so they don't have the stories about how if you rebuild water retentive landscapes if you've created a desert, if you bring in the technologies and the techniques that we know and if you put people to work rebuilding and refurbishing these watersheds, the rain comes back. it's absolutely miraculous. there are so many wonderful examples of what we have done this. the key components of this are absolutely at the heart of the would be watershed protection, conservation and restoration equipped to stop destroying our water systems. we have to repair those that have been hurt. national and international projects to replenish water retentive landscapes, i'm working with a wonderful scientist named michael in slovakia. he had a lot of land that had been destroyed by bad farming practices, like old bad international dumping and so when. he convinced many municipalities and their own federal government to allow a project where they put thousands of people to work rebuilding the kinds of small firms and dams water retention, water collection, rainwater collection and so on and they have greene

the very term opium war to the early 1840's retention to the disgraceful british government from conscience. for the nation that prided itself over the nine europeans that accounted. the british fought a war with the legal narcotic of the chinese population. one standard opinion held the most disgraceful war in our history we lost 69 men and killed the gene 25,000 chinese. one speechmaker declared nubian with a spark of morality could justify the war. both the nazis and the japanese government tried to discredit the allies to remind the subject population including those japanese soldiers killed through 1945 to past aggression against china. the war guilt can also have the opposite effect with their own acts of self justification. when is with a dubious circumstances to blame the injured party in second to the violence. through the 19th century the seems to have governed the behavior of the influential opinion makers for the most part the diplomat said bush and raise and scholars they rejected the idea to sympathize with the chinese empire to publicize instead the insufferable things that n

being an anal-retentive researcher at eight or nine researchers look for two and half years for 380000 were database of all of the false and erroneous statements from september 11 until two years later. a top a top officials, and we found 935 false and erroneous statements which are other words for. and of course it's outrageous. who said the most and when did they say it. it was coordinated. a particular times the lead up to the congressional incidentally. they all come out the same day. very carefully coordinated. related: powell's speech before the un. when the statements when the statements were made. that is all very interesting. that is a case where it is pretty clear. we went in on basic false pretenses. we can talk about that for a couple years but there's only eight or nine moments. the book is only a few pages really. then i felt the need -- of course am a student of history like many. i felt the need to go back and look. certainly this is not the 1st time we have been a little off on the facts and find out later. so i started going really in a detailed fashion all the way ba

have of level of care and if they cannot feel they are doing that the difficulty of recruiting and retention will continue. >> we agree entirely. this is why we do this. not because of the stock options but because of the inspirational mr. and for those who have protected us we cannot lose sight of that it is more than numbers bet said gentlemen behind me. exactly the reason i gave out myself phone-number during the first national press conference in september and i listen because you have to keep that visceral empathy of what we're trying to you do. it is very personal. >> the key for your dedication i do have questions for the record. >> i have visited with you before about legislation with the access to extended care to make sure we can encourage nursing homes to take the a reimbursement by eliminating the small business contract requirements but they don't have to you deal with with reimbursement and to undergo a separate inspections we would just ask you to comment hundred vans that legislation. >> we think that is the way to go with veteran now comes thank customer experience there is

we felt like we would get enough in the retention to offset the immediate costs. so i look at the big picture outcome. our average customer has been with us for 12 just the the average in the card industry is eight years. that's part of what our good is better because longtime customers tend to forbear the short-term customers. it's a little bit sometimes it's a little bit like advertising. it's hard to measure the roi of an individual campaign budget a look at the overall brand measures and jeff to use some judgment and it's a very important thing to try to try to prioritize and it's a very important thing to not just do things that have an easy our ally. >> organizationally, as an executive, one person asks how have you organized your own leadership and your team around the client experience? ..

have been in the cyber realm for almost two decades now, looking at homeland security and workplace retention and satisfaction scores. in terms of getting people to join homeland security and any agency, what do you recommend in terms of recruitment policies and strategies? >> one of the bills past enhances the workplace. hire and retain more highly credentialed individuals. i would argue this is probably the most innovative and vibrant offices within the department of homeland security. over the last five years the capabilities have really stood up. the undersecretary from mcafee extraordinary experience. we have a partnership with nasa the detail program where they can lend their expertise. with the legislation we passed last congress on enhancing the workplace we are going to get more and more talent. i remember, i would not work for the justice department because i i wanted to check that box and do something else. you have you have to recognize it is a great place to gain experience but we want to get the more experienced people coming over there. you cannot keep them forever it is hard.

davis to direct 50 million within the afghan security forces for recruiting and retention of women in the afghan security forces. number 182 that expresses the congress for those who have served as translators or interpreters. amendment number 190 with partners security forces to look at the accountability functions. or amend section 2379 to make a commercial item determination insufficient it has better provided for the reasonable price as a spare part number to 43 expressing alliance with japan nuremberg 263 was report on envisioned of the global response force that requires the assessment to conduct a study of the formulation of long-term strategy and to express certain findings related to the baltic states with lithuania number three '01 express says the state of georgia the amendment number three '07 by myself the full committee mark to add to the sense of certain clarifying statements with iran. without objection is there any further discussion with this package? mr. russell? thank you, mr. chairman there appreciate your indulgence but i do have concern over 127. when we were pu

but what they don't say and what's missing from the diagnosis is that when we take water from water retentive landscapes when we moved where we want to commit the entire store in california, they have enough water. they are moving it over the place so that they can produce 85% of all the omens for the entire world right in a state running out of water. so as they say water runs uphill to money right? so we have a situation where we are misdiagnosing what the situation is and our mistreatment, our displacement our abuse of water is one of the major causes of climate change. it's very, very much past time that we started putting this in the mix and that we started talking about water and the way we treat water and how we could undo what we've done as one of the answers to climate change. and final i would have to say to you in terms of reasons for our politicians are talking about this, our store be the. i'm not suggesting that soldier in the united states. i think it's very, except in a few countries where they're just facing water shortage like the water is running right now. it's the domino

i am worried the negative impact of satisfaction and productivity agency mission, retention and recruitment of the next generation. we especially need to be mindful of the long-term negative effects on the service of that the federal government provides of the american people. that is what we will be focused on the last march i joined with ranking member cummings and lynch and requesting that jk of conduct a study of federal engagement trends as well as potential root causes. improving workforce morale. i know jl is completing the study and this year to testify but preliminary findings and welcome them to the table. i understand the national archives and record administration the department of homeland security have ranked poorly among the use surveys. wwor despites the decline in of work satisfaction, 2014 federal employment viewpoint survey data demonstrates the federal employees nonetheless have persevered through a lot of adversity and remained dedicated and overwhelmingly positive about their service to the country, which the champ eluded to. 90% of our federal employees believe the wo

looking at homeland security and in the recruiting, you look at homeland security and look at work place retention and like satisfaction scores. so in terms of like getting people to join homeland security and even dod any agency what do you recommend those changes in terms of recruitment policies and strategies? >> well, one of our bills we passed enhances that in terms of, you know, the work place to be able to hire and retain more highly credentialed individuals. i would argue within dhs this is, this is the most innovative, most vibrant offices within the department of homeland security. i don't know if you been over the nccic but over the last five years capabilities stood up. dr. phyllis sneck whod that up, undersecretary phyllis came from mcafee. brings extraordinary experience. we have partnership within nsa with a detailed program where they lend their expertise. with the legislation we past congress enhancing the work place there we'll get more and more talent. the problem is keeping them, you know. i remember, i went to work for the justice department because i wanted to check that box

indeed retention of disease should be the driving force in our efforts to improve health in america. and whether it's promoting heart health through nutrition and physical aikido prevent disease outbreaks through vaccinations prevention really is our goal and that is true here with climate change as well. as surgeon general one of my larger messages to our country is that we all have a stake in health. and as a result we all have a responsibility to protect it. health isn't just the responsibility of doctors and nurses and individual patients. it's a community responsibility. that means that businesses and faith groups, civic organizations, schools and universities like this all of american society has a hand in keeping our people healthy and prevent disease not just reading it, and in making sure that every american, no matter who they are or where they're from has a shot at a healthy life. so again we are very grateful to have had this opportunity to speak with our committee leaders here today. and we are excited to continue this conversation as we think about how to address some o

we're looking what is, what are the options at our disposal now as far as relocation incentives retention bonuses bade moves promises of you know, limited assignments there of couple of a years. then looking at what is the right, the right options to offer from -- >> are you meeting with any resistance internally making pay adjustments or incentive adjustments to secure staff on the northern border? >> no, we haven't. just a matter of finding budget funds to do it and figuring out what is the right approach at each one of the location. >> once again we're back to budget constraints, giving us a less secure border. i think is the point senator mccain was trying to get at. >> well, we've -- >> i know you don't want to say that -- >> no, i'm happy to say that. because -- >> okay. we would like it if you say that. >> we submitted staffing needs as part of the annual budget for the last couple years. we did receive 2,000 more cbp officers two years ago. we're in the process of hiring them. but the need still remains for 2624 more. and it is just finding ways to pay for that. these would be dis

i have questions about iran's retention of research and development authorities and to what extent they can advance their research and development because great irresearch -- greater research and development means more sophisticated centrifuges that can spin faster and dramatically reduce breakout time towards a nuclear bomb. i'm concerned about the ability to snap back sanctions if there are violations of the agreement. from what i can see we have a committee process that will not guarantee that the snapback will take place or that it will take place expeditiously. i'm concerned about the international atomic energy administration's ability to obtain any time anywhere snap inspections. and what happened to iran having to come clean about the possible military and weapons dimensions of their program? and more than anything else, i'm concerned about what will happen when the critical elements of the proposed agreement expire after ten years. are we relegateed to accepting iran as a nuclear weapons state? the presumption that iran will become a compliant nuclear nonproliferation treaty st