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
Are you sure you want to say that, your knowledge . In fact today was the payout you you want to say that the incremental medicaid payment would, in fact, have had a surplus, not a deficit. My recollection of the numbers and i have not looked in a while by the end of the decade on a yeartoyear basis the Affordable Care act lowered the deficit. I believe that would have been deficit. You are aware this cbo has revised the number and now show a deficit and have really since shortly after the parties changed and they redid their numbers. Are you aware that they show a deficit . They no longer stand behind the numbers trying passage . I sure wish you had been aware of it. You had not heard that. I dont think so. We will check on that. One of the things that i think about and talk about is that we have a a limited amount of time to be in these offices. I am so sorry, mr. Gruber, that you said what you said. You said. You can call it conjecture, whatever. What it does is distract. It it dist
I want to welcome everyone. I want to apologize to our two witnesses and to everyone else whos been waiting. Just blame me for the delay. That would be the quickest and easiest thing to do. Ill do my best to start on time henceforth. This is hearing number two, reviewing efforts to secure u. S. Department diplomatic facilities and personnel. The committee will come to order. Chairman notes a quorum for taking testimony pursuant to the appropriate House Resolution number and house rule number, i want to recognize myself for the opening statement. In september of 2012, four of our fellow americans were killed and others were injured in an attack on our facility in benghazi, libya. Shawn smith, tyrone woods, Glenn Doherty and ambassador Chris Stevens died under circumstances most of us can not fathom. Fire, violence, the weaponry of war. I want to read something and i want to ask my colleagues to listen to what i read. Not just to the words but i want you to imagine having to live through
I want to thank the panelists. I think it was an interesting discussion, and look forward to having many more today. Thank you very much. And were live on capitol hill this thursday morning as this wednesday morning as the House Select Committee on benghazi will hear testimony on the 2012 attack on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi, libya. Greg starr will appear before the committee again today. And in testimony last september for the same committee he encouraged law enforcements to give the state department extra funding to increase embassy security. Now, also testifying today we expect to hear from steve linick, the Inspector General at the state department. As this hearing gets under way and for the rest of the day were asking should more resources be put togethers Diplomatic Security. Go to facebook. Com or tweet us using the hash tag, cspan chat. This is live coverage on cspan 3. Again, we are awaiting the start of this House Select Committee on benghazi attack hearings to get under