The head of this agency, Michelle Leonhart is here with us today. Giving her extended tenure at dea during the same timeframe of these abuses, we will have very direct questions for her. The administer was nominated by president bush in 2003 served as deputy administer as daa to begin serving as an acting administrator in 2007 and president bush nominated her to serve as administrator in 2008. She was nominated again by president obama and confirmed by the senate in 2010. The Inspector General reports and i quote, says that the dea supervisors treated alleged Sexual Misconduct and Sexual Harassment as a local management or performance related issue come into school. It also finds it when the administrator learned about these allegations, or agency of posed extremely light penalties. For example, when she was informed about wild parties involving prostitutes, she counseled the regional director for failing to report the allegations, in the quote. That was it. Just counseling. No other t
Been. Could not be easily persuaded to reform themselves when being told to do so by the greatest rent seekers who thought that reforms were never for them. Unsurprisingly as a result of this practice debts, both private and public, skyrocketed. Banks seized to function as credit providing institutions. Investment dried up. And all we have had over the last few years was a slowing down of the rate of our economy as all the fat went, then the plus muscle, then we were proceeding to the bones of our economy. Its often said that 2014 marked a recovery of short. Very mild, very fragile recovery, but a recovery. I beg to differ on this. What happened in 2014 was nominal gdp, gdp in market prices continued to fall. But as market prices on average were falling even faster. Thats not my definition or anybodys definition of recovery. Its the definition of what happens when you go through recession to depression. But thats all past history. Were now negotiating a very simple principle. On the on
Theres an institute for the arctic people thats been abolished. I dont think its a priority like it is in the u. S. Weve gotten into the end of our time. I think this is is a very, a very opportune year. We have the arrival of the u. S. Chairmanship. We have paris Climate Change at the end of year the summit. Thank you for bringing the expertise you have. Its been astonishing to listen and we know you had to travel a bit of a distance to get here. Thank you for your leadership. Watching you over the course of this morning has exhausted me. Congratulations. Thank you for your Great Questions and comments and your patience and sticking with us. Thank you all. Were adjourned. Thank you. [ applause ] a live look at the New Hampshire Republican Party what its calling the leadership summit with potential republican candidates. Among those speaking to the group include new jersey governor chris christie. Former governor rick perry and also senator marco rubio. We just saw former governor jim
Employees have to report Sexual Harassment by their supervisors . So, on friday the attorney general sent a letter to the committee outlining steps to address the issues. And we were very pleased to receive that letter. These included reexamining security clearances of those involved reviewing d. E. A. Procedures for investigating misconduct and probib prohibiting the solicitation of prostitution regardless of the whether it may be legal overseas. These steps are critical but they are clearly long, long overdue. If the first sentences of this conduct occurred in 2001. The problems transcend politics. On march 27, chairman chaffetz and i wrote a bipartisan letter to the d. E. A. Announcing our investigation and we are fully committed to woking together to investigate these incidents. How the Agency Responded and whether additional steps are needed to help prevent this misconduct from ever happening again. And with that mr. Chairmannion i yield back. Chairman chaffetz thank the gentleman
So effectively and so far. The other is there apocalyptic narrative. Of course, it is impossible for me to know for sure if they believe the end times are coming or whether they are capitalizing on widespread believe in muslim majority countries that they will witness the end of time. Tonight at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. The head of the joint Enforcement Administration was on capitol hill last week to testify about allegations of Sexual Misconduct by dea agents overseas. This comes from a report that said that agents attended this hearing is held by the House Oversight committee. It is just over three hours. Rep. Chaffetz we are here today to talk about an alarming problem in our countrys premier Law Enforcement agency. The latest report from the department of justice outlines a number of problems that both Law Enforcement officers and the agency that manages them. The report outlines a number of key problems. Law enforcement at home and abroad engaged in Sexual Misconduc