Protect National Parks and were nongovernmental, Nonprofit Organization and weve been at it for almost 100 years now. Host one thing the association when topics of shutdown come in, what was it like this time around for National Parks, compared to the last shutdown in 2013 . Guest it was difficult, the last shutdown lasted a couple weeks and everything was shut down. This shutdown was difficult, it wasnt quite clear what was going to happen and of course it was a shorter time period, we still had about a third of National Park units shut down. You also have reports of graffiti and looting in the parks and just in two days, saw trash building up and many things happening inside parks. With a third of the parks closed, a lot of visitors were shut out. Host when a shutdown happens, no staff on National Parks to help with guides or safety or things like that . What is the scope . Guest typically, the guides are not essential, they dont consider them essential, visitor centers, bathrooms ar
With the next panel. I want to thank you all for coming back, first of all, from the break. I want to welcome my panelists up here. Thank you for being willing to participate in this discussion. Obviously, its the topic du jour, i would say, for Election Administrators as well as folks like jeremy in the Computer Science community, dealing with election cybersecurity and securing the elections process. Just as a way of background, this topic is obviously the topic du jour coming out of the 2016 election, where we saw nation state actors targeting state level election systems or registration systems as well as vendors in a spearfishing attempt in 2016 as well as the declaration of elections as Critical Infrastructure by the department of Homeland Security. So on this panel today, i hope we can delve into some of those issues, talk about the operating environment that Election Officials are in today, share the expertise that you all have, your experiences, and most importantly, what step
And information sharing vital to dismantling criminal organizations. I would like to welcome the subcommittee and appreciate the witnesses for being here today. The chair recognizes himself for Opening Statement for which ill deliver mr. Kings Opening Statement. Law enforcement officers use many weapons to fight terrorism and crime on our streets. Some of these weapons such as badges, guns and squad cars are easy to see. They are the hallmarks of police work. Other weapons, however, that are harder to identify, but every bit as vital. Among these less visible weapons, access to timely and Accurate Information is oftentimes difference between a successful investigation and unsolved crime. In todays threat environment much of the information needed it generated overseas. This is particularly true when it comes to combatting complex Transnational Criminal Organizations that threaten our safety here at home. These sophisticated criminal enterprises do not stop at borders. Instead, they ext
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Person who just focuses on one thing. Actually its two things. Its hurricanes and tornadoes. I focus on two things, but there really connected in that they are these violent wind storms that caused lots of damage and casualties and we have to think about what might happen in the future. Really, what i do, this is this idea of wearing one hat. I spent all of my time thinking about what hurricanes and tornadoes might be like in the future. You will see a lot of graphs today. Thats the way we make comparisons. Science is about comparing this with that. That is the window to understanding science. I want you to know these are my graphs. These arent graphs i got off the internet. These arent someone elses arguments about whats happening and there are a lot of argument arguments. What you are going to hear from me is what i do and what i think about on a daily basis. Before i begin, i would like to thank her for inviting me. I got a chance to to her the facility with doreen this afternoon, a