mrs. alexander, sylvia jennings alexander, paul jennings' great-granddaughter, remembered her cousin pauline crying, "they've lost grandpapa. they've lost grandpapa." and so although we know initially he was buried in harmony cemetery, just where his remains are at this moment are unknown. john cole: when i first met beth, she was still on monticello, and she recalled the story to me a little earlier. i hadn't seen her for a number of years. knew she was working on this book, and she came wandering down the hall about an hour ago before this talk, and i knew it had to be beth because she was carrying kind of a decrepit but important bag to the center for the book. it was the old center for the book bag -- [laughter] john cole: -- that i had given her more than, how many years ago -- elizabeth dowling taylor: oh, about twelve years ago -- john cole: twelve years ago, and i said that must be beth, but i better check it out, and then i saw the condition of the bag, and i said, well, that speaks well for the durability and quality of our products here at the center for the book. so in addition t

mr. alexander highlighted. what that is doing is transitioning several decades of military dominance that we've enjoyed since the cold war into one of competition peered we will now have to compete to be able to maintain our war fighting edge against our adversaries. to be able to maintain that we have to have a strategy that goes after the kind of enduring advantages that we need to be able to have to deter in the future. the last time we were faced with a situation like this where we had a long-term competition against a single or series of adversaries was during the cold war. during that period, we used several series of offset strategies that have been described as being able to demonstrate to the soviets that we would be able to hold them at risk, attack their targets at home and attack their forces out in the field. these involve nuclear weapons initially with a new look at pres. eisenhower's strategy in the 50s and it was followed later on with the strategies that the defense was ready to use with stealt

mr. alexander: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: mr.ent, that was a wise speech, and it was a speech that made me think of the comment that the -- someone has once said that the united states senate was the one authentic piece of genius in the american political system. what senator sasse has done is put fresh eyes on a subject. and sometimes fresh eyes are the best eyes. what he's reminded us is to remember what a privilege it is to serve here and that if we are temporarily entrusted with the responsibility to give real meaning to the idea that this is the one authentic piece of genius in the american political system, that we have some work to do. i'm delighted he is here. i'm delighted he took the time to wait and study and listen and make his comments. i listened very carefully. i hope every single member of the senate did. i pledge to work with him toward the goal that he set out. i look forward to serve with him for a long time. thank you, mr. president. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr.

mr. chairman, and thank you to the witnesses. general alexander, you talked about, and we read about all the time the number of cyber attacks on the nation or on governmental agencies that are occurring with greater frequency. i think you used 350 cyber attacks. i'm not sure what unit of time that was. give us a good example of a counter cyber attack that the united states has undertaken so when we've been attacked give me a good example of something we've done in response. >> senator, i can't give you that in this forum, but i think that's something that would be good to discuss in a classified session. >> can i just -- i want to make this point. i thought that was going to be your answer. there's not a deterrence doctrine if people don't know what the answer will be. the president said he would send 50 people to syria. i know how many bombing raids we've run in the war against isil in its nearly 16th month. we know the number of personnel that are deployed. when the american public and policymakers read over and over again, they're very public.

mr. alexander: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: mr. president, the senator from washington and i are here to recommend to members the senate that we vote "yes" on allowing the majority leader to appoint conferees and the minority leader to appoint conferees so our committee can continue its work on a bill to fix no child left behind. the vote we're about to have is not to vote on the merits of the bill. the reason it is not a vote on the merits of the bill is because there is no bill. what we're asking for is the usually routine request to permit us to take our legislation which passed the senate 81-17 and to meet with members of the house of representatives, who have passed a similar bill, and see whether we can come up with a bill that the conference would recommend to the house and the senate to approve. when that occurs, which could occur this week, then senators would have at least a week to consider whether to vote for or against the bill. so i emphasize again to senators or their staffs who may be watching, this is a routine req

mr. alexander: it is my sad duty to report that fred dalton thompson who served in this body from 1995 to 2003 representing our state of tennessee died in nashville on sunday. honey, my wife, and i and the members of our family, every one of whom knew fred very well, as well as members of the united states senate expressed to fred's family, his wife geri, their children hayden and sammy and his sons ton ni and dan and his brother ken, our pride and friend's life for his sympathy and his death. very few people could light up the room the way fred thompson did. the truth is most public figures have always been a little jealous of fred thompson. his personality had a streak of magic that none of the rest of us have. that magic was on display when he was minority counsel to the senate watergate committee in 1973, asking former white house aide alexander but butterfield e same question, mr. butterfield, are you aware of any installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president, thereby publicly revealing the existence of tape recorded conversations in the white house. natio

mr. chairman. alexander, do we have a stated doctrine with regard to , do we a cyber attack have a defined limit where we identify something as an act of war is our defense, our energy, resources are attacked? >> the only thing that i know that comes close to that is the president statement in 2009 about how we would respond to losing any form of power, cyber, military, diplomatic. there are no rules of the road in cyber. i think wargames can help tighten some of that up. >> would anyone disagree with that analysis? >> i would add one thing. one of the challenges with cyber is if you try to use cyber capability to respond to a cyber makingyou manned up clear to the adversary the access that we have into his networks. one problem we have if we don't want to burn the source. are attacked in cyberspace we might need to go to some other means to respond because we don't want to give up the fact that we have access to his networks and are able to monitor his activities. we might be a little take advantage of the

mr. alexander -- general alexander. very chilling in your early testimony that we won't have time for human decision making. in responding to some of these kinds of attacks. in other words, the 30 minutes or an hour for the missiles is now a matter of seconds. the question is how do we war game and prepare a response that can be done instantaneously without the intervention of human discretion? i think that's an issue -- my time has expired. but i think that's an issue that deserves some serious thought and discussion. thank you, gentlemen, very much. this has been very illuminating. >> dr. singer, i would suggest words of chairman mau. it's always darkest before it's totally black. >> thank you, mr. chair. gentlemen, thank you for your support to our nation in so many varying ways. i think the discussion today has been very beneficial. i think for all of us. and our constituencies. general alexander, i would like to start with you, sir. we have spent a lot of time talking about the cyber threats that exist out there an

the second though is as general alexander said we've built up great capabilities. there are many things mr. snowden did but one of the other things he did was reveal we have very potent cyber offense capability capability. i would add to those who believe building up more will deliver deterrence. the question, why has not not delivered deterrence yet? there's no question we have great capabilities and yet the attacks have continued to come. we need to build up deterrence or denial making ourselves more resilient so we can shrug off those attacks which, therefore, makes the attacks less productive. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. singer, i must complement you. to found a technology firm is an act of genius. i also enjoyed your churchill quotes. one of my favorite is how he thought history would treat his role in world war ii. his response was very well, because i intend to write it. on this issue of deterrence and i think senator rounds really hit the point and i think we should follow up on this is the question of what is an act of wore and when will we respond

mr. clark? or do they come from terrorist groups and non-nation states? general alexander? >> i think the greatest concern comes from nation states. the most frequent attacks comes from hackers, terrorists and others. but one -- >> mr. clark? >> i agree. i think greatest threat will be from nation states. >> does anybody disagree? >> yes, i guess i would disagree. in terms of large-scale, certainly nation states can bring more power to bear but i think this issue of frequency and likelihood is absolutely critical. we need to factor into thinking about threats. i think it is clear non-state actors can wreak quite a bit of destruction on united states. deterrents is less effective. >> general alexander, i think i understood you to say that we could stop attacks from iran, russia and china and you prefaced that by talking about the importance of the private sector and their willingness to invest in their own cybersecurity. if we can do that, what's been the impediment to doing that and how should the operation be organized? >> so i think there are several impediments. first hav

mr. chairman. >> general alexander, welcome. >> thank you, sir.chairman mccain, ranking member reed, distinguished them as other committee, i'd like to talk briefly about what you've address in your opening statement, chairman, about where technology is going and what this means to the future of warfare for i will do this rather quickly. i submitted a statement for the record and would ask that abbey put on the record spins all witness statements will be made a permanent part of the record. >> thank you, chairman. we look at the rate of change of technology and what you brought up in terms of the cycle of where we are with the dod acquisition system and were industry is, 18 years versus 18 months, it's unacceptable especially when you look at cybersecurity. when you think about the rate of change for cybersecurity it's doubling every two years. that means that the kids were in college today what they learned in their freshman year, half of his -- half of it is outdated by the junior. when you think about the volume of information, the unique volum

mr. alexander: we yield back our time.the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the joint resolution for the third time. the clerk: calendar number 294, s.j. res. 24, joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, united states code and so forth. mr. alexander: i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: is there anyone wishing to vote or change their vote? on this vote, the ayes are 52. the nays are 46. the senate joint resolution is passed. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: the senate is not in order. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. the senate will be in order. the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i move to proceed to s.j. res. 23. mr. mcconnell: the clerk will report -- the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: joint resolution providing for disapproval

alexander. mr. robert driscoll leads the washington, d.c. office of the law firm mcglinch e. stafford. a graduate of georgetown school of business law center mr. driscoll previously searched as the deputy assistant attorney general and chief of staff for the department of civil rights division. and finally, mr. andrew mccarthy, a senior fellow at the national review institute and a contributing editor to national review. a graduate of columbia and the new york law school, mr. mccarthy served as a federal prosecutor for 18 year it's in united states states attorney office for the southern district of new york. perhaps most notably, he was the lead prosecutor in the terrorism case against the blind sheikh and 11 others convicted in 1995 of conspireing to wage a war of urban terrorism against the united states. mr. mccarthy is the author of several books on terrorism and national security. i thank you each of you for being here. and ms. mcdonald, we'll begin with you. >> thank you so much. esteemed sen

mr. clark, or do they come from terrorist groups and nonnation-states? general alexander? >> i think the greatest concern comes from nation-states. the most frequent attacks comes from hackers, terrorists and others. but the one -- >> mr. clark? >> i agree, i think the greatest threat's going to be from nation-states. >> does anybody disagree? >> yeah, i guess i would disagree. i mean, i think in terms of large scale, certainly nation-states can bring more power to bear, but i think this issue of frequency and likelihood is absolutely critical. we need to factor in to thinking about threats. i think it's clear that nonstate actors can reap quite a bit of destruction on the united states. and deterrence is less effective. >> general alexander, i think i understood you to say that we could stop attacks from iran, russia and china. and you prefaced that by talking about the importance of the private sector and their willingness to invest in their own cybersecurity. if we can do that, what's been the impediment to doing that? and how should the operation be organized? >> so, i

alexander. mr. robert driscoll. leads the washington, d.c. office of the law firm mclynchy stafford and serves as co-chair of the white-collar investigate group. a graduation of the business and law center, he previously served as the deputy assistant attorney general and chief of staff for the civil rights division. and finally, mr. andrew mccarthy, the senior fellow at the national review institute and a contributing editor to national review. a graduate of columbia and the new york law school. he served as a federal prosecutor for 18 years in the united states attorney's office for the southern district of new york. perhaps most notably, he was the lead prosecutor in the terrorism case against the blind sheikh and 11 others convicted in 1995 of conspiring to wage a war of urban terrorism against the united states. he is the author of several books on terrorism and national security. i thank each of you for being here and miss mcdonald, we'll begin with you. >> thank you so much. esteemed senators

mrs. enumoto. >> chairman alexander, ranking member murray and members of the committee, thank you for holding this topic. thank you for inviting me to testify today. it's a great honor to talk to you about the state of america's mental health system, a topic veneer and dear to my heart. i would like to discuss with you some of the initiatives that samsa is delivering. neuropsychiatric disorders are the leading cause of disability burden in the united states. more than 1 in 4 social security disability insurance recipients are enrolled due to a mental illness. individuals with serious mental illness or smi, make up over 40% of those dually eligible for medicare and medicaid. mental health spending accounted for only 6% of health care spending and substance use spending accounted for only 1%. the burden of untreated or undertreated behavioral health conditions on the labor market, criminal justice system, families, schools and communities and others is tremendous. in this context, the mental health budget, approximately 1 billion in 2015, a small but important influencer. to accomplish our mission,

mr. clarke and general alexander, a special thanks to you for your past service but also it will be the intention and we do work on a bipartisan basis as you know what this committee to start looking at the follow one to this cyber legislation that we just passed in the senate and will be calling on all of you as we move forward with that effort. i think you would agree that additional legislation is necessary. would you agree that general? >> i do, chairman. >> hank. >> mr. chairman this is the an extraordinarily insightful panel and he chose widely a west point graduate who is command company commander. you have an army ranger and a graduate of harvard university's a good job. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] .. ♪ >> c-span presents landmark cases, the book, a guide to our landmark cases series, which explores 12 historic supreme court decisions including: introductions, backgrounds, highlights,introductions, backgrounds, highlights, and the impact of each case written by veteran supreme court journalist and published by c-span in cooperation with cq

myers' deputy setting up the system is a captain in the union army by name of the alexander porter. mr. porter says, i would rather go home and serve the south, and he takes myers' system with them. the wig-wag system becomes a central communication system for the confederacy as well. each side can read each other's communications. both sides developed code systems to encode their communications. myers would remain with the corps long after the war, and would end up being the founder of the u.s. weather service. this is the major albert myers , who fort myer in virginia is named after. they signal communications as their primary mission, but you can imagine if you are studying a 100 foot tower in the countryside, you are looking for the highest absolute point to do that for the maximum visibility. once you get that tower constructed and get a signal officer up there, he can see confederate or northern forces. they are often collecting intelligence on dispositions or movements when that is not primarily the purpose. a good amount of intelligence would come from the signal corps. this is

mr. clark and general alexander. a special thanks to you for your past service but also it will be the intention, and we do work in a bipartisan basis as you know in this committee to start looking at the follow-on to the cyber legislation we just passed through the senate. we will be calling on all of you as we move forward with that effort. i think you will agree that additional legislation is necessary. would you agree with that, general? >> i do, chairman. thank you. >> mr. chairman, this is an extremely insightful panel and i'm surprised you chose wiley -- wisely a west point graduate and a fleet company commander and saved his life. a submarine officer, an army ranger, and a graduate of harvard university. good job, mr. chairman. [laughter] [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] >> c-span has the best access to congress. watch live coverage of the

asking former white house alexander butterfield the famous question mr. butterfield, are you aware of any installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president thereby publicly reviewing the existence of tape recorded conversations in the white house. "national public radio" later called the session and the discovery of the watergate tapes that quote turning point in the investigation unquote. thomas magic was opened in 1985 wins thread was asked to play himself in the movie marie. in real life fred had been the attorney for the truth telling chairman of the tennessee parole board during a scandal in our state when pardons were sold for cash. after that he was cast a number of movie roles as the cia director, the head of dulles airport, and admiral, the president of nascar, three presidents of the united states and district attorney arthur branch in the television series law and order. that same magic served him well when he ran for the united states senate in 1994 for the last two years of vice president gore's unexpired term. he was

alexander. mr.bert driscoll leads the washington, d.c. office of the law firm mcglinch e. stafford. a graduate of georgetown school of business law center mr. driscoll previously searched as the deputy assistant attorney general and chief of staff for the department of civil rights division. and finally, mr. andrew mccarthy, a senior fellow at the national review institute and a contributing editor to national review. a graduate of columbia and the new york law school, mr. mccarthy served as a federal prosecutor for 18 year it's in united states states attorney office for the southern district of new york. perhaps most notably, he was the lead prosecutor in the terrorism case against the blind sheikh and 11 others convicted in 1995 of conspireing to wage a war of urban terrorism against the united states. mr. mccarthy is the author of several books on terrorism and national security. i thank you each of you for being here. and ms. mcdonald, we'll begin with you. >> esteemed senators my name is heath

alexander. mr. driscoll? >> thank you, chairman cruz, ranking member coons and members of the committee. appreciate the opportunity to discuss the role of the department of justice in enforcing its pattern and practice statute. i'll refer to section 14141 in the context of law enforcement. i had the privilege of serving as the deputy assistant attorney general of the civil rights division for two years under attorney general ashcroft and assistant attorney general ralph boyd and i was active in supervising the special litigation sections investigations to resolution of consent decrease or agreements with law enforcement agencies in cincinnati, columbus, miami and others. the section is important and difficult and the men and women who do it deserve our respect but i think the doj leadership and those who have oversight over doj should carefully analyze the appropriate use of this pattern and practice statute to ensure it's not used as a tool manipulate political outcomes but fulfill its purpose of enforcing c

mr. speaker. i know that my friend is aware of the course of concern surrounding the conviction of alexander blackman, commission officer who was shot fatally in afghanistan. if there's, indeed, more evidence that has been a miscarriage of justice would my friend agree with me that this matter should be locked -- looked at again? >> this is exactly what the criminal cases review to look at, miscarriage of justice. as he knows, we gave the naval services so there is proper disclosure in this case and his legal team said they are looking at the option of apply to go criminal cases review commission. let me say while we are on this point that our marines have a worldwide reputation as one of the world's elite fighting forces that made an incredible success, incredible contribution to our country and we should pay transcribe out to them. [shouting] >> thank you, mr. speaker. the government handling of sexual abuse has done little to instill public so far. what might -- [inaudible] >> all of the submitted through websites. [inaudible] >> can the prime minister please tell the house what is the independent

mr. trump in a moment, but first, peter alexander has more. good morning to you. >> good morning. we're under 90 days from the iowa caucuses, and donald trump system officially hitting the airwaves in iowa and elsewhere. the billionaire spending his own money, $300,000, to get his message out. >> reporter: fighting to fend off his strongest challenge yet, in this campaign, is paying to be heard. >> if the people of iowa vote for me, you'll never be disappointed. i don't disappoint people. >> reporter: trump's new radio ads debuting in early contest states. >> i don't feel the need, but a lot of people want me to do it. we're leading in new hampshire and all over. >> reporter: after securing his name on the new hampshire ballot, trump teed off on the new front runner, ben carson. >> ben cannot do the job. you know what? he's very nice and some would say, that was a nasty -- look, i don't care. >> reporter: sparking a backlash, trump's hosting gig on "saturday night live" this weekend. latino groups protesting outside nbc's new york city headquarters, delivering a petition, demandin

mr. trump in a minute but first peter alexander has more. >> we're now under 90 days from the iowa caucuses donald trump is officially hitting the airwaves in iowa and elsewhere. the billionaire who has dismissed super pacs as a cam deal now spending his own money to get his message out. fighting to fend off his strongest challenge yet, donald trump for the first time is paying to be heard. >> if the people of iowa vote for me, you'll neff be disappointed. i don't disappoint people. >>. >> after securing his name on the ballot, he teed off on the front-runner ben carson. >> ben cannot do the job. people would say oh, that's not nice, he's a very nice man. i don't care. >> reporter: snl and trump are promoting the appearance online. >> because of equal time rules on television, mr. trump can only speak for 4 seconds on television. >> let me say this, ben carson is a total loser. >> i discovered when i was in grade school that those tactics really are for grade school. >> meanwhile trump is also taking aim at marco rubio. >> marco rubio has a disaster on his finances. he has a disaster on his

mr. trump in a moment but first peter alexander has more. good morning to you. >> good morning. we're now under 90 days and donald trump is officially hittttg theirwaves in iowa and elsewhere. he's now spending his own money, just $300,000, to get his message out. fighting to fend off his strongngt challenge yet, donald trump for the first time this campaign is paying to be heard. >> if the people of iowa vote for me, you'll never be disappointed. >> reporter: trump's new radio atds ads appearing in key states. after securing his name on the new hampshire ballotot trump teeee off on the new front-runner, ben carson. >> ben cannot do the job. you know what? he's very nice and people would say, oh, that was nasty. i don't care. >> reporter: now he's hosting a gig on "saturday night live" this weekend. with people protesting outside the headquarters petitioning signatures saying racism is not cards. >> reporter: rubio is facing renewed scrutiny how he was using a state florida credit card when he was a legislator. two years of credit card statements still have not been disclosed. >

mr. trump, and i don't need that. matt and savannah. >> peter alexander, thank you very much. let's bring in nicolle wallace, msnbc analyst and former white house communications director for george w. bush. good morning. >> getting fun. >> i know. just fascinating the dynamics here, so the candidates versus republican party leaders, right. what's really going on. a vote of no confidence in the rnc. >> a wish to return to the way it used to be. the campaigns used to have a greater say and certainly in the general election and you guys know this. in the general election both campaigns, the republican and the democrat negotiate through their debate commission directly with the networks so this is -- this is a smart move by the campaigns to try to have more say but the notion that you can get a front-runner campaign like donald trump and an underdog campaign like bobby jindal to want and need the same things out of the debates is where they are going to go astray. >> yet, even as you say that i kind of expected to wake up this morning to some stunning demands. >> right. >> game-ch

mr. trump and i don't need that. matt and savannah. >> peter alexander, thank you. let's bring in -- good morning. getting fun, right. >> i know. this is fascinating the dynamics here. the candidates verses republican party leaders. what's really going on here? just a vote of no confidence. >> this is a voice to return to the way it use to be. the campaign use to have a greater say. certainly in the general election. the front runner campaign like donald trump and underdog campaign to want and need to same things as the debate. >> even as you say that, i kind of expected to wake up this morning to some stunning demand. game changing demand. these are more. >> yeah. here's the thing. at the core is a massive generational destruct with the main stream media and it bubbled over with the debate last week and ted cruz in iowa this weekend talked about a test i've never heard before in my life about how he said no one could nod rate a g.o.p. primary debate and doesn't plan to vote. >> or hasn't. >> how would they ever enforce that. to me, where republicans need to be careful, these debates serving candi

alexander, thanks very much. reince priebus is the chairman committee. mr. priebus, good to see you, good morning. >> good morning, matt. >> let's talk about ben carson. when someone runs for president and that person has no real political experience and no record in public office to run on and they decide to run on the elements of an interesting and inspiring life story, are specific and pointed questions about elements of that life story appropriate? >> well, look. i would marriage some questions are appropriate, but i do believe that this is a totally crazy obsession over incredible details from 30 and 40 years ago, whether it be this issue or some of the other issues highlighted earlier in the segment among other candidates. the fact is, you know, we kind of wish the media would just be obsessed or half obsessed with hillary clinton's lies of many years and -- >> except that dr. carson -- >> four people died in benghazi and e-mails and everything >> dr. carson saying he's being targeted and not vetted and if he is, he says he's being vetted more severely

mr. dear. fortunately that ended without further incident. >> absolutely. they did a tremendous job yesterday. just fascinating to listen to those s.w.a.t. teams communicating with each other over the scanner. thank you so much, cedric alexander'll be right back. marie callender knows that any occasion feel more special. that's why she make her golden, flaky crust from scratch, tosses in handfuls of fresh fuji apples and sprinkles on just the right amount of brown sugar streusel. ♪ so that you can spend more time making special moments with your family. marie callender's. it's time to savor. >>> republican presidential candidate donald trump not shying away from talking about his ongoing feud with "the new york times." today, trump told a crowd in florida he never mocked one of the paper's reporters for having a physical disability, and he thinks the paper should apologize for even suggesting otherwise. cnn's athena jones has more from florida. >> reporter: hi there, pamela. donald trump spoke before a boisterous and very excited crowd near sarasota. as he often does, talked tough on isis, talked plans to build a wall along the mexican board somewhere hit rivals hard. he blasted the president, hillary clinton, jeb bush, marco

mr. speaker. i know that my right honorable friend is aware of the growing chorus of concern surrounding the conviction of alexanderroyal marine noncommissioned office or who shot a fatally wounded insurgent enough get a stand in 2011. would my right honorable friend agree with me that it is right that this matter should be looked into again? this is exactly with the criminal cases review commission exists to look at, where there is or may have been a miscarriage of justice. as he knows, we gave the internal report of the naval services to sergeantma lackn's legalgeant blackman's advisers, so there is proper disclosure in this case. say that our royal marines have a worldwide reputation as one of the world elite fighting forces, and they have made an incredible contribution to our country, and we should picture to them. >> margaret ferrier. ferrier: the government's handling of the child sexual abuse inquiries has done little to instill public confidence so far. last month, the goddard inquiry announced that it had accidentally and permanent legal related -- permanently deleted all victim testimony submitted throug

mr. chairman, as we come to the close of what has been a very long afternoon, i simply want to thank the two police chiefs who have actually testified today, both chief davis and chief alexander, and the many other witnesses who testified from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives, but have helped us focus on the fact that increases in crime are the result of very complex issues and require us to pay attention to knowing the facts. there's been a great deal of opining today on a wide range of issues. i'll simply close by suggesting two things i think are worth reflecting on. one, as i said at the outset, is a very pointed comment by the national president of the fraternal order of police, who takes umbrage including witnesses today who suggest that it is the fault of police officers who are refusing to actively police that there is an increase in crime. he said to blame the rise in crime on officers' behavior is just not grounded in fact and is wrong. and as we search the many complex possible sources for why there might be an increase in crime, i'll suggest one thing that was not addressed in any meaningful way in today's hearing, which is the hundreds of millions of

mr. alexander: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i'd like to address my remarks to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, my democratic colleagues. yesterday, i spent almost the whole day working with democratic colleagues on a variety of proposals to try to get bipartisan results here in the senate. we've gotten more of those this year than most people think, whether it's the progress we've made on no child left behind or on the trade bill or on the doc fix or on changing the way we pay doctors, on the u.s.a. freedom act, on defense authorization, terrorism. it's a long list. and i was working on that yesterday because that's what i'm supposed to do as a united states senator. i'm not sent here to posture or to make a political point. i'm sent here, given this privilege in order to create an environment where we can solve problems for the benefit of the taxpayers, for the benefit of the american people. so that's how i spent my time yesterday. i don't think any other republican spent more time than i did working w

mr. chairman and thank you to those witnesses. general alexander you talk about and we agree all the time the number of cyberattacks on the nation or governmental agencies that are occurring with greater frequency and i think he is a 350 cyber attacks. i'm not sure what time that was. give us a good example of a counter cyber attacks that the united states has undertaken so when we have been attacked, give me good example of something we have done in response. >> senator i can't give you that in this forum but i think that something that would be good to discuss for the committee in a classified session. >> i does want to make this point. i thought that was going to be your answer. there is not a deterrence doctrine and people don't know what the response will be. the president last week said he was going to send 50 special forces to syria. i know to the number how many bombing raids we have run in the work and sisal bets now and it's nearly 16th month. we know the number of personnel had been deployed that when america public and policymakers read