Democrat, did the same thing. So its something that came up and you will see congressional action early, in particular in the senate where theres been no action on these or really any other issues for the last two years. What about the public that will take questions in a minute but im cure use on the nsa intelligence issue some of your colleagues excuse for what voting for what they knowledge are excessive constraints or not well throughout through provisions in the programs and the public is up in arms and i need to give them something youch both had tough campaigns this year and your campaign was a central issue in the primary and came up in arkansas as well what is your sense of that . It was a central issue. We debated it. My part never had the problem he voted for it four times himself, so it was interesting. But suffice to say, ill have folks express concerns about provision inside the American Action here, domestic surveillance issues. We have to do this well. Our National Secu
Indian country but also an issue for all of rural america. Its why i included in my opening remarks the fact that we in 2014 established nearly 10 million of contribution toward expanded Broadband Access. We have completed the rule making process to institute and implement the new farm bill provisions you referred to. Thats now putting us in a position to begin making decisions about where resources go. We announced today the project in mexico which is the first project under the substantially Underserved Trust Area provisions of a previous farm bill. Thats 5. 5 million that will be committed to expanded Broadband Access in new mexico. We are very much committed to this. I would say that there are two specific ways that you can address the issue. One is through our normal program, Distance Learning telemedicine program. Now with the new farm bill rules well certainly be prioritizing areas that are most in need. Working with the fcc to make sure that they put pressure on Telecommunicati
That we normally dont have heard namely 25 fuel efficiency as an example. We very much would like to have competition on all of our programs. Continues,estration its compounding effects, we may be forced to down select earlier than we would like. That is the risk of sequestration, ok . I would like to give an example that is exactly what had happened on jack comes program. Joint air to ground missile it 30 million mark and then a 69 sequestration on top of that. It is not that we wanted to make the cut, but we were forced to cousin budget shortfall. General posten would you like to add . It is critical not only because as you say we have fuel savings, 25 there. It also has a maintenance savings. It is key to our developmental programs in the future. We are working to get that in the current platforms of and apache but it is also tied to our joint multirole aircraft. Sequestration places this program at risk of having to do it early down select which will, appearsntinue and it that we w
Answer it in two parts. The two takeaways are the terms. Ncertainty and inflexibility uncertainty is the budget environment we are in right now. Not knowingnty of when we are going to have a budget or with the budget is going to be. As a navy, we are asked to with capablence ships to do our nations is this. To do that, we have to plan. We have to plan a strategy, a budget. Aviation andan for ship depot maintenance. We have to train our people and we have to have a plan for that. We also have to have a maintenance schedule. With the uncertainty, it is comes toid, when it the planning. With the inflexibility that we budget environment now, we haveht already seen what happens in 2013 and when we look at 2014, the combination of a continuing resolution and a sequester will impact our training. Its going to reduce the number carriers that we can effectively train. Had two carrier rings then had to go to reduce training. In 14, its going to be more than twice. Half of our carrier air wings w
That understand what is it they want to focus on. Whether they agree as to the most important things people then, ad to see number of organizational things. How to get money to finance it is one of the most difficult issues. How to best organize it to see what they want. There is a lot of organizational work. You need to find partners in russia, belarus, anywhere that share your interest. Recipe that is the best as of today. Thank you. 22 years after the breakup of the soviet union, we have a very different global world. It is very different than it used to be during cold war. Relations are quite different. Diplomacy is quite different. Capabilities are very different. And the level of danger is quite different. They often dont understand it. One of the biggest problems in u. S. Russia relations is a lack of fresh ideas. Lack of breakthrough ideas. Kind of intellectual deadend. We have great experts on u. S. Russia relations and one of the conclusions from today is, these too can get r