Recent developments in north korea most notably the february 12, 2013 nuclear test and the december 12, 2012 missile test highlight the growing threat that north korea poses to the United States, our allies and friends in the region, and the increasing dangers of severe instability on the Korean Peninsula. Given this growing threat i believe that this committee needs to take a close look at current u. S. Policy towards north korea; evaluate its effectiveness; and identify any midcourse corrections or new measures that are required to get our north korea policy right. I understand that as we convene this hearing this morning that up in new york the United Nations Security Council is sitting down, right now, to consider a resolution that imposes additional sanctions on north korea. This new Security Council resolution, based on a u. S. China draft, includes tough new sanctions intended to impede north koreas ability to develop further its Illicit Nuclear and Ballistic Missile programs. T
Good morning. We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine senators. I think, senator grassley, we can get going. First off i want to thank senator paul for having a filibuster which kept everybody still in town so we can have a quorom to talk about guns that may not have been his number one reason for doing it, but we take ancillary benefits wherever they come from. Last week we all had the opportunity to talk about legislation before the Committee Regarding gun violence in america. We gave our speeches. And i hope we could make significant progress. Earlier this week i was joined by senator collins, senator durbin, gillibrand, and senator kirk in the introduction revised legislation to combat the straw purchasing and trafficking of firearms. Others have joined us in that bill including senator clow chew char, senator king, and ill plan when we get on it ill offer a substitute we find the provisions with the text of the leahycollins bill. I reach out to the senators, t
I will amend it with my substitute which is based on the text of the leahycollins bill. I assume there is no objection to the substitute. Its a bill without objection. The bill as amended by the substitute is now opened for further discussion and amendment. If i could, i would start the discussion. Before i make a statement, i think i have not talked to senator sessions. I talked to senator cornyn. You folks want to make statements overall or youre ready to go to straw purchasing bill . Its on the agenda now. So the chairman has the right to bring it up. Or do you want to go right to this . I have statements on both, but id be happy to address the straw purchasing bill first. How about you, senator sessions . Ill proceed with the amendment process. We are ready to go on your bill. Can i speak now . Sure. Go ahead. Ok. I greatly appreciate the substitute amendment. I have offered an amendment to the bill which i will discuss separately. Federal legislation needed on subjects of straw pu
Is right, and that we, from this particular committee, provides oversight that if has in the past, and i imagine will continue to do. In our role, it is to continue help agencies in terms of their of violating their progress and making recommendations where appropriate. One last question, and im interested in knowing what is the most common cyber attack that your Company Faces and how that threat could best be alleviated. If you look at the higher risk ones, these numbers sound bizarre, but when you look at the things that used to be a big deal like viruses, there are hundreds of thousands of those, and we protect those pretty well. What we are challenged with the most is threats from highly resource to organizations today that are targeting us and persistent with us. The concern is because those are developed that they end up going down and get learned and can migrate down into less sophisticated hands to work through. I think the fact that we have a Large Organization and by my readi
Reserve says well reach in a few days. Reaching it could push our nation in unchartered territory. A lot to work on, capitol hill right now is quiet. So what did they do today . Its important for us to know. We begin our coverage live from capitol hill. What else do we know . Reporter we got some pretty good sense of what happened at the white house meeting. Thchs a meeting attend bipartisan leading Senate Democrats including harry reid. Also attend by senators schumer, durbin and patty murray of washington state. We got a good read out from a senior democratic aide who says in a statement and im quoting, Democratic Leaders had a productive meeting with president obama and remain fully united moving forward. He said democrats are willing to negotiate on anything republicans want to discuss as soon as we reopen the government and pay our bills. Now that statement is republicans will say more of the same from democrats. Republicans say that want denies them any negotiating power at all.