Is done in a more transparent and consistent way, we have initiated training for supervisors, and work in file workforce. So you have done some training in new positions, because im concerned. When that question came up, i watch people all the time, and no less than four people here with you today agree that you have a cultural problem, and you could tell from the responses that there is an issue within the agency. I also wanted to go back and give you a chance to correct your testimony. I thought i heard earlier that you said you were short 500 Uniformed Secret Service people e to secret station due to sequestration. Across the organization, the secret service is down 550 personnel. With the gentleman yield per second. Please stop the clock rate the amount of people in the u. S. See secret service, the day you were sworn in, and the daytoday, because these numbers are fulltime equivalents is. All of us have a right to understand what the impact is on the day you were sworn in. I do no
Reduction. The whistleblower seem to indicate that there was a stuttering study that there hundred people per countersurveillance, and you made the decision to cut that by 1 3. Is that a correct . The witness can answer, and the time has expired. Will you answer, please . Yes. I would like to review that study. I know that we have asked for a study in the past that related to countersurveillance and countersurveillance methodologies to be a ploy by the secret service in the con capitalthe national region, and we established a Countersurveillance Division and staffed it with what are appropriate resources for this time and will go back and look at the process and see how we need to continue to resource it as appropriate. Thank the witness. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I have respect for the numbers of the secret service and cannot believe i am about to begin the fun of questioning is a member of congress, because it should have never gotten this point where i have to ask you these questions
Is impossible to execute all the himself but the duty to ake care they be faithfully executed is not delegable. He has to do that personally. Third, to be fair, notice this is not the duty to take care be completely executed, couldnt be because that would be impossible. Would require infinite resources. Required thatt is they be faithfully executed and interpretive ep problem. What does the word faithfully mean . Does that entail . One other observation i will ake as an historical observation bear in mind the Historical Context for this learn kings had english kings will claimed suspend laws uni unilaterally. Rejectmers were going to that practice and require the executive take care that the are faithfully executed. That is some text and Historical Context. Mind we will circle back to a few examples that have been discussed already. First exactly is the obama care suspension that you heard discussed. Crystal clear. On july 2, 2013, just before the long weekend the obama dministration a
Frankly to take the gonzales threat seriously after the information provided by the Virginia State police. We knew he had a history of mental omelettes. We knew that Mental Illness. We knew that he was loaded up with guns. Had a map ofhe washington. You indicate that that map was described as just a tourist map looking at places he might go. That might make sense, except for the fact that he was loaded up with ammunition and weapons in his car at the time. Utah hasriend from made headlines and made a statement here today that he believes your reaction should be one of maximum force. I guess we should read that to mean that he should be shot on fence,hen he crosses the when he goes over the fence. I am reluctant to join him in that kind of advice to the secret service because there is a first family at the white house. There are guests in the white house. It is a busy and bustling place, and the idea we are going to have a shootout on the white to begrounds seems to me a last resort, no
What we are doing is making sure that we are making steady progress. Heading up the infrastructure that will allow us to compete with massachusetts who are doing some of these things long before we were. In the last two quarters of 2013 when we outgrew every state in new england. Tom has made statements, things like not as many jobs as we said, thats wrong. Total privatesector job growth over the time of our administration is much more than 60,000. At the same time government has gotten smaller. Government has gotten smaller while i have been governor of the state of connecticut. Sure, we should be more efficient. Sure, we should be investing in technologies we did not have in our state previously. When i inherited this state because you elected me governor, the Largest Department spending 18 of our money was operating on a format from the effective age of 1989. Im sorry to cut you off. Now onto the rebuttal phase. Mr. Foley. Im glad the governor brought up his experience in stamford.