The Foreign Relations committee will come to order. Two housekeeping issues, if i could. We have a number of people in the audience, some of whom like to express themselves. We thank you for being here. Senator corker in the past when there have been interruptions, on occasion, ive been able to have people arrested but we stopped that. So please dont do anything that causes you to have to be escorted out of the room because hen the process continues with being arrested, its fairly unpleasant, id hate to see you go through that. Secondly, we have a vote, we have two votes today, which is unfortunate. What weve talked about doing is adjourning the hearing at about seven minutes to 6 00, everybody rushing down and voting on the tail end of the first vote and the second vote, therell be no spoking before the second vote. Then if we could hustle bam. I know general mattis has a meeting hed like to attend and others want to complete our work in an appropriate way. With that, id like to thank
Clara county specifically when we did one of our peers and we had people at hss look at it again could correct me if im wrong but they want to the new period of collective bargaining adjustably increased with a offered. It stayed fairly stable for a while. Our understanding is gone up in the hope it will continue to go up. So theyre just being more right now. It was more of we need to is that correct . That is correct. But they also formalize the county plan could Santa Clara County employees could elect to be part of the Santa Clara County health plan. I think its called valley health. Yes. The county was subsidizing it. The county stop subsidizing it. Yes sir i will make sure im clear. Some counties like la offers an account like 50 different plans and some are like five. These are not weighted. These are not weighted averages based on how many people actually elect what looks like a cadillac plan or something week its just an average of 15 that is the algorithm until we go through t
We do rely heavily on information from our state and local counterparts. In many instances, we have excellent reporting from those counterparts. In some instances it is not as robust as we need. And anything that could be done to improve that would be useful. Certainly you could consider legislation. We also have been working directly, speaking directly with those localities to encourage them to improve their reporting to the current system. One final question, madam attorney general. Congressman deutsche made remps to this. This challenging definition of engaged in the business of dealing firearms. Even the atf has said that this very vague standard frustrates prosecution, it allows people who sell guns to avoid the requirements of background checks and some have suggested that you could issue a regulation that would provide greater clarity and define that. We recognize legislation is also possible. But will you agree to at least look at whether or not you have the ability to issue cl
I thought more about what happened than all of you put together. Those were Hillary Clintons words during thursdays 11hour congressional hearing on the 2012 benghazi attack. Republicans repeatedly accused the former u. S. Secretary of state of not doing enough to protect american lives. Dana bash has more. A. Hillary clinton came prepared. I take responsibility for what happened in benghazi. Combative at times. I dont know what this line of questioning does to help us get to the bottom of the deaths of four americans. Other times, contrite. Trying to reveal what shes so often accused of concealing her human side. I have lost more sleep than all of you put together. Ive been wracking my brain about what more could have been done or should have been done. The only other person in the room with as much to prove as clen ton, the gop chairman who repeatedly insisted the benghazi investigation is not political. Not a Single Member of this committee signed up to investigate you or your email.
With coming before a committee, either in an open session, or a closed session. It needs to be done by nonpartisan stuff, and the fbi, particularly the Supreme Court Justice Nominee would have been done. I think we need to have the hearing. Just absolutely stunned at why we are so opposed to letting the fbi do what the fbi has done for decades, and that his background checks on nominees. It is not unusual at all. Sandra we go live to peter doocy in washington. What is the latest word . Will she or wont she . Sandra, now dr. Fords attorney is saying that she doesnt want to come forward if the only people testifying our her and a judge kavanaugh. The latest letter from them says in part that the committees plan to move forward, only have two witnesses, it is not a fair or good faith investigation. There are multiple witnesses whose names have appeared publicly and should be included in any proceeding. He says that his investigators all are doing their best to touch base with witnesses. H