be related to standards.e do not want the city to be putting bulb outs up and down the street. supervisor weiner thinks they would create safety, and we strongly disagree with that. we strongly oppose the part of his legislation. in reference to scott weiner's response that it is all preservation, that is all relative. we are going to the national register. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am a member of the staff for the cisco -- the san pentico preservation organization among others. you have received a chart that lists the differences between the positions of articles 10 and 11 and legislation that the planning commission has forwarded to you. as a 40-year resident of san francisco, as an owner of a city landmark, and one that has been actively helping to preserve our city

you are not going to have any standards that meet quality upright standards. the supervisors, whether you like it or not, you are going to serve the constituents of san francisco. 811,000 in the daytime, 1.5 million when others come here to work. that is all your responsibility directly and indirectly. the bottom line is service. the bottom line is addressing quality of life issues, but most importantly, whether you like it or not, you have to focus on the human being, and today, the distraction among the muni drivers is very high. i help you incorporate that in your future presentations and metrobuses. thank you very much. chairman brinkman: thank you. secretary boomer: seeing that there are no more further public comments, the motion is before you. chair brinkman: all in favor? secretary boomer: those young people that are using a clipper card or any of the other options as presented by staff. chair brinkman: ok, can we please have a report on this before we move to public comment? >> i will be brief. i know a lot of people have been waiting to speak on this

approach toes come up with the standards. they can't be arbitrary. most of these systems in looking at different countries should participate in international cooperative activities and harmonization. so that instead of focusing on very small differences within specific areas, these are harmonized and people are working toward the same goal. decisions should be ethical and when something occurs, that information should be rapidly transmitted to prevent it spreading throughout the system. the federal and medical product regulatory system really should look at product safety through good manufacturer processes, good clinical, laboratory and agricultural processes. staff training and development should occur, monitoring, laboratory inspection and surveillance of product, risk assessment analysis and emergency response. we go into a lot of detail in this report on those specifics as to what a regulatory system encompasses. when we looked at those, we've identified and ground together nine main gaps in developing country systems.

we should have not only our own standards, but our own consistent standards and applications. and the planning commission will after approve them. i understand that some people would like doggerel only to be for the hpc. while it is appropriate for the hpc to have jurisdiction over certain projects, relating to the rules, that is where the planning board should be involved in order to take into account all public policies. before i wind down, there has been some e-mail traffic and some insinuations that are completely incorrect in the last few days that there is something wrong with the process leading up to what we are considering today. there has been a fair amount of misinformation out there. we're out had 25 hearings at the -- the historic preservation commission supported many of my suggestions and did not agree with others. the planning commission unanimously supported this legislation with my amendments with one exception, that the planning commission asks for staff and my office to work together to rework the economic hardship provision, which we did. i then introduced

i mean and over emphasis on standardized testing and over emphasis on standardization of curriculum. what high performance countries are telling us are more respect for the profession and more autonomy and that teachers get on with the task. >> do you think that message is coming clear to both sides? that is crucial. >> the summit is very helpful in that regard. when you have ministers of education from high performing countries and say this is what our recipe for success looks like and it stands in distinction with which you are doing with your country, it's a wake-up call for policy makers and it challenges them and they start reflecting on their own policy. >> thank you for visiting with us. a terrific conversation. thank you very much. for information about my new book and online video for all "this is america programs, visit our web site. >> "this is america" is made possible by the national education association, the nation's largest advocate for children and public education. the american federation of teachers, a union of professionals. poongsan corporation, forging a higher

certification and compliance testing for all emission standards. this also includes implementation of the president's historic agreement with the auto industry for carbon pollution and fuel economy standards through 2025 for cars and light duty vehicles, including testing support for ntsa's fuel economy standards. taken together, the administration standards for cars and light trucks are projected to result in $1.7 trillion of fuel savings and $12 billion fewer barrels of oil consumed. this funding will also help support implementation of the first ever carbon pollution and fuel economy standards for heavy duty trucks. madam chairman, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. while my testimony reflects only some of the highlights of epa's budget request, i look forward to answering your questions. >> thank you very much. i wonder -- we're going to each have six minutes. i wanted to start off. there was a big critique of going after toxic air pollution from power plants specifically from senator sessions, and i wanted to talk to you about tha

i wanted to move, if i could, professor harris to a question about standards. if you look at reasonable suspicion of standard that controls the ability of law enforcement to stop and question an individual, as opposed to probable cause, which covers arrest. profiles appears to be a much larger problem potentially in the area of reasonable suspicion. how you have seen that play out? what is important in fighting that standard and then i want to move to this bill, and why it might be necessary. professor? >> thank you. thank you for the question, senator. you're absolutely right. put your finger on something important. the reason the case that allows police officers to use stop and frisk when there is reasonable fact-based suspicion. the problem is, and where this can intertwine with profiling is that reasonable suspicion is a very low league standard. it is lower than probable cause. when i'm in class, i like to say, probable cause is somewhere near my waist. reasonable suspicion is below my knees. and you have a standard where you can use very little evidence t

>> there, standards. they are conveyed through training and supervision. but one of the things we are doing, mr. chairman is looking at the standards, the training, the supervision to see the what, if anything, needs to be tightened up because again, we don't want this to be repeated. >> well, is there training given to agents relating to private or intimate contact with foreign nationals when traveling for security work? >> the training is focused on professionalism, on conduct consistent with the highest moral values and standards and i think the that would include your question. >> well,ern madame secretary, i know that when we travel, when members of congress travel to different countries we go to, we're given security and foreign intelligence advisories. i've been in some countries where, for example, we leave all our communication gear dismantled with u.s. security officers. and so forth. are agents given training in security in foreign intelligence for a particular country they might go into? >> i think that's part of the advance process, mr. chairm

want standard leather-trimmed seats, you're going to have even fewer. ♪ and if you want standard keylessess, then your choice is obvious. the lexus es. it's complete luxury in a class full of compromises. see your lexus dealer. >>> i'm david gregory, this is "press pass." this week i'm joined by african-american history expert dr. benard demchuck and the legend bill cosby. they are marking the reopening of the famous howard theater. theater for the people and center of its jazz scene. welcome both of you. >> thank you. >> great to have you here. >> i want to talk about this howard theater as it's reopening and what it means to the community, bill. because this is a legendary place. >> this theater now sits as the jewel it once was to the neighborhood. and the entertainment is going to be of today's entertainers. >> what does it mean? >> well, i think it was -- it opened on august 22nd 1910 by the way. that's also the birthday of ben ace chili bowl, august 22nd 1958. same date. that's interesting because there's sort of a synergy for what's known as the black broadway. african-americans c

we are going to go through those standards in a moment. briefly, last week, this was heard as a matter of continuance at the board of appeals last week. there was some talk about how beautiful the window -- how beautiful the windows are on the inside. we are here today to talk about how they look on the outside. this is what we have at 62 collingwood. this is what i look at. the reason that you do not see this on our street is because 50% of the windows on collingwood street are would. -- are wood. that is because the residence on our block follow the rules, respect each other, and follow along. -- follow the law. i do not think this is the permit orders fall. i am not pointing any fingers. i will explain that in a moment. this is the drawing i would like to show you. the windows that i -- that are proposed for the upper unit are right here. this is the historical the accurate wooden windows i am proposing for my unit. the question is, what is the opprobrium when no here? what is more appropriate? if we were to let both of these permits st

those standards must be met. those standards can range from specific tolerances of chemicals, absence of specific microbial contaminants and relate to actually a drug and a specific concentration in the product. another aspect we found that's significant is controlling supply chain. so the supply chain is when the chemical or the food is initially produced to when it's in the finished product and actually imported. what is that supply chain? and some of the problems we've dealt with this week again last month, a couple years ago, really la to do with supply chain integrity and how can we monitor that? this is a gap in many systems we looked at. there were infrastructure deficits. in order to implement supply chain control, in order to adhere to standards, there has to be a system in place. there has to be people trained to know that those standards exist. there has to be laboratories in place. and there's infrastructure deficits at various levels in both the food and drug systems. there needs to be a legal founda

we have to keep pushing for national servicing standards. the settlement is good as far as it goes, but it doesn't cover all banks, and the standards aren't rigorous enough in some areas, i think. >> right. and would you mind talking a few nor minutes about your thoughts arnold the servicing standards? >> only 300. 500? >> only 37 pages. >> yeah. only 37 pages. never mind. i am hopeful -- of course you're right, and ultimately the jurisdiction and the ability to promulgate national standards of the cfpb, i'm hopeful, frankly weather the settlement that what we'll do is begin to generate a record about the implementation of this that's helpful and also further action at the federal level. i don't pretend to think this is going to do it, and i don't think -- these aren't the final solutions. but i think they're a part of the solution. i think it's a first step forward and that's what we're going to try to do. i think there's an issue, by the way, about 37 pages, 300 requirements. some of them, you know, why they have to be requirements is a li

that those standards can actually be handled within those countries. another common thread is supply chain security. obviously, end-to-end supply chain visibility is an important goal. if we could snap our fingers and find out instantly what's occurring in a supply chain, we'd all be happy. that's not going to happen immediately. we freed to work towards this. the food modernization act has a one up, one down approach, where if you are in the middle of a chain you need to know where it came from and where it's going to so you can then re-create what that supply chain is. we think this needs to be applied towards other fda regulated products. accountability is important. we obviously can control and reject products but there has to be incentives. market access it be a reward for product safety. we need other approaches and engage the private sector and food and drug producers in trying to work out improving the overall quality of the system. fraud and detecting counterfeit products is a crucial problem, but we freed to get some of the systems that may b

industry minister yukio edano briefed the group on draft standards. the rules include steps to include power sources in emergencies and make nuclear plans tsunami-proof. they want to restart two of the reactors at the ohi plant in fukui prefecture. he and the ministers will meet again on friday. chief secretary osamu fujimura says the new safety standards would also be applied to decide whether other reactors should resume operations. >> translator: the plant standards would not be temporary but new criteria. they would be a major index in deciding whether to restart a reactor. we might consider making them legislation eventually. >>> the government is basing these new standards on guidelines drawn up by the nuclear and industrial safety agency. nisa officials outlined 30 steps following last year's accident at fukushima daiichi. the measures are designed to address factors that caused the meltdown and massive radioactive leaks at the nuclear plant. some of the steps call for operators to secure multiple emergency power sources, protect facilities fro

and there's flexibility on how to meet those standards, but not weather to meet those standards. are you with me so far? >> i am, and i agree. >> also another piece, and that's the information sharing piece. we -- as you point out, you want them to get to the point where they can tell us about an attack, and the bills make it easy for them to tell us because we're addressing some of the issues about proprietary information for instance so that they will be protected in that. but i think it's also clear as your answer to senator collins made clear, that weren't they share, and we're talking here about the major infrastructure here in this country, whether or not they share information with us is not a question of whether they agree to it or not. at some point, with major infrastructure, there's going to be a requirement that they share information relative to attacks with us. we will protect them in terms of proprietary information, but they've got to help protect the country by understanding that there should be and i believe hopefully will be requirements that they share informa

they were briefed on the draft standards. including steps to secure power sources in emergencies and make nuclear plants tsunami proof. the prime minister told edano ahead of the decision to restart two of the reactors in fukui prefecture. he and the ministers will meet again friday. >>> chief cabinet secretaries the new safety standards would also be applied to decide whether other reactors should resume operations. >> translator: the plan standards would not be temporary, but new criteria. there would be a major index in deciding whether to restart a reactor. we might consider making them legislation eventually. nuclear power used to provide japan with a third of its electricity. before last year's accident at fukushima daiichi, 37 of the country's 54 nuclear reactors were running, but since then, none of the reactors that's gone offline for regular maintenance has started. the last working reactor will be shut down by early may. the unit is on the northern island of hokkaido. nuclear authorities started running stress test

and repaving and rebuilding all of the cuts to standard on the street. we do need to comply with the federal mandate for standards so when you see a curb cut being repaired, it is because we are trying to bring them up to standards. >> i understand that. but wouldn't it be better to put them in places we don't have them now? >> we work closely with the mayor's office of disability and they advise us on the critical areas. just because we have one in a certain location, use is a big concerns we have to prioritize. >> one of the areas we have seen is in the past, we might have had a rap that was compliant based on previous laws and as the rule change, we had to fix or repair them to come up to the new standards. >> i am with the mayor's office on disability. the city has a transition plan for the public right of way that addresses the curb ramps specifically at we have a rating system where we evaluate all of the different curb ramps. our priority is always on public safety. so what we rate the existing ramps, if they meet a certain threshold, we leave the

>> requirements describe a set of performance standards in listening, speaking, and right thing, so the list of to be magnified and expanded, so we should seek elective course thoss. >> thank you. i think everybody knows my daughter participated in debate when she was in high school. she debated in high school. she was a student who had a lot to say, and the debate really taught her the art of argument. after she became a vegetarian, she was investigating an animal rights, and she was a vegetarian for six years arthur about the reagan and -- after that. i was a great supporter. this type os developing a passion for society and about what is going on in the world and digging deeper and working as a team, and i also appreciate team's zeroth year ago -- team spirit. i have seen members on her team quiet and shy turn into a really robust speakers, being very articulate. my daughter went to berkeley. she is a labor organizer, and she has a lot to say, and she has perfected the art of argument, and it is hard to win any argument with her. i applaud commissioner winds for being forced to quest

had developed consensus standards. we provided in the legislation that the consensus standards would go into effect initially. it was probably now that i think back on it an example of a situation where large industry wants federal legislation that would reduce competition from smaller companies. since the consensus standards were agreed upon by large companies and imposed more of a requirement on small companies who weren't as safety conscious. the republicans were in favor of consensus standards, and the democrats compromised on that. then the big issue -- then one big issue on which we lost as i tried my very best to convince the congress to allow the occupational safety and health administration, osha, in develops standards to take into account cost benefits. the naderites were strongly opposed to that, arguing there was no way you could put a dollar amount on a human life. i argued with the congressman until i was blue in the face that there simply was no way to avoid that. you didn't -- so crudely as put in terms

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procedure that is pretty standard and simple. one nice thing about the proposed remedy is there is two ways to address here 70 is either remove the soil or be bought it in place. if you remove the soil, there are buildings on top so you could damage or demolish the historic buildings. so this is friendly to the buildings that are there. it has a very low carbon footprint as compared to hauling off several hundred thousand yards of soil and bringing in that much soil. it can be implemented during the redevelopment quickly. it will not really slow down the redevelopment. it is not extremely expensive. it can be done consistent with the redevelopment, and it is pretty much consistent with a lot of other projects we're working on. i am finishing up a park project that was a former firbun dump. it was a little island on the edge of the bay that is now being converted into a park. we're living a 2 ft. soil cut across the entire site and preventing exposure and preventing any health risk. a work on a project and grand marina that is now

welcome back of course the break we were talking about why my guest thinks a return to a gold standard by someone in the world is inevitable based on game theory and he was talking about something that plays into this obviously is inflation and the measure of future inflation he says can be seen in debts and deficits and now it's a really interesting concept and i want to talk more about it he is john butler author of this book that i have here the golden revolution he's also founder of and for a capital and before the break we were talking about future inflation and that being based on debts and deficits now so my question to you is why and then what is the u.s. as debts and deficit say about our future inflation. well the reason why is because when a government runs chronic this it sent builds up a huge accumulated debt alternately it becomes unserviceable a corporation simply goes bankrupt when a government is not in the same way it will obviously seek to raise tax revenue or do what it can to try and service that colossal debt but historically inflating your way out of unserviceabl

courses that apply, if we were standardizing so everyone is only taking the same class as, i would hope may be the curriculum committee would take that up. i will not say we will support it when we have no money, but i think we ought to know the different kinds of activities in which kids are engaging, how they meet the standards. >> i believe mr. sanderson has done a lot of work on this to get a course as an electives. is that true. >> that is correct. we did get a course. gand we have been able to get te course of an elective this year, and we are more than happy to come back. we have monthly meetings, and one of the things we have started talking about is how do we integrate into the curriculum, because it is an important skill set that everyone hives. good -- everyone has. that is part of what we have been able to secure. >> i appreciate that, and that is the first step, but the real question is is it possible for there to be an integrated debate with other things that actually meets the english requirement? maybe it is not possible in this case of some of the other things kids are

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- standardized set of standards for good practice for these types of corporations.organization is called ic alliance. they have published standard setting codes, impact codes, assurance coats, and credibility principles for third-party vera fires. consequently, we can adopt rules and regulations which includes these types of alamance into the requirement of the third-party verify your peer that way, if the organization -- we verify a given third-party verify error has verified the benefit corporation good, then we know they are all applying the same set of international standards to that evaluation. with those amendments, we think it is a very solid piece of legislation. our lbe's are protected 100% in this legislation, as our san francisco corporations and nonprofits. we support this 100%. happy to answer any questions. supervisor chu: i do have a number of questions, but i would like to ask the budget analyst if he wants to present on any changes made to the reports. >> members of the committee, madam chair, in response to the committee's questions, we had initial

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then let their standard you know let it be there like thanks so much for joining us. are just ahead tonight one congressman doesn't think of the u.s. has enough missile interceptors so he wants to build more details are told time and unhappy our fox news invites some unexpected guests to the white house and good news for neo nazis now the social media site just for you stated. that i kill innocent kids i was it on the basis of course and that's never a. moment sharpen the skull still with me i think of it every day. i still have the flashbacks from the memories. so much so that long time i'm just here trying to tell em i was ashamed. i was ashamed that i didn't. i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero why i got my arm i got my legs. in the mine. where i would still be out in all those of color to. now believe what i was doing i was all i think. that i was a good soldier. but you know most soldier on the other side and i think i'm just as good. all right it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight we're giving it to a congressman who just loves to tells kerry s

then let their standard you know let it be there like thanks so much for joining us. are just ahead tonight one congressman doesn't think of the u.s. has enough missile interceptors so you can build more details are told time and unhappy our fox news invites some unexpected guests to the white house and good news for neo nazis now the social media site is for your day to. get a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then. the other part of it and realize that everything is. ok is a big. blow to the capital account because laurie lister. but in the alone and so you know there's a real headline with none of the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and for what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back to t.v. . or is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extrem

if there are such standards, however they conveyed? >> there are standards. they are conveyed through training and supervision. one of the things we are doing is looking at the standards, the training, the supervision, to see what if anything needs to be tightened up. we do not want this to be repeated. >> is the training given related to intimate contact with foreign nationals when traveling for security work? >> the training is focused on professionalism, conduct consistent with the highest moral thought years, i think that would include your question. -- v moralalues, -- moral values, i think that would include your question. >> when we travel, we have advisory's. i have been in some countries where we leave all of our communication gear dismantled. with the u.s. security officers, and so forth, our agents, and given training and security. >> that is part of the process. >> if they thought there was an intelligent threat in a particular country, they would be advised? >> yes. >> i began my career during the cold war. the assessments are different than they

what do you think is important in fighting that standard? and then i'm going to want to move to this bill, and why it might be necessary. professor? >> thank you. thank you for the question, senator. you're absolutely right. you put your finger on something very important. the reasonable suspicion standard arises in terry versus ohio, the case that allows police officers to use stop and frisk when there is reasonable fact-based suspicion. the problem is, and where this can intertwine with profiling is that reasonable suspicion is a very low legal standard. it is lower than probable cause. when i'm in class, i like to say, probable cause is somewhere near my waist. reasonable suspicion is below my knees. and you have a standard where you can use very little evidence to take significant police action. and where we see this showing up in the context of profiling to give you one example is in the stop and frisk activity in new york city over many years and it's a good example, because there is very significant amount of data on this. we often fi

of proof should be imported into these proceedings, said that is the reason for that standard. commissioner: i am sorry. you are saying that the scheme for removal of officers is beyond a reasonable doubt? >> yes, that is true, and that is 3060 to 3075, and there are cases that discuss those, which we would be happy to provide to the commission. essentially, the da would bring the charges. you would go to a grand jury and get an indictment, and then it would proceed as if on the criminal indictment. i do not want to move on if there are any other questions on that. hearing none, on the second bullet point, on what type of evidence may be commission relied, i think there is probably going to be a some proposed hearsay testimony that we would likely object to, but without getting in to whether the evidence code should be relaxed or not, we are not necessarily opposed to declarations. there may be declarations we are not going to have a problem with. but i think that there is going to be the need for some live testimony. the answer to the third question is no. in our view, the law

capital and author of this book the golden revolution how to prepare for the coming global gold standard now i should also mention he was an interest rate forex and commodities strategist and managing director at deutsche bank as well as lehman brothers so we're really lucky to have him today and i have a copy of his book hot off the presses or at least on my mailbox today i just received it so thank you so much for being on the show first of all my pleasure laura now we've seen a tremendous bull run and gold over the last twenty years or twelve years excuse me it's caused some people to say hey this is a bubble you obviously don't think so you don't think it's a bubble in fact you think that there's going to be an endgame where gold plays a role as money again is is a transition back into a monetary metal that will be used to back global currencies now our audience is already familiar with that we have had guests on like jim rickards author of currency wars who has talked about a gold standard now you go even further than jim rickards in your book could you explain how so. yes indeed i

want to certain areas that are some for humanity some for instance other but where it is standardized tests cannot be used this way and the right experience would guess that it was so that you would be standardized tests to use our main policy but you don't actually when i talk to teachers off record they all told me that the standardized test is good paschal in a remote region so for russia they said it was in our children are able to enter. prestigious schools in the moscow and some leagues in. in the past and was impossible other i don't see so we should develop the system of the standard and in some cases we should complemented with other tests that should depend and which universities he's going to like. there are several options we're still discussing of course you're interested in what i eat their words to look with legal settings. a lot economics so he's undecided you. talk a lot today about what is yet to be done about things that have not completed yet and speaking of the last september last year you made an announcement that you're going to be president and then there was e

the committee is meeting today to examine chemical facilities and terrorism standards program at the department of homeland security and before i start, i just want to mention that we would remind our guests today that demonstrations from the audience including the use of signs, placards and t-shirts as well as verbal outbursts are a violation of the rules of the house. the chair wishes to thank our guests for cooperation and proper decorum. i would recognize myself for an opening statement. i wish to thank undersecretary beers, director anderson, deputy director wulf for cooperation and providing committee with a detailed brief iing on challeng facing the infrastructure security compliance division on february 7th. i was upset when i learned about the widespread mismanagement, training and recruiting failures in the compliance division, which we now are learning about more than five years after the program was authorized. some examples cited for 4200 plans submitted with no plans being finally approved. wo workers hired without appropriate skill levels. no adequate training program

these standards are not to be regarded as guidelines. standards referred to ceqa and they are important. this house is right on the street. this is how my house could look. at the hearing last week, the appellant said it, i would like to sell our property and move on. commissioners, i am asking you to help me prepare my home before she sells for property and moves on. her contractor made a mistake. she did not make the mistake. the state of california licenses her contractor. she should go to her contractor. she is asking me to eat it. i do not understand. president fong: project sponsor, you have a two-minute rebuttal. >> again, this is not about his windows and windows he would like to install in the future. this is about the windows i installed in 2007 and the fact that there is nothing exceptional or extraordinary about them. the planning department has approved them. i believe that this is actually not a debate about window material and what is best for the building but a way for him to try to use city process as leverage in a lawsu

i mean, you can put in standards, controls, and mechanisms to prevent against that. and i just -- i just believe that from the very beginning that the idea of principal reduction and the reluctance to embrace it has made the problem -- you put your finger on the perfect place where the principal reductions exist, because the secondary market and the revaluation of the secondary market have created the biggest barrier in principal reduction in early days and the investors would oppose it because they'd be afraid to lose the money. but that market has already reset itself. so the principal reduction is absolutely available throughout the chain of the holders of the market, but we need to do something different. >> so i want to bring joe smith back into this discussion, because obviously -- >> i got your back. >> i think he'd be happy to sit there and talk out the rest of the session. but obviously, in the news is this $25 billion a.g. settlement. a lot of questions from a lot of people of how it's going to work. most people didn't realize that even you as the selected

we have to set up some standards. i'm not sure that we -- we use the gold standard. >> right. >> the gold standard is one that we thought provided our networks the best defensive posture. we give that out free. we put it on the nsa.gov, here's a set of standards. i think, as we work with industry, the issue is how do you make sure they are as defensible as possible without being overburdened? overare burdensome? >> correct. >> i think we have to set that up. it's like roads, like cars. >> exactly. this is not regulation actually. these are standards for what we're going to ask them to do to defend our country. and they're going to then figure out how to do it. incidentally, business is understandably worried about the bottom line. we've got to be worried about the security of the american people. incidentally, i take it that from what you said earlier, that the fear of a cyber attack against the united states, i mean, a major cyber attack, is not theoretical but real in your mind, general alexander? >> that's correct,