Understanding of this truly devastating problem. That concludes our hearing. Thank you. We are live on capitol hill this morning in the Canon House Office building where up next counterterrorism and intelligence officials from the departments of Homeland Security, justice, state and the National Counterterrorism center will testify before the House Homeland Security committee about the threat of far win and domestic terrorists who the United States. Its expected to get under way in just a moment. Live coverage here on cspan3. While we have a moment the Associated Press reporting today that the president is asking congress to formally authorize war against Islamic State militants, offering a draft resolution that says the Islamic State poses a grave threat. The president is sending congress a proposed threepage authorization for military force. The president would limit authorization to three years with no restriction where u. S. Forces could pursue the threat. By the way, the entire do
The house of representatives and shared in many cases with many different senators has been stopped by harry reid. Unless you stop him, the same thing is going to go on. Because the president has indicated this is a referendum on his policies and his programs nd his legacy. If you look at his legacy, you will see this guy is a liberal democrat. I dont know you cant come clean about it and just be proud that you are a liberal democrat. The senate suggested i voted for harry reid. I want everyone to know, i didnt commit voter fraud. I didnt go to nevada and vote in that election. The senator also talks about contributions. Some of the contributions hes failed to talk about are my contributions to republicans. I actually gave money to scott brown in massachusetts in 2010 precisely because he was the vote that was supposed to prevent the Affordable Care act from becoming law. Thats why i made that contribution. Ive said from the beginning that i think the Affordable Care act expanded a pro
The end of the fiscal year. With that i yield back. I thank the Ranking Member. Pleased to have three distinguished witnesses before us today to discuss this important topic. First, the honorable francis taylor. Became the undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at the u. S. Department of Homeland Security in april 2014. Hes held a variety of senior level positions over his 35year career in government service. Most recently undersecretary taylor served as the assistant secretary of state for Diplomatic Security and director of foreign missions. Thank you, sir, for being here today. Next we have the honorable nicholas rasmussen, sworn in as director of the National Counterterrorism center in december of 2014. He previously served as nctcs Deputy Director since june of 2012, prior to returning to nctc he served with the National Security Council Staff as special assistant to the president , and senior director for counterterrorism. Thank you, sir. And last but not least, Michael Ste
Its sitting over in the senate and now its time for the senate to do their job. Good morning, everyone. As we continue to advance an opportunity economy, today i wanted to highlight just one of the things that makes america exceptional. And that is the spirit of generosity that we see all across this country. We see it in homes, in schools in hospitals, in hearts. And yesterday kevin mentioned that we had the chance to visit d. C. Central kitchen right here in the heart of the nations capital. And beyond the tremendous effort to get that food and to distribute it, theyre changing lives and it was so inspiring to meet lives that had been changed, people, because of this effort, had gone to school, had got some training and now were employed. And this is one of the Many Organizations across the country that embody that spirit of generosity. In eastern washington, i visited christ kitchen and we have a campus kitchen at gonzaga, union gospel kitchen and there are so much more. A large num
Into the srf . Thats what ive heard many of you say we need to put more money into that program. What do we have to do . How much more money . Can any of you suggest where we have to go with that . I would also add should wish prioritizing the srf money for Rural Communities so were weighting them a little more heavily than the big cities . Sir, youre preaching to the choir here. I think all of us would agree a significantly greater percentage of the srf money should go to Rural Communities and they should be able to access it more quickly. You cant even have a chance of getting the srf money unless you get on the intended use plan. And for a Small Community how do you get on the intended use plan . All of us can tell you thats difficult to do. I mean, do you have the Technical Assistance . Do you have an engineer youre working with, somebody thats going to submit the paperwork . Do you even have a chance to get on the money . And thats a problem. Thats one thing i said in my testimony