senator alexander? >> thank you. do you plan to issue new moratorium on all exploration of oil in the gulf of mexico at depths of more than 500 feet? >> the answer to that is, yes, senator alexander, and we -- our point of view that we've taken as we move forward with the moratorium, let me explain to other in thes in the congress, we had a choice of essentially three. one is letting things go, if something had ever happened. some advocated we press the stop tton forever and never do any ore production or drilling in the outer continental shelf. the president and ihose the positive way, to allow us to learn the lessons from the deepwater horizon explosion, deal with the issues of standards and enforcement, and also making sure that many measures that are supposed to be in pace to prevent this from happening again are actually in place. >> it's hard to disagree with pressing the pause button after such a tragedy. but the judge yesterday made a cogent argument, and your data, you said you hope by mid july

alexander: thank you.n 1980, the republican leader, howard baker, became the majority leader of the united states senate, and robert c. byrd became the minority leader. according to senator baker, he went -- walked to senator byrd's office and said to him, bob, i'll never know the senate rules as well as you do. so i'll make you an offer. iecall a n surprise you if you'll -- i'll not surprise you if you'll never surprise me. senator byrd looked at senator baker and said, let me think about it. and the next morning senator byrd called senator baker and said, it' a deal. and that's the way they operated the senate in those four years when senator baker was the majority leader and senator byrd was the minority leader. they operated the senate during that time under an agreement where senator byrd was careful to try to give every senator the right of amendment. he thought that was very important. in return, he got back from senators who had amendments that many senators thought were frivolous or unnecessary, n

i am very grateful, general alexander, that you would join us. this has been long in coming.ou see the depth of interest in this topic. rather than me delaying it, we look forward to your words, i hope that you will give us the benefit of taking questions and field those. thank you for coming. [applause] >> he must have been standing on something, because this is way up there. thank you, for your service and also at the strategic and international studies center. you helped spark this under the clinton administration and with experts continue to show leadership in the field. indeed, the csis report serves as a key thread of continuity across to administration's and really set the foundation for crafting this administration's strategy for cyber and security. thank you as well for the opportunity to speak here today. this is my first public engagements since i've been promoted, assuming the commander of u.s. cyber command. i am pleased to be with all of you here today and can't think of no better place to talk about cyberspace and u.s. cyber com than at csis. before i talk abou

, for you to join us. -- very grateful, and general alexander -- very grateful, gemeraneral alexander, for you o join us. thank you for coming. >> he must have been standing on something, because this is way up there korea and thank you for that introduction, and thank you -- this is way up there. thank you for that introduction. there was a key threat across two administrations, and it was part of drafting the policy for security. thank you, as well, for the opportunity to speak here today, as this is my first public engagement since i have been promoted in assuming the command of u.s. cyber command. i am pleased to be here with all of you today and can think of no better place to talk about cyberspace than here. but before i talked about this and focus on the defense department, -- before i talk about this, let me state that this is a team sport. i see a lot of the team out here in the audience. we cannot do this alone. within the government, howard schmidt has the lead in coordinating agencies and our approach to cybersecurity. he has done a secured -- a superb job and has been gre

alexander: thank you.in 1980, the republican leader, howard baker, became the majority leader of the united states senate, and robert c. byrd became the minority leader. according to senator baker, he went -- walked to senator byrd's office and said to him, bob, i'll never know the senate rules as well as you do. so i'll make you an offer. iecall a n surprise you if you'll -- i'll not surprise you if you'll never surprise me. senator byrd looked at senator baker and said, let me think about it. and the next morning senator byrd called senator baker and said, it' a deal. and that's the way they operated the senate in those four years when senator baker was the majority leader and senator byrd was the minority leader. they operated the senate during that time under an agreement where senator byrd was careful to try to give every senator the right of amendment. he thought that was very important. in return, he got back from senators who had amendments that many senators thought were frivolous or unnecessary,

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so i'm very grateful general alexander that you would join us. this has been long in coming. you see the depth of interest in this topic and we rather than my delaying it, we look forward to hearing your words and then i hope you will give us the benefit also of sharing q & a and we will take care of those questions for you. thank you for coming. >> he must have been standing on something, because this is way up there. thanks for that introduction and your leadership and service to our nation. not only the department of defense and to the center of strategic and international studies. you helped spark the discussion in the 1990's under the clinton administration and with experts like jim lewis, csis continues to show leadership. securing cyber space for the 44th presidency served as a key thread for continuity across two administrations and really set the foundation for crafting this administration's strategy for cyber and security. thank you as well for the opportunity to speak her today. this is my first public engagement since have i been promoted and assuming the command

teacake alexander the great out of there. they defeated the british. the idea we are staying there one more year is instilling a fear in them? >> larry: he said it was russia's biggest mistake to ever get involved in. fighting rocks, caves. >> he said the people who stormed the beaches at normandy were not trying to win any buddies hearts and minds. you know, either we are in that to win it or we are not. >> larry: longer than vietnam. where does it go, do you think? what does happen? what happens? >> we have said what happens. we are pulling out in a year. what is the point of the people who are going to die between now and year later? that is the question. that is the john kerry question. how you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake. >> larry: was he right to fire mcchrystal? >> i think here is a guy that is trying his hardest to implement the policy that may not be as. i hate to see a guy taken down for gossip. i think the way to fight this is not the way they are doing it. i look at the terrace and the plots we have stopped in recent y

guest: well, those are two different issues, so let me respond to senator alexander. proponent of wind. he's been an on the part of pobet of wind power for quite a long time. it is on the electricity side. we actually disagree with him. pe think there is a lot of potential for wind. it's in the single digits as far as providing electricity in the united states. we think it can get up into the double digits. it's not going to be the sole source of power, but it does have a role to play. and if did you to europe, you can see that, whether you're in denmark or germany or spain. there's tremendous amount of wind, and they have wind onshore, offshore increasingly. so i actually completely disagree with him on that point. on the point of transportation fuels, what needs to happpn in transportation is we need much more efficient cars, we need cars that get, you know, 50 to 60 miles to a gallon, not the 35 miles to a gallon. we're going to be going towards that when we're in the low 20's, and that's technologically possible, and we need to go there. we need to invest heavily

alexander hamilton's numberr78+ for some collaboration.hamilton and several comments on the importance of mmrit in the selection process and the necessity of choosing a man who are best qualified for their respective offices. he was hardly more specific than the document he was expanding. integrity and the knowledge of the laws acquired through laborious study -- he of law school in mind -- were his only expressed elements of the general criterion of merit. when jennifer invited me to deliver this talk, the chief asked, how did you know you'd be giving this talk on appointment right when we were in the midst of considering them? i have to say it was purely arbitrary and maybe a tad capricious. i was elated to get the call. i had written and spoken on this topic for years, going back to my dissertation, which was 1/4 of a century ago. i have read volumes on the roles of the president and senate in court nominations. speaking for the supreme court historical society, at the supreme court, might require speaking about the court. so i inquired

. >> my name is gregory alexander good wine, senior. >> you sit over there. go ahead. >> i can just flash you back to where it began. 1983 right after i turned 16 years old. my cousins and their friends had become thieves, so to speak, they like to go in stores and take stuff. >> see your left hand. ok. >> flash their money and show their new clothes and everything, and it just attracted me. it went from stealing to selling drugs. i was thinking that i would become the king pin guy, the guy with all the money and then i could pull out. but it never -- it never surfaced. it never surfaced. just took me so long to realize that the decisions and the choices that i made coming up were the wrong things, you know? they were the wrong things. and i don't regret it. and the reason that i don't regret it is because i have something and someone to give something to, to forewarn them, don't think like i thought. >> where is he in prison? >> he is upstate new york. >> and you had to go up there with him and the family and all? >> we did. yeah. >> and why did they let you

they kicked alexander the great's ass out of there they defeated the british. you think the idea we are staying there just one more year is instilling fear in them? >> larry: told me it was russia's biggest mistake? >> yeah, of course. >> larry: to ever get involved there you're fighting rocks, right, caves? >> bob herbert had a great lighten other day. he said, the people that stormed the beaches at normandy weren't trying to win anybody's hearts and minds. you know? i mean, either we are in it to win it or we are not. >> larry: longer than vietnam now. >> yeah. >> larry: why does it go, do you think? what does happen? . >> we have already said what happens, we are pulling out in a year. so what is the point of the people who are going to die between now and a year later? that's, i think, yet. that's sort of the john kerry question, how do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? >> larry: what -- was the president right to fire mcchrystal? >> as i said, you know, i think here's a guy who's trying his hardest to implement a policy that may not be

and the department of defense has nominated lieutenant general keith alexander, head of the n.s.a., to a new military command devoted to offensive and defensive cyber war. how much of this are we doing? "we" meaning the united states. >> lewis: we're in the top of the league, you know? the... we're as good as any... >> kroft: so, whatever foreign countries are doing to the united states, the united states is doing to them. >> lewis: we are in the top of the league. we are really good. and if you talk to the russians or the chinese, they say, "how can you complain about us when you do exactly the same thing?" it's a fair point with one exception-- we have more to steal; we have more to lose. we're the place that depends on the internet. we've done the most to take advantage of it. we're the ones who've woven it into our economy, into our national security in ways that they haven't. so we are more vulnerable. >> kroft: even the country's most powerful weapons are targets. so technicians at the sandia national laboratories make their own microchips for nuclear weapons and other sophistica

sense of a governable nation, that this isn't the graveyard of empires, which we've learned from alexander the great to gengus khan and the british and russians that that's what afghanistan has been. >> woodruff: financial reform. we're gog completely change the subject. the conference committee came out with an agreement, a consensus of sorts last nit, although it was divided on party lines. they came out with something. david what, do you mang of this? is this going to address the problem that is pretty much everybody says exists in our financial sector? >> as jeffrey's segment illustrated, it has a million working people. i guess my bottom line is i think the financial regulators in this country, along with everyone else, missed the buildup to this last financial crisis, like everyone. and expecting them to be ahead of the game next time seems illusory. no one is that smart to anticipate a coming financial crash and prevent it. and a lot of that onus is being put on regulators. second, i think the imagine markets are so complicated and so dynamic, i would like to have seen a financial r

well, thank you, general alexander. congratulations. if i can ask when people raise their questions, could you do me two favors. could you identify yourself when you ask them, and could you keep the questions brief so we can respect the general's schedule. he does have a few other things to do. with that, we had one over right in the front row there. >> you get a free mic out of this. >> how do you streamline obtaining per mig for cyber attack in time for it to be tactically relevant, particularly against stateless opponents. >> that is a difficult issue. the question, i think everybody heard, is how do you streamline your counterattacks against c.n.a. attackers, especially if they're stateless. i think i would enlarge it to say if you can't attribute it, how do you do that? and i think what we have to establish are clear rules of engagement that say what we can stop. now, there are things that we can stop at the boundary, like an intrusion prevention system, that's one part of that strategy. but in the future, that may not be specific.

gut: well, those are two differenissues, so let me respond to senator alexander. a he has been an opponent of wind. we disagree. we think there is a lot of potential for wine. it is in the single digits as far as providing electricity in the united states. we think it can be in the double digits. it will not be the only source of power, but it could have role to play. you can see that in europe -- denmark, germany, spain -- with tremendous amount of wind. i completely disagree on the pope appeared on a point of transportation fuels -- we need much more -- on the point of trannportation fuels -- we need much more mileage per gallon. w 20's, and at's technologilly possible, d we need to go the. nvest heavily in public transrtation for our urban areas so that people hav f terniv and can get out o their cars. need to dop in a ttern that prodes people access to public transpoation so that we stop the approach, r prawl that we've had e last0 yes. and we needleaner burning alternative fuels, and people lookingthat as well, ethanol-based fuel, b biofue thaare created out

the first secretary of the treasury and one of our founding fathers, alexander hamilton, was born in the caribbean. former general and secretary of state colln powell, and sidney poitier, and harry belafonte. there re many similarities in the history of the united states and the countries of the caribbean. united states and the countries of the caribbean both have endured the trials of slavery, colonialism, and struggle for independence. the separate countries of the caribbean share a diverse racial ethnic, cultural, and religious background that is comparable to our multicultural naaion. these similarities are but a few ties that bind our countries together. the countries of the c%ribbean are also important economic partners of the united states and importantly represent the united states third border. these common goals make our countries both strategicically and culturally long-time allies. i ask all my fellow members to join me in celebrating national% caribbean heritage month and recognize the contributions caribbean americans have made to the history of the united states. thank

also in attendance were sali allen and monica alexander, two mothers from nearby towns whose sons were killed during their service in iraq. they simply came just to show their support. by the many heartwarming accounts i heard from his loved ones on tuesday, he was a beloved son, friend and husband. he cared deeply about his family and this country. he had served before in iraq and volunteered for another tour of duty in afghanistan. mr. speaker, my heart is heavy from the loss of specialist reding. i am deeply humbled by his service and his sacrifice and i wish god's blessing upon him and his family during this difficult time. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas, mr. poe. >> i ask permission to take his time. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman from pennsylvania may proceed for five minutes. mrs. dahlkemper: mr. speaker, it is with a heavy heart that i rise today to honor the lives of two fallen heroes from western pennsylvania, sergeant first class robert psych of con yetville, and staff sergeant brian hoover of lindora, pennsylvani

andy alexander for the "washington post" mrs. sah, the wife of dr. rajiv shah for improvement for the best part of education. andrew snyder, associate editor to plunder and chairman of the speaker's committee. donna leinwand, speaker committee member who organized this event. >> sean carroll chief of staff for usaid and guest of the speaker. kathy bunk of communications consortium, and skip, and in a writer for the international bar association among others. he's a member of the press club foreign corresponddnts and photography committee. thank you. [applause] two weeks after today's speaker was sworn in to lead the u.s. agency for international development a devastating earthquake struck eda. president obama instructed dr. rajiv shah to take charge of the u.s. response to this disaster just a few hundred miles away from the u.s. mainland. since then the u.s. government has committed more than $1 billion toward relief efforts in haiti and pledged another $1.15 billion at the donor's conference in april. of this funding usaid contributions total more

office, i have to admit that i took down a portrait of general eisenhower, and put up portrait of alexander hamilton. among his other accomplishments, hamilton wrote the first of the 85 federalist papers. in the first line of that document, he laid out why the united states needed a new form of government. it was not because the founders had any doubts about the basic idea of democracy. instead it was, as he put it, because of the "unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal government." there it is in the very first line of our founding narrative, a practical concern about the inefficiency of the federal government. it is that enduring struggle to create a federal government that is of, by, and for the people, and that accomplishes its gold -- its goals in a cost- efficient, effective manner, that i want to talk about today. we spend too -- too often in washington, we spend time debating a policy without thinking about how to implement it. but execution matters a lot. let's take the recovery act. this is one of the largest pieces of domestic legislation in recent m

co-sponsors being republican senators, including senators isakson of georgia, senators corker and alexander from tennessee, senator cochran of mississippi, just to name a few. just last week this bill was unanimously approved by the senate. i, along with representative vern ehlers, introduced the house companion, h.r. 4804. i want to thank chairman waxman and rush for their leadership in guiding h.r. 4805 through the energy and commerce committee which is reported out in a bipartisan manner pi a vote of 27--- by a vote of 27-10 on may 26. during committee debate on this legislation, we worked collaboratively with the minority to address the vast majority of the concerns initially raised by the ranking member and representatives gingrey and scalise. and i thank them for their support during full committee's consideration. those changes are included in this legislation that we are considering today. on the issue of labor, we expect there e.p.a. will take the steps to ensure that consumers will make informed purchases. at the same time it is not our intention to require what is more burdensome

i was just downstairs having supper with sean alexander who played football with allbama and was m.v.p. in seattle super bool, a reat guy, great guy, but he mentioned four veres of scripture and he said 30. . 19 and i'm quoting from the most quoted book. the first 150 years oftentimes our legislators were afraid to file a bill without having a scripture basis to back it up bbt sean quoted from the bible. i call heaven and earth to witness against you today that i set before you life and death the blessing and the curse so choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants and love your god by holding fast to him because this is your life and the length of your days that you may live in the land and give to him. he also quoted from matthew 5. 24 no one can serve two masters or he will hold to one or despise the other. you cannot serve god. you know, these days, some constituents get pulled away because they are torn. they'd like to serve the tremendous power in this country, torn between constituent service and power. and then in some cases we see here george sorros has ma

this time, alexander hamilton and several comments on the importance of merit in the selection process and the necessity "choosing men who are best qualified for their respective offices. he was more specific than the document he was expanding. integrity and the knowledge of lost acquire through long and laborious steady were his only expressed elements of the general criteria of merit. when jennifer lowe invited me to deliver this talk on supreme court appointments, she asked how i would know that i would be piven this talk when we were -pconsidering a new justice. i said it was arbitrary. i was elated to get the call. i have written and spoken on this topic four years going back century ago.tation a quarter-%- i have read volumes on the role of the president and the senate in nominations. it occurred to me that speaking for the supreme court historical society at the supreme court might require speaking about the court. i inquired of jennifer, is there a particular approach would like -pme to take? she responded rather regal the, what role has the court played in appointments? has it

his great grandson, james irvin, is now co-owner of the company along with alexander rodriguez, who started as an apprentice and worked his way up to become a journeyman and maeser electrician. madam speaker -- and master elect -- electrician. madam speaker, these are two companies that provided economic opportunities to diverse groups of people and delivered products and services to a worldwide marketplace. florida's small employers in 2006 represented 99% of the state employers and 44% of its private sector employment. of the even greater significance, however, is that small businesses created nearly 60% of my state's new jobs in recent years. think of that figure. 60% of the new jobs in the state of florida were created by small businesses. it is my understand and my privilege to recognize today the many dedicated and hardworking employees of small businesses who have done so much over the years to serve their neighbors in so many ways. i thank the speaker or the time, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. m

in a similar vein, alexander gerschenkron commented on the advantages of what he termed "economic backwardness" -- countries that were late to industrialize could bypass many of the dead ends and outdated practices that encumbered the early industrializers. these countries could start with an open canvas, free from what john stuart mill once call "the slavery of antecedent circumstances." spectrum policy reform is especially important because it addresses a cutting-edge area where we would otherwise be at a -- otherwise act oa disadvantage because our early lead in developing and disseminating technologies of yestery leave us ill-equipped for the technological challenges of tomorrow. the most important innovations so much more spectrum has been spoken for here than in the emerging nations that we're competing with. the most important innovations, economic history suggests, are not those that simply enable an existing task to be done more cheaply or more rapidly, but, rather, are those that create possibilities that could not have previously been imagined, and with them create the industries of