Cybersecurity threats. I want to welcome our guests and remind folks please submit questions and i will read them toward the end of the session today. Just heard from cyberSecurity Acting director, senator warner is the vice chair of the Intelligence Community, representative will heard who in addition to being a cochair of the Cyber Security group is the Ranking Member on intelligence modernization on the health house Intelligence Community. And underwood on the subcommittee on Cybersecurity Infrastructure protection and innovation. I thought i would start with the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Acting director from the department of Homeland Security and the reason we have an acting director, the president fired the director, maybe i will start with representative underwood and turn to representative heard to see what you make of the fire ring of cybersecurity officials. Hi, everybody. I oppose any effort to politicize the National Security department and agency. Our last inve
Recognized. Weant here yet. Can you hear me now madam chairman. Yes we can hear you. Thank you so much. Is there any statistical benefit in requiring the borough to deliver a portion of data by the end of the year despite having to suspend Field Operations for three months . Shouldnt the bureau have had more time than usual to finish less . Rk than i concu with that statement. As far as rks of accuracy accounts. The shorter amount of time the bureau has to produce quality data, the higher the risk that something is going to go wrong. Its been a fewre degree the decision to rush the council could affect the quality and the accuracy of the dataur sampled . Subpoena. [inaudible] yes or from the Data Processing standpoint it does the initial plan from the Census Bureau this is precovid was to have 50 days of Data Processing. That went down to about 90 days. Now ten to 77 days. It does put more pressure on them to both be able to identify anomalies improperly be able to address those anomal
Ebola, sica, and now covid19. He is the winner of the president ial medal of freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. We are grateful for his lifetime of Public Service and particularly for his candor and expertise during this critical time. Let me ask you for a broad overview of the pandemic, where are we now . We are in a difficult situation. We have a large outbreak, there have been close to 140,000 deaths and several million infections. That is sobering news. We have some bright spots, areas of the country like the new york metropolitan area which has been through a difficult time, probably worse than any other regional area but turned it around and come down but as we see now if you follow the news carefully which is pretty obvious that there are sections of the country, particularly a group of Southern States particularly california, florida, texas and arizona and others that are seeing a resurgence where we are seeing where we had a baseline of 20,000 cases a da
Chairman thompson the committee is meeting today to receive testimony on children in cbp custody, examining death, medical care procedures and improper spending. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. The committee is convening today to examine three critical, related, and deeply troubling issues. The terrible deaths of Young Children in the custody of customs and Border Protection, cbps failure to consistently implement the revised medical screening procedures it adopted after children died in its custody, and cbps improper expenditure of emergency funding appropriated by congress for the care of migrants. In december 2018, two children died in cbp custody. A sevenyearold girl named jakelin and an 8yearold boy named felipe. Last year, another three children died in cbp custody or shortly after being released. On january 4, 2019, i sent a letter to the department of Homeland Security requesting documents related to the deaths in 2018
Children in the custody the committee is convening today to examine three critical, related, and deeply troubling issues. The terrible deaths of Young Children in the custody of customs and Border Protection, cbps failure to consistently implement the revised medical screening procedures it adopted after children died in its custody, and cbps improper expenditure of emergency funding appropriated by congress for the care of migrants. In december 2018, two children died in cbp custody. A sevenyearold girl named jakelin and an 8yearold boy named felipe. Last year, another three children died in cbp custody or shortly after being released. Children died in cbp custody or shortly after being released. On january 4, 2019, i sent a letter to the department of Homeland Security requesting documents related to the deaths in 2018. After the department failed to produce all documents responsive to the committees request, in november 2019, the committee issued a narrowly tailored subpoena by voic