Some have even argued that such policies have enabled universities to raise tuition, creating a vicious lending and spending cycle. Federal Higher Education subsidies have increased substantially over the pas
Deserve our support, our respect, and our prayers. They e they demand the fullest response, diplomat exand economic. I think its wholly appropriate that these brave martyrs be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and everything that can be done along these lines should be done. I yold back. I tweeled two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from california, mr. Lavon. The gentleman is recognized. I thank the gentleman for yielding and congratulate him and the other leads of the for expeditiously bringing this resolution to the floor. Mr. Speaker, the exhilarating express expressions of support for democracy in china have inspired the world. The horrors we have witnessed in china in the last few days have shocked the world. Beijings brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrators deserves our harshest condemnation and i believe will prove the undoing of this regime. I urge my colleagues, mr. Speaker, not to forget that this latest atrocity comes on the heels of a similar military suppression of dem
Tomorrow a patient tested positive. Will you transfer that patient to one of the four hospitals outside of the state that has biocontainment unit . Or are you completely confident that they could treat that without any Health Care Workers in place . Here is what we have done so far and i would feel comfortable that we are doing the right thing here in florida. This is how i thought about it. We have almost 20 Million People in the state and about 100 million tourists that come to the this state and we have Health Care Workers and first responders. My goal is to make everyone feel comfortable that we are prepared. Just like if there was going to be a hurricane, we would be prepared for it. So the first thing if wed asked for more from the cdc, testing kits and others as well. We have asked for more protective gear and we asked for doing a Conference Call to explain to the workers what happened in atlanta versus what happened in dallas. I used to be in a hospital and we did that yesterda