Wounded Warriors and Cybersecurity
Action For Wounded Warriors At the first Wounded Warriors Family Summit yesterday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates talked about his devotion to helping wounded vets,...
Action For Wounded Warriors
At the first Wounded Warriors Family Summit yesterday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates talked about his devotion to helping wounded vets, and changing the bureaucracy at the Pentagon to get them what they need, faster.
Former HHS Secretary Donna Shalala, now President of the University of Miami and co-chair of the President’s Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors, told us she thinks there has been some progress on caring for vets since her commission made their recommendations to Congress and the President.
Who Does What, To Who, When?
Regulating the financial services industry is under discussion in Congress. But how that regulation would manifest itself–who would do it, how they would do it, and who they would do it to–is still up for debate. A House Financial Services Committee hearing today tried to hash it all out, and I played some highlights.
The Best Course of Action
The Chairman of the Federal Reserve told a House Budget Committee hearing yesterday it may be an “appropriate” time to consider another economic stimulus package. Ben Bernanke was followed at the witness table by a panel including William Beach of the Heritage Foundation. That panel discussed the options Congress has for building such a package. Mr. Beach told me about the various options covered at the hearing.
Doing Cyber
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is in full swing. Mischel Kwon, the Director of US CERT, joined me today to talk about best practices, security in information sharing, and much more.
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