Secretary sean spicer. Incoming White House Press secretary sean spicer, how are you preparing to take on this job . It is an ongoing process, we have been doing it at 10 30 every day, hiding behind a phone when you do it but part of it is getting used to the battle of taking questions, rapidfire, wide range that exists in practice sessions, something my predecessors suggested, sitting down at a podium, lets pretend reporters ask you real questions to understand what is about to come your way on a daily basis but making sure you look at some hot button issues, sit down with key players who will play key roles in the administration and get a better understanding of the issues and getting used to taking the incoming questions the way they do at the podium. Josh ernest, White House Press secretary. Any advice, anything you touring the office in the Briefing Room and the west wing. The communications director, unbelievably generous with their time and counsel. They share with me the challe
Secretary sean spicer. Incoming White House Press secretary sean spicer, how are you preparing to take on this job . It is an ongoing process, we have been doing it at 10 30 every day, hiding behind a phone when you do it but part of it is getting used to the battle of taking questions, rapidfire, wide range that exists in practice sessions, something my predecessors suggested, sitting down at a podium, lets pretend reporters ask you real questions to understand what is about to come your way on a daily basis but making sure you look at some hot button issues, sit down with key players who will play key roles in the administration and get a better understanding of the issues and getting used to taking the incoming questions the way they do at the podium. Josh ernest, White House Press secretary. Any advice, anything you touring the office in the Briefing Room and the west wing. The communications director, unbelievably generous with their time and counsel. They share with me the challe
Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000, and , 202 7488002. We will get to your calls in a minute but first running us on the phone is jennifer shutt, the budget appropriations reporter for c q roll call to talk a little bit more about a continuing resolution in washington. When they say that this continuing resolution keeps the current spending level going into 2017, what does that mean exactly in dollars . Guest every year the federal government is supposed to get 12 Appropriations Bills passed by september 30 when the fiscal year expires. They were not able to do that this year so they passed a temporary stopgap spending bill which we call a continuing resolution. One of the criticisms from appropriators is that it continues those fiscal 2016 spending levels into fiscal 2017, which can cause some problems. We heard the department of defense repeatedly Tell Congress that it causes a lot of problems for them. One of the important points to make about the continuing resolution
Start to improve transparency on solitary confinement. At the hearing we heard testimony from a wide range of stakeholders, including the head of the bureau of prisons and advocates. Hud i ofer testified that our nation has seen a dramatic increase in the use of reliance on solitaire confinement over the last couple of decades. I also introduced the mercy act, a bill that would prohibit the use of solitary confinement on youth adjudicated delinquent in the federal system unless it is a temporary response to a serious risk of harm. To the juvenile others. Our Justice System must ensure justice in the deepest, richest meaning of that word. Its what we swear an oath to, that we will be a nation of liberty and justice for all, not just some but for all, and it means that we need to begin to expose the practices that are happening in our prisons and understand the consequences to all of us increased financial expenditures, increased risk to our security and our safety, increased risks of re
I first question is i have is for mr. Goldstein. Talked to this to some extent. I will come back and revisit it very briefly. In the past decade or so, you have overseen 12 independent reports of federal Facility Security. You have looked at the armed guard programs, you have collaborated with state and local Law Enforcement and the Human Capital planning. Gao has also conducted what we call them covert testing. You talked about some of that that is going on of federal facilities. In other words, you try to penetrate federal facilities to test how security works. It is like what we do in the Nuclear Power plant world. Again, for the record, how would you assess federal Facility Security today . Over 30,000 feet, how would you assess federal Facility Security today, realizing we are on a where folksum, focus on this, going back to 1995, Oklahoma City is it getting better, worse, it is uneven . I think it is very uneven, mr. Chairman. Yes, there have been improvements since Oklahoma City