The encouragement youve no doubt provided in helping him to get to this day. Our goal in conducting the hearing is to enable the committee to have a thoughtful consideration of the calls to be the next Inspector General of the cia. He is provided and written responses and this morning members will be able to ask any additional questions and hear the answer directly from the nominee. He spent 23 years as a federal prosecutor in the department of justice and assistant u. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of louisiana. The width of the National Security agency since 2011 hes been in a privat private practiw orleans where he has done dozens of trials that the federal and state level and litigated at the appellate level. In addition spent 20 years as an uncompensated adjunct professor at the Tulane Law School giving back to his alma mater in. The office responsible for independent oversight if confirmed he will conduct audit inspections and reviews of the programs and operations and play
Epic disaster, he gets criticized if you go in too soon, perhaps interfere with any kind of recovery efforts, we heard some of that, the president didnt meet with any people that were directly affected, today we have seen the president and first lady there interacting with folks who have their lives turned upside down by Hurricane Harvey. President there on the tarmac interacting also with the United States Senate Delegation representing louisiana, senators cassidy and kennedy who will be asked to approve funding for Hurricane Harvey victims in the coming days and so those personal conversations very important as the president will look for votes, one would think that recovery for Hurricane Harvey would not be controversial in any way but you never know these days the way Congress Works and so the president putting a face to face pitch if you will with the congressional delegation to louisiana to lets get relief to these folks and get them back on their feet. Quickly because its very,