Several votes on the house floor. You can see the chairman Jason Chaffetz is returning to the chair, and so we will see if the hearing gets underway shortly. Already today, several Opening Statements by the chair and rank ing member, and several of the witnesses. Jason chaffetz again is chairing the hearing, the top democrat on the committee is representative elijah cummings. Committee on the oversight government reform whether come back to order. Appreciate it. We were delayed for a moment, and more than a moment because of the votes on the floor, but i believe that now we are going to be hearing testimony from Inspector General roth. You are recognized now for five minutes. Thank you, chairman chaffetz and Ranking Member cummings and thank you for asking me to come here to testify in issues relating to tsa. The tsa programs fosters change and makes government better, however, the effectiveness of the oversight depends on making issue details and balanced public reports and looking at
Several votes on the house floor. You can see the chairman Jason Chaffetz is returning to the chair, and so we will see if the hearing gets underway shortly. Already today, several Opening Statements by the chair and rank ing member, and several of the witnesses. Jason chaffetz again is chairing the hearing, the top democrat on the committee is representative elijah cummings. Committee on the oversight government reform whether come back to order. Appreciate it. We were delayed for a moment, and more than a moment because of the votes on the floor, but i believe that now we are going to be hearing testimony from Inspector General roth. You are recognized now for five minutes. Thank you, chairman chaffetz and Ranking Member cummings and thank you for asking me to come here to testify in issues relating to tsa. The tsa programs fosters change and makes government better, however, the effectiveness of the oversight depends on making issue details and balanced public reports and looking at
Inspector general roth. You are now recognized for five minutes. Mr. Roth thank you, chairman chaffetz, Ranking Member cummings, and members of the committee. Thank you for letting me testify relating to tsa. The inspector oversight of tsa fosters positive change and makes government better. Our effectiveness of our oversight depends on our ability to make balanced reports that accurately includes findings and recommendations to resolve. The Inspector General act requires us we inform the d. H. S. Secretary, congress and the public about any problems and deficiencies we identify through our work. Public scrutiny in what we find is key to accomplishing our mission. We have found that tsa has a history of taking an aggressive approach to restricting information from being made public, especially with respect to a category of information known as sensitive security information, commonly known by its acronym as ssi. This problem is welldocumented. I first encountered the issue in applied s
Inspector general roth. You are now recognized for five minutes. Mr. Roth thank you, chairman chaffetz, Ranking Member cummings, and members of the committee. Thank you for letting me testify relating to tsa. The inspector oversight of tsa fosters positive change and makes government better. Our effectiveness of our oversight depends on our ability to make balanced reports that accurately includes findings and recommendations to resolve. The Inspector General act requires us we inform the d. H. S. Secretary, congress and the public about any problems and deficiencies we identify through our work. Public scrutiny in what we find is key to accomplishing our mission. We have found that tsa has a history of taking an aggressive approach to restricting information from being made public, especially with respect to a category of information known as sensitive security information, commonly known by its acronym as ssi. This problem is welldocumented. I first encountered the issue in applied s
Government Reform Committee hearing to examine transparency issues at the transportation security administration. The office of special counsel has alleged the tsa has become uncooperative in providing documents in its investigation of retaliation against whistleblowers at the agency. This is about an hour and 40 minutes. We will come to order. The chairs are authorized to declare a recess at any time. We appreciate you being here on this important topic. Transparency of the tsa. Today, the company the committee will explore the of the tsa. We will hear about the Inspector General with problems with the gna with the tsa. In order for us to complete its mission, agencies are required office tounredacted special counsel. Tsa is not fulfilling their big obligation to produce documents frustrating the investigation efforts. , it is notyou acceptable to withhold information. We are bothing committed to on both sides of the aisle to help protect and ensure that whistleblowers are protected.