Opportunity. As you know, i am on the all aaa directors in the state of california are on the California Association of aging board as directors. That makes us members. So i was voted through an election process to represent california as one of two Board Members on the national board. So every region, there is 12 regions, has four. So we have one from hawaii, and one from arizona, and two from california, being the bigger state. For a number of years i was the alternate, and recently became the board took the board seat. So what had happened the staff for nfra was asked for the names of people of potential invitees, and gave the president and two of the Vice President s names, and i am one of the Vice President s, and that is how, they took all three of them, thank you very much. It was somewhat difficult because the conference was right in the middle of the National Association conference which is held in philadelphia. So but, thats when the president was available. So thats what we
Iran is against isil. And it would be malpractice not to inquire what their attitude is or what their attitude is about our engagement. We are not cooperating. There is no joint effort. But i think its important, diplomacy is communication and mistakes are avoided by communicating. So there is no coordination, no change in our attitude, no shift in policy, no lichkage. But yes, there has been and were open to, anything that could help to solve this problem well listen. Without compromising our values and our interest. We go to texas chairman of the subcommittee on terrorism, nonproliferation and trade. Thank you. United states protects religious minorities who have been subject to isis in iraq. Unarmed residents have been attacked, as you know, seven times resulting in the murder of a hundred residents, wounding a thousand others. Myself and 26 other members of congress have sent you a letter asking you specifically what now will be done to protect those members of camp liberty. I woul
About that but i dont think it serves in great purpose here today. So what i will do is ask o to be on the record for that and your sons service and thats what makes america great. I have a commitment that we will follow through with weapons. Well, as i said, we are deeply committed. The kurds are essential partners in this. We have enormous respect for the courage they have shown and fight she have taken to isil. And we are aiming for success, congressman. Believe me, the president is deeply committed to this effort. One theng i would say after the list of mistakes is i honestly cant think of a president who has taken more risks and put more on the line to fight the continued struggle against terrorism specifically. His efforts in afghanistan, his efforts in pakistan, efforts in yemen, efforts in mali, efforts in libya. You can run the list. Mr. Secretary, one final question, yes or no, is america at war . Well, you know, im going to answer that mr. Chairman. But you know, a lot of pe
Actually awarded for the grants and do you work with the cyber center at Homeland Security at the nddk to on how these grants are distributed or the technology that theyre developing there . Explain a little bit how that process works. Id have to go back and ask staff. Most of what we see with states using our funds ren hansment in their centers. Id have to go back and ask. I know we have work to expand eligibility on what grants can do but theres also within the cyber world still a lot to be determined, whats the best practices and how of this is an it investment versus Homeland Security grant. Id have to go back and ask. Our role is funding states i met with a big city Emergency Managers a couple of weeks ago. This is at the top of their list. They were talking about what to do during communications in an emergency. We said what would happen if communication went out and they said thats our earthquake plan. We get our units to go out and start patrolling the area. If the center cant
Because it got wiped out. We need to move beyond that. We have to look at not just Building Back to what we always looked at cost benefit analysis and make investments. This gives us the ability to move beyond just looking at one set of criteria. It seems that your mitigation effort has to be focused on the actual hazard. In this budget youre looking at additional funds for Hazard Mitigation but i would certainly want to know that is based on the actual hazard itself and mitigate both the hazard and longterm cost for the federal government and the locality. And that has been the criteria for determining Hazard Mitigation. I can show you example where we have had predisaster mitigation. States have taken that like in oklahoma to do grants to families to build safe rooms for tornadoes. Our goal is to reduce risk. Theres a lot of driving factors of that and changing environment but when we want to look at, what are things as taxpayers if we can spend money on the front end and reduce futu