I saw in the notice of proposed rulemaking that there is some contemplation of cost recovery, five dollars to register an Unmanned Aircraft, 150 for knowledge and test of operators and 50 to verify the idea of an applicant. Is that going to cover the resources you need Going Forward in an expanding area . Given that we have other resources, including implementing next jan and other things for. Ms. Gilligan the faa has absorbed a lot of the cost of beginning the implementation process for bringing uas into the airspace. We do have pending in the fy 2016 appropriations, the president s budget request additional growth and personnel and research and Development Dollars and facilities adequate dollars. Facilities and equipment dollars. We may be making requests through the budget process. We hope the congress can support that. Its ms. Ayotte ms. Ayotte do you anticipate this will be a selffunded thing or not . Ms. Gilligan the notice of proposed rulemaking does not suggest it funds the ent
Issue and today he is on the house side. This is live coverage on cspan 3. Good morning. Attorney general holder, thank you for appearing before the committee this morning. I want to mention that our thoughts today are with the families and the victims and the survivors of wednesdays shooting at ft. Hood. At this hearing last year as you may recall we spent a great deal of time discussing the victims of the terrorist attacks that occurred there five years ago. Today, our thoughts are certainly with the victims and their families. And this latest attack as well as with the earlier victims for whom this must be a painful reminder of the 2009 attack. The Justice Department budget request for fiscal year 2015 is relatively flat at 2. 7 billion, a net increase of 1 . While the budget would continue efforts funded by the congress in the fy2014 omnibus to restore hiring for vacant positions, your budget also contains some gimmicks like 900 million of unspecified offsets mostly from the Law En
Remedied before these deaths occurred. I want to thank the families of the victims of these directive cars for coming forward and being at that hearing yesterday and sharing their stories with and sharing their stories with and being at that hearing yesterday. To share their story with me and others they are doing a great Public Service with their courage ian strength. Also want to thank ms. Barra the ceo of gm as i said to her and will repeat now, wiedmaier on dash admire her fortitude to and her service to face the question of our committee with General Motors and the issues of car safety. And engineer that has risen through the ranks, a secondgeneration employee at an iconic crete American Manufacturing company. The products that have enriched the lives of so Many Americans over the years. But this is a turning point with these car safety challenges some of them have contacted me hell they are reaching a proactively to the drivers of these brad defective vehicles asking them to brin
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
Income, you see the same type of disparity. The average Median Income for 57,009. Icans, the average Median Income for 21. Canamericans, 33,3 , d in terms of overall wealth 149. Hite families, 113, but for africanamerican families in this great country, the average collective wealth. S 5,677 100 in a or every white household, similarly situated africanamerican household only has 5. Thats a problem for america that we should all feel compelled to confront. Thats why the Congressional Black Caucus wants to invest in education and job training. Invest in transportation and infrastructure. Invest in research and development. Invest in technology and innovation, invest in preserving the social safety net so that you can lift up communities left behind by the recession, but also collectively lift up america for the good of everyone. So now its my honor and privilege to yield to the very distinguished gentleman from new york, prominent member of the ways and means committee, someone who has g