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That we dont need these extra levels of production. Our concern is that assertion is not always on a full enough audience evidence and experimental data to justify making those decisions so the net reduction, so there could be a net reduction in safety if exemptions and other relaxations in safety procedures are granted based on our presumption that a new reactors safer without a full examination. So mr. Chairman the bill as a distracted is an assumption that there are inherent safety features built into advanced design reactors that make it safer automatically. Thats a nice assumption to make and its a nice assertion to make but thats going to be tested. We have to make sure that anyone additional potentially successful safety feature interacts with the totality of the rest of the Nuclear Power plants in terms of assuming the plant is safe. We dont know that. Its an assumption built into the language of the bill so this just goes to the question and it is an 8020 question. What are th
Productive engagement in the work force. And, therefore, for realizing the full productivity potential of our economy, and when Food Insecurity affects children. As youll see in the hamilton projects facts that we handed out as you came in is happening far too frequently in this country. Were reducing the prospects of our economy for decades ahead as well as i said earlier being involved with a morally outrageous situation for this the richest country in the world. Todays discussion is about the startling number of people who are still experiencing Food Insecurity in america today. Supplemental nutrition assistance programs, s. N. A. P. Which is designed as you well known to address this issue and recommended policy changes to make that program more effective. Let me recognize the director of the hammentilton project. The managering director of the hamilton project and the policy director of the hamilton project for the work they have done in creating the intellectual construct for thi
Today that works well as a joint force. However, i do believe that given the change in our strategic environment, particularly in the last three or four years, that it is time to do a review. With reference to your specific question, i dont know that theres a need for the change. I report to the secretary of defense and if if confirmed ill report to the secretary of defense and the president. But i think what we need in this environment is we also, and i think what general dunford was suggesting, is we need the ability to have agility in our Decision Making and deployment of assets. Very few of these challenges today are limited to one cocom. There are multiregional, multifunctional, multidomain and challenge the structure we have today and our ability to be as agile as our challenges or adversaries are. Mr. King we have to be sure that allows our agility . Mr. Scaparrotti yes. Mr. King general robinson . Ms. Are binson the most important part of this is the agility and ability to work
Prove it this is going to stick around then maybe ill invest in it myself. I think we have early adopters. We call them lowhanging fruit and people that are more cautious and thats fine. They have to be around it. They have to experience it and taste it and feel it themselves then we have people who are no matter what you say, its going to feel like we are giving special attention to some people and not others because they have trauma. And we have to work on that. So we have to it is a horizontal approach but its bottomtoop. I think the 2pointal , theyre the people that have a hard time trusting that we mean what we say. There is no funding. Were doing it from the inside out. Its not like were going to lose funding. Were doing it. This is not costing a lot of money to the department. Were not relying on external grants or consultants or anybody coming in from different parts of the droin. Were doing it ourselves. No matter who leaders are, we want to create the change and embed it into