It is hard to have a hard view that theres a size that makes you financially significant and creating the risk. The question is, does the combination of your size, your structure, your interconnection to the system and, you know, its something that requires our ongoing analysis. Thanks very much. Time of the gentleman has expired. The chair now recognized the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. Duffy. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome, mr. Lew. Its nice to see you back at the committee again. Just a couple questions on emails. How does the treasury back up their emails currently . The main treasury, i believe, has an autot2 backup, but id e to get back to you on the specific details. So with all the information about emails and backups and irs and treasury, you have no idea how your emails are backed up . Ill just}n that the main treasury is much smaller than the irs, it has different volume, so its a different kind of an email system. How about with the white house . Its my assumption that
Mr. Toomey mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from pennsylvania. Mr. Toomey mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that vitiate the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Toomey thank you, mr. President. I rise this afternoon to address what is hatch would the senator quelled for a unanimous consent request . Too many timed be happy to yield. Mr. Hatch i ask unanimous consent that i be permitted to speak immediately following the distinguished senator from pennsylvania. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Toomey and, mr. President , id like to thank the senator from utah because i got here late and im intrude being on his time, so hes been kind enough to paritily wait for me to patiently wait for me to make a few pointse pointses. A very, very serious problem is happening in america. We see increasing numbers of what we call corporate inversions, american corporations establishing their headquarters overseas, typically through the mechanism o
Quorum call quorum call quorum call the presiding officer the republican whip. Mr. Cornyn id ask the quorum call be rescinded. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cornyn madam president , in recent days ive come to the floor several times to talk about the humanitarian crisis on our southwestern border where a veritable flood of unaccompanied children from Central America mainly are appearing on our border and turning themselves in to Border Patrol because they realize that ultimately they will be released to a relative in the United States with a notice to appear at a future court date, and the vast majority of them will fail to appear for that court date and successfully end up staying in the United States not withstanding the fact that it doesnt comply with our law. But in recent days a Curious Division has emerged from our colleagues on the other side of the aisle on a fundamental issue that i want to highlight. On one hand, more and more democrats are calling on congress
The presiding officer under the previous order, all postcloture time on the motion to proceed to house joint resolution 19 is expired and the question occurs on the motion to proceed. All votes in favor say aye. All opposed. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report. The clerk calendar number 471, Senate Joint Resolution 19, proposing an amendment to the constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections. Mr. Reid mr. President , i have an amendment to the committee reported substitute which is at the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk the senator from nevada, mr. Reid, proposes an amendment numbered 3791 to the committeereported substitute. Mr. Reid i ask for the yeas and nays on that amendment, mr. President. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The yeas and nays are ordered. Mr. Reid i have a seconddegree amendmen
We havee do you think made the farthest inroads to protect ourselves, and which of the three do we need to work on . That is a good question. It resembles a question i get a lot as secretary of Homeland Security. What threat, what vulnerability do you worry about most . Where have we made the most progress . Difficult to rank them. As secretary of homeland forrity, i am responsible counterterrorism, and your question has elements of counterterrorism. Im responsible for aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, protection of our critical infrastructure, protection of our national leaders, response to hurricanes, tornadoes, natural disasters, and Cyber Security, which is what we are here to talk about. Correct thatutely the cyber threat has those different components, different characters, motivated by different designs, and routinely, we assess threats in the nature of all three. I would have to say that we need to be vigilant in both the. Gov world with and.