Secretary wilber ross are scheduled to meet in washington. Topic is trade. Cyberattacks. The countries, 200,000 the weekend. Other about who he was hit . We had people from Healthcare Telecom and Car Manufacturers manufacturers. In terms of france we had car to shut downad production at a number of plants this. To mitigate theres a disruption in germany on the trains and Telecom Companies reported some disruption in their services. Whenever a hospital gets thats a serious business. How sophisticated was this . Take patch out in march and put it on your microsoft, it fine. Be i think it wasnt too hard these people to mitigate once they were affected. Pretty easy to have taken some precautions that meant you were not going to be affected by this. Saw a number of companies that had not taken those precautions. Surprising. In term of sophistication of most people think it was not too sophisticated. We know thatlf, as the u. S. Oped by National Security agency. Anybody could use that tool t
2016 is going to be a different election though. The world has changed. We dont need just someone with a strong economic plan. Thanks to the obamaclinton foreignpolicy team, we have gone from a policy of peace t hrough strength from a policy of leaving behind and it has been disastrous for the American People and the world. In fact, the president s popularity is so bad around the world today that i heard this report from a source that the kenyan government is actually developing proof that barack obama was actually born in america. [laughter] [applause] the fact of the matter is we are in a very serious time. I was in israel six months ago and i spoke with Prime Minister netanyahus Senior Adviser and he pulled me aside and he said in 2016 America Needs to elect a wartime president. The world is a dangerous place. We need someone with real experience. To be able to rebuild our military. The likelihood we will face a former secretary of state means we need someone with a long and deep un
Their own. And i have to say the majority over there tried. The democrats in the senate stopped consideration of that spending bill four different times over six weeks. In the meantime, the house had to sit here waiting for the senate, and we have been waiting six weeks until just now. Finally, this more the senate has passed a bill funding the department for the balance of the year. Which differs from the house passed version of that bill so we got to go to conference. Thats the way the framers set things up when the house does something, and the senate does Something Different on the same subject, youve got to bring them together into conference to work out the differences and come up with a bill for the president to sign. Thats where we are. Finally now we can go to conference. We could not have earlier because the senate had not passed the bill. Now we can go to conference. And well be asking the speaker for that designation today. But in the meantime we cant let the Department Sto
Impell. And may all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. Mr. Speaker. The speaker the gentleman from pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, i demand a vote on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. The speaker the question is on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The journal stands approved. The gentleman from pennsylvania. Mr. Thompson mr. Speaker, i object to the vote on the grounds that a quorum is not present and i make a point of order that a quorum is not pnt. The speaker pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question are postponed. The pledge of allegiance today will be led by the gentlelady from indiana, mrs. Broo
Testimony. All witnesses who testify before this subcommittee are required to be sworn. At this time i would both of you to please stand and raise your right hand. Do you swear that the testimony youre about to give before this subcommittee will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you got . We will be using a timing system today. Please be aware that one minute before the red light comes on, you will see the light change from green to yellow, giving you an opportunity to conclude your remarks. All of your written testimony will be printed in the record in its entirety and we would ask that you try to limit your oral testimony to five minutes. Professor battalio, we will have you go first. Thank you again for your work. Good morning chairman levin and Ranking Member mccain. Thank you for inviting me to testify today. Its an honor to have the opportunity to present my views on conflicts of interest. In u. S. Equity markets to the Senate Permanent subcommitte