express my gratitude for your leadership and for your dedication and protecting the safety and economic security of consumers across the country. these are goals and these are responsibilities that we all share. each one of us has a role in fulfilling them. for me, and for today's department of justice, protecting american consumers is a top priority. as we have rededicate ourselves to this work in recent years, we have also learned some lessons. primarily, fully understanding the threats that consumers face and protecting their interests in a comprehensive way is not

we fail to act the threat increases to our national and economic security. now, others of our colleagues have urged us narrowly on the federal information security management act. asl r & d and improved information sharing. we do need to address those issues -- and our bill does just that. with 85% of our nation's critical infrastructure owned by the private sector, the ensuring that has the critical the most vital parts of that ouy catastrophic consequences, meet reasonable risk based performance standards. in an editl "the washington post" concurred. writing that our critical systems unprotected. some of the colleagues are skepticaounew regulations. i have opposed efforts to expand regulations that would burden our economy. but regulations that are natio security and that than hinder our prosperity strengthen our country. they are in an entirel the fact is the risk based performance requirements in our bill are targeted they apply only to specific systems and assets not companie result reasonably in mass evacuations, catastrophic economic damages, or sev ou

made it a program focused on the economic security of the family unit. my fourth character is molly duson. a graduate of wellesley college, she is sometimes calmed america's first female political boss. in 1933 she gained appointment as head of the women's division of the democratic national committee. and in 1937, president roosevelt appointed her to the social security board. where she also play add key role in shaping the 1939 amendments. like all other maternalists, molly duson was a fierce foe of the proposed equal rights amendment to the u.s. constitution. as actual or potential mothers, she thought, women needed special legal protection. she also endorsed thebread-winning role of men regarding the proposed amendments, she explained, men who can afford it always consider it their first duty to provide insurance protection for their wives and children. survivor benefits extend the same kind of protection to families who need it most, and can afford it least. in addition, molly duson underscored the importance of strong families to the nation as a wh

and taking the lead in some of these areas is critical for a long-term national security and economic security. i was just in afghanistan, general, and, you know, i saw -- i think it was at boldack and ford operating base the power of the solar panels and the changes that had occurred through on-the-ground testing. as the marines tell me all the time, we don't want to carry a lot of junk. we want to carry what we need to do our job. when you can knock off a lot of pounds off the weight and transfer it off the backs of the marines and then they can do their job because they have better energy sources, like solar panels and utilization of the battery systems, that's powerful. that gives us a taxable advantage, at least from my perspective. i want you to know that from a person in a state that produces a lot of oil and gas, we like what you're doing around renewable energy and alternative energy and research to help this country become more economically secure and from a national security perspective. you know, i hear this debate kind of out there because people wonder why you're in the business,

he o democratic budget is a statement about the education of our children, the economic security of their family, the creation of jobs, the retirement security of our seniors supportingand, again, doing so in a fiscally sound way. it's important to note just if you -- you know, i mentioned the medicare 6,000 more for seniors, wealthy, but also ed -- higher education, 400,000 young people will be deprived of access to pell grants and another plus curtailed. at the same time the republican bill does nothing address the fact that on july 1 ins will double, will 4 todo 6.8%. the house democratic budget unmr addresses that and keeps it at 3.4%. so if you're a student, if you're a senior, if you're a member family, this budget is, should not be a statement that reflects your values. it does not. that budget now talking about what else is on the floor today. transportation. the republican budget, think of this. we all recognize that a transportation bill is one of the biggest job. we all recognize over time it has always been bipartisan in its approach. that's because localities have worked toge

i can't believe it isn't also protect their health, their safety, their economic security and health security into the futu, with the benefits they receive under the affordable care act that the republicans seek to yield back. >> tomember, mr. nk you, ms. castor, and thank you for offering this amendment and just to first emphasize a point that's already been made which this budget immediately, immediately reduce benefits to medicare beneficiaries because therdle c that doughnut hole that provides that support for seniors in need and this budget reopens the doughnut hole an an immediate change for those seniors. i think it also needs to be pointed out that when we did the affordable care act we used savings. for example, by ending the subsidies to priete insurance carriers that were way hi14eing paid. weor ue purpose of providing these additional benefits. in other words we used those ts prescription drug benefit, and the budget we have for us from the republicans takes those savings. we heard -- you take the savings even though a the lot of ads were run against a lot of people based

and until we get family economic security policies, people are struggling to support the children that they now have with a quarter of families with young children living in poverty. so i completely agree with you that having access to both when to have children and how many is critical to the economic empowerment of all women and mothers. >> i guess that settles that. >> we'll rotate microphones. my name is karen teagarden and i am with unite against the war on women and first aid like to thank linda and ter oin the panel for supporting for supporting what we are doing. my question is for everybody in this room. who is going to join us against this war on women's rights on april 28th in every single state in this country and d.c.? if you don't know about it there are flyers on every table. and we really thank you for your support. if you have any questions you can go to our website unite women.org. thank you. >> thank you very much. i know it is happening all over the country. unite women.org. it is to unite women against the war on women. marches and rallies, april 24th -- 28th. i'm

jeopardizes let and economic security -- >> time expired. look, because of just this -- why i'm being tough on it. >> the -- >> gentle lady, come on. the question offered by the gent. lady from florida, all those in favor say aye. opposed say no. the nos have it. roll call vote requested. the clerk will call the roll. >> mr. garrett? mr. simpson? mr. simpson, no. mr. campbell? mr. campbell, no. mr. calvert? mr. calvert no. mr. aiken? mr. aiken, no. mr. cole? mr. cole, no. mr. price? mr. price, no. mr. mcclintock? mr. in clin tok, no? mr. president chafies? mr. sudsman. mr. sudsman, no. mr. lankford? mr. lankford, no. ms. black? ms. black, no. mr. ribbal? mr. ribbal, no. mr. florez? mr. florez, no. mr. mulvaney? mr. mulvaney, no. mr. huescamp? no. mr. young? mr. young, no. mr. amosh? mr. amosh? no. mr. akita? mr. akita, no. mr. guinta? mr. guinta, no. mr. woodall? mr. woodall, no. mr. garrett? mr. garrett, no. mr. van hollen? mr. van hollen, aye. ms. schwartz? ms. schwartz, aye. mr. captor? mr. captor, aye. mr. doggett, mr. doggett, aye. mr.

addressing our nation's critical infrastructural vulnerabilities which pose serious national and economic security risk. briefly looking geographically around the world and in afghanistan and general burgess will have more to say about this coming during the past or the taliban and lots of god, because mainly mainly a place to the international security forces or isaf were concentrated. the leaders begin to enjoy safe haven in pakistan. the efforts to partner with afghan national security forces are encouraging the corruption and governance continued the afghan forces effectiveness. most provinces have established basic governance structures but struggled to provide services. the international security force in support of afghanistan's neighbors notably in particular pakistan will remain essential to sustain the gains achieved. although there is broad international political support for the afghan government, particularly in europe about how to find afghanistan initiatives after 2014. in iraq, then it's been sporadic high-profile attacks continue. prime minister maliki's recent aggressiveness agai

as he sp others have sdz economic security is national security. we have faced some pretty tough budgetary targets pass bid our con. one of the things i want to emphasize is that the defense budget unveiled by the president ten days ago was driven by strategy and not by dollars. we navigated by some key principles for this defense straj. one was to maintain the world's finest military and avoid at all costing hollow out that force. a smaller military that is capable of a full spectrum of missions is superior to a larger force ill equipped because resources are not made available for things like training or maintenance or modernization. another key principle was to preserve the quality of the all-volunteer force and to keep pace with them who have borne the battle over the last decade. our fleets of ships, aircrafts, vehicles and submarines don't sail, fly, drive or dive without the men and women who wear the uniform of the united states. our new strategy has an understandable focus on the western pacific and the arabian gulf. but it does maintain o

we have examined cyber threats to our national and economic security. and just last month, at the worldwide threat hearing, which is an open hearing, we heard fbi direhatct b the cyberthreat which cuts across all programs will be the number one threat to the country. and already cyber threats are doing great damage to the united states. and the trend is getting worse. let me give you just four examples. and what is interesting is we know about these when they en often classified because the people that they happen to don't want it released because they -- because their clients will think badly of them. of course it is not their fault. nonetheless. i think it is fair to say pentagon netusands of times dai. and it's computer networks have suffered a significant compromise in 2008. that is according to fordety de lin. in november doj charged seven defendants from russia and maldava with hacking into the royal bank of stealing. from more than 2,100 200 cities worldwide in 12 hours. in 2009, federal officials for data from more than 130 million credit card i

millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. but president truman's pleas for health security fell victim to the politics of the day, and scares about socialized medicine. dwight eisenhower came before the congress in 1955 and said that health insurance could be improved by expanding the scope of the benefits provided. john f. kennedy proposed expanding coverage to the elderly and the mentally ill. by the early 1960s, both presidents eisenhower and kennedy could not say that their hopes of health security had gone forward. but instead they saw, once again, the familiar sight of a dream of health security being stalled by outside interest groups and partisan bickering in the congress. then came presidents lyndon johns johnson, richard nixon and jimmy carter. there was progress made on medicare and medicaid. president nixon came forward with a comprehensive health care reform proposal that built on the employer/employee system. president carter proposed a number of advances and particularly mrs. carter championed the cause of menta

related to that is our mission which is to link economic security with ue student achievement. we know that kids have less of an opportunity to suck needs school. the services help them prosssper and similar circumstances will also it will help them prosper academically. all of the services that we develop economically needs base, i.r.s. evidence. so we really want to lift up what's already working and scale that. as you can see given that space initiative, we want to work block by block to make sure every child and family is reached. like i said, our strategy is to connect these two, leverage existing resources, the main one of which is the school improvement grant as well as all the rich services that are already existing in the mission and all the great work this all the schools are doing. to really create a seamless continuum of services or the community so this is very important for various reasons are, one of which is economics. we know there are a hole hosts of government funds. fill anthropic funds and vares you other sources of revenue thaw are affecting if our ability

specifically whether it comes to government spending on health care, is a failure that imperils our economic security and now our national security. the president's budged in my personal opinion charts a path to decline. in addition to examining the deep defense reductions, i hope today's hearing informs us of the consequences to our security that would result from the disproportionate cuts the defense spending under the budget control sequester. congress has a solemn obligation to ensure our troops fighting overseas have the resources they need to successfully complete their missions. every citizen owes a debt of gratitude to the families that continue to make untold sacrifices for our security. and for the freedoms that we cherish. we are in deep gratitude. we want to make sure that we honor them with the right kind of priorities, with the right ti kind of defense policy. before that, before hearing testimony, i would like to yield to ranking member mr. van holland. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i twobt join chairman ryan in welcoming you back, mr. secretary, to the budget committee. welcome, general

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all american seniors, and the republican budget breaks the promise and risks the health and economic security for the seniors. we'll have more discussion on how to modernize and strengthen medicare and medicaid without breaking the promise to our seniors. and with that, i want to yield three minutes to kathy caster. >> i thank my colleague. clearly democrats and republicans have different visions for america. the republican vision is bleak. it is very harsh. just sense the republican budget was rolled out yesterday independent commentators have called it reverse robin hood. they've called it extreme. they've called it disturbing. and there's no better kpamp of that than the republicans' assistance that the promise made to generations of americans that is medicare be broken. medicare is that fundamental promise that has served us well for more than 45 years that if you work hard all of your life, you pay into medicare, you play by the rules, you are going to live your retirement years in dignity. you will not go bankrupt. your family will not go bankrupt because you have some diagnosis or chro

. >> in the president's message, a lot he talked about, of course, trying to address the economic security of this country but about program flexibility. if you heard president keel's speech today we're asking for the same thing that the president was speaking about in his address two days ago, and we actually have developed a report at ncai that we've shared with the white house. we've had meetings with the white house to talk about some of those areas, those specific areas of program flexibility so we're hoping that we'll be part of his -- you know, part of the work they're doing within the administration targeting those areas where without a lot of new money but with a little more government flexibility our programs will be more efficient. >> anybody else? >> yes? >> national museum of the american indian, also yesterday's release of the census figures, a very high percentage of american indians are under the age of 24. what would be your suggestion to all on how we can mobilize the vote between 18 and 24. >> i'm going to ask jackie to talk about the native vote, get out the native vote

are one phone call away from a diagnose, an accident, a birth, that maybe challenging to the economic security of your family. >> reporter: the speaker says she is more worried about the state of health care than how the supreme court will rule. right now health care reform is providing jobs. >> support it, of course. >> reporter: they held a job fair today. they are hiring. >> >> reporter: the supreme court arguments start on monday and they are scheduled for three days. reporting live in san francisco, noel walker ktvu channel 2 news. >>> on the campaign trail, mitt romney used the second anniversary of the passage of the health care reform act to criticize barack obama. >> i see it as one more example of a president pursuing his attack on economic and personal liberty. >> romney campaigned today in louisiana set to hold the primary tomorrow. it posted a video today promoting the health care laws benefits. >>> dozens of people lined up this morning on the second day of a clinic at the coliseum. the organization remote area medical is providing dental care and eye care. clinics like this one

imagine being a senior who re relies on medicare for health and economic security but faces rise each year for medicare or prescription drugs. a woman charged higher premiums, women are up to the tune of $1 billion higher premiums than men for the same coverage or a worker locked in a dead end job unable to pursue your professional passion for fear of losing your insurance. for too long these examples are not simply a matter of imagination. they are a matter of reality faced by millions of americans. but that all changed for the better with health insurance reform. the passage of affordable care act. who made history bassing the bill for congress. we made progress for the american people. imagine republicans want to turn back the clock and take away from progress from the american people. they will be voting next week to do so over and over again. they keep bringing up one way or another to unravel it. in their budget they'll be voting on this to end the medicare guarantee making seniors pay more for benefits. already the american people are seeing enormous benefits. 86 million americ

afghan economy in the period of time after 2014 so we don't ultimately have the experience of an economic security issue as opposed to a security issue and continued insurgency. >> thank you, mr. courtney. >> thank you for your testimony. some of the comment that is have been made in this room and outside this room have focused on whether or not the president's time line he laid out is put at risk the policy and successes that you have fought so hard to accomplish in afghanistan. i would like to, again, if i could go deeper in terms of, you know, what's already happened in terms of troop recovery and drawdown. we now have completed initial 10,000 troop drawdown. i want to ask, general, now that we are some months past that, are you, in any way, do you have any concerns about whether or not that reduction in force has hobbled your efforts that you have been describing here this morning as far as accomplishing this transition to the afghan national army. >> the 10,000 that came out last year, i'm in the process of making the decision with respect for the 23,000 that will come out. i will be balancin

campaign, there's no more important issue, the most fundamental issues of the day which is our economic security and stability, job growth, the size and scale of government, government deficits and spending, and of course the imposition of government rule over people's lives, both economic decisions and of course their decisions about even their own personal faith. this bill has far reaching consequences for the economic health of this country, and for basic liberty in our society. and that's why this decision and the debate that is going on right now is fundamental. and there is one candidate in this race who can actually make the contrast that is necessary between the republican position, the conservative position, and one that is an overwhelmingly supported by the american public and one that barack obama believes in. and that's rick santorum. and there's one candidate who is uniquely disqualified to make the case, the reason i'm here, and he's not. the reason that i talk about obama care and its impact on the economy and on fundamental freedoms, and mitt romney doesn't. it's because he can't

who's concerned about medicare and what that guarantee means to a person's health and their economic security. that means anybody who cares about innovation in our country for a new kind of health care that's not just about the health care in america, but the good health of america, that prevention and the rest. about innovation to take us to customize, personalized care. anyone who cares about lowering cost, expanding -- access and improving quality of health care. that sounds like it should include a lot of people, at least people who are aware of what is in the bill. so i hope that all of you will help us make people more aware of what is in the bill, because it really honors the greatness of our country. senator kennedy, towards the -- in the debate and towards the end of his life said this is the great unfinished business of america. that all people should have access to quality, affordable health care as a right for all americans. and not just the privileged, for a very few. so in that spirit, we are proud of the work that was done. it was a compromise. it wasn't the bill why have writt

. >> i would like to quote the house republican budget proposal -- well, lacks balance economic security of older americans and puts at risk the bipartisan agreement on discretionary spen i think that is medicare is something that is important to our seniors and the fact that this budget puts a great risk. we should be working together to make sure that we save mopey in the right way and not jeopardize our seniors or, in fact, some of our healthy seniors as well. any senior can be bankrupt by its -- by the cost of health coverage. i want to yield one minute if i may. >> 37 seconds. >> i'm sorry. i didn't see you get here. >> we had substantial progress in trying to address the problems with medicare and rising health care costs last year when we -- the year before last, dded 12 years to the solvency of medicare through the affordable health care act. it is a real mistake to am a way that asks more from those who have the least when the same budget simply hshe most. and i believe that the approach the gentlewoman takes is the right one. >> the gentleman's time hasu se ten minutes for ourp

cyberspace has increasingly become more critical to our national and economic security, and chairman, you brought up one of the quotes about the greatest transfer of wealth. i think that is absolutely correct. we are seeing increased exploitation into industry, government government, other government agents and the tlehreat of intellectual property is astounding. i'll address part of that shortly in comments coming up. ly eye also think that the threat has grown in terms of activists, nation state actors. the chairman emphasize cyber has area of investment and a liner defense budget. the task of assuring cyberspace access and security has drawn attention of all of our nations' leadership. u.s. cybercommand is a component of a larger u.s. government-wide effort to make cyberspace, one, safer and a form for vibrant citizen interaction, reserve our freedom to act in cyberspace and defend our vital interests those of our allies. cybercommand is charged to direct the security, operations and defense of the department of defense information systems. but our work is affected by threats outsi

first su we brought women who have been working for a year now on a tour with -- for the black on econom security, sustainability for women and girls, education and global empowerment. names you know like susan taylor th we all came together last week having really come after a year and a half of working on listening sessions and trying to get a handle on we want to do. one thingd upnd ready to fight. so our coalition would be focusing on something called power to vote. the kindsbe going on when it co workers rights. we haveo labor pulling together. camilla brown is a board member and also actively a partner of ours. when it comes to voting rights we're working with the lawyers' committee, all of the women wore issues around voting rights are led by women. kind of a lack of -- when you look at the people running issues around voting rights they're women. ju project, forgot -- of course barbara arnwine. we

until we get family economic security policies, people are struggling to support the children they have with 1/4 of the american children living in poverty. when to have children and how many is critical to the economic empowerment of all women and mothers. [applause] >> i guess that settles that. >> i am with unite against the war on women. i would like to thank linda and terry for supporting what we are doing. my question is for everybody in this room. who is going to join us in this war on women's rights on april 8. ? if he did not know about it, there are flyers on every table. we thank you for your support. if you have questions, you can go to our website, unitewomen.org. >> i know it is helping -- it is calling on all over the country. marches and rallies across the country april 28. >> hi. i am a people person. i represent people. having been in this business since right after world war ii, i would like to know from you where is the american medical association, where are the obstetricians, where are the pediatricians, and where are our husbands, ok. i represent the people. [appl

it would seem like it would be in their interests that there would be a level of security, economic security, military, to have some reforms, and north korea, but what is the role of china and russia and particularly with the transition in government? what have they -- how have their actions been matched? >> i can answer that first. china as a great deal of influence on north korea, probably more than any other country in the world. we look to china to use this influence constructively to pressure and ka joel the north koreans to adopt the reforms you mention which are critical to meet the needs of the people which is really a human tragedy that's occurring in north korea. also, for north korea to abide by the standards of international conduct, and not to pose the threats to the broader asia pacific region that it does. we have not been entirely satisfied with china's activities in this regard, but i can assure you this is an issue that we do discuss with china regularly, and we hope that china will take more constructive approach. we also discuss this with russia, with other countries in t

for your leadership of this effort and for your dedication in protecting, health, safety and economic security of consume ears cross the country. these are goals and these are responsibilities that we all share. and each one of us has a role in fulfilling them. for me, and for today's department of justice protecting american consumers, is a top pry or tee. and as we have rededicated ourselves to this work in recent years, we have also learned some, essential lessons. primarily, that fully understanding the threats that consumers face, and protecting their interests in a comprehensive way its not something the justice department can achieve on its own. we cannot simply prosecute our way out of this problem. so we need your help. we need your perspectives. we need your expertise. we need your talents. we need your determination. that's pry swhat this day is al about. earlier this afternoon we kicked off an important, some ways, unprecedented conversation between this working group's leaders and key consumer advocates. we talked about strategies. for enhancing our civil and criminal enforcement,

gives somebody the opportunity others of us are too likely born with top contribute and create economic security for our families. now, the third point i want to make is that i think one of the most critical things for us as a country in making progress is that we establish and this is what i believe you're trying to do here, that this commitment is something where there is an overwhelming consensus in our society to achieving. because having been here for 20 years, i will be very honest in saying the following thing -- i think there is a deep double standard when it comes to evaluating programs and policies for the poorest children. we do not find out that a particular intervention to cure cancer has failed and therefore, decide well, i guess that's an argument for not investing in research to cure cancer. we do not decide that if a certain military weapon is not as effective as others that we give up on the basic security of our country or the basic goal of preventing terrorism. we find another way that is more effective. yet, i have seen that when it comes to programs for helping our poorest

it's a multi cultural, online and on-the-ground organization fighting to increase economic security for families, to decrease discrimination against women and mothers, and to build a nation where bothies can thri. one of the biggest hurdles remaining for the modern feminist movement is that we have to break down the maternal wall so that women can even get to the glass ceiling in the first place. it's time to break down that wall. together, we can do this. our members are young mothers to grandmothers. they come from every state in the nation both rural and ural economic diversity of families that is our country. in addition to being a grass roots organization, moms rising is also now a media outlet in our own right with over 650 bloggers and a blogging and social media readership reach estimated at over 3.5 million readers. "forbes" recently named r wen, but a top website for women for the second year in a row. and moms rising, we are ramping campaign. we are ramping up our voter registration, our voter education, and engagement and our get out the vote programs. and our moms vote prog

afghanistan is a dollar that ultimately contributes to afghanistan's security, not robs it of economic security over the long-term. that is why we are moving first of all if you look at our obligation rate, for serp it isn't that high this year, because we're going for the right kinds of projects. the vast majority of the projects of $50,000 and below and are community projects. they're projects which ultimately the community had a say in that will help the community. we're going to continue to folk kniss that regard so when we spend money it doesn't create additional detendency, doesn't ultimately create a form of economic disadvantage. we seek to have that money really do what the commanders need serp to do, which is provide on the ground immediate assistance that can be of an urgent nature ultimately to accomplish the mission . >> i know the okay obligated money. look at the unobligated serp money, it's significant. >> yes, ma'am. >> appropriate yated over $3 billion and have a billion and a half that hasn't been obligatesed and maybe it would be time to say we could do without that $800 mil