Wolf. Today we are meeting to consider the nomination of acting secretary of Homeland Security chad wolf to be the confirmed secretary of department of Homeland Security, which is an enormous task. I truly appreciate anybody who is willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. I would ask my written opening remarks be enter into the record without objection well do that. Ill just keep this short because i know we have time constraints here. But a quick description of what enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security manages 240,000 people in the department, the responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Start with the federal Emergency Management agency deals with hurricanes and wild fires and now covid amongst many other responsibilities. Border security a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem, not by a long stretch, but thiS Administration done a good job of stopping the out of control illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. This agency
Live coverage here on cspan 3. Congressman walker, we are on the record so i will repeat what i said previously, because our friend who is injured because he tried to wrestle me, he has made the decision to briefly pause his career in Public Service and i dont believe it is the last chapter by any sense of the word, but to say so definitively on the record has been one of the greatest honors of my life, serving on this subcommittee with m mr. Walker and i look forward to serving with you in many different capacities for many years to come, sir. So this subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony on confronting the rise in antisemitic domestic terrorism. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the subcommittee in recess at any point without objection, members not on the Committee Shall be permitted to sit and question the witnesses. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. And i will make it quick, because im very eager to hear the testimony of the experts b
We have to recognize the Senior Member here, and treat to welcome current and former colleagues and i have worked with this panel in some form or another inside and outside of government. It is a treat to welcome everybody here on the nyu school of Law Community where i am a distinguished fellow. Welcome to the program and my colleagues. This is a treat for me to be joined together with you once again to talk about a really important and timely subject, the issue of National Security and how the executive branch and the legislative branch address some of the most Critical Issues of our time, and i will do some very brief introductions in a minute, but you will understand that the theme here is that every single one of the distinguished Public Servants served in the executive branch in the National Security community and the searching topic for today is how has that service informed your view as legislators and how can we be best poised from both branches perspective to confront some of
From redding to modesto. Also yesterday, a lot of people were trying to find any way to cool off. This is a big attraction. Very busy. Temperatures hit 98 degrees in san jose. Little ones all trying to keep cool. Splashing around the water there in the fountains at cesar chavez plaza. They have one of those in your hometown of livermore, dont they . Yes. Downtown livermore. I know where mark tamayo is. Hes right here ready to talk about our hot forecast. Sometimes with the fog, people say, will it go away for a little bit . Then when it goes away, we want it back. Temperatures are soaring without having the marine layer. Just showing you records from santa rosa, kept wood, napa. 100 degrees there. San jose, 98. And more to salinas. Today, i think well have more record heat back in the bay area forecast. The heat advisory in place for portions of the region. And a sparetheair alert. Whenever you get a pattern like this. It traps the pollutants close to the surface. And as a result, your
Five minutes to make an opening statement. Today the committee is holding our second hearing on the use of racial facial Recognition Technology. We will be examining the use of this technology by Law Enforcement agencies across the federal government. We had a broad survey of full range of issues, raised by technology. We heard from a number of experts about the benefits and the dangers of this technology across government and the entire private sector. Stark conclusion after our last hearing was that this technology is evolving extremely rapidly, without any really safeguards, whether were talking about commercial use or government use, the real concerns about the risks that this Technology Poses to our civil rights and liberties and our rights to privacy. The other conclusion from our last hearing was that these concerns are indeed bipartisan. As we saw at our last hearing, among conservatives and liberals, republic republicans and democrats thats a widerange agreement we should be c