ms. castor: thank you, mr. chairman. i will place in the record a brief opening statement that i had for this markup. i m pleased to support both of these nominees. mr. johnson: we are meeting to consider the undersecretary for intelligence and analysis for the u.s. department of homeland security. and admiral to be assistant secretary of transportation administration, t.s.a., u.s. department of homeland security. these are two incredibly important positions, particularly at this point in time, with all the threats we face to our transportation sector. as well as across the globe and the threats to our homeland. so the secretary the undersecretary for intelligence analysis, the department of homeland security, is responsible for leading the department of homeland security s office of intelligence and analysis. and also serves as the department s chief intelligence officer. in these roles the undersecretary is responsible for the streemings of intelligence and analysis, to d
and reporter and talk show host lynne hayes-freeland. here are the rules for the debate.candidates will have one minute to answer each question then an additional 30 seconds for rebuttal. the questioners may jump in with follow-up questions. we will make sure the response times are equal. each candidate will have two minutes for closing statements. so let s begin. the first of a two-part question. as a leader in your party, yes, sir no. do you support and will you vote for and encourage others to vote for your party s presidential nominee and what if any are specific issues on which you disagree with your party s nominee. according to a poll, you go first. thanks to all of you for tuning in. i do support hillary clinton or president because he s going to work for working families, the same reason i m in this campaign. there will beissues that i disagree with secretary clinton about . we might talk about exposing i don t think we can afford to do that. but what i think is ob
so this new technology has given us the ability of the misuse of resources. to better understand their needs. and the payment to madison or rent. it isn t a corruption issue but making sure we can fine-tune the programming and again and still allow you that they are the biometric. and where they are appropriate but corruption is a huge issue to watch for all the time but like to see that new technology and then we don t do that much with the host government. that would be in issue. i have the exact issue someone getting fivers six cards to safeguard. we have a government program and it is the small country but of that the 16 million and before that day were distributed and costing them $3.66 with the mastercard debit card with uh partnership and basically what that did for disbursement with $375 million also to be paid off of one card. and then i pay a dollar 60. but that isn t the problem. ended south africa again the with 850,000. and with of refugee program is a true e
and better resources in public education. there s a second to this. a few days ago the naacp national board called for a moratorium until laws are revised to make charters as accountable and transparent as public schools. do you agree charter schools should meet the same accountabilities as public schools and if so will you stop funding charter schools? so let me start with this. we are i think as a country to have high performing charters that are doing great jobs, providing great stunts to students. that s good. we should have more schools like that. and i think any arbitrary cap on the growth of high performance charters is a mistake in terms of our goal of trying to improve opportunity for all kids. that said, where states are doing a bad job authorizing, that has to change. i i ve talked built example of michigan. we have states that set a low bar for getting a charter. when charters perform poorly, they fail to take action, which is the essence of the charter school c
was. it would seem to me to be critical when you were examining one of these claims. i assume that you have a group that works with the claimant as far as dealing with their insurance company. dodge the loan officers deal with the actual agent when they process the application. and you feel comfortable with their expertise? insurance companies can be somewhat difficult at times when it comes to claims. we have pretty good success dealing with the disaster survivor and the agency. i can see i am way over, but i have a number of other questions. in any event, if i were you, i would take a look at the application form. i don t want to see a form that looks like a phone book, but i have this idea of keeping it simple. but it seems to me you need more information than what you have. go back to katrina. the chairman indicated there were 18,000 businesses, what percent had insurance? i will have to go check the records. i was not with the office of disaster assistance at the