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he is responsible for coordinating the response to major domestic disasters, managing the logistics' technology and human resource systems. i am very interested, i know the red cross has been reorganized and i am looking forward to hearing about this today. finally, the president of northeast louisiana united way. she has served as a coordinating council person, this is a nationwide of emergency response system that i think can be very helpful in all of the issues that we have talked about this morning. if you will be again, thank you. >> can you pull the microphone a little bit closer? >> normally my voice works wonders. thank you for the opportunity to be with you this afternoon, to talk about the work of the partnership. we have provided written testimony and asked that this be included in the record. this is an initiative from the corporate response operation, to implement the best practices for disaster response and recovery efforts. this is developed by a group of private sector leaders to understand that better preparedness does not just depend on the actions of the federal go

he is responsible for coordinating response to domestic disasters, and managing logistics technology and resource systems. the chain has gone through a major reorganization, and we're looking forward to hearing some of the outcomes today. and last but not least, janet burton, president of northeast louisiana united way who said she served as corny councilperson for louisiana 211, a nationwide response system which can be very, very helpful in all of the issues we talked about this morning. so if you will again, thank you. pull the microphone closer. there you go. >> normally, my booming voice works wonders. thank you for the opportunity to be with you this afternoon and talk about the important work of the partnership. we provided testimony and request it be included in the record. the partnership is an initiative of the corporate crisis response officers association, seeking to identify and implement best practices and support improvements in public and private sector does after reports, response, and recovery efforts. this is grass roots, developed by a coalition who recognize the

all major incursions' into neighboring countries because of their poor logistics system. support of foreign groups doesn't ring control which i think fred it will really go into in detail. the components that are passed to execute a lot of the so-called guerrilla warfare and asymmetric tactics are not necessarily seriously trained in net to. there is on the ideological front and a great deal of cynicism that we found including in the basij and the irgc especially among different generations. there is some ambivalence about the indoctrination that goes on there. and a key point, the force structure is very large and in his old and very difficult to modernize that especially given the last pliant which is is by this industry, this defense industry that is supposed to make iran self-sufficient, it cannot put out either the technologically sophisticated types of capabilities where to put out of the capabilities to recapitalize their very large a structurally weak force. however, there are specific areas where our research has shown they could make a difference as far as givin

response including aerial storm surveillance, air medivac, search and rescue, communications support, logistics support, recent hurricane response exercises and north come's coordination with the state national guard. it's a lot but we're going to try to get that in. and i will mention that we're very proud to have the general with us and he is from the missouri national guard which is of particular interest to senator mccaskle. and then in our final or next panel we will have george forceman, former d.h.s. official whose here today to talk about the private sector's role because this committee chairman chair and ranking member and members recognize it's not just the federal government, it's state and local government, it's individuals, it's the private sector and the nonprofit sector. we want to give them voice. we also are happy to hear from frank miselli, the director of america's red cross. they have gone through a major tranls formation, we are very interested in hearing about the fact that they have increased their volunteer base from 23,000 to 90,000 and we think it's a bigger and better

we have a full field office, transportation, logistics, parts, service. it is a fairly large enterprise of administrative costs. it is $41,000 per dealer. >> i will wait for the next round. thank you. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. you have been hearing from republicans and democrats who represent dealers that there is enormous concern about how they have been treated and the impact on communities. one area where there seems to be a dispute is whether this was a decision made by chrysler and gm or orchestrated by the white house. i know that you were asked about that in the senate hearings. it is very important that it be clear who bears the responsibility here and accept the responsibility. ibility here and accept the responsibility. so mr. henderson, let me ask you, is it in fact the case the treasury was not involved in any way in this election are the ifill met in the guidance on the number of dealers the would be closed? >> could you repeat the question, i'm sorry. >> basically the question is who made the decision on how many dealers to close

cord meeting red cross response to major domestic disasters for managing organizations disaster logistics' technology and human resource systems. i'm very interested i understand the red cross since katrina has gone through a major reorganization and we are looking forward to hearing some of the outcomes today. and finally, last but certainly not least this is janet durden, president of north west united way serves as coordinating council person for louisiana 211 but this is a nationwide emergency response system that i think can be very helpful in all of the issues we have talked about this morning. so, mr. foresman, if you will begin. thank you. >> senator, thank you very much -- [inaudible] >> can you pull the microphone a little bit closer, there you go. >> normally might booming voice works wonders. senator landrieu, thank you for the opportunity to be with you this morning and talk about the important work of the community partnership. we've provided written testimony respectfully requested it be included in the record. the ready come into partnership is an initiative of corporate c

>> that goes for the inspection, cleaning of the vehicle and transportation logistics. that's an outside third party company. >> okay, so the new chrysler doesn't receive that money or distribute that money? >> no, sir. >> okay. the wellhead, mr. keikenapp. you can't ask a question but if you have got a statement, the head. >> no. >> you can ask questions, sorry. mr. henderson, let me ask this. did you have a conference call on june 10 with gm executive retirees? >> yes. >> two days ago. >> yes. >> was a statement made along these lines, i don't have it exactly, that no executive level gm retiree will receive retirement benefit package more than $100,000 at the direction of the treasury department or the auto task force? >> the discussion had to do with pensions that applied to executives nonqualified plans as part of the total number of liabilities one of which was that there were six liabilities that were on funded

tv takes so much manpower just to do the logistics. you will not go to darfur and do a big investigative piece. you rely on newspapers for that. those budgets have been getting cut. even as a tv guy, the vast majority of investigative stuff is being done by newspapers. >> i will make a bold prediction that newspapers will not disappear. certainly, the economic model that we have all come to identify with, the newspaper itself is changing. we have not figured out what the result will look like. i think that' there is an enormous appetite for what we provide, and what nobody else provides frankly. we were talking about this at lunch, the internet, there is a lot on the internet. there are a lot of opinions. there are not a lot of facts easily presented. i think about when my kids do their science projects. they go onto the internet to find information about gravity. they don't know the difference between the national academy of sciences, and some joe schmoe's 8 graders internet project. they aren't able to distinguish between real inform

of the deal the bush administration struck, it didn't strike a better deal on how to get out the logistics and supply chain from the russians. that seems to me to be a key national security interests, not just for creating jobs in the united states, but the defense relationship. i don't see that going away anytime soon. i don't see that in the and the united states will ever have the kind of alliance relationship the u.s. has with its allies, the u.s. will be the key arms supplier any time soon to the united states. it is in gauge in multilateral defense, and all seat conventional defense -- multi dimensional defense, and it is understandable as neighbors, at the same time, it is a concern about this matter of chinese deployments and interest, it has quite an ongoing relationship with russia in the defense sphere and relations with the united states and japan and singapore, the new ones, the burgeoning new ones or the late come ears -- latecomers, quite closely. i think that the u.s./in the a strategic relationship is more akin to what nixon and kissinger tried to do with china in the 70s,

some capabilities must be provided by the services, including remote logistics and telecommunications, with a combination of the special operations command budget and support from the services, special operations command is looking for the balance, for the speed of response, the the operation of crisis, and to have the capabilities assigned in support for the special operations forces. the special operations command headquarters will continue to develop the most precise and legal counter-terrorism force and we will provide the most effective trainers and advisers and partners, with the skills and leadership and mindset necessary for tomorrow's challenges. we will continue to find kill and capture the irreconcilable enemies, with the global friends and allies and to follow the procedures and technologies that will keep us ahead of the emerging threat. i thank you again for the opportunity to appear before you and i conclude my opening remarks with pride in the special operations forces high command, they are contributing well beyond what the percentage of the total forces indicating. t

most of the speculation around my schedule here in germany does not take into account simple logistics. traveling, trying to get from one place to another, coming off on a middle east trip. there are only 24 hours in the day. there is nothing to get beyond us just trying to fit in what we could do on such a short trip. that is all that there was. so stop it, all of you. [laughter] i know you have to find something to report on, but we have more than enough problems without manufacturing problems. in terms of the issue of guantanamo, this is a difficult issue. it is difficult in my country. it is difficult internationally. we have a facility that contains some people who are very difficult to deal with. some of them probably should not have been detained in those facilities in the first place. they should have been processed and tried and convicted. if they were not convicted, then they should not have been languishing in a facility like that that became a symbol for many around the world of us not sticking to our ideals and traditions and rule of law. but it was done and that is the pa

generally goes where we like it to go, so we have astounding support -- personnel, administrative, logistics, equipment. pretty good funding. i learn by listening. go back to him. but to him. oliver, magnus, many in the room. some of the names i do not recognize, but faces i do. i tried to keep my mouth closed and might use open. my wife would not necessarily agree. -- i tried to keep my mouth closed and my years -- might years -- my ears open. the spend more time in our embassies. we are spending more time as we can with commercial partners and commercial interest. we spent a full day in india not in the district of foreign affairs, but at luncheons and gatherings, so there is a pretty good exchange of ideas on those terms and on those issues, so i tried to listen more, talk less, and generally, what the staff recommends is almost always spot on, and on those rare occasions when is just need to give orders, studying the feet of masters. it has been my privilege. >> as the defense department does its review, what priorities are you advocating? >> we were just in town two weeks ago, talking a

it encourages full transparency in detailing the logistical and other support to the u.s. provides to critical peacekeeping operations, and other u.n. activities in support of u.s. interests, the members of congress have a right to know, the people of america have a right to know and i support the amendment. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from texas. mr. poe: i thank the chairman's response in support of this amendment. i yield back the balance of my time. and ask for the adoption thereof. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from texas. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 27 printed in part c of house report 111-143. for what purpose does the gentleman from delaware rise? mr. castle: thank you, i rise to the purpose of offering an amendment number 27. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 27

over the trivalent vaccine it is almost as good and not a statistical evidence in a simplified the logistics every chain it kid since of the saharan africa with more vaccines and also in the conflictive areas of afghanistan and packet days pakistan to get the job finished more prickly. -- quickly although many countries are still infected with polio in fact, very few districts very half -- very few have polio these persistent outbreaks and acute outbreaks in west africa with the range of new tools, political commitments, i believe we can accelerate the progress we're making to retain all children and eradicate the disease forever. one last lesson i may close the presentation, if we have learned one saying it is that in this battle, no plan will survive contact with the enemy and you constantly have to revise as necessary to reach the kids which indeed we can which has shown through this program. thank you [applause] >> last week's election in iran and the status of two journalists are present in north korea. spokesperson ian kelly speaks for about 35 minutes. >> good afternoon. i will make a

commission's interim report highlights a number of issues related to management and accountability, logistics', secure in reconstruction efforts in iraq and afghanistan. one interesting case described in the reports as the costly construction of a duplicative dining facility at the cost of $30 million. that certainly is represented in such issues. ism portsmouth commissioner mckracken krampert others nuss in sync grading alvis i did the deed that merely duplicates the work going on by the government accountability office. we do expect to review those and synthesize them and use them to inform your work. i look forward to hearing what the commissioners finding help that we don't know about an inch shorter expect the witnesses this morning will insure us and the investment in narrative these was a worthwhile decision. we in congress as sponsors of the comish need to hear about any challenges or hindrances the commission faces in conducting its work. i'm concerned the commission will not able to fulfill its mandate without a semipermanent presence in theater and perhaps you'll feel a little bit

to move forward, and enable them in order to potentially, if they need some help with aviation, logistics, et cetera but almost as important, coordinate and help us to continue our situational awareness of all situations, within iraq. and that will help us to better support the iraqi security forces. >>>. >> general to follow-up briefly i'm disappointed you did not give us this scoop after a month of holding out but i wonder if you could at least give us a -- as -- is it a few thousand, if you can give us a ballpark, several thousand would that be a reasonable ballpark to use? >> again, again, there is hundreds of cities around. and we have hundreds of you know -- and i have let the local commanders work this out and so for me to give a number would frankly be inaccurate and i don't want to do it. there will be trainers, advisors, helping throughout all of the iraqi cities, where we continue to support and advise the iraqi security forces. >> whatever the number is, how are you going to convince them, basically, the u.s. forces remaining, not to jump in and be helpful where, perhaps, you

including ariel storming civilians comair medevac, a search and rescue, communications support of logistics coming hurricane response, exercises, no., coor dination for the state and national guard. it is a lot but we will try to get that in. we are very proud to have it general with us from the misery of national guard which is of particular interest to senator mccaskill. in our final common next panel we will have george foresman former dhs official to talk about the private sector role because this committee chair and ranking member recognize it is not just the federal government, state and local governments, individuals, priv ate sector and a nonprofit sector bree want to give them voice breck we're happy to hear from the director of operations, at armand mascelli they have went three major transformation since katrina we're very interested in hearing about the fact they have increased volunteer base from 23,000 up at 90,000 it is not only a bigger but a better red cross and we are excited about hearing, because i think americans look to the red cross to give them particular strength an

services and the governor's office of homeland security and emergency preparedness and the unusual logistics and sheltering for people with critical shan's petition names. we recently participated in the state of florida major disaster exercise and with fema and tabletop exercise category four hurricane affecting savannah georgia. we also participated recently in a cabinet level exercise that tell the category three landfall in new york city. identifying new and strengthening existing partnerships continues to be a strong priority of my organization. on the local level chapters partner with local communities to my face and civic organizations and also stepped up efforts to assure that committed these two and one organizations hacker disaster information. it relied to a knowledge to ms. durden the good work that the united way has been doing in this area. in addition we cultivated, and strengthen partnerships from such diverse groups as hope nationwide, the national association of colored people, the legal services corporation and the buddhist foundations. in addition we were close to the nat

that is, if nato takes the training mission, if nato takes the logistical missions, the the geography of the fight could be up to those combat units. they are not all exclusively american, but mostly american. >> i have just looked at that. i have not studied it. it seems to make a lot of sense to me. >> there is another aspect here, very, very sensitive, and that is the civilian casualties. like so many of my colleagues, i've been out there recently, and that is an issue that has a great a political act, manipulated -- great political effect, manipulated by self interest purposes by all sides. how are you going to wrap up the battle, particularly in the south, and minimize collateral civilian casualties? >> i believe the perception of -- caused by civilian casualties is one of the most dangerous things we face in afghanistan, particularly with the afghan people, the pashtun, most likely. that is a way to lose their faith and support, and that would be strategically decisive against the spirit -- against us. my intent, if confirmed, is to review all of our tactical objectives and get

actually you talk about rework because as these repairs were wrong, the logistics contract, its essentials of they can have the tape is, kbr, is doing much of the work this turkish company did and they came in and if we did the warranty because they came in and approved everything. the only way you could physically approve it is to not be physically there. because in just this list where we ask for information paper from the responsible personnel major issues, septic, electrical , ceiling tiles falling down, 250 missing, fire alarm system, these are big deals, power generators. >> eight is kbr responsible for managing the work of the turkish of it? >> no, that was separate. >> it was the contractor at the time? >> yes, kbr came to the rescue but that is reworking. >> do we know whether or not the army corps of engineers official who was responsible was never disciplined? >> no we don't and that is the accountability issue. somewhere and that is commissioner shlaes plight i think we have to start identifying who is responsible and not just that individual someone reviewing and training his

to see all the documents and the paperwork, but until you are physically there and understand the logistics and how close we are and the apparatus that is set up, you do not have a good feel of what is going on there. in the case of secretary gates, he was keeping an open mind on missile defense and how that will grow and be dynamic over the next several years. i think the issue right now that we're dealing with is a very tight budget, and all aspects across the board, and he is balancing where he can. the good news in all this from my perspective is that he talked about robust testing, which is important, as you develop missile defense on any level, you cannot stop testing. some viewers talk about the 1960's and in 1970's, and what was going there. to imagine that you could shoot a rocket off and hit another rocket in a very small space thousands of miles away was a difficult prospect. there was a commitment to continue robust testing, to look at the missile defense system and look at it as an evolving, changing program, which is important, from my perspective. as you can imagine, i think

theory to the monovalent vaccine, there's not a statistical difference but this may simplify the logistics of reaching kids in sub-saharan africa with more efficacious vaccines and also in the conflict affected areas of afghanistan and pakistan to get the job finished more quickly. you can see from this map the complexity of the situation we are facing. many countries are still affected with polio. very few districts in the world have polio as you can see. the challenge of these practices and outbreaks in west africa, with the range of new tools, political commitments, etc. i believe we can indeed accelerate the progress we're making to reaching all children and eventually eradicating this disease forever. if there is one last lesson i might close the presentation with, it is this one. if we have learned one thing, it has been that in this battle as in any, no plan is going to survive contact with the enemy, you have to constantly be revising it as necessary to reach the kids, which indeed we can as shown through this program. thank you. [applause] >> coming up on c-span 3, house hearing o

the other networks have good ones but, you know, tv takes so much manpower just to do the logistics. you're not when to go to darfur and a big investigative piece or you do and nbc did some of that but it's so expensive so you'd rely on newspapers for that and those budgets have been getting caught so even as a tv guy i say the vast majority of investigating in this world gets done by newspapers. was >> well, i am going to make a bold prediction that newspapers are not going to disappear and that if i feel like doing this 20 years from now, i can still do it. i think that's, you know, certainly the economic model that we have all come to identify with the newspaper itself is changing, and certainly we haven't figured out what the result is a man to look like. but i think that there is an enormous appetite what we provide and what nobody else provides frankly. there is, you know, the internet, we were talking about this at lunch. there is a lot on the internet. there is a lot of opinion. there is a lot of commerce but there aren't a lot of facts and there are not a lot of facts easily

all three individual installations are logistically close to each other. however, they fall within burlington county and ocean county, and, therefore, two different county pay jurisdictions. currently, civilian employees doing exactly the same job are being paid different wages. i am working closely with the office of personnel management and the department of defense to have the entire joint base considered within ocean county's pay area because people doing identical jobs on different areas of the triservice base should be paid the same. mr. chairman, i look forward to working with you on this important issue to assist in a smooth transition to the joint base mcgwire, dix, lake hearst, starting on october 1, 2009. mr. skelton: i thank the gentleman for his comments and in response i will tell the gentleman i will work with him, the committee of jurisdiction and the relative government agencies to resolve the issue and help the joint base transition. mr. adler: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. skelton: i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlema

undercut the department's ability to recruit srses and impose an unreasonable administrative and logistical burden on the war fighter. a statutory video recording requirement will be a matter of public record. detainees will therefore know through counter resistance training that anything they say can be recorded and could be used against them in a courtroom or to gain leverage with other detainees. this will inhibit detainees from cooperating with interrogators and undercut the most effective technique, establishing rapport with detainees. if a video recording is released to the public and it's becomes known that a detainee has lab rated with u.s. intelligence, the safety of the detainee and his family would be jeopardized. even if there's an agreement to be recorded, there's a tendency for both the detainee and the interrogator to play to the camera, creating ar artificiality and degrading the quality of the information. i yield to the -- how much time do i have remaining? the chair: the gentleman has a minute and a half remaining. the chair: a-- mr. mckeon: i yield 30 seconds ch. mr. hol

not duplicating efforts and that we can empower states to perform their work on the ground with logisticaland financial support. i urge the fda to use this legislation to create a stronger or integrated who say the system that leverage the state and local resources. another -- as another result of a limited resources fda relies on and many private sector firms to conduct food safety tasting -- testing on a contractual basis. i am pleased to the discussion draft includes a provision that would allow a laboratory accreditation process, facilitating the fda's use of third-party lavatories to perform testing and want to make sure that the conflict of interest language in the bill does not prevent some of the most experienced laboratories plummeted their strong partnership with the fda moving forward. i look for to hearing your testimony dr. hamburg and that of the other witnesses tonight and i thank you again mr. chairman for this hearing him and thank you. gentleman from georgia,. >> thank you mr. chairman, mr. chairman, public health officials estimated that 76 million people become sick, 32

social services and the governor's offices of homeland security emergency preparedness about mutual logistics and sheltering for people with critical transportation needs. we recently participated in the state of florida in a major disaster exercise and with fema with a tabletop exercise category four hurricane affecting savannah, georgia. we also participated recently in a cabinet-level exercise that dealt with a category three making landfall near new york city. identifying new and strengthening existing partnerships continues to be a strong priority of my organization. on the local level, chapters partner with local community, faith-based and vividdic organizations. we have also stepped up efforts to insure that community two on one organizations have current disaster information. i would like to acknowledge ms. sternun. in addition we've cultivated and strengthened partnerships with such groups as hope nationwide, the national association of colored people, the legal services corporation, and the buddhist foundation. in addition, we work closely with the national association of judicial i

the people who would present and that's only half of it and then somebody has to figure out the logisticsget everyone on line, get this lovely room, get c-span. and so on. and what is remarkable about this, if you had to purchase all of this from a regular consulting firm, you'd be talking big, big bucks. [laughter] >> but most of that is provided sort of free or at or below cost, so the american people should sometimes thank these washington outfits that lay on these things to help inform policymakers but also through the media and the public. i also want to express my gratitude as an american citizen to the chinese government. [laughter] >> because we are beginning this -- we began this session with a buzz kill, which bob -- he's a great master of buzz kills by giving us the fiscal situation and ended by reminding us that we actually -- our government operates courtesy of foreign governments, which is very nice. and i hope the chinese will be well inclined to us. we will behave very nicely so that they will continue to do that. but that is a very serious issue that our foreign policy is

actually you talk about rework because as these repairs were wrong, the logistics contract, its essentials of they can have the tape is, kbr, is doing much of the work this turkish company did and they came in and if we did the warranty because they came in and approved everything. the only way you could physically approve it is to not be physically there. because in just this list where we ask for information paper from the r

we've astounding support, personnel, administrative, logistics, equipment, pretty good funding. we could use a little bit more but we have pretty good funding. [laughter] >> i learn by listening. go back to him, go back to him, oliver, magnus -- many in the room, some names i don't recognize but faces i do. i try and keep my mouth closed and my ears opened. my wife would not necessarily agree but that's what i do all the time. it's the best job in the world. the staff is brilliant. we do such important work, and i think consequential work with our embassies. i don't hang around in uniform. i talked to angrius houston and i talk to jock and i talk to our guys but we spend more time in our embassies. we're spending more time if we can with commercial partners, commercial interests. we spent a full day in india not in the ministry of defense or ministry of affairs but in lunches arranged by folks in the commercial sector. there's a pretty good exchange of ideas on those terms, and on those issues so i try and listen more, talk less and what the staff recommends is almost always spo

get the documents we have lots of paperwork but until you are physically there and understand the logistics and the apparatus that is set up you don't have a feeling of what is going on. in the case of secretary gates, he was keeping an open mind there is no question and how that would grow and be dynamic over the next several years. i think the issue right now we are dealing with is a tight budget and all aspects of the defense but across the board and he's balancing where he can. the good news and all of this from my perspective is he talked about a robust testing which the testing is part of the equation if you stop testing word limit testing you're never going to improve the system and some of the call talked about before i came on, they talked about the 60's and the 70's and what was occurring to imagine you could shoot a rocket and hit another rocket within a very small space, thousands of miles away is an amazing technology but that occurred because testing so there was a long-term commitment which was important to the system. there was a commitment to look up the missile defense sys

not a statistical difference but this now they greatly simplify the logistics' everything kids in sub-saharan africa with more efficacious vaccines and also in the conflict affected areas of afghanistan and pakistan in a bid to get the job finished more quickly. you can see from this map the complexity of the situation we're facing now of the many countries are still attracted with polio. in fact, very few districts in the world still had polio as you can see from the smack into challenges maybe this person out briggs and acute at branson west africa but with a range of new tools and political commitments i believe we can, indeed, accelerate the progress making to reaching all children and eventually eradicating this disease for ever. if there is one last lesson i perhaps close the presentation with it is this one -- if we have learned one thing is been that in this battle as in any no plan is going to survive contact with the enemy and you have to constantly be revising its as necessary to reach the kids which, indeed, we can i think as shown to this program. thank you. [applause] >> here is