Works subcommittee will address options to address the wild fires and Forest Management. This includes testimony from an interior Deputy Department official and deputy chief of the u. S. Forest service. Good afternoon, everyone. This subcommittee will come to t order. The purpose of todays hearing is to receiveands testimony on i bills pending beforece the publo lands force and mining subcommittee. Because of the large number of t bills onhe todays c agenda, it going to go through all of them right now. But the complete agenda will, of course, be included in the record. I want to note at the outset weve got a former member of our committee here, former senator from louisiana, longtime member of the senate and this committee is in the back. Weve got members who will be at t who have tly another Committee Assignment at the i moment. E. We have others who will be d eme joining us dtelephonically. As i want to recognize the staggering loss of life that has occurred embedded within what has
Good morning everybody. My name is bill hanson it is an honor to be with you today. I am president and ceo of the education network, its really a great honor to be here. I think i had one of the unique opportunities to serve as a political appointee for all eight years with president reagan at the education is a very young man at the time. But really was a disciple of president reagan. I just love the fact that he was the governor and brought that governorship into his role as president s. I also had the blessing to be the head of the Transition Team on the way out in 1992. And the Transition Team on the way into thousand, before and after president clinton, and former governor had served and helped lead the Transition Team for president bush in 2000, and again another governor. It was great to see these three education governors really make a difference in the National Leadership as president of the united states. Really in that vein in his and honor to be here today with Governor Hog
What you did not hear from my opponent is why exactly she does not support the bill. It is politics. It is my name on the bill. She does not want to get credit to anyone. That is what people hate about politics. The fact that you cannot acknowledge something good for people because it might hurt you politically. Opponent does not share those values. This next question goes to you. This hask you been a difficult year for you. I want to ask you, dee believe that black lives matter . Do you support nonviolent protests . Have you attended any value with any organizers, held roundtables on these issues . How will he make it more equitable to people of color . Question od that is a good question. This is something really personal for me. I saw the differences. Of the record. That measure was 100 bipartisan. Not a single democrat or republican voted against my Prison Reform bill, when it passed out of the house to go to the governors desk to be signed into law. Can look to someone who can do
That. Ill keep it short because i know wevegot time constraints here but a quick description of what an enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security managers 240,000 people in the department. The responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Ill start with itthe federal Emergency Management agency that has to deal with do hurricanes and wildfires now covid amongst many other responsibilities , Border Security, a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem by a long stretch but this administration has done a good job of stopping the outofcontrol illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. Pe this department is concerned about cyber security, Election Security, security of our Critical Infrastructure and as we just witnessed with some of the protests that have sprung to right, also protecting our federal buildings and of course we have to thank David Underwood in open oakland california, a member of the federal Protection Services so the responsibilities are
Security and Global Threats with fbi director christopher ray, at National Counterterrorism director chris miller, the talk included Election Security, cyber campaigns from russia, iran and china, extremist or threatened domestic threats. This is 2 hours and 40 minutes. This hearing will come to order, thank our witnesses, the honorable christopher wray, director of the federal bureau of investigation, the honorable chris miller, director of the National Counterterrorism center and the honorable Ken Cuccinelli, senior official performing duties of the deputy secretary. This is the annual threat hearing. When you look at the threats, and interesting how many hearings you held on so many of these things. I want to ask for my Opening Statement to be entered into the record. If you consider these threats, down the list, cyberattacks, ransom, intellectual property theft, something we are concerned about if you try to develop a vaccine, hundreds of millions of dollars of Economic Loss due to