The Defense Department have stricter requirements for the program. This is just under one hour. [indiscernible conversation] [gavel pound] mr. Wilson good morning. The hearing will come to order. Ladies and gentlemen, i welcome you here today and call the hearing of the House Armed Services subcommittee of readiness of the House Armed Services subcommittee on the continued oversight of the transfer of excess poetry equipment to civilian Law Enforcement agencies to order. I would like to begin by recognizing the dedicated service of our clerk. This will be her last official event for our subcommittee and i want to personally thank her for her contributions to our efforts in the past year. We wish her the best of luck as she moves forward with future endeavors. Thank you, jody. [applause] mr. Wilson one of the objectives of the subcommittee is to bring attention to matters that impact the overall readiness of the department of defense, that includes management challenges and budget impli
A law passed in 1997 allows state and local police to buy excess military equipment at a reduced cost. Pentagon officials testified on capitol hill on the program last week about strengthening requirements on who can buy and transport the equipment. Good morning this hears comes to ordinaries, called this hearing of the House Armed Services subcommittee of readiness to get of the House Armed Services committee on the continued oversight of the transfer of excess military equipment to civilians, Law Enforcement agencies to order. I would like to comment the our clerk, this is jodys last official event for our subcommittee and i want to permanently thank her personally thank her for her contributions to our efforts the past year. Wish their the best of look as she moves forward. Thank you, eddy. [applause] one objective of the subcommittee is to this includes programs or activities which face management challenges, present budget implications or could be administered more einitially of w
Thank you. [applause] one of the objectives of this subcommittee is to bring attention to matters that impact the overall readiness of the department of defense. This includes programs or activities which face management challenges, present budget implications, or could be administrated more efficiently. It is our goal to provide necessary oversight in order to ensure our armed forces achieve the highest level of readiness possible. Given the current threat facing our nation and budgetary pressure on the department of defense, accountability is always paramount and every dollar counts. Vigorous oversight can help ensure that mistakes do not happen and when they inevitably do, we learn lessons from missteps for this reason. I am very grateful that we have convened this hearing today on the recent Accountability Office report highlighting deficiencies found with the management and operation of the Law Enforcement support office, l e s o within the logistics agency. They are responsible f
Capitol hill. Gao officials and health and Human Services Department Inspector general testifying in a hearing that just got under way, house subcommittee, hearing about potential areas of fraud and abuse in the 2010 health care law. Youre watching live coverage here on cspan 3. Welcome mr. Mitchell to the committee this afternoon. Lets start with Opening Statements and get right to our witnesses and we appreciate our witnesses being here today, talking about an important this important subject. Health insurance premiums are soaring. President obama and the administration promised multiple times that Affordable Care act would Lower Health Insurance premiums by 2500. American families are still waiting to see those reductions. Instead, the Health Insurance premiums have skyrocketed under the Affordable Care act. Theres about 25 average increase in premiums just this year. Some americans have experienced even higher premium increases and had to drop coverage because it became too darn ex
The hearing will come to order. My understanding is that the democrat caucus has not designated who all the members are. We need to do unanimous consent that all members be allowed to fully participate in todays hearing without objection, so ordered. Welcome to the new congress. If you would like a we have mr. Mitchell and i know a number of other new members will be joining us from the democrats side, as well. So i want to welcome mr. Mitchell to the committee this afternoon. Lets start with Opening Statements and get right to our witnesses. And we appreciate our witnesses being here today, talking about an important this important subject. Health insurance premiums are soaring. President obama and the administration promised multiple times that Affordable Care act would Lower Health Insurance premiums by 2500. American families are still waiting to see those reductions. Instead, the Health Insurance premiums have skyrocketed under the Affordable Care act. Theres about 25 average incr