Consultant who was working with us literally begged the City Administrators Office to please give justice a home in the City Administrators Office. And if i may interrupt you, why did you not try to affiliate with department of technology . For two reasons. One reason was that when justis lived in the department of technology before the Mayors Office became the executive sponsor, it never got priority. We went through a rotating cast of heads of department of technology who saw their priorities and interests elsewhere. And so justis was always the last thing that they addressed. And the second reason has to do with governance. The department of technology was to provide technical support. Technical staff. Technical expertise. And when we thought about it, we thought it would be much better for d. T. To be treated as a vendor with the executive sponsor and justis as their client. So that we would have more ability to work order money, demand that the money be spent the way that the just
Administration and president of the National Border Patrol Council were among the panel of witnesses that testified. This is about an hour and 45 minutes. The subcommittee on National Security will come to order. The chairs authorized to declare recess at anytime. The core attribute of sovereignty is maintaining control over national boundaries. Yet, for years weve witnessed the failure of the u. S. Government to secure southern border. This failure has allowed millions of foreign nationals to enter the United States illegally and has brought huge amounts of illicit narcotics to be smuggled into the country. Theyve had significant consequences for taxpayers, victims of Violent Crime and for the rule of law. It is time to secure the border. A central issue of the presidency 2006 campaign was the promise to build an impenetrable tall southern border wall. They are taking steps to fulfill that and a subcommittee has closely monitored this process. They have issued a executive order to tak
Cuts to medicaid, stood alone a, food stamps. It seeks to cut 3. 6 trillion in federal spending over ten years. The budget director, Mick Mulvaney answer questions about the budget missed 35 minute briefing. [inaudible] [inaudible] good morning. Lets make a brief statement before we start about things that are probably more important than the numbers folks like me get caught up in the numbers. What a talk about what happened in manchester england, the president this morning summed it up and for a lot of people he called these people who perpetrated this, evil losers. The president has 11 or 12, i took my son to his first concert when he was 11 or 12 and all of us with children that age this it close to home. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies and friends in the u. K. And also have the victims and their families in our hearts. As we talk about these other things that pale in comparison want to talk about the budget. I know some of you here yesterday and i know some this will
Cuts to medicaid, stood alone a, food stamps. It seeks to cut 3. 6 trillion in federal spending over ten years. The budget director, Mick Mulvaney answer questions about the budget missed 35 minute briefing. [inaudible] [inaudible] good morning. Lets make a brief statement before we start about things that are probably more important than the numbers folks like me get caught up in the numbers. What a talk about what happened in manchester england, the president this morning summed it up and for a lot of people he called these people who perpetrated this, evil losers. The president has 11 or 12, i took my son to his first concert when he was 11 or 12 and all of us with children that age this it close to home. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies and friends in the u. K. And also have the victims and their families in our hearts. As we talk about these other things that pale in comparison want to talk about the budget. I know some of you here yesterday and i know some this will
Your cable or satellite provider. Congressman will herd, republican from texas and he is chair of the Information Technology subcommittee. Hes a former Cyber Security analyst and a former cia agent and in our guest this week on the communicators. Congressman heard that you have a bill that has passed the house that deals with Information Technology in the federal government. What is it . Its called the modernizing Government Technology act and what it does is its quite simple. If a cio and the federal government saves money by doing Something Like transitioning to the cloud they are able to use the money they saved for up to three years in a working capital fund. Why is that important . Why should we care . The federal government is spending 90 billion a year on producing it and good and services and 70 of that is on old i dated legacy systems. Its outrageous. We need to be using taxpayer dollars wiser. By being able to have a cio to introduce technology to go from the two guys in a ga