Everyone here wants the same thing and that is to serve americas businesses the best we can. Those of us out here on the dais at the lincoln advantage of issue and let us know how we are doing all the time and on an ongoing basis as head of an agency i sometimes worry that too often you most fear from your own folks and from other washington bureaucrats fear that is the only explanation for why the six to nine gao identified concerns and problems havent been addressed. Yesterday wasnt the first time these issues have been raised. Yesterday we heard some pretty serious concerns both by members of this committee and from our gao witness who testified here yesterday about the management of the sba. Administrator maria contrerassweet, since you are with us yesterday will recap is briefly although im sure your staff is already given you a rundown. I told the gao witness yesterday that this kind of reminds me of being a parent. If your teenagers room is the mass and then stuff from all over
Overall management of the agency, with that said, i would glad to see sba has agreed with nearly all of the gaos recommendation and has begun to take action. Today im looking forward hearing from gao about whether or not they believe gao is standing through commitment. It is a vital role and one that i want to ask all Committee Members to take part in. I look forward to hearing the gaos testimony and i just to explain very briefly our rules here in the time limits which the share is familiar with, im sure we operate under the fiveminute rules. We will give you a little bit longer than that if you need it theres only one witness, we generally have four. You need a little more time, thats okay and we will limit ourselves to five minutes at least in the first round and then we will determine whether i think its necessary in the second round at the appropriate time. The yellow light comes on and says its time to wrap up and if the red light comes on we will let you go on a little more like
Senator. There is too much stuff going into too Many Disparate groups and it actually has made the job of the armed opposition more tough. We have to be tough with for some of our regional allies. On the ground senator, as isil has pushed out of places it will be really important to try to get help into the civil administrations. The Syrian Government wont go into those places and again these are in a sense the political side of the opposition linked to the moderate armed opposition. So the state department has worked with the dedication and resources and program money as i was pushed out of place. So there is clean water several hours a day. Maybe the schools can reopen in some places and that kind of thing. Just one more question and my time is short. We have got a lot of stock in edwards and many of us got to know him and yet we didnt support him. Trucks that were supposed to be delivered were delivered months late. I mean it was almost like, i dont even want to use the word because
They have been truly humbled by the outpouring of the encouragement and support for the decision to quit tobacco. As we go forward with the private sector to continue to take a leadership role. Es. Chair will recognize himself and Ranking Member for purposes of making Opening Statement. Without objection the Opening Statement of any other member of the committee who wishes to provide one will be included in the record. A little over two years ago, four americans serving our country in benghazi, libya, were killed. Two of them were killed when a facility emblematic of our country was set on fire. And two of them were killed when they dared to fight back and defend themselves. And others. Sean smith, chris stevens, ty woods and glen doherty represented us. They represented our country, and our values. We ask them to go. We sent them, and they were killed because some people hold a deepseated animus toward us simply because we are us. So to the family and the friends, and the loved ones o
As assistant secretary of state for Diplomatic Security, he testified about changes made to improve security at foreign posts. He was joined by members of the state Department Best Practices panel, which made security recommendations of its own. This is a little less than three hours. [no audio] we are experiencing an audio problem with this event. We are working to fix the technical difficulty and will continue running it. Hopefully, the audio will come back shortly, here on cspan. [no audio] again, we are experiencing audio difficulties. We apologize for that problem. We are working to fix it. We will have it corrected, hopefully, shortly, here on cspan. [no audio] again, experiencing some audio difficulties with this recording of this hearing on cspan. We have found another version of the recording. We are going to play that now for you from the top, on cspan. [no audio] come tomeeting will order. The chairquorum for persons taking testimony, percent to house rules. Without objectio