timothy scott is the chief security officer and corporate director of emergency services and security for the dow chemical company, a company he has served with since 1979. in his current role he leads dow's emerging service and securing global organizations at over 200 locations around the world. and mr. david wright is the president of the american federation of government employees local 918. again, his career as a federal protective service office in 1986. since that time has been promoted to the rank of sort inspector and has served as president of the local 918 since 2006. we thank all of you for being here. we of course will include your written testimonies in their entirety in the record, and we'd ask that you confine your statements to a summary of five minutes. and we'll proceed from my left to my right with mr. allmond first. >> good afternoon, chairman long green. >> ranking member clark. i'm vice president of the public and relations at the society of chemical manufacturers and affiliates. i'll pleased to provide this testimony regarding the problems of and the progress m

timothy scott is corporate director of emergency services and chemical company he served. sins 1979 in the current roll. he lead to a house global emergency service and security operation organizations and 200 locations around the world. and the federation of government employees, mr. a wright's career as federal protective service officer in 1986. he has held the rank of sergeant and served as president of local -- local 918 since 2006. we will include your been testimony in their entirety in the record and ask that you confine your statements to a summary of five minutes and we will proceed from my left to my right with mr. allmond first. >> that afternoon, members of the subcommittee. i am bill allmond and i am president of chemical manufacturers and affiliates. i'm pleased to provide the problems and progress made by chemical facility anti-terrorist standards. six years ago there was a comprehensive program--well down the road in implementing this program. this implements the mandate implemented by congress in 2006 but dhs failed to put in place among other things basi

scott winning very very narrowly, the governorship of florida. but you know, money is hugely important but there does seem to be some limits to what it does. >> so, timothy, let's begin with you and julia, your reaction. agree or disagree with the premise behind charlie cook's comments? >> well, i do think the amount of money that is spent is important and i don't think that it's entirely inconsequent shl. it's not really the amount that is spent, i believe it is who spends it and thus who has influence in the government. >> and julia, what about you? >> i agree with his point, because if you look at rick santorum in the primary, he doesn't have as much money as romney did or gingrich but he did quite well in the primary. i don't think it's as important as people make it out to be. >> cynthia bauerly? >> well, i think -- i understood his context. he was talking about candidates that self-fund. and i think that is something that has yet to be seen in this new regime. that was in a world where we didn't have these things called candidate specific super pacs. and one of the aspects about this primary campaign that we've recently been observing in the republ