Investigated the incident. This is two hours. The House Committee on Homeland Security subcommittee on oversight and Management Efficiency in the Governmental Affairs on subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and federal management will come to order. The purpose of this hearing is to examine failures at the u. S. Secret service and their implications governmentwide. The chair recognizes himself for an opening statement. In september, the the dhs office of Inspector General of the oig released a report on its four month long investigation into improper access and distribution of information within the secret service. The findings were alarming. Widespread violation of the privacy act and Agency Policy occurred by secret Service Employees who access and distributed information on a number of congress past Employment Application and Senior Management did nothing immediately to stop it. Inspector general john roth stated the episode was deeply disturbing. In addition, director clancy announce
That has always has always been a significant part of the rental landscape. Family construction which we talked about before theres quite a bit going on, the highest highest in 30 years, maybe we so it is a million six of approximate and actually 5 million of singleFamily Rental. That is where the renters have gone. Now what is really interesting to me and this is the chart that i follow her and is about to be updated. This is obvious in some ways, we know that incomes have been stagnant, we know rents are rising but the spread between those two, which really you have to stabilize the dollars and one thing i can tell you for sure based on either of the projections that you just heard and what the fact that over 85 of the family construction is at the very high end. This is not getting any better anytime soon. Then we have just to make you feel even prouder of how good this housing economy is, we have a huge problem coming up over the next ten years in terms of the loss of already subsi
Atrocities like this there can be a back lash against muslim communities. Far right racism have no place in our society, our thinking and i hope there will be no increase in that intolerance as a result of what happened in paris. Will the Prime Minister set out in more detail the steps his government is taking to work with representative organizations of all of our faith communities to achieve that we strengthen Community Cohesion at these very difficult times . We must ensure that those entering our country, whether they are refugees are appropriately screened. The home office will provide the border staff necessary to do this. Its also important in these circumstances that we maintain our humanitarian duty towards refugees. Fleing n refugees are and it is our duty to protect them and our obligation under the 1951 geneva convention. I hope the Prime Minister will confirm our obligation to maintain support for that convention and the rights of that convention will be un diminished. It
Service us. Well drive into the white house and disrupt a major investigation. We dont access a congressman secrets record. We dont do that. Who is the person and how are we training people at every level to stand up and stop this behavior because i dont think we can do it just having hearings like this. I think we have got to restore this priceless commodity you were talking about which is the integrity element of the men and women at every level knowing it ibilityr respons to maintain the integrity of the secret service. I agree. We can have all the training exercises and all the Online Training for example, i have been to 10 of the field offices. I speak personally to our agents. I walk around the white house talking to officers. I meet all the recruits prior to their graduation. I tell them what they represent, what is expected of them, but i have to do more of that as well as our staff. We have to keep communicating to our people. Again, what the congress is doing today is a help