The meeting will come to order. I will say at the outset that we hold this hearing to provide information to the public on the Intelligence Communitys assessment of threats facing our nation. I ask that everyone in this room remove any signs you may have and refrain from any disruption during the hearing so that the committee can conduct the hearings and people sitting behind you can see. I will ask the Capitol Police to remove anyone who disrupt this proceeding. Today inittee meets open session to hear the annual report from the United States Intelligence Community on the threats to the Nation Security and let me start by welcoming the witnesses. They are the director of National Intelligence, james clapper, the director of the Central Intelligence agency, john brennan. The director of the federal bureau of investigation, jim tommy, the director of the Defense Intelligence agency, Lieutenant General michael flynn, and the director of the National Counterterrorism center, matt olson. E
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Good morning. The subcommittee on commerce will come to order and today we will take testimony on the budget request from the department of justice. Today we will be listening to the attorney general, eric holder, testifying on behalf of the Justice Department and then from the Inspector General on important oversight issues. This Committee Makes sure we spend the right money in the right way and make sure we have the wonderful advice of an Inspector General. We want to alert everyone, though, there could be the possibility of votes beginning at 11 30, so we will move to kind of. This hearing today is one of 60 hearing in six weeks where we are taking a look at the request from the agencies and the president s budget. Today we take testimony from one of the most important agencies in the government; the department of justice. Who has a very key job in making sure they keep america safe and rather it is federal Law Enforcement, prosecution to terrorism and the enforcement of White Colla
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Am supervisor norman yee and will be chairing this meeting. I am joined by supervisor katy tang and supervisor campos will be in shortly. Clerk today is lisa miller. The committee would also like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, nona menkonian and charles kriminet who record each of our meetings and make transcripts available to the public online. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and items to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. Can we please call item no. 1 . Mr. Chair, wed also like to announce that this is the special rules meeting. If you are here for land use, its in rule 416. Item no. 1 is a notion approving or rejeblgting the mayors nomination of rodney fong to the Planning Commission for a term ending june 30, 2018. Mr. Fong, please come up to the microphone, maybe youd like to make a brief statement. Good morning, i hope you had a nice weekend and got a chance to see a little bit of soccer. I hope you supp