Federal governments role in funding state transportation projects. The federal government will start checking social media soon as part of background checks for employees seeking security clearance. White house and Counter Intelligence officials testified on the new policy at a recent House Oversight hearing. This is an hour and a 15 minutes. The subcommittee on Government Operations and the subcommittee on National Security will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Were here today to discuss incorporating social media into the federal security clearance and Background Investigations. Having a security clearance means by definition you have access to information that would hurt our National Security if it got out. And that is why we perform Background Investigations on individuals who want a security clearance. The goal of our Background Investigations must be to find out if an individual is trustworthy. Back in the 1950s, that m
You can see that live here on cspan at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. Then, sunday on cspan, utah congressman rob bishop, the chairman of the Natural Resources committee, hell talk about puerto ricos debt crisis, the u. S. Territory is 70 billion in debt and has already missed millions of dollars in debt payments. Congressman bishop will answer questions about efforts in congress to help puerto rico restructure its debt. Newsmakers on 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan unday. Book tv has 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend and here are some programs to watch for this weekend. On saturday at 10 00 p. M. Eastern on afterwards, don watkins, author of equal is unfair. Don the reason i say unequality is not a problem, its not a concern of how much money do you have but how did you get it . Did you get it through something that is fair or through a process that is unfair . And when you try to equalize people that earn honestly, thats what were challenging and saying thats no
Mr. Lynch the cost estimate. You know, we had some pilot programs that tell us its somewhere between, you know, 100 and 500 per person for a private vendor to do this screening, this gathering of social media information. Is that pretty close to what the in practice what were finding . Mr. Scott yeah, i would say some of the pilots that have run the estimates are within that range. Clearly one of the things that will have to happen, and i think the pilots will inform this, some greater level of automation. As you can probably appreciate when you do a search, you get a ton of data that has to be sifted through and adjudicated and i happen to be a person who has a name thats shared with, you know, a professional baseball player, professional museum, a movie director and a bunch of other things. Just a simple search would turn up a bunch of crazy stuff that wouldnt be relevant. So some degree of automation ultimately is going to have to help bring the cost down of that. Mr. Lynch all righ
I had a conversation a few years africa aboutaharan human sexuality. Were deeply into it. Theiristened, sense of betrayal you have to let yourself be touched by that. You cannot reject it as a direct s an ignorant view. Part of the dialogue is a dialogue that has great pain. We must let ourselves be hurt. Because i with it like all of us i dont like to be hurt. I dont like to feel pain. I go a long way to avoid it, emotional pain particularly. Does that make any sense . Very much. Tom im afraid we have to close it down now. The archbishop has to be leaving. One final thought. We have been talking a lot about issues climate change, migration, violence better handled by secular institutions. Do you see any challenge, danger in the church becoming too secularized by its focus on these institutions . What you mentioned is very important. The importance of not soft peddling. Archbishop welby i think there is. Us,ink making people like we can end up saying the wrong thing about everything. N
Was told time and time again i better not. As the house position that should be the chair of the committee and for senator sanders to take a good effort on my part to make him the cochair a and to stop us from having a public meeting. I did share sitting down at this hearing i did share what the offer was with the chair and i asked him to share it with everybody here. It isnt a conference report. It is an offer. It is on one page. It is on the our offer is on the same amount of paper that vas justification were 17. 5 billion is on. It wasnt done as a partisan move. We met at 9 30 it was an offer. Not intended to be a house offer. It really wasnt. I wasnt trying to get you all to buy in because i know you cannot do that. But it was to say the house is prepared to put money. Caro alexis senator and aston, you know, be prepared to meet on monday. Dont know when, dont know where, but just so everyone knows, we will be back in time. It will be time for everyone to be back here. What happene