if i might ask, mr. risch specifically, i have the privilege of representing houston, texas has the motto rather not answer every alliance to residential neighborhoods to near schools and a lot of facilities where people are engrossing and cake icing. some if you could create a training program for this marinade, what types of things that you focus on? me to be vigilant and watch out for twiki in a real opportunity in airport goes to the right people selection can be be taken. i think what you need is a clustered environment, when a structure is very an individual workers cannot and coworkers say canonical cars are routinely story. they have to be very vigilant in those areas. there'll be a host of things that security -- people trained in security know what to look for would be the appropriate lens and not so many vail road data or video to really doesn't understand the potential to. >> so many hands-on training >> correct. >> working with pipelines as millions state of texas. he had an incident that just occ

if i might ask, mr. risch specifically, i have the privilege of representing houston, texas has the motto rather not answer every alliance to residential neighborhoods to near schools and a lot of facilities where people are engrossing and cake icing. some if you could create a training program for this marinade, what types of things that you focus on? me to be vigilant and watch out for twiki in a real opportunity in airport goes to the right people selection can be be taken. i think what you need is a clustered environment, when a structure is very an individual workers cannot and coworkers say canonical cars are routinely story. they have to be very vigilant in those areas. there'll be a host of things that security -- people trained in security know what to look for would be the appropriate lens and not so many vail road data or video to really doesn't understand the potential to. >> so many hands-on training >> correct. >> working with pipelines as millions state of texas. he had an incident that just occ

if i might ask, mr. rischnear schools and a lot of facilities where people are engrossing and cake icing. some if you could create a training program for this marinade, what types of things that you focus on? me to be vigilant and watch out for twiki in a real opportunity in airport goes to the right people selection can be be taken. i think what you need is a clustered environment, when a structure is very an individual workers cannot and coworkers say canonical cars are routinely story. they have to be very vigilant in those areas. there'll be a host of things that security -- people trained in security know what to look for would be the appropriate lens and not so many vail road data or video to really doesn't understand the potential to. >> so many hands-on training >> correct. >> working with pipelines as millions state of texas. he had an incident that just occurred in montana and the potential for a terrorist threats against pipelines i think it's great. what specifically can we do to add to the securit

mr. risch: thank you very much. i am honored to be here with the other former governors. we -- there are a handful of us on each side who have had the honor and privilege of serving their states as the chief executive, and so it is a real honor to be heemplet and i bring that experience with me and i think every one of us brings that experience with us. i not only bring that experience but i did almost three decades in the idaho state senate balancing a budget, and indeed i was in the leadership having to do what the leadership does here in bringing the two sides together because we have a budget requirement in the state of idaho, just as virtually every other state does. and does that create some angst when you're the chief executive or when you are a he in the legislative process trying to balance? of course it z i'm sure that the presiding officer wound up with the same thing in her great state as she tried to balance the budget because no matter how much money you have, it is never enough. as you've pointed out, senator johanns, that it is a matter of priority. this i

mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator risch. i'll introduce our witnesses and we'll go right to the testimony. our first panel, i will limit the introduction for for spam and will do the second panel when we reach that point, we'll hear from the honorable janet sanderson, deputy assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs. the honorable daniel benjamin, courtney for catechism at the department of state, and ms. christa capozzola, deputy assistant administrator in the bureau for democracy, conflict and humanitarian assistance at usaid. for purposes of movement from left to right, ambassador benjamin will go. i think we'll start with you. >> chairman casey, ranking member risch, thank you very much for inviting me to appear before you today. as you will hear in a few moments from my colleague, ambassador sanderson, the situation in yemen in terms of politics and economics is quite tenuous. the presence of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, aqap, means that this volatile situation has a direct bearing on our national security. as we see with both the 2009 christmas day bumped in and the

andoi as the senator risch has just pointed out, whye would we not give the american people the opportunity to cast their vote on how best to manage their government? with that, mr. president, i yield the floor and notice the absence of a quorum. >> a look at the u.s. capitol for the house of representatives remains in session. members have been debating the republican debt and deficit reduction bill known as cut cap and balance. for all debate got under way it 2:40 and a final vote on the measure is expected in the 8:00 hour. president obama threatened to veto the legislation. you can watch the house live right now over on c-span. now a democratic representative on the debt ceiling talks between the president and congressional leadership. this is from this morning's washington journal. >> representative karen, democrats representing california 33rd district. good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me. host could talk about the cut vt cap balance vote. it's a re tpublican-led effort n the house. do you think any democrats willt vote for it?ocrats wl >> guest: i can't imagine that they will and frankly i think it very, very bad policy. some of the measur