Sam Farr

It certainly should have a benefit to you and to getting more communications in the underserved areas, is it not?

Congress has just appropriated $7.2 billion for broadband for rural areas.

Thank you. The other question I have, which is related to a big question here, is that in the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act, we specified that the FEMA administrator would lead the Nation's efforts to prepare for, protect…

My question to you is, will you ensure that this program remains the centerpiece for education of emerging homeland security leaders and--that can grow to meet the challenges of FEMA and the Nation that we are confronting not only here but…

And that criteria is a narrow call, and it seems to me--I really appreciate the response on the ice storms, but we had fire, just the opposite, heat this summer in California.

If they are not in the queue, how do they get there? It is of keen interest to this committee.

I really question why that didn't become a major disaster, and perhaps you can come to my office and we can talk more about it.

Just one observation on the sheltering.

We want to try to get this thing moving.

Well, part of it was that the DoD had failed to collect payment for over the last 2 years from military contractors for the emergency and primary health care.

I am just interested in ensuring that Rosetta Stone is supporting the mission requirements.

CCMR can be very helpful to the work of HDAC but CCMR needs to get reimbursed.

The House of Representatives has created--I guess it is a relatively new committee. It is called the House Democracy Assistance Commission.

But we need some interoperability.

Unfortunately, there are just fewer and fewer foreign military officers because of lack of financial resources, not because of lack of interest in the program.

We have this incredibly equipped military force that can go anywhere at any time and do anything that it needs to do, but has a very difficult time winning the hearts and minds.

No, wait a minute. State legislation passed it, saying that they have to put the money up into an account with the state before they will exercise it.

People want to be there. There are a lot of people that are holding ashes in their home waiting for this cemetery to be built.

I would really encourage you, Mr. Secretary and staff, to look at this 75-mile policy. It has been in concrete for so long, and it is a dumb, dumb policy.

The Interior Department doesn't run any cemeteries?

It had nothing to do with anything functional for a cemetery. It was just federal land in the middle of nowhere.

We still have over 6,000 uniformed personnel on the Monterey peninsula.

I would just like to have you tell us the importance of meeting this critical, unmet health care need.

We could find that there are resources in their own community.

I am really keen on jointness, because essentially--and I am working on how we can work with you on this.