We are working hard to collect every penny that we can. I am out of time, apparently. Mrs. Titus. Thank you mr. Chairman. A lot of that money leftover though, was used quietly to pay for the continuation of the denver project, wasnt it . Are you talking about the money from the treasury for the last five years . Wherever you found that. Its not available to us. We cant use that money. We thought we could, and its money that essentially becomes, as i said deobligated as expenses come in and also sometimes that there are new expenses for whatever might have happened in, lets say, in 14, and that money is used in that year, so you can become antideficient after the fact, so to speak. So that 1. 3 billion was not available to us. We had hoped it would be. I was the staff person that had the cryptic conversation with the house staff back in june and we had we thought we had a plan when i mean, in my opinion, quite frankly, we are a victim of our success. We have gotten many more veterans ca
Of legal authorities are important. And theand the importance of maintaining Civil Liberties of our citizens generally is why we recommend the fbi director have a special Advisory Panel available are continuing basis. These are some of the things we found some of the things we recommend as far as the future is concerned. The United States is likely to have an organization like the fbi that not only has a great history but the ability to accept change. It has not been easy. There have been tough moments to get the idea of intelligence and degraded along with Law Enforcement into the work of the fbi. It has been difficult but they have made remarkable progress up until now. The knew director is behind the recommendations we have made. There is a Bright Future for the fbi, but it is important that there be one because the future of the fbi we will be the way in which this country is protected against terrorism. Imare going to touch on three key areas with three tracks that i think are sig
Is one of the tests that the fbi utilizes. One other thing most of the people have been radicalized and guarded to violent extremists has certain characteristics. The same type as people who join gangs. Low selfesteem, unemployed categories such as this. A gives you some indication of the kinds of people they usually get involved. There are different statistics on that. That maythat may be more true to those who are going of foreign fighter out and less true or al qaeda type operators. Educated and you have seen across the board a high incidence of the down and hours. Not to say that there are not pockets. There are two aspects to the foreign fighter problem. There going to come back in the terrorists it is true. What is even more vital is the fact that they are recruiting going over the. It is like voting on american idol. It allows the claim that this is a caliphate. Showing the pipeline down over and apart from the physical threat is an important part of diminishing the brand. Yes,
The obvious infrastructure deployment requires the expectation of a healthy return on capital. That should be taken as a given but all too often in my experience the issue of return on capital is either ignored or misunderstood in policy forums. Its not a matter of whether a business is or isnt profitable. It is instead a matter of whether a business is sufficiently profitable to warrant the high levels of Capital Investment required for the deployment of infrasfrur. We that in mind, in 2014, the Largest Companies in the cable industry earned a very healthy return. The physical assets of comcast, time warner cable, charter and cablevision, the four publicly traded Cable Operators in 2014 all earned healthy returns in excess of their cost of capital with returns ranging from 13 to 33 . Those returns were unusually high for a capital intensive industry. On the other hand it should be noted the cable industry earned returns below the cost of capital for decades. Any longterm return on Net
Researchers, not just serves working. I hesitate to do this because he represented the state that is the most affected but i would love to see if someone has the courage to question the scale of money we give the universities for administering this. You look at the percent are part gets percent harvard gets. Come on guys, cant work that go straight into research . Sen. Warren let me ask you the question on the funding part of this. Should we be doing Capital Budgeting as a way to increase the funding substantially for nih . In order to fund nih, do we have to cut shortterm spending . Speaker gingrich we dont have to. I would take it off budget and issue an alzheimers bond. The longterm tidal wave is so enormous the most fiscally prudent thing you can do is to find a way to undercut that wave through research. I and happy to defend that notion anywhere in the country in terms of talking with conservatives. There is no all are other alternative that works. If you look at how the navy bui