Our nation recently observed the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001. Nearly two decades later we continue to mourn the nearly 3,000 lives lost that terrible day and keep their loved ones in our prayers. This committee and the department of Homeland Security were established in the wake of 9 11 to help prevent future attacks on our soil. Regardless of who was chairman weve held regular hearings examining worldwide threats with leaders from the department of Homeland Security, fbi, and National Counter Terrorism Center. And regardless of who has occupied the white house, whether democrat or republican, weve received cooperation in that effort. Today was supposed to be no different. Unfortunately as we see from the empty chair in front of us mr. Wolf is not here to represent the department of Homeland Security. Let me be clear about how we got here. The committee began engaging with the department over three months ago to secure participation alongside his col
Without objection the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. Before we begin i want to say our thoughts with those americans dealing with devastating natural disasters including the wildfires in the west and Hurricane Sally in the south. As chairman i remain committed to ensuring they receive the federal help needed to respond, recover and build back stronger. They, the committee on Homeland Securitys meeting for its annual hearing on worldwide threats to the homeland. Our nation recently observed the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001. Nearly two decades later we continue to mourn the nearly 3,000 lives lost that terrible day and keep their loved ones in our prayers. This committee and the department of Homeland Security were established in the wake of 9 11 to help prevent future attacks on our soil. Regardless of who was chairman weve held regular hearings examining worldwide threats with leaders from the depart
Introduce people more formally prior to their also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all i want to thank the cochairs and that commissioners for the important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction over the working hard to evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law of these recommendations can be done through executive action. What id like to spend my time just enter my formal written state into the record, i just want to talk about two of the commissions recommendations. When i i got here in the congrs in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. Its not going away. I remember the buzzword back ban is we have to do something about this. Weve made a number of attempts and quite honestly we made a fair amount of progress. My own sense is the bad guys, the people and often always have
Parasols the crisis which threatens to spoil christmas for many french holiday makers. And a study by controlled risks warns 2020 well see more and more severe hyper attacks we look at whats at stake. I want to jones in this business live from berlin. U. S. Aircraft make a boeing will hold production of the 737 max in january the 1st such production pause in more than 2 decades the decision comes as the popular planes grounding looks to extend well into the next year the freezer by one of the largest u. S. Exporters will impact supply us allies and finance years across the globe as well as the u. S. Economy. There are 400 brand new 737 max aircraft parked in boeings holding area theyve been grounded since april this year some are even parked in the employee parking lot the production stop slated for this coming january is a drastic measure and its bad for boeings 12000. 00 employees i think hauling production as is a pretty major downside disrupts the whole supply chain that puts labor
Live from berlin welcome i was starting with some good news equal ety between men and women has improved globally thats the results of the latest study of the World Economic forum on the issue of gender gap like in previous years nordic countries continue to lead the way to gender parity not iceland is in 1st place for the elevenths year in a row the countrys gender parity is nearly 88 percent thats according to the w e f norway finland and sweden follow close nicaragua is also granted in the top 5 and rwanda at number 9 beating germany which rounds up the top 10 gender parity is more advanced in german politics than it is a business on the whole the w e f recommends reducing the wage gap between the sexes the situation doesnt look like its improving fast enough globally the World Economic forum expects it to take another 100 years before gender parity is achieved well lets discuss this now with our Financial Market correspondent kyung lah whos in has done it by for us in frankfurt cal