There was a moment of silence for donald payne, jr. Who died recently and who served on the committee. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order, without objection the chair may declare the committee in recess at any point. Before we have the hearing, id like to take a moment to recognize the loss of our dear friend on this committee, Congress Donald payne, jr. And his legacy, along with his fathers legacy will serve as a reminder to us all what it means to be a true public servant. I really appreciated the time that i got to work with congressman payne on the Colorectal Cancer caucus. He was a fierce fighter against that disease. I now recognize for a moment the Ranking Member, Ranking Member thompson to honor the life and legacy of representative payne. Thank you so much, mr. Chairman. This morning, we remember the life of congressman donald m. Payne, jr. Our colleague and friend. He was a union worker, a toll collector, he literally kept the buses of excess county, new j
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Good morning. Well call this hearing to order. Well be waiting for senator hatch which will make an introduintr introducti introduction. Congressman from the private sector myself and this is absolutely i have been very impressed with the quality of individuals that work for the federal government. This nomination process is not easy, as youre well aware of. We have so many willing to subject themselves in this process and serve, you know, in the federal government far lot less than you make in private sector. It says a lot about your dedication to this country. I want to thank you for that. I know youll introduce your family members specifically. I want to welcome all of them. Ill leave it to you to introduce your family members. From my Opening Statement all i want to do is to quickly read the description of the jobs basically youll be filling, what the agencies basically do. Ill turn it over to my Ranking Member. One the Deputy Director and the third is administrators duties include
Leave. [applause]. Lets talk about Workforce Development. That seems to be the kind of thing that americans do not think about when they think about the positives of the u. S. Economy. We dont have stem education, were behind the rest of the world and this, this, that, and the other thing. Yet part of the reason why the direct investment comes from japan is because of the workforce as it is and can be described. When it comes to the plan at least 2000 people are needed to walk with us. Will you have the equivalent number of people needed working at the supply plant. So including at least the 4000 employees are needed. At the level that the consumer can evaluate. So our motto was the Workforce Needs a human element. The human itself makes the when we want to expand and have the next line we also need to have other people, how can we recruit those people at the same time maybe the same thing could happen. You need 4000 people to operate the two lines. More than that. Coming you have robo
Secretarys began the enhancements last month we have seen a real stepingup, that frankly together with the events in europe including paris of actually leading to much greater willingness on the part of European Countries in particular to extend their willing tons share willingness to share information. To the extent that you can in an unclassified seting can you existing databases is gathered by allys and partners . It would be appropriate in another seting as to how the information is disseminated. Okay, i will academy accept that. In rough figures how many people are on the terrorwatch list . Just checking to see what the on the terrorist terroristconsolidateed watch list we are talking just under a million. Under a million. Okay. What countries, and this could be for anyone, constitute the greatest threat and attempts to enter the United States i legally that would be, you know, perhaps flaged by being on these lists in. I cant of those million records there are the subsets of the