mr. reese, would you care to comment, sir? >> i would echo mr. ross comments. but enough is a standardization issue is the collective inspect yours interpret the rates of family, approach work the same way can you get a more consistent application of the inspection process and i'll hold it there. >> thank you, sir. mr. farmer, and very lucky to have international falls is a district which is a rare point for border security. anytime a little but the tsa at a point such as that which has a lot of real growth. and if you could expand upon that a little bit. >> in areas like the inspections and from two dhs components and inspectors looking too many issues involving various actions the overseer regulations particularly pertaining to transport of hazardous material and also potential interest in customs and border protection looking at the issues there is commerce goes back and forth across the border. the railroad spend an awful lot of time and effort and cooperation with the cbp and tsa in this area are particularly with customs and border protection, their joint

mr. reese, would you care to comment, sir? >> i would echo mr. ross comments. but enough is a standardization issue is the collective inspect yours interpret the rates of family, approach work the same way can you get a more consistent application of the inspection process and i'll hold it there. >> thank you, sir. mr. farmer, and very lucky to have international falls is a district which is a rare point for border security. anytime a little but the tsa at a point such as that which has a lot of real growth. and if you could expand upon that a little bit. >> in areas like the inspections and from two dhs components and inspectors looking too many issues involving various actions the overseer regulations particularly pertaining to transport of hazardous material and also potential interest in customs and border protection looking at the issues there is commerce goes back and forth across the border. the railroad spend an awful lot of time and effort and cooperation with the cbp and tsa in this area are particularly with customs and border protection, their joint

mr. reese, would you care to comment, sir? >> i would echo mr. ross comments.e consistent application of the inspection process and i'll hold it there. >> thank you, sir. mr. farmer, and very lucky to have international falls is a district which is a rare point for border security. anytime a little but the tsa at a point such as that which has a lot of real growth. and if you could expand upon that a little bit. >> in areas like the inspections and from two dhs components and inspectors looking too many issues involving various actions the overseer regulations particularly pertaining to transport of hazardous material and also potential interest in customs and border protection looking at the issues there is commerce goes back and forth across the border. the railroad spend an awful lot of time and effort and cooperation with the cbp and tsa in this area are particularly with customs and border protection, their joint working groups that focus specifically on enhancing cross-border security across border in the north importer of canadian national and canadian a

mr reese says rupert murdoch's press has now lost its longstanding immunity and britain's prince who beat i think something changed this week you know for decades british prime ministers have been on their knees to the to the murdoch press because they knew that when the sun which is his main daily newspaper here in britain when the sun supported a british politician running for prime ministership you know they won it and then you find on the next day you find that prime minister reading the sun looking like an idiot saying well the sun got me elected i mean so you've got this demeaning of british democracy is that missing of democracy really which the murdoch press was at the heart of but i think and there was a for a silence as well because important people needed the murdoch press and they couldn't be there they couldn't attack it because of that and i think a line was crossed rupert murdoch has a very finely tuned business brain he has a lot of things going on now one of them is to purchase the largest satellite network in britain called b. sky b. and that decision is about to be

mr. reese? >> most definitely applicable. pipeline plans are typically threat they so there's a baseline of security measures and then there is an additional measure that would be based on threat. however that threat information is obtained whether provided by the government or whether it is concerned citizen or an employee who is alert and aware that information is valuable and it ought to trigger and i was suggested as the cornerstone of any effective plan. see something say something is an. >> mr. chairman do the time i will yield back, sir. >> i:the gentleman. >> i can't miss this opportunity. i want to thank chief dunham for now publicly announcing a new national effort not on my shift. mr. chairman and i have just made an agreement, not on our time on this committee. >> that's right. not on our ship. >> if anything is going to happen to the nation's transportation system, we just put a heavy burden on ourselves or with the how fast and furious. not in my shift. that is a great one. thank you and i yield back mr. chairma

mr lawlor of. the willingness of friends. to resolve a soon as possible the question of reeses. to have a free travel while so far as the short term travel is concerned we have discussed this for some time but we think that before the end of the year this will be resolved we also discussed the relations between europe and russia in the energy area and i indicated trend says attached to the respect to a long term gas contracts we also discussed security problems of relations between later and russia. france a very important to make sure that russia should be fully associated to the missile defense project and we have some concern and say here are the common concerns between our countries security also means the continent wide security during the recent summit. we reaffirmed the willingness of creating a common security and prosperity space and france will be making proposals to its partners in order to concretize the good intentions of this project and finally we will also discuss the crisis points crisis situations or gave lavrov has mentioned some of them in syria for example w

reese enquestions, specifically the debt ceiling. >> right. >> and this is formulated in our next question from renegade nerd out of atlanta. mr. president, will you issue an executive order to raise the debt ceiling pursuant to section 4 of the 14th amendment? >> can i say renegade nerd, that picture is -- captures is all there. got his hand over there and looking kind of confused. let me -- as quickly as i can describe what's at stake with respect to the debt ceiling. historically the united states whenever it has a deficit, it finances that deficit through the sale of treasuries, and this is a very common practice. over our lifetime typically the government is always running a modest deficit, and congress is supposed to vote on the amount of debt that treasury can essentially issue. it's a pretty esoteric piece of business. typically has not been something that created a lot of controversy. what's happening now is that congress is suggesting we may not vote to raise the debt ceiling. if we do not, then the treasury will run out of money. it will not be able to pay the bills that are owing, and potentially the entire world ca