only fema did. but it's generally understood that yes, this incident of national significance had to be -- you've got to do that first. whereas before, ms. bullock, fema use all its expertise, said to the president, this is xcom and he he was out like lightning. this didn't -- we got rid of this incident of national significance. we still do not have confidence that we will see the kind of instant action, if a catastrophe, something we've never seen before, something of the kind that mr. fugate talked of him coming of the son or, yeah, ohio. it's ohio like louisiana. they don't have the oil in ohio. somebody's got to make the call. and so my answer is, if somebody's got to make the call, does the statute have to say who should make the call? or is there playing in the statute of all you need is some backbone? what you're guaranteed to have, who should make the call. we got to make a judgment one way or the other. >> i would argue that the statute has -- provided the authority, but i think madam chai

yes, i do believe that fema is a partner. but i would say fema is the leader.rts on disaster. it should be the driver, motivator, the communique appeared i look at fema and homeland security as not being the only entity that responds but being the lead entity that helps coordinate and manage your other federal partners, gives guidance to your state and local partners, provides technical assistance and support to the private sector. but i wouldn't just say that fema is any old partner, it is the lead. number two, when we talk about day care centers, part of this is -- you are right, some of them are nonprofit. some of them are government operated and run. and some of them are for profit. but a good plan that would make sure that head start teachers and early childhood education teachers and counselors are part of that first responder team coming back for rebuilding. loans from the small business administration to make sure that these day care centers can get the loans that they need and think about how difficult it is for a for-profit day care center operator un

this is not being fema material. this is a material. we want to see nuclear material to help us deal with our climate change. he says this is not a serious problem. well, it's a very serious problem if you are a lab, if you're a hospital, if you are a utility and you have no place to take your low-level radioactive waste. and for 37 states, there's no place else to go but utah. and when that runs out, it's out. and so that's a very serious problem. he says it's going to hurt business. it's not going to hurt business. i mean, there's a finite amount of space there. either you put in american waste or foreign waste. so there's no business going to be hurt there. and finally, don't worry about it. it's a smoke detector. well, if it's only smoke detectors, why are we putting up barbed wire fence, why do we have guards and why does it have to stay there permanently? it's much more than that. so there are serious problems here. this is a matter of american competitiveness. and for that reason, i think that this bill does, this bipartisan bill

we had to come up with who was the name at fema that was the point of handling emergency response. we go onto the security -- the secret classified level computer and pull up the department of energy fema website. the photograph of the person in charge was michael heck of a job brown. larry, this was three years after the guy left his job. that's under the government computer. so, you know, we can't blame a new culture from obama. i've been a critic of the obama administration, but i think it's disingenerous to say they're treating it differently than others. the fact is under the administration you've killed non ha haan, and you've gone after the pirates off of the coast of somalia. they've had some successes. they haven't let up on going out and doing some cam tur kill operations. as you noted earlier it was two people released during the bush administration that wound up back on the battlefield in yemen. the bush administration is not dealing with that properly, so we wintd out up how to deal with terrorists? do we treat them according to our rules of law or put nem a military t

fema has now obligated $44 billion in response to hurricane katrina, read up in wilma since 2005 howeveraccording to the excluded party list system database, fema has not suspended or debarred a single contract. does this mean your department maintains that no fema contractor has committed fraud during the reconstruction efforts or otherwise? >> senator, let me have the opportunity to take a look into that and give you a more thoughtful response later. >> do you have any initial sense? >> i have made no such conclusion but i don't know whether there are any actions underway and that is what i would like to check for you. >> i would very much appreciate that response and really would like to know if this database is being used properly. if in fact there have been fraud investigations, and if not, i would like to know why not. >> fair enough. >> in august of this year the department issued new policies governing searches of travelers, electronic devices such as laptops are ipod's at the border. i am deeply disappointed with the policy the department adopted come in particular the refusal t

. >> fema obligated 44 billion in response since hurricanes retype and katrina in 2005. however in the parties in the system, the epls, fema has not debarred a single contract. does this mean your department maintains no fema contractor has committed fraud during the reconstruction efforts or otherwise? >> senator, let me have the opportunity to take a look at that and give you a more thoughtful response later. >> do you have any initial sense -- >> i have made no conclusion whether there are any actions under way and that is what i would like to check for you. >> i would very much appreciate that response and i would like to know if this epls database is being used properly. if in fact there have been fraud investigations, and if not i would like to know why not. >> fair enough. >> august of this year the department issued new policies, governing searches of travelers, electronic devices such as laptops, ipod said the border, i'm deeply disappointed with the policies the department adopted in particular the refusal to adopt any standard for searching u.s. citizens at th

fema has now obligated $44 billion in response to hurricane katrina, read up in wilma since 2005 howeverccording to the excluded party list system database, fema has not suspended or debarred a single contract. does this mean your department maintains that no fema contractor has committed fraud during the reconstruction efforts or otherwise? >> senator, let me have the opportunity to take a look into that and give you a more thoughtful response later. >> do you have any initial sense? >> i have made no such conclusion but i don't know whether there are any actions underway and that is what i would like to check for you. >> i would very much appreciate that response and really would like to know if this database is being used properly. if in fact there have been fraud investigations, and if not, i would like to know why not. >> fair enough. >> in august of this year the department issued new policies governing searches of travelers, electronic devices such as laptops are ipod's at the border. i am deeply disappointed with the policy the department adopted come in particular the refusal to

we had to come up with the name of fema to handle the response. go to the secret classified level computer. the photograph of the person in charge was michael, heck of a job, brown. larry, this was three years after the guy had left his job, and that's under the government computer. so, you know, we can't blame a new culture from obama. i've been a critic of the obama administration, but it's disyen yus to say they're treating it differently. under the obama administration you've killed hunn in somalia who was pons i believe for one of the embassy bombings in tanzania. you've got after the pirates. they've had successes. they haven't let up on doing capture/kill operations. as you noted earlier, it was two people released during the bush administration that wound up back on the battlefield in yemen. the bush administration didn't deal with that, and frankly the obama administration is not dealing with that properly. how do we deal with terrorists? do we treat them according to rules and law or put nem in a military tribunal. throwing them back on

fema has now obligated $44 billion in response to hurricane katrina, read up in wilma since 2005 however accorbig@@@@@ @ would like to know why not. >> fair enough. >> in august of this year the department issued new policies governing searches of travelers, electronic devices such as laptops are ipod's at the border. i am deeply disappointed with the policy the department adopted come in particular the refusal to adopt any sort of standard for searching u.s. citizens of the border and madam secretary in addition to the inconvenience picasa the international business travelers these policies also do nothing to as a wage racial profiling when it index. >> border searches. this is unacceptable and that is why i am planning to reintroduce the travelers privacy protection act in the coming months. i've been told the department was the least attempting to increase oversight in transparency related to these searches but given the vastly different standards laid out for cd p it is unclear whether even that goal has been accomplished so the two policies when read in tandem seem to create a serie

law because we know that's what you're doing, that's what you should be talking about and all your fema accounts. host: we're going to leave it there. do you want to respond to any of that? guest: uh, no. the e other than longer the terror watch list is the less useful it is. there are people who shouldn't be on it and people who are on it and shouldn't be. so it's a work in process. very difficult indeed but the longer the list is, the more difficult because as you said, can't but 300 americans and the trial location becomes a complex case itself etches -- host: those in connection with the 9/11 attacks including cleedcleed, that's going to be taking place some time in new york city. your thoughts on puting the trial in new york and the security concerns that will follow, making that decision? caller: well, i have lots of comments, in new york city to do whatever there's no better police force in the country than new york city. that said, i think the city to try cleedcleed in civilian khalid sheikh mohammad in in civilian court. as i say. it's -- point two, there's no question. khalid

, that oversaw fema, disaster relief, you're absolutely right.what we have here, perhaps the tragedy has been this has not been the kind of disaster that has swept in a dramatic way one night and knocked over and wiped thousands of people out of their homes. this has been more like a disease that has crept along and steadily consumed large numbers. but the reality is that it has both morally, equitably and economically and i might add from a national security standpoint every aspect of a disaster like you mentioned. i have been encouraged, the president in his initiative, the first time in a major stimulus package going all the way back to the depression, the first time i've ever seen the amount of effort and intensity put into the education, $100 billion out of almost $800 billion stimulus package. it actually exceeds what goes into some of the traditional means. so to me obama administration and congress, in an education economy education is the main currency and must be treated in a massive way. points out his predecessor secretary had $17 mil

, that oversaw fema, disaster relief, you're absolutely right.t we have here, perhaps the tragedy has been this has not been the kind of disaster that has swept in a dramatic way one night and knocked over and wiped thousands of people out of their homes. this has been more like a disease that has crept along and steadily consumed large numbers. but the reality is that it has both morally, equitably and economically and i might add from a national security standpoint every aspect of a disaster like you mentioned. i have been encouraged, the president in his initiative, the first time in a major stimulus package going all the way back to the depression, the first time i've ever seen the amount of effort and intensity put into the education, $100 billion out of almost $800 billion stimulus package. it actually exceeds what goes into some of the traditional means. so to me obama administration and congress, in an education economy education is the main currency and must be treated in a massive way. points out his predecessor secretary had $17 millio

we begged them -- fema and the state -- to make sure that no families were discharged from those horrendousiler parks before we knew who they were and where they were going so we to provide services to them. all sorts of bureaucratic snafus between the federal government, the state government, and the -- not one dime out of the original $33 million was spent, i guess, until very recently. secondly, we could not attract families. i do not know where all those kids are that you said that were part of the evacuees. i would challenge the federal government to try to figure out where are they. how many are in mobile, alabama, and how many are still struggling in limbo, in displacement conditions that are really hurting these children and their opportunity for success. >> thank you so much. i would like to close of the above, spread one, a louisiana family corporation recovery corp., i understand, delivered some very good work. unfortunately, their contract was not able to be renewed, and i hope that they can be called in for comments as we try to come up with a better system. my final comment is

law because we know that's what you're doing, that's what you should be talking about and all your femaccounts. host: we're going to leave it there. do you want to respond to any of that? guest: uh, no. the e other than longer the terror watch list is the less useful it is. there are people who shouldn't be on it and people who are on it and shouldn't be. so it's a work in process. very difficult indeed but the longer the list is, the more difficult because as you said, can't but 300 americans and the trial location becomes a complex case itself etches -- host: those in connection with the 9/11 attacks including cleedcleed, that's going to be taking place some time in new york city. your thoughts on puting the trial in new york and the security concerns that will follow, making that decision? caller: well, i have lots of comments, in new york city to do whatever there's no better police force in the country than new york city. that said, i think the city to try cleedcleed in civilian khalid sheikh mohammad in in civilian court. as i say. it's -- point two, there's no question. khalid sh

albert i it was the first ruler to deliver a message to the press of the united states 34 miss -- fema'sd also wrote prince albert i demi's poor's scientists can reach that years in the brains of the public and we continue the royal tradition and please help the wellcome his serene prance nine s albert ii of monaco. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. madam president and senator warner your excellencies, angela and melissa and ladies and gentlemen, and friends i would like to tell you how pleased and moved i am to be with you here today. pleased because i know our exchanges will be friendly and fruitful. i appreciate it is just valuing the possibility we have to meet around these a genuine issues. peake says this is a special and it remained -- reminds me to this country that i have strong family and friendly ties. i am moved to be here today in front of the national press club. 96 years after my great great grandfather who you just alluded to that who first spoke not in this very place, and a stand that the willard end of october 9113. he was curious about his times and a trav

we have 20 chairs that come from interagency, everything from fema to the state department.s. >> thank you very much. that has been a topic of debate within our faculty and is very timely. let me begin by telling you what it is not -- it is not high salaries. it is competitive salaries that are important. i have not had a professor at a salary has been the deciding point when it is in the competitive rage with other solid -- other salaries in the area. it is first the ability and opportunity to teaching get in the classroom. professors want to be in there with the students are routine basis. to assess that, we try to remove as much administrative overhead from the faculty as possible. move away from documenting each course to death and allowing more freedom of how they develop their syllabus, how they run classis, and avoid micromanaging their work in the classroom and bringing them up to spend time entering and working with the students. secondly, it is the opportunity to research in their fields. they love their fields of endeavor and want to go deeper and broader into the