Actually awarded for the grants and do you work with the cyber center at Homeland Security at the nddk to on how these grants are distributed or the technology that theyre developing there . Explain a little bit how that process works. Id have to go back and ask staff. Most of what we see with states using our funds ren hansment in their centers. Id have to go back and ask. I know we have work to expand eligibility on what grants can do but theres also within the cyber world still a lot to be determined, whats the best practices and how of this is an it investment versus Homeland Security grant. Id have to go back and ask. Our role is funding states i met with a big city Emergency Managers a couple of weeks ago. This is at the top of their list. They were talking about what to do during communications in an emergency. We said what would happen if communication went out and they said thats our earthquake plan. We get our units to go out and start patrolling the area. If the center cant
Because it got wiped out. We need to move beyond that. We have to look at not just Building Back to what we always looked at cost benefit analysis and make investments. This gives us the ability to move beyond just looking at one set of criteria. It seems that your mitigation effort has to be focused on the actual hazard. In this budget youre looking at additional funds for Hazard Mitigation but i would certainly want to know that is based on the actual hazard itself and mitigate both the hazard and longterm cost for the federal government and the locality. And that has been the criteria for determining Hazard Mitigation. I can show you example where we have had predisaster mitigation. States have taken that like in oklahoma to do grants to families to build safe rooms for tornadoes. Our goal is to reduce risk. Theres a lot of driving factors of that and changing environment but when we want to look at, what are things as taxpayers if we can spend money on the front end and reduce futu
I use experience you know, i have no idea whatsoever. And pozner suggested, i think i picked that up go and do empirical research. Why doesnt the government do it . Commissions tried to do it. Doesnt know where to begin. There are so many statutes. I think, Justice Breyer the very difficulty and unmanageability of the enterprise suggests it is not what congress had in mind. What congress had in mind was identifying classes of offenses that judges are confident involve serious potential risks of physical injury to another possibly the similarity in kind inquiry when the mens rea isnt satisfied. What Congress Expected courts to do was to analyze what the conduct is that is involved in it, compare it to the listed offenses and see if the risks are similar. Does the department of justice does the department of justice do any of that . Is one that the prosecutor asks for, and is there any guidance coming from the department of justice, guidance to the u. S. Attorneys, who are going to be as
I was able to declare victory for all the work that i put in. At that point we had a 5 trillion budget surplus. At the same time, i had become a military reformer. I was a part of one of the early Reform Efforts of spare parts. I was involved with procurement reform all of my career. I was even involved in the way in which the pentagon operated. You might remember that services werent very independent with each other. In the war in lebanon our marines could be on the beach and see a navy ship in the ocean, but they could communicate with each other. They could not communicate with each other. So we went to work. Many of them were democrats as well. We put together what was called the goldwaternichols bill which created special forces command and got the forces to Work Together. Because if you dont Work Together in the time of war, you have the problems you have with lebanon. It was the most are matted change in the military operated in modern history. I was a member of the political on
Humming humbling ourselves and seeking your help. I want to thank you, first of all, for who you are, thank you for your goodness, your mercy, and grace in each of our lives and thank you for the blessings that you give to us every day. What i want to thank you for each and every representative and all they do to direct our great country. I pray today that would you have your hand of grace and guidance upon them. I pray god, that would you give them had the wisdom they need on a daily basis to fulfill the office that youve appointed them to. I also ask that you would guide and courage and protect them in their personal lives, as well as their families and loved ones. I love you, lord. Thats in the name of jesus christ, i play. Amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. For what purpose does the gentleman from michigan rise . Mr. Speaker, pu