Preparedness response and communications will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony on the state of First Responder communications. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. I want to welcome all witnesses here this morning on an issue that is vital to our Homeland Security. The ability of our First Responders to communicate. As noted in the 2006 national interoperable baseline survey, there is a, quote, direct correlation between effective communications, interoperatedability and First Responders ability to save lives, end quote. In my hometown of new york city we know this all too well. Both the first both the office of Emergency Communications and First Responder Network Authority were established in the wake of the communication failures of 9 11 and later in hurricane katrina. We have made a great deal of progress since those fateful disasters. States and localities have invested billions of dollars in their Communications Networks, including
From russia, china, north korea and iran. The fbi that i see is tens of t thousands of brave men and women who are working as hard as they can to keep people they will never know safe from harm. The fbi that i see is reflected in folks like n the committee will reconvene. We were in the questioning period with the director of the fbi and the chair recognizes the gentle woman from georgia. Thank you, mr. Chairman and director wray. Thank you so much for being here. It is wonderful to see you. I would just like to say that given your distinguished and exs exem peculiary record of service, i am on the optimistic side that under your leadership we really will see a heightened degree of integrity Going Forward in the agency. I look forward to that. I wanted to ask a couple of questions around terrorism and isis. You mentioned in your opening testimony that the agency has some 1,000 active terrorism related investigations. How is that volume of terrorism investigative cases continuing or not
The committee will reconvene. When we recessed we were in the questioning period with the director of the fbi and the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from georgia for five minutes. Thank you so much for being here. It is wonderful to seal. I would like to say that given your distinguished and exemplary record of service, i am frankly on the extraordinarily up the mystic side that under your leadership we will see a heightened degree of integrity Going Forward in the agency. I look forward to that. I wanted to ask a couple of questions around terrorism and isis. You mentioned in your opening the agency had some 1000 active terrorist investigations. To is that volume continuing strain the agency in terms of your resources . Dir. Wray it is a good question. Thousandsn to those of isis related investigations, we have a similar number two we would classify as homegrown violent extremists. And we would call those isis inspired. Lone wolfs who see loan wolves. We have a fair number of al qae
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