Wolf. Today we are meeting to consider the nomination of acting secretary of Homeland Security chad wolf to be the confirmed secretary of department of Homeland Security, which is an enormous task. I truly appreciate anybody who is willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. I would ask my written opening remarks be enter into the record without objection well do that. Ill just keep this short because i know we have time constraints here. But a quick description of what enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security manages 240,000 people in the department, the responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Start with the federal Emergency Management agency deals with hurricanes and wild fires and now covid amongst many other responsibilities. Border security a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem, not by a long stretch, but thiS Administration done a good job of stopping the out of control illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. This agency
Required by the regulation accompanying House Resolution 965 which establish the framework over the proceedings. First, i would ask all members on the webex platform to keep them so the muted when they [inaudible] this will minimize disturbances while members asking questions of our witnesses. Members on webex platform are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves. I suppose you just heard that. The staff is been instructed not to meet members except when a member is not being recognized and there is inadvertent background noise. Members on webex platform are reminded that they may only attend one remote viewing at a time. So if youre participating today, please remain with us during the hearing. Members should try to avoid coming in at out of the meeting particularly during the question treatment. If members wish to recognize the chair recommends members identify themselves. I would also ask members to be patient as the chair proceeds given the nature of the Online Platform of th
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