Subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess for the committee at any time, this subcommittee is convening a hearing on the document production efforts on the office of personnel management, the federal bureau of investigation, and the General Services administration in response to those committees and subcommittee document requests. I now recognize myself, for an Opening Statement. I want to thank the witnesses for being here, although i know there could be more comfortable hearings to attend. I regret we need to have this hearing. We are here because opm, the fbi, and gsa have not complied with the committees request for documents from several months ago. We witnessed a stunning lack of cooperation across the administration, in response to multiple congressional investigations. For this committee to performance important constitutional oversight mission, we must have documents and information requested from agencies. That, in turn, r
Welcome jason, welcome back from your travels, and welcome to the summit. It is really an honor to be here. This duringuntered the campaign, i was privileged to speak at a luncheon. I was amazed at the passion for israel in the room. The all the speakers all speakers were great, but what really amazed me was there was a young man around 19 years old, i have six kids. He spoke so eloquently about , and with beautifully such an credible passion, i thought to myself, how do we harness that and get all of our Young Children to speak that way about the state of israel . So im honored to be here, thank you. So we are all very curious. Having just returned from bahrain, what for you was the most Encouraging Development . I will start with the positive. We had what i thought was a great conference. Jared kushner worked very hard with many of my colleagues in the u. S. Government to put together a 50 million package for the palestinians, for jordan, egypt, for lebanon, if we are able to afford
[applause] with a brandnew shiny hasssy, this administration designated and stated its recognition of jerusalem as the undivided capital of the one and only jewish state. And we thank them for doing so, dont wait . We . [applause] indeed thank them for doing so. For we the jewish people, i say this to all of you here. We the jewish people recognize our sovereignty over jerusalem and the jewish state by way of the higher coordination, that is the god of abraham, isaac, jacob, rachel, and leah. [applause] now, it falls upon me to introduce to you the people who are engaged in the protection of that land, day and night. There is a phrase that is attributed. In a place where there is no humanity, strive to be a man, strive to be that humanity. Friends, when terrorists of hamas and hezbollah try to tunnel underneath the ground to murder our innocent citizens, when terrorists north and south launch rockets towards our children, our women, our elderly, and our infirm, when they seek to storm
Hearing for President Bidens hearing to hold for secretary analysis in the security department. Youre watching live coverage on cspan 3. All right, everyone could take their seats. I call this hearing to order and welcome mr. With wenstein, great to see you, welcome, mrs. Elizabeth and her daughters, grateful for her service. Understand your daughter ellie at Berkeley Law School ask watching remotely and i would ask, ken, that you give us evidentiary proof that she did tune in for these couple hours and hopefully if watching now, appropriately embarrassed so well see in the aftermath. Before we begin formally though, i want to commend you on your excellent judgment as evidenced by your both attending uva and living in the common wealth. Well question your choice of law school though, but congratulations on your nomination to serve as the under secretary for intelligence and analysis or ina at the department of Homeland Security, this position sits at a critical juncture between the ana
Hearing for President Bidens hearing to hold for secretary analysis in the security department. Youre watching live coverage on cspan 3. All right, everyone could take their seats. I call this hearing to order and welcome mr. With wenstein, great to see you, welcome, mrs. Elizabeth and her daughters, grateful for her service. Understand your daughter ellie at Berkeley Law School ask watching remotely and i would ask, ken, that you give us evidentiary proof that she did tune in for these couple hours and hopefully if watching now, appropriately embarrassed so well see in the aftermath. Before we begin formally though, i want to commend you on your excellent judgment as evidenced by your both attending uva and living in the common wealth. Well question your choice of law school though, but congratulations on your nomination to serve as the under secretary for intelligence and analysis or ina at the department of Homeland Security, this position sits at a critical juncture between the ana