Federal governments role in funding state transportation projects. The federal government will start checking social media soon as part of background checks for employees seeking security clearance. White house and Counter Intelligence officials testified on the new policy at a recent House Oversight hearing. This is an hour and a 15 minutes. The subcommittee on Government Operations and the subcommittee on National Security will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Were here today to discuss incorporating social media into the federal security clearance and Background Investigations. Having a security clearance means by definition you have access to information that would hurt our National Security if it got out. And that is why we perform Background Investigations on individuals who want a security clearance. The goal of our Background Investigations must be to find out if an individual is trustworthy. Back in the 1950s, that m
You can see that live here on cspan at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. Then, sunday on cspan, utah congressman rob bishop, the chairman of the Natural Resources committee, hell talk about puerto ricos debt crisis, the u. S. Territory is 70 billion in debt and has already missed millions of dollars in debt payments. Congressman bishop will answer questions about efforts in congress to help puerto rico restructure its debt. Newsmakers on 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan unday. Book tv has 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend and here are some programs to watch for this weekend. On saturday at 10 00 p. M. Eastern on afterwards, don watkins, author of equal is unfair. Don the reason i say unequality is not a problem, its not a concern of how much money do you have but how did you get it . Did you get it through something that is fair or through a process that is unfair . And when you try to equalize people that earn honestly, thats what were challenging and saying thats no
Or the weeks thereafter, to do some of the Serious Business that cronlts us and to help some of the people crobblets cronlts us and to help some of the people in this confronts us and to help some of the people in this country that needs help. Its host the u. S. House got rowdy with the defense spending bill. Covering it for the hill, reporter cristina marcos. Tell us what that fight is all about. Guest two years ago, president obama issued an executive order prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating against members of the Lgbt Community. House republicans inserted an amendment into this years defense bill that states religious organizations and other contractors for the federal government cannot be discriminated against on the basis of religion and the Lgbt Community and democrats interpreted that as a potential opportunity that would open up discrimination against the Lgbt Community. Host that came up in the motion to recommit Late Wednesday in the Defense Authorization bil
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