Budget to help the people of king cove . What have you actually done over these past 14 months to fulfill the promise that you made, because you said that you have concluded that other methods of transport remain that could be improved to meet community needs. What has been done to help the people . Can i have a few minutes . Please. As we talked, senator, we have engaged conversations with corps of engineers about alternatives. Negotiating an mlu with them. It is i think approximately 40 miles between king cove and cold bay, if you drive there. Its ten miles through the refuge. You already have most of that road built. And as i have spoken with people in the community when you and i were both there it is very difficult in harsh weather conditions to move around that territory, period. So i have worked with the corps of engineers. Were continuing to do that to look at alternatives, such as Helicopter Services between cold bay and the end of the road that is built as you referenced, bec
Committee on Homeland Security, congressman thompson, and i quote, he stated within the next five years, the secret service will provide protection through two president ial election cycles two Democratic National conventions, two Republican National conventions, the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and other National Security special events. To his point, on top of your current responsibilities, of protecting the president and protecting your area of responsibility, and we know that theres some problems with leadership resources. Were also entering a period where theres going to be additional demand. My background is in hr and i know that when you start hiring and training, there is a gap in your resources. So we have to be realistic about that. For us to get to where we need to be, were going to have to pull resources that we already have. Do you agree with that . I think thats right. One of the concerns that the panel had, and again, pointing to the chart that the chairman put
From its investigative force for a president ial campaign but also with these usually receiving additional appropriations every four years, in order to plan for those campaigns, because the amount of travel which is very unpredictable increases. So i want to be clear that what we saw in the report will enable us to have an expectation that you will have the resources to address all of these concerns, because if this report your ask for resources only takes you up to a certain point to cover the existing concerns, then my concern is that were going to see additional gaps. And thats my concern right now. And i wanted to be clear that in the proposal, that we dont come back later and say, we still dont have the resources to do the job, knowing that all these additional things and the gap is going to be added. As an answer to that question, the proposal we made in terms of specific numbers was what we thought would address an immediate need. It was not intended to estimate how much the 201
Do you have any thoughts about what treasury is telling people about buying back preferred stock and the regulators kind of might view actions on the . Senator, from the treasure perspective weve been working our way through the tarp assets trying to resolve them so that we can recover taxpayers investments fully, whenever possible. And we have worked with Community Institutions and have no objection when Committee Institutions are able to do that. Im not sure what the regulatory issue is what youre describing but id be happy to look into. We dont have any authority over that decision. How the fed does have to coordinate with treasure. Id like to get you a formal letter on this i would be happy to look into the. Two other points that are very specific to the maryland d. C. Area, just bring your attention and ask you to look into them and then i have a pretty big question. One of which is that the entire retired d. C. Firefighters have called my office along with alan Holmes Norton that
Leaders and it was very clear that there is no daylight amongst the elected leaders in terms of how they are viewing these decisions coming out of the administration. So i just want to make again very clearly enunciate very clearly that i oppose this administrations decision on anwr i oppose its decision offshore, i oppose its costly restricts and endless decisions within the mpra and oppose what its doing to our plasser miners and Timber Industry and many other Resource Producers ready to provide good jobs to hardworking alaskans. The state of alaska was actively ignored. The north slope bureau, alaska native corporations and many alaskans all of whom asked for an oil and gas alternative in interiors anwr plan by claiming that it requires an act of Congress Even though an act of wilderness requires the very same. The actions from this administration seem destined to shut down our transAlaska Pipeline weakening our economy, forcing our state to make steep budget cuts and really violati