She is coming. A little late. New mexicos first district. We will have her seat at the end. Thank you for being here today. We really appreciate it. I am lucky to be surrounded by intelligent and wonderful women, as i have always been in my life. Why dont i start with a brief introduction round. We will go in order. If you would like to start with a brief introduction about our topic today, latino leadership in congress. Hello, everybody. But are known as grace. And have been in california many years and have inn on city council and now congress. It has been a long battle. All of you must understand, it is not easy for us to be sitting here. We have earned our way. We have had saddles and have been lucky enough to have men support us but understand we have brains and can use them. Unfortunately, we still have a battle and there is still a Glass Ceiling. There is still the ability for us to not have the support we should have on issues that are really critical to us. Not only immigratio
I the speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman wished to recognized. Mr. Moonyie when the house adjourns today it adjourn to meet at 2 30 p. M. Tomorrow. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Under the speakers announced policy of january 6, 2015, the chair now recognizes the gentleman from virginia, mr. Buyer, for 30 minutes. Mr. Buyer thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Beyer i recognize the accomplishments of mr. Albert miller who passed away on sunday, may 10. He was a wellknown political and Community Leader in the city of Alexandria One of his crowning achievements was his work with the alexander redevelopment and Housing Authority protecting and expanding Affordable Housing across the city. He was a civil rights advocate, mentor, and beloved father. He was also a character, kind interested, ever present, honest hardworking, inspirational, and above all witty. Mel was the person you wanted to spend time with. He grew up in new jersey but his heart belonged to raleigh,
To be learned from that event or is that just the way that system works . Are there lessons to be drawn . Rep. Mccaul they were all on such high alert, they came out with their van and they were automatically taken down. They were kind of waiting for them. If there was any breakdown i could analyze, it is that, typically, the argument is that they would share information. In this case, the fbi did. It would be an issue of locals sharing it with their counterparts. The model, when it works well, works well. Sometimes you have breakdowns. I went say it broke down in that case, but if there was, it was on the part of the locals. Is there any reason to think that these guys were activated ordered it to do this . Or was itself inspired . Rep. Mccaul it is a matter of semantics. What they were trying to do was activate through calls to arms over the internet. They identified the contest, and they went to their followers on twitter, and this is the do age of terrorism, where they send out a d
Failing at that time and they were two of the major architects. And i know they give credit to many others, but two of the major architects of the surge which turned out to be a great sacrifice of american blood and treasure, a success. The black flags of isil are now flying over yet another major iraqi city, ramadi, the capital of iraqs Anbar Province. And reports overnight suggest that isil controls the syrian city of palmyra as well. This hearing does not is not about the fall of any one city as important as those losses are, but rather what its revealed about the limitations of an overly constrained american air campaign. The weaknesses of iraqi forces the growing maligned role of iran, and the ineffectiveness and inadequacy of u. S. Military support for iraqi and syrian partners. But most concerning it highlights the shortcomings of the administrations indecisive policy, inadequate commitment, and incoherent strategy. This misguided approach has failed to stop if not foster the ex
So my question is, when were you notified there was a threat to the capitol . I was notified, i believe, essentially immediately as it happened. As what happened . As he landed. To me, it just seems like it would be all hands on deck when you get an email like this and you have the website to go to, that bells should be ringing, sirens should be blaring, within your chain of command as to, this is pretty damn important. Excuse my language. But it is. And so what i worry about is that whoever got this information just said, ah, you know, we get this stuff all the time. Well, this is fairly specific. Would you not agree . Fairly specific. And obviously unique in that regard. Obviously didnt say the time that it was happening but one could reason that you read it, fairly obvious in the report, it gives his phone number so you can contact me, wasnt like he was just, you know, leaving something. Because when was let me ask you this. The sergeant in arms. When was he notified of this email .