Watch live coverage of the Senate Health care debate on cspan two, cspan and our free cspan radio app. Former Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson appeared before our House Intelligence Committee hearing on russian interference in the u. S. 2016 election. He said the russian government and the direction of Vladimir Putin conduct did Cyber Attacks to influence the president ial election. Also discussed his rationale for designating u. S. Election systems as Critical Infrastructure in early january 2017. This hearing is to an half hours. Two and a half hours. Good morning. I have asked Rick Crawford to open with a prayer. Please bow with the. Heavenly father, we are thankful for every blessing. Thank you for the blessing of this nation. Father i just ask that her people would strive to be worthy of that blessing. Pray for humility and temperance and always do we say be pleasing to you. In jesus name, amen. In consultation with adam, i make a motion to give each member seven minutes to
Former home and secured testified at a House Intelligence Committee hearing on russian interference in the 2016 u. S. Elections. This is 2. 5 hours. Good morning. I have asked Rick Crawford to open with a prayer. We ask that her people would strive to be worthy of that blessing. Pray for humility and temperance and mail we do be pleasing to you. In jesus name, amen. Consultation with adam, i make a motion to give each member seven minutes to question witnesses. It is their discussion on the motion . Everybody would get seven including adam and i . Good to go . The meeting will come to order. Homelandcretary of security, jeh johnson. Think you for being here this morning. We are and will remain an open session. This hearing will address only unclassified matters. Interest ine the the committees informed work and we expect proper decorum to be observed at all times and disruptions will not be tolerated. Time, would mr. Johnson please rise and taken of . Take an of . Ath . Do you solemnly
Committee come to order, house bill 1124. May postpone proceedings on measure matter adopting amendment on which recorded vote is ordered. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. First item House Resolution 737 condemning and censuring commissioner of Internal Revenue service, the clerk will designate the resolution. House resolution 737. Condemning and censure John Koskinen international revenue. Issued a subpoena to John Koskinen. Ask it read and be opened at any time. Without objection, so order. Now recognize myself for five minutes to explain resolution. Complying with subpoena is mandatory, not optional. Truthfully testifying before congress is also mandatory. When a senior official doesnt fulfill core duties of compliance with subpoena and testifying truthfully to congress, there must be repercussions. House resolution 737 as introduced is a necessary repercussion for irs commissioner John Koskinen. His conduct deserves condemnation and censur
When you view documents that have been cleaned out, purged out of the training material for the f. B. I. For the state department for the f. B. I. , for the state department, for the defense department, for intelligence, for department of defense, its no wonder f. B. I. Agents cannot discern that tsarnaev had been radicalized even though russia told us twice and still this administration could they had so miseducated d underelingted our and undereducated our agents, they didnt know what to ask. How do you establish somebody had been radicalized. My tear friend, philip haney, one of the original members of Homeland Security, probably was a record the number of people that he put together the information to show their terrorist ties he got a commendation for it. But when he started showing there were ties to people with this administration were having with no with known terrorist they deleted thousands of pages of entries of what he has done. When he filed an i. G. Report, they came afte
Justine underhill, yahoo finance. Now that the fed has started the process of raising rates, various fed officials have said, including ben bernanke, that the fed could go cash flow negative in this scenario as capital losses are taken on the portfolio bond. Do you still see this happening, and when might this happen . Youre talking about our income going negative . Conceivable, in a scenario where growth and inflation will really surprised us to the upside. We would have to raise shortterm Interest Rates so rates we would be paying on reserves would exceed what were on the portfolio. Bout 2en, we have a trillion in liabilities, namely currency, on which we pay no interest, so this does require an extreme scenario with very rapid increases and shortterm Interest Rates. It is conceivable, but quite unlikely, that it could happen. But, you know, if it were to happen, we would have an economy that would be doing very well. This is probably an economy that everybody would feel very well,d,