Former home and secured testified at a House Intelligence Committee hearing on russian interference in the 2016 u. S. Elections. This is 2. 5 hours. Good morning. I have asked Rick Crawford to open with a prayer. We ask that her people would strive to be worthy of that blessing. Pray for humility and temperance and mail we do be pleasing to you. In jesus name, amen. Consultation with adam, i make a motion to give each member seven minutes to question witnesses. It is their discussion on the motion . Everybody would get seven including adam and i . Good to go . The meeting will come to order. Homelandcretary of security, jeh johnson. Think you for being here this morning. We are and will remain an open session. This hearing will address only unclassified matters. Interest ine the the committees informed work and we expect proper decorum to be observed at all times and disruptions will not be tolerated. Time, would mr. Johnson please rise and taken of . Take an of . Ath . Do you solemnly
Lawmakers walk through their starting legislative session. We will bring you live coverage here on cspan. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. You have blessed us with all good gifts and with thankful hearts we express our gratitude. You have created us with opportunities to serve other people in their need, to share together in respect and affection
Puts 1. 6 billion towards a physical barrier construction along the u. S. Southern border. Members debated many amendments to the legislation for about four hours. Morning. Meeting will come to order. Thank you all for being here today. We meet today to consider both Homeland Security appropriations bill. I now turn it over to chairman carter. Judge carter. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Before i start, its sort of a tradition to have some kind of snack from your home district. The most famous thing are the doughnuts. The National Magazine have declared it the best doughnuts in the world. However, theyre so good they dont travel well. So as a substitute we have a large Czech Community. Everyones welcome to eat a. Our Czech Community is very proud of them, and theyre very good. We had them here last year. Theyre good. The question is what are they, and then were going to move on. Theyre a roll with fruit on top of them, and theyre good. Judge carter is recognized. Thank you. Now that ive gott
Have on our minds and in our prayers senator mccain. Hes going through some recovery right now and wont be able to come back this week. So that will change the way were doing business a little bit. But nonetheless, hell be back with us very soon. And our Committee Meets this morning considering the nomination i should say, the renomination of general sell have f selva. Since weve already been through this drill on the eight required questions, were going to forego that. Im assuming you havent changed your mind since the last time we asked you the eight questions. Is that correct . That is correct. Any family youd like to introduce . I do. Ill do that in my opening statement. Thats good. Your record of service to our nation is well known to this committee. Your first two years a the joint chiefs of staff have been marked by great challenges in our National Security, the advance of isis in the middle east, russian aggression in ukraine and actions against others in that region, north kor
And thats saying a lot. Hes also been at nasa since 1979 and he knows what nasa is all about. Jim. Thank you very much. [applause] i think we have a wonderful International Panel this morning and i will introduce each of our Panel Members. The first one is sayyid and sayyid is part of the Strategic Planning team to mars and his duty is to make the uvs journey to mars will be sustainable, leaving an everlasting effect. He is also the cofounder of a Youtube Channel that aims at making science and Technology Accessible to our use in that area. That has been quite successful. Site. [applause] next, the on he works at the Mission Operations for Integration Center of Human Spaceflight Technology director in japan. He received his degree in the Space Systems engineering special design of an intelligent controller or an economist walking robot under a microgravity environment. He is currently in charge of the japanese human and nonhuman expiration as the main lead in the Architectural Design o