Camp from michigan. Hes retiring at the end of the this year as you all know and were going to lose a tremendous talent in dave camp. But when he got together to take on the most ambitious reform of the tax code that i have seen in my lifetime, he said lets see if we can get the Corporate Income tax rate down to kind of that oecd country average, kind of that World International average. Lets see if we can get in there with everybody else. Thats striking to me because it is the best effort, again, that i have seen in my lifetime, and it was an effort to see if we can be right there in the middle, if we can be mediocre. I dont know when it became true in america that when we set our goals on doing something, our goal is to be kind of like everybody else. Well, thats the way they do it in europe. How it came to be that in america when we decide that we want to make a difference, we look around at what everybody else is doing and say lets be the same. I dont want to be the same. I want to
Official responsible for the landsearder we are moving toward in general a riskbased strategy to Homeland Security. Perhaps the most notable example of that is t. S. A. T. S. A. Has t. S. A. Precheck. A lot of people here are a member of t. S. A. Precheck, im sure. Submit some information on background. You get to the airport, theres a shorter line. Less Aviation Security screening when you get there. It enables us to free up resources to devote toward the class of individuals we know ess about at the airports. Popular has become with the public. Its the agency of the the government that the public deals with the most. At the same time weve developed and grown t. S. A. Precheck. Its an amazing fact i like to repeat to audiences. Just in the first three months of calendar year 2014. T. S. A. Has seized from the carryorn luggage of aviation passengers people getting ready to get on the airplane that you carryon firearms in luggage including 1,471 of which were loaded, over 3,000 various
Drill further down into the deficiencies that have been revealed in the secret Services Policies and procedures, as well as any deficiencies with the physical security at the white house. In particular, i am interested in discussing how the service intends to improve security at the white house when, as was true on september 19th, the president or other protectees, are not present. A month after Omar Gonzalez was able to enter the white house, another fence jumper was quickly apprehended by secret service officers, including the k9 unit. It is my hope that this incident shows that the service has already implement reforms. However, the gonzalez fence jumper is just one of many events in the past few years that call into question whether the u. S. Secret service is doing all it can to fulfill its mission and prevent mistakes. Others include the colombian prostitution scandal. The recent ability of a Security Guard with a criminal history to take a service webben into an elevator with th
Now todays House Oversight committee. Secret Service Hearing with the head of the secret service joseph clancy. Congressman Joseph Chaffetz of utah chairs the committee. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee on oversight and government reforma come to order. Without objection. Without objection the chair chairs authorized to declare recess at any time. Appreciate everybody being here. Reforming the United States secret service is not a partisan issue. Ranking member cummings and i have presented a united front on this issue and i look forward to continuing this important work with him on both sides of the aisle. The most Important Mission for the secret service is protecting the president and his family however a litany of recent mishaps to raise major concerns. In 2011 nobody recognized shots were fired at the white house until bullets were discovered by maintenance staff. It has been well publicized the secret Service Agents engag
Secretary of defense Ashton Carter and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey, both testified before the committee. And i have Great Respect for both of them. I asked them if after a decade in afghanistan keeping troops in afghanistan for nine more years would even make a difference. Last year in his politico article and i quote the title was down the opium rathole, roger says, and i quote, if you spent 13 years pounding money down the rathole with little to show for it you might wake up one morning and say, hey, ill stop pounding money down this rathole. Unfortunately, the United States government does not think this way. Even though our combat troops are leaving afghanistan, our money will continue to flow there. Billions after billions. Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to submit this politico article for the record. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Jones in recent days, the waste of billions of dollars in afghanistan has been dominating the h