I am pleased to welcome fbi director james comey in his first appearance before the committee and let me also please thank the men and women of the fbi for the great job they have done. They are really doing an incredible job and on behalf of the American People and congress i just want to thank and if you would give my best to former director mueller. He really did i met with him when he first came in and i watch and he really did an incredible job so please pass on my regards to him. I would appreciate it. Let me add that immediately following the directors testimony the committee will hear from the three commissioners leading the congressionally directed review of the fbis implementation of the 9 11 commission recommendations. Director comey is the seventh director, a good man, good choice to lead the pirro following a distinguished government career. His assistant u. S. Attorney in the gambino crime family and the terrorists responsible for the 1996 cohort khobar tower bombings. He
Kind of things that we do, and i also do advocacy work so i come and speak at meetings like this. I was at the attorney generals meeting in Washington State and i would like to congratulate you and especially those in Law Enforcement in california for the high level of discourse that you have incredibly impressed today by what i have heard and my hats off to you for all the good work youre doing. So i do advocacy and part of that is kind of reaching out to people and bringing the message of social Emotional Learning not just to schools because educators kind of get it. Its not a stretch when we talk to them why its important to get it, but we want to take the message outside of the school into the media, into the communities, into families so that people kind of understand this process of another way of learning and becoming an educated person. A couple of other things i do i work with anne on the board and with the foundation. That has been exciting. I do advising for sesame street. I
Of information act and that was something that had taken place from 1940 to 1966 when the fbi for that period of time had a formal relationship with the American Legion in which members 100,880 members of the American Legion acted as informers for the fbi in their communities and regularly filed reports with the fbi. The americans had no idea that kind of informing was taking place and they were untrained informants. Budget request for the next fiscal year. Over the next two and a half hours before House Appropriations of committee he also talked about the threats of terrorism and cybercrime. The hearing will come to order. I am pleased to welcome fbi director james comey in his first appearance before the committee and let me also please thank the men and women of the fbi for the great job they have done. They are really doing an incredible job and on behalf of the American People and congress i just want to thank and if you would give my best to former director mueller. He really did
Kind of reaching out to people and bringing the message of social Emotional Learning not just to schools because educators kind of get it. Its not a stretch when we talk to them why its important to get it, but we want to take the message outside of the school into the media, into the communities, into families so that people kind of understand this process of another way of learning and becoming an educated person. A couple of other things i do i work with anne on the board and with the foundation. That has been exciting. I do advising for sesame street. If you have small children the next seafn sesame street you will see some of the favorite characters and breathing and learning problem solving models and were very excited [inaudible] and theyre focusing on self regulation and other skills and specific focus and exciting working with them the past year and a half or so so i want people to have a look here, and what i would like to do is tie some of the things together that you have b
Is going to explain more about this term that was used a lot today and social literacy or social Emotional Learning. Alice con is from Cartoon Network. Dave steer to her right is from facebook and next to him is officer holly lawrence, sunny valley of public safety, Digital Safety Program and shes going to talk about which is a powerful thing going national. And next is brian here . No. Okay. All right. So were all set and mia i would like you to enlighten us more in all that youre doing in social Emotional Learning. Sure. I had some slides but im not sure no, we have a handout that went around to you and more detail about what social Emotional Learning is because i think we rise a little bit today and i came from seattle and i know many people have brought up that term today and i get the sense from this group that youre at kind of a high level of discourse and you have a general understanding. Could i see a show of hands for those of you that social Emotional Learning is a familiar t