The Senate Committee is chaired by roger wicker of mississippi. Good morning, and welcome to the newly restored Committee Room of the commerce committee. I want to thank senator blunt of the rules committee and the architect of the capitol for their effort in restoring this room and welcome all of you to a history making hearing. The first hearing in the newly opened room. Today the committee convenes to discuss the security and integrity of the telecommunications supply chain, that is to say the equipment and services that make up a Communications Network. I welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses and thank them for appearing. Today we will hear from mr. Steven berry, president and chief executive office of the competitive carriers association, mr. Jason boswell, head of Security Network Product Solutions at ericson, ms. Asha katie, Corporate Vice president and general manager of next generation and standards at intel, mr. Mike murphy, chief technology officer, americas at nokia
An hour or two off makes a difference . Its like a new jet lag every week think about that the three day weekends yesterday kaley was up early. That kept me on track. If you go to bed early ben franklin. 7 to 8 hours, instead of getting fancy i thought you were going with the early to bed, early to rise. It sounds like youre getting a little bit too how does this guy know . If you get 7 or 8, youre great. God bless you if youre getting 7 to 8 now youre saying it has to be this time i can call you early on weekends if youd like lets look at u. S. Equity futures. Its been a huge year already, just two trading weeks in. Look at this this morning, futures are surging, dow indicated up by 267 points s p futures up by 17 nasdaq up by 14. This comes after last week where the dow was up 507 points. Nasdaq up by 1. 7 . Gains across the board with the dow, nasdaq, s p 500 and many other indices result ending at alltime highs its continuing again this morning. Hard to try to get your arms around
Bombing th bombing this week. This hearing is two hours. I call this hearing of the subcommittee of Homeland Security in order. This is my first hearing as chairman of the subcommittee and its the subcommittees first hearing to review the 2018 budget request which was submitted to Congress Earlier this week. I want to begin by thanking secretary of Homeland Security the honorable john kelly for being with us today. We know that youre very, very busy and, again, appreciate you being here. Secretary kelly, we do understand the demands on your schedule, your testimonys what is what is your first appearance before our subcommittee in your new role. I would also like to welcome our subcommittees Ranking Member, the distinguished senator and friend from montana, senator tester. Im also pleased that senator leahy, the advice chairman of the full committee has joined us. The department of Homeland Security plays a pivotal role in keeping merck americans safe by working to combat terrorism, man
Bombing th bombing this week. This hearing is two hours. I call this hearing of the subcommittee of Homeland Security in order. This is my first hearing as chairman of the subcommittee and its the subcommittees first hearing to review the 2018 budget request which was submitted to Congress Earlier this week. I want to begin by thanking secretary of Homeland Security the honorable john kelly for being with us today. We know that youre very, very busy and, again, appreciate you being here. Secretary kelly, we do understand the demands on your schedule, your testimonys what is what is your first appearance before our subcommittee in your new role. I would also like to welcome our subcommittees Ranking Member, the distinguished senator and friend from montana, senator tester. Im also pleased that senator leahy, the advice chairman of the full committee has joined us. The department of Homeland Security plays a pivotal role in keeping merck americans safe by working to combat terrorism, man
Could members of the media please move out of our way so we can begin the hearing . Mr. Horn, you can sit in that chair. Thank you. Thank you and good morning. We now convene this hearing of the oversight and investigation subcommittee on volkswagen emissions cheating allegations, initial questions. Let me start off by saying my first car was a volkswagen. It was a 76 beetle. I learned a lot about cars. I could take that thing apart continued to work. I did all the maintenance myself because volkswagen had a legacy as the peoples car to be people friendly. I loved that car. Loved it a lot. Not so much as to call it brad, but i loved that car. But i trusted the car to get me around. I trusted volkswagen would continue to build a reliable car. That word trust alone as you know is the key factor in Building Customer loyalty. That trust is what helped build volkswagen because we believed its company looked out for customers first. Then three weeks ago car owners around the world were shock