Cspan. Org. Cspan is your own unfiltered view of government funded by these companies and more including comcast. Are you thinking it is just a Community Center . No. It is way more than that. Comcast is partnering with a thousand comnity centers to create wifi enabled lift zones so students fromow income families can get the tools they need to be ready for anything. Along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. Next a hearing on oversight of u. S. Assistance to ukraine in the fight against russia. The inspectors general for the defense and state departments along with the Inspector General for the u. S. Agency for International Governments testifies. From the House Foreign Affairs committee this is three hours. The committee on Foreign Affairs will come to order. The purpose of this hearing is to assess the accountability mechanisms that ensure american taxpayer money is being spent as intended in ukraine. I now recognize myself for an opening
3. Recess for 15 minutes and come back at 5 45 so everyone can go over and vote and be back and hear what everyone elses question. We thank you for being here mr. Secretary again. So promptly. We appreciate that youve made time to appear before this Committee Twice in h a weeks time passing an annual state department bill is one of the fundamental responsibilities of this committee. When we shirk that responsibility and decline to exercise our oversight we in essence surrender our authority and we fail to do the job our constituents sent us here to do. Restoring is this annual practice was a top priority of mine when he became thachairmand im proud of the progress we made last year when the first authorization bill in 14 years became law and i want to thank everybody on this committee for making that happen. However, because of previous inaction, there are programs at the department that have not been appropriately reviewed and analyzed in well over a decade. This lack of oversight res
Recess will end and we will stand in her new again. I moved to senator corcoran. Care. You for the thank you. Secretary sullivan, you know how i feel about you. I appreciate the proactive approach you took. I appreciate your coming for the service as well, the funeral. I was not here earlier. I know the hiring present the reorganization was a topic of discussion and i want to talk to about that a little bit. It is something i feel strongly about. We as a senate and a house and the defense reauthorization act, we ask the local Defense Center to take on more responsibility, specifically with regard to disinformation coming from countries meant to undermine some of our basic values and institutions. Russia and china come to mind. There is an Important Role in pushing back against extremism, is question for you is there an ability to keep some of these important entities like the Global Engagement centers specifically from being weakened by a hiring freeze or by other reorganizations that