The committee will come to order. Id like to thank our witnesses for joining us here today. For your continued service to the American People. Todays hearing will examine our nations readiness to respond to weapons of mass destruction and Health Security threats. The goal of this hearing is to assess in countering weapons of Mass Destruction Office, housed within dhs, and its ability to combat these threats. We will also discuss the newly established office of Health Security, which will be tasked with stream lining health and Safety Operations Department Personnel and overseeing medical and Public Health matters all across the department of Homeland Security. Chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological material, sometimes shortened to cbrn it is a number to describe hazardous agents becoming weaponized, and can cause anything from casually and incapacitation to mass destruction. In april of 2019, a technician was arrested after stealing three radioactive devices from his work place in
The committee will come to order. I want to thank our witnesses for joining us here today. For our continued service to the American People. Todays hearing will examine our nations readiness to respond to weapons of mass destruction, and Health Security threats. The goal of this hearing is to assess in countering weapons of Mass Destruction Office, housed within dhs, and its ability to combat these threats. We will also discuss the newly established office of Health Security, which will be tasked with stream lining health and Safety Operations Department Personnel and overseeing medical and Public Health matters all across the department of Homeland Security. Chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological material, sometimes shortened to cbrn it is a number to describe hazardous agents becoming weaponized, and can cause anything from casually and incapacitation to mass destruction. In april of 2019, a technician was arrested after stealing three radioactive devices from his work place in
Next, a look at weapons of mass destruction and their potential impact on health with representatives from Homeland Security. The committee will come to order. I want to thank our witnesses for joining us here today. For our continued service to the American People. Todays hearing will examine our nations readiness to respond to weapons of mass destruction, and Health Security threats. The goal of this hearing is to assess in countering weapons of Mass Destruction Office, housed within dhs, and its ability to combat these threats. We will also discuss the newly established office of Health Security, which will be tasked with stream lining health and Safety Operations Department Personnel and overseeing medical and Public Health matters all across the department of Homeland Security. Chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological material, sometimes shortened to cbrn it is a number to describe hazardous agents becoming weaponized, and can cause everything from mass casualties and in camp a
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Meet to receive testimony and discuss the legislation passed by the house of representatives on may 22 two reform the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. That legislation, which is called the usa freedom act, was approved last month by the two committees of jurisdiction in the house, the house judiciary committee, and the house permitted select committee on intelligence. After amendments on the house floor, the ale was passed by a vote of the bill was passed 121, and that303 is about three to one and it sends a large signal to this house there was a large majority voting for it and votes came from both sides of the aisle. The bill makes major changes to existing intelligence programs conducted under the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act,. R what we call fisa first, the house bill will and nsa collection of telephone by reference to the Business Records provision in the usa patriot act. The program has been approved more than 37 times by the fisa court and upheld a further three