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from january 2011, we will introduce a bank levy.ance sheets of uk banks and building societies and to the u.k. operations of banks from abroad. there will be deductions for tier one capital and insured retail deposits, and a lower rate for longer maturity funding. small banks with liabilities below a certain level will not be liable for the levy. once fully in place we expect the levy to generate over $2 billion of annual revenues. now there are those who have argued that we should -- we should wait until every country in the g-20 introduces a bank levy. i believe that is the reasonable fair. indeed i can tell the house that the french and german had joined the uk today in committing to introduce a bank balance sheet levy. in a joint statement, our three governments have pledged to ensure our banks make a fair contribution to reflect the risks they pose. mr. deputy speaker, the business i hear from the business is unequivocal. they want certainty and stability from government so that they start the long process of rebuilding their b

stewart levy should be highly commended for the remarkable work he has done over the years. this is an official in the treasury department who is so knowledgeable on this subject matter and was invaluable in helping us craft in legislation, and i want to especially mention him and thank him for his contribution. this new section takes aim squarely at iran's powerful revolutionary guard corps, the irg crnchts as it is noang -- irgc, as it is known, and attempts to choke it off from an increasingly important source of power in international financial investment. section 104 of the act has two principal parts, madam president. first, t -- the treasury will direct american banks to prohibit or impose strict conditions on correspondent or payable through account of any foreign financial institution working with key iranian entities. for example, foreign banks conducting substantial business with the irgc, its front companies or affiliates, will be cut off from its american accounts. hypothetically then, if an agent or latin american bank were to provide services to an irgc-owned

he managed to secure both french and german agreement to the announcement in relation to the bank levy in the budget yesterday? >> my honorable friend makes an excellent point. in the budget yesterday, my right honorable friend the chancellor announced unity between the french, the germans, and the british on introducing a bank levy. the one group of people who are isolated, and who say that we have to wait for the rest of the world before we can ask our banks to make a proper contribution, is the party opposite. once again, they have no proposals to fill the enormous black hole that the government are getting to grips with. >> anne mcguire. >> the o.n.s. reported that while the richest 10% spent 1 pound in every 25 pounds of their income on vat, the poorest 10% spent 1 pound in every 7 pounds of their income on vat. how, then, can the prime minister justify his oft- repeated refrain that we are all in this together? >> what i would say to the honorable lady -- it is an important point and the red book sets it out -- is that the richest 10% will pay in cash terms 15 times as much in va

. >> the chair recognizes that joel levy from california. >> thank you for calling today's hearing. i like to thank our witnesses for appearing before us today. those who had their livelihoods and tight-fisted tester our own president of proportion. they deserve for unconditional support. now we continue to seek answers from bp ann others about the cause of the accident. we must all the responsible accountable. the first priority of bp to stop the leak rom continuing to spread and to ensure that cleanup efforts are carried out to protect our coastal communities and families and livelihoods depend on and it is incumbent on all those to make certain that this never happens again. again.

what your plan for a levy on banks be unilateral? and what will happen with another jurisdiction imposing apparel customer will our banks be paying taxes abroad? we also welcome the announcement that the bank of england is destined to strengthen the links between financial stability and macro economic policy. it seems logical that the measure of last resort should ever greater authority and macroprudential regulation for the sake of the economy, every business in this land need sound and appropriate speculation. as for the financial sector, the search to better regulate has triggered the natural the fault of defending reams of regulations and regiment of regulators. as we all know, that approach has not worked so far. why should we expected to do so now? is that a correct response when rules of overwhelmed circumstances? or should we instead conclude that we should have more scope to exercise judgment, better judgment? we need to welcome skilled financial workers for the global pool of talent. they are the lifeblood of our internatio

one other thing we think ought to happen is many years ago president ford levy -- levy ad small fee thatas $2 a barrel now the equivalent lens as i would be $8 a barrel. we ought to levy a $2 per barrel fee on imported oil and invest that money in technology to get us off oil. those are the measures we'd like to see to make sure the operation of riggs are much safer. host: phyllis on the independent line? caller: about two years sense i spoke to you. i'm the lady with the lady's club that said don't vote for bush or we're going to go to war in iraq. this is cheney runing the engineering and safety of b.p. amico's well there. i believe this is a conspiracy because they don't want us drilling in there. what do you think about that, mr. weis? i would like an answer, your opinion on that. guest: well, i'm not quite sure what the caller is talking about. but cheney did run halliburton before he became vice president and halliburton certainly benefitted from the lax laws, and basically the cops were taken off the beat. instead they were in the station sleeping. so what we need to do is put tho

that was a $3.8 million levy. at the time, rahm emanuel was on that board of directors. >> that's right. >> he was appointed by bill clinton in 2000. >> right. >> i say that only because they do not do that like they used to. they used to have some members appointed by the company itself and some by politicians. what did you see? what is the lesson from this story? >> i think the lesson to me was that there are more and more people giving money to campaigns, to presidential campaigns and regular campaigns. the amount of money donated to politics just goes up and up and up every year. there is a lot of wrongdoing. this was one of hillary clinton's top campaign fund- raisers. hillary clinton was no unknown presidential candidate. at the time, she was the presumptive democratic nominee running against some guy named barack obama. she had a guy breaking the law right at the top of a campaign. mrs. clinton's fund-raisers and staff said they did not know that this fund raiser was breaking the law, and i agree with them.

the overcharges were levied by countrywide financial which was bought by bank of america in 2008.the payment settles a complaint by the federal trade commission which said countrywide targeted homeowners facing foreclosure with exorbitant fees. it's one of the largest settlements in the commission's history. for the record, bank of america is an underwriter of the "newshour." in other financial news, stocks tumbled on wall street today over continued concern about u.s. consumer spending and the european credit crisis. the dow jones industrial average lost more than 115 points to close at 9816. the nasdaq fell 45 points to close just under 2174. seven american soldiers were killed in afghanistan today. they died in separate attacks in the east and south. three other nato soldiers also were killed. the violence came as the afghan government defended its decision to oust two of the country's top security officials. on sunday, president hamid karzai removed the intelligence chief, amrullah saleh, and interior minister, haneef atmar. he said they must be held accountable for last week'

clifford levy with the "new york times" in osh in krygyzstan.thanks very much. >> reporter: thank you for having me. >> brown: next, tensions over currency flared again today between china and the u.s. ray suarez has the story. >> suarez: for months the obama administration has been work behind the scenes to persuade the chinese government to adjust its titlely controlled currency the yuan. there had been some hope of movement before a major summit next weekend, but today, positions seemed to harden. white house spokesman bill burton said the global economy would be better off if beijing allowedded the yuan to rise in value. the chinese vice foreign minister responded saying china's currency is not an issue the international community should discuss. to help decipher what's happening and what's at stake we're joined by fred bergsten, the head of peterson institute of international economics. well, the white house didn't release this in some obscure communique. a spokesman said it to the corps on air force one, getting an immediate response from

belt tightening measures include a sales tax hike to 20%, a new levy on banks, and higher capital gains taxes on the wealthy. the treasury chief, known as the chancellor of the exchequer, said the austerity measures are necessary to slash the country's $1.3 trillion debt. >> this budget is needed to deal with our country's debt. this budget is needed to give confidence to our economy. this is is the unavoidable budget. i am not going to hide hard choices from the british people or bury them in the small prints of the budget documents. >> sreenivasan: osborne said britain currently has the largest budget deficit of any european economy except ireland. on wall street today, stocks were down on new concerns about the housing and banking sectors. the dow jones industrial average lost nearly 149 points to close at 10,293. the nasdaq fell 27 points to close above 2261. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to gwen. >> ifill: the $700 billion financial rescue program known as tarp is set to wind down this fall two years after it was created, but there are still questions about i

so the town council raised another levy. cleaned it all up. times. finally, one of these meetings, somebody got up and said -- where's all that stuff coming from? and someone said, you know the lake is fed by one river. where's that stuff coming from? what's up the river? they went up the river and found out where all the stuff was coming from. stopped it there. prevented it from coming down. well, it seems to me a lot of times we do this in education. we're always patching and fixing, and mending, trying to clean up a problem. and we're not quite getting to the essence of it. in 1991, this book came out, "the unfinished agenda: a new vision for child development and education." i remembered that back in the committee, then-president reagan wanted to have a study done on education. why we weren't having a better education system, meeting the challenges of the future. he didn't want any of the soft-headed, pointy-headed liberals and people like that and school administrators and people like you involved in all this. so he wanted the business community

host: i want to get your reaction to this, your of planning for a bank levy.hat do you make of this? guest: i haven't seen the article, so i do not know. i do know that any kind of levy placed on the bank, how it will cause a bank to reduce your interest rate or extend credit, i do not know. the answer in wall street is the key -- to quit bailing out people. quit bailing out failed financial institutions. the public has to be held accountable. if we go to conference on the financial-services regulation bill i believe in -- i believe that it in shrine's us in the too big to fail nation. host: are you in favor of the vote rule? guest: i am not necessarily in favor of upper volker rule. where taxpayer money is at risk i believe that there has to be a separate rule, but the voker rule is wide in scope and i think it would make it difficult to generate the capital necessary to create more jobs. most importantly the bill misses the mark. the reason we are in this financial crisis is mostly federal policies that were well- intentioned to make every american into a ho

is it more taxes levied on small businesses. many businesses have been the victim of the increased taxes that this congress, the democratic majority has passed in the past 18 months. a great burden of the environmental protection agency, which puts regulatory burdens on our job creators. these folks -- these folks are sitting on the side lines. as opposed to being an organization that would normally take a good portion of their profits and that's not a bad word, a good word and re-invest those profits, they grow the company. they buy new capital. they build new facilities. they hire more people. they aren't doing that right now. and that's why any kind of an increase we are seeing, unemployment just under 10%, it's been public. the temporary jobs with census workers and temporary jobs sustained by the stimulus. and yet it's the private sector -- that is suffering under uncertainty. and the american people deserve better. and i thank the gentlelady for hosting this hour this evening. mrs. lummis: i thank the gentleman from pennsy

it can create as small levy -- a mini levy system. when a storm comes in with a surge, or there is a really high tide and the wind combined, it does not leave the marshes as quickly as it would otherwise. it stays there. that salt water will kill the plants and dissolve the land. much of this march is plant -- marsh is plant matter. it is a crisis. this is something that should have been addressed when the oil companies were started on exploring this area. it is ongoing. we need to see action. unfortunately, the obama administration is getting hammered for their perceived mishandling of this crisis. i will not defend how the resources are being deployed, but i will say that they have been very engaged in the coastal wetlands crisis for quite awhile. in march, the unveil a road map -- they unveiled a road map for restoration that actually laid out a vision and a plan. the way to create a sustainable coast is by putting the river and the sediment back into these ecosystems. when we build the levee, we -- the levy in 1927, we basically d

surprised to see how many states have the corps of engineers levee or a levy that is overseen by theorps of engineers and now we are dealing with what looks like the second biggest man-made disaster in the history of this country. again, it is a man-made problem. greed, cutting corners by a major oil company in the name of profits instead of worrying about the people that what effect, the wildlife it would affect. at the end of the day, much like we saw with the building of our levee systems back in the 1960's, we are seeing tte same exact problem in the gulf. this is a twofold problem for louisiana. in a lot of cases, when you look at the state of louisiana, are seafood industry is huge here in louisiana. number one oyster producer and the -- in the country. 7 i% of the nation's alligator harvest right here in louisiana. that is ineffective now by the oil that is inundating our wetlands. this story is yet to be told. we will get into that and we will talk a little bit about what is going on with the dispersants. is able to deal with louisiana sweet crude a better than the 9500 is. b

where we live there is a levy following the mississippi river and a levy following the back bay. that back bay, you could almost see the dolphins 100 yards behind my house. it will be up in those waters. all we need is a hurricane to come through to push this oil even further than it already is and we may never be able to recover. we may not literally be in it, but it is taking away our home, our livelihood, our cash for this area. anybody who is from self louisiana or the post -- south louisiana or the coast, you know, you cannot go anywhere in country and feel like you do here. we welcome everyone with open arms. we need to lift the ban on the oil. we need to be drilling. we are going to need that not too far down the road to survive. >> what do you think the federal government should do to help? >> let's say. where do we go from there? the federal government. first they came in after katrina, and we saw what happened there. we have so much red tape that people are still trying to figure out how to get road home money. i never received a penny from road home. i never received a

it can create as small levy system. when a storm comes in with a surge, or there is a really high tide and the wind combined, it does not leave the marshes as quickly as it would otherwise. it stays there. that salt water will kill the plants and dissolve the land. much of this march is plant matter. it is a crisis. this is something that should have been addressed when the oil companies were started on exploring this area. it is ongoing. we need to see action. unfortunately, the obama administration is getting hammered for their perceived mishandling of this crisis. i will not defend how the resources are being deployed, but i will say that they have been very engaged in the coastal wetlands crisis for quite awhile. in march, the unveil a road map for restoration that actually laid out a vision and a plan. the way to create a sustainable coast is by putting the river and the sediment back into these ecosystems. when we build the levee, we basically do not the coast. in the past 4000 years, all of the land south the bat

of the respondent in the case -- president clinton -- and the charges the, the charges which were leviedand he came to the conclusion that the constitution standard had been met and then voted not guilty. and with a sweep on a conclusion, a judgment of a higher principle involved. president clinton had not lost the capacity to govern and he ought to stay in office. i recall in october of 2002 debating the resolution authorizing the use of force for president bush. and the resolution did not say force would be used, but gave the president the authority to use force as he decided it appropriate. and i was concerned about that. the scholars who had written on the subct, for the most part said that it would be an inappropriate delegation of constitutional authority for the president to -- for the congress to say to the president you may start a war at some future date. the starting of a war depended really upon the facts and circumstances at hand when the decision was made. senator byrd and i discussed that at some length and finally concluded that there ought to be some flexility if both of

where we live, there is a levy following the mississippi rather are and following the back bay. you can almost see the gulf of mexico from 100 yards behind my house. you can almost see the gulf appeared it will be up in those waters -- it will be up in those waters. all we need is a hurricane to come through and blow the oil up in here, and there might be air -- might not be a recovery for south louisiana. it is taking away our houses and our livelihood. it is taking away our passion for this area. and anybody that comes to south louisiana or anyone that stays along the coast is always, always taking in the life we are weak -- you are one of our lifelong friends. you cannot go anywhere and the country and feel like you do when you come to south louisiana. that is our nature. that is the way we are born and raised. we welcome everyone with open arms, just like we welcome the oil. we need to lift the ban on the oil right now. we need to be drilling. louisiana will need that not too far down the road to survive. >> what you think the federal government should do to help? >> let's s

national [unintelligible] >> [unintelligible] the national people were talking about letting the levies go and letting it float. and i know there is a diversion that is being looked at that started many years ago that is in the planning stages. our coastal plan is putting a burden on the levee to protect the parish. then we come out to build in the natural ridges. in total, it will lower it 18 feet to our parish. more importantly, every time we get a winded 10 miles an hour, the salt water comes all the way and kills the vegetation. now all of this is going to grow. with the present version, we do not need a bigger one. we are going to show green arrows coming out of there and salt water hitting it and pushing it back up. then we will put our model year. we will see those green areas come up to here with the present version. after the barrier islands and all of our ridges reestablished, if we determine that we do not want saltwater up here, that is the time to increase the diversions. but let's focus on keeping the salt water route. but you are never going to fight mother nature. that i

we were talking about putting the root system down to preserve th levies for theurricanes.had nothing to do with oil. as of last week, we met again. i will tell you, i have a whole new found respect for billy. it is amazing. he was conducting five meetings at one time. he was still fielding phone calls. this guy has the tenacity. he is a worker. people in the busy and it should be proud of this that. >> he is aware of the uses? " yes, he is. he knew more abo that then i would have thought. we started talking. he asked what i knew and we went into detail. >> why this and not some of the natural species that are on our barrier islands or in our wetlands? with time is of essence. we need a fast-growing plant. it makes an excellent nurse plant. you plant it, it will hold the soil together. you then come in and plant the native vegetation. you then let that flourished after a few months. if you want to get rid of it, all you have to do is put a few rounds of roundup on it and it will kill it. it is very sensitive to round up. >> why would you want t >> exactly. we have to deal w

levy was fine print. you will no longer be subject to all kinds of hidden fees and penalties.y practices will be gone. host: some of the details of the bill? guest: there is a lot in this bill and a lot that is left out that we need to pay attention to. it left out any treatment fannie mae and freddie mac which are huge contributors to the housing bubble and the financial crisis. it does not take a strong look at credit rating agencies which were a strong player in the buildup of the housing bubble. i will take all the responsibility for the financial crisis. you can put it all on my shoulders as a former member of the bush administration. we know it was very complex. at this point in time, one year and a half into the obama administration, they have their hands on the wheel and we can take a look at their economic policy going forward and make our best judgments on whether it will help or not. i think it is a mixed bag right now. host: if unemployment babbitt's dol,l not get extended, watch te economy crash over the -- it's a compliment benefits do not get extended, watch the

they would also have to clearly disclose any additional fees levied on the consumer, as well as the card's expiration date and other relevant information. i want to especially thank my colleagues on the other side of the aisle and certainly mr. engel who introduced this bill for working so closely with the minority on this important issue. because of our working together, we have a bill that i believe helps consumers without hampering unduly the industry. this legislation includes commonsense preemption standards, liability exemptions for retailers which is very important, and of course strong protections for the consumer. i would urge all my colleagues to support this important legislation and i yield back the balance of my time. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from california is recognized. ms. matsui: madam speaker, i yield as much time as he may consume to the gentleman from new york, mr. engel, the sponsor of this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. enge

if you monday a creek -- if you levy equity -- if you sort muddy a creek and iraa rock rolls dow, they're on you. steve host:, what kind of -- host: steve, what kind of work did you do in the coal industry? i would caller: a service operator at a -- hostcaller: i a surface operator at a surface well. and i can tell you, any kind of discharge of coal, these people do not know the nightmare of trying to keep a cool operation open. if they have the same standards placed on that industry that the coal industry does -- i mean, it is really disturbing. we had a situation where we had to drive -- to leave the property we had to drive through a creek because a train has blocked from the normal entrance and exit and a federal inspector caught us doing that, creating cloudy water in a creek that was diverted off of coal property for drainage, and they threatened to shut us down. host: let's move on to eric in sioux falls, s.d.. good morning. caller: i really feel for the people of louisiana. i can re-relate to them here in south dakota -- i can relate to them in the south dakota because i was born

as they dredged a canal, they create a mini-levy system. when a high tide and went brain -- when a high tide and when bring that into the ecosystem, -- this is something that should have been addressed when the oil company's first started developing oil here. it has been an ongoing crisis. unfortunately, the obama administration is getting hammered for their handling of this crisis. i will not defend have the resources have responded to clean up the oil. a road map for restoration has laid out a vision and a plan to create a sustainable colors. the way you do that is by putting the river and the sediments back into the ecosystem. will we build the levees in 1927, the mississippi river built all of the land south of baton rouge. it was built by the flood plain of the mississippi river. the river put fresh water and sediment into that system. there is o bed rock around sap louisiana. it is all sinking sediment. it is naturally combated by the river. when we him in the river with the levees and the jetty system, it was a national benefit, but

the irs at some point in 2002 levied by -- they said i had tax lien up until 2007. i did not make a whole lot of money, but i paid it off. this let me a letter from the irs saying that i paid my do -- they sent me a letter from the irs saying that i paid might do. how do i start building might credit -- i paid by leaned to the irs and completed what i was told i had to do at i have to start building credit again. who do i need to get a hold to get that information so that i host: sam, are you working now? caller: i am. i work at a car company for seven years, until it went bust, and then i changed and i work 40, 50 hours a week until four or five months ago. we went to two days a week, if we are lucky. host: thank you, sam. guest: the caller refers to irs tax debts, which are not this chargeable in bankruptcy. that is an exception to the general rule we talked about, where you get a general discharge our obligations. individuals also have an obligation to correct information in the credit >> individuals of the right to -- individuals also have the right to correct i

members on the republican side who are not here preferred what we are being talked about through levying a financial hit on these institutions. the fdic does hit the larger institutions and not because there is the cut on the $10 billion, but because on the initiative working with sheila bair where mandated the fdic to put a risk weighting in to the assessment. there is less risk of the institutions that will pay more. if it passes, small institutions will be advantaged. i regret that we are making the change. these are important considerations to get enough votes to pass this bill. we have to do this. it is a very important bill. there is regulation of derivatives. mary schapiro of the sec is a strong supporter. mayor shapiro, elizabeth warren, and sheila bair are all strong supporters of this bill. there are a number of important things in the bill. a fiduciary requirement for municipal advisers said the we do not give the kind of problems we have all seen. all those are very important. i am prepared to make compromises. for those who worry about is getting too far, the conservative pa

levi thank you i yield myself sh time a i onsume. thepeakropore: the gentleman recogzed. mr. levin: this bill, h.r. 5486, the sml busiss jobs tax rief acof0is,n w words a continuation of ou work to sr and to really ime the quality of li il of our communities. since thbeginning of this year our economy has created 982,jobs. that is a reversf2 stra months ofobosses aery long streh, indeed. but we all know that toomany, far tooany people today are out of work,nd t unemployment ra remains at a verynacptably high 9.7%. so, somethin considable had be done, but we have to do more. according to t s.b.a., and think we al know thi small rms create64%f the net new jobs between 1993 ad the third quarteof8. o small binesses hlp lead job creation in theecovery, but today small firms are having difficultyaccessing capital. so whatoes this bill ? provides a total o $3.8 billion in tax ts to help american small businesses. 's partf the partnership between the publicnd the private sector, relying he prive sector to do the job creation. i nt to emphasize, bill des not a a de to our deficit. ido

we were talking about putting the root system down to preserve the levies for the hurricanes. it had nothing to do with oil. as of last week, we met again. i will tell you, i have a whole new found respect for billy. it is amazing. he was conducting five meetings at one time. he was still fielding phone calls. this guy has the tenacity. he is a worker. people in the busy and it should be proud of this that. >> he is aware of the uses? " yes, he is. he knew more about that then i would have thought. we started talking. he asked what i knew and we went into detail. >> why this and not some of the natural species that are on our barrier islands or in our wetlands? with time is of essence. we need a fast-growing plant. it makes an excellent nurse plant. you plant it, it will hold the soil together. you then come in and plant the native vegetation. you then let that flourished after a few months. if you want to get rid of it, all you have to do is put a few rounds of roundup on it and it will kill it. it is very sensitive to round up. >> why would you want to? >> exactly. we have t

of the respondent in the case -- president clinton -- and the charges the, the charges which were levied and he came to the conclusion that the constitution standard had been met and then voted not guilty. and with a sweep on a conclusion, a judgment of a higher principle involved. president clinton had not lost the capacity to govern and he ought to stay in office. i recall in october of 2002 debating the resolution authorizing the use of force for president bush. and the resolution did not say force would be used, but gave the president the authority to use force as he decided it appropriate. and i was concerned about that. the scholars who had written on the subct, for the most part said that it would be an inappropriate delegation of constitutional authority for the president to -- for the congress to say to the president you may start a war at some future date. the starting of a war depended really upon the facts and circumstances at hand when the decision was made. senator byrd and i discussed that at some length and finally concluded that there ought to be some flexility if both o

as we saw in the crises we are now recovering from, imposing a levy on financial firms when they are under the greatest financial strain is unrealistic. funding after the fact actually promotes risk-taking. what kind of system are we promoting if the biggest risk takers now know they will not have to pitch in for the cleanup because they will be out of business and run off with the profits from the good days, all those who are more prudent and survive the crisis are left holding the tab for their wild neighbors? a basic sense of fairness would lead to even a child to understand that this is not right. making the good kids clean up the mess of the wild kids is not fair in school and is not fair on wall street either. the inclusion of a pre funded burial fund has a major budget impact and sound fiscal policy for those who want to see the deficit brought under control. taxpayers can rest at ease knowing they will only be called on to lend money to the fund during the deepest crisis and not any time a financial firm runs into trouble for excessive risk-taking. the fund insures the indust

>> levies are with the last one because i think we form groups all faith that in watching a candidateattend pro-reform in word and indeed in the illinois state senate, then turn around and say noto the public financing system as presidential candidate. i think it's important to remember the reform committee spoke pretty loudly for years earlier that the system is broken. getting most of him said qite publicly that forcing people, for us in the community same system is broken butou better choose it was not a position we take in the reagan form groups. i think we're pretty clear about that, for turkey pushed them come to pledge support of a system to fix the presidential system to support the system of congressional public financing and he may boast of those pledges. you know, as far as popularity of public financing, the gallup survey which has been asking that question since the late 60's has shown above 50% support for years and years. if you ask it about a system that actually allows participating candidates not to take any big contributions, the nuers are in from the high 60's to t

secretary gates has already levied on the services, each service cuts for the next five years that willbe taken out of structure, oust modernization, having sat at state for four years i know what problems they have ever lie year with budgets. defense is going to put whatever savings they accrue into the tooth side of things. so this is not going to be important. they are not going to put money against private security contractors and private security details. so, my question to you is, how do you in source this? how do you train? how do you assess them? and how -- what do you do with them when it's over? mr. soloway. i think it's a wonderful way to frame the question and gets back to part of the broader issue. to dr. stanger's point, there's a lot of different ways to moving security. let me sort of go back to my testimony and actually if you sort of cut through some of our other comments -- >> we have two minutes, folks. >> you will find substantial degree of commonality on the panel. you approach private-sector holistically, strategical and in a heirarchal sense. that's where i alloc

secretary gates has already levied on the services, each service cuts for the next five years that will be taken out of structure, oust modernization, having sat at state for fr years i know what problems they have ever lie year with budgets. defense is going to put whatever savings they accrue into the tooth side of things. so this is not going to be important. they are not going to put mon against private security contractors and private security details. so, my question to you is, how do you in source this? how do you train? how do you assess them? and how -- what do you do with them when it's over? mr. soloway. i think it's a wonderful wayo frame the question and gets back to part of the broader issue. to dr. stanger's point, there's a lot of different ways to moving security. let me sort of go back to my testimony and actually if you sort of cut through some of our other comments -- >> we have two minutes, folks. >> you will find substantial degree of commonality on the panel. you approach private-sector holistally, strategical and in a heirarchal sense. that's where i allocate my