We are honored to be joined tonight by three former secret Service Agents, and the combined services are 32 years, and larry was honored with a role in stopping assassination attempt on president gerald ford in 1972 in sacramento, and then larry served 25 years as the security chief with the United States olympic committee. Joe clancy is with us, and he served on the protective details of four president s, including president bush and trail blazer as he would have called them by the secret service code name, and he was tempo, and mrs. Bush was trail blazer. The 32 Years Experience culminated in 2014 when joe was named the director of the secret service and he was in charge from the obama administration. And today, he is the chief Security Officer at comcast corporation. And Nicholas Trotta is with us, and helped to protect five president s, including president bush. Worked on large scale events such as world leader summits and a lot of the post 9 11 trips and even trips to afghanistan
Be determined by the two leaders. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell now, mr. President , this week our friend and colleague, the senior senator from tennessee, will mark a major milestone in his states history. As of tomorrow, Lamar Alexander will have served as tennessees governor or u. S. Senator for 24 years, eight months and 15 days. More combined years in offices than any other tennessean. Of course, senator alexander also remains the only tennessee governor ever popularly elected to the United States senate. The only Tennessee Republican to be undefeated in six statewide primary elections, and his 2008 general election vote total of 1,579,477 votes is still the largest ever recorded by a tennessee statewide candidate. So, mr. President , i ask consent that a statement from the tennessee secretary of state, trey hargan, who has calculated each of these political accomplishments, appear in the record following my remarks. The presiding officer without objection
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming out on yet haanother rainy day in kentuckyn 2019. Let me take a moment to ask you to take your time now to check your cell phones and make sure it is turned off. Are you picking me up on this, mike . Well, thank you all for coming out. Go ahead and sit down. You for coming out today to another historic moment in the history of the Mcconnell Center here at the university of louisville. Theres number of distinguished guests in the audience tonight and i decided to handle it this way. If you think i would feel you are distinguished, assume that is the case. I will not call you out. But i do owe an instruction and appreciation for president of the university of louisville for being here with us. [applause] thank you for bringing or dragging yourselves here throughout the rain today. This is and historic moment for the Mcconnell Center. Its one of many in our history and i was thinking about it this week that Marcus Cicero and the great roman state
Panel, which is going to focus on the implementation of the refugee act of 1980. And moderating that potential is eric schwartz, former assistant secretary of state for population refugees and migration under the obama administration. He was Senior Adviser for humanitarian affairs during the Clinton Administration on the National Security council and most importantly on the highest board. He also happens to be the president of Refugees International and hes seated next to the expresident of Refugees International. Eric . Thanks. Thank you, mark. It is a distinct pleasure to be here today and i want to thank hias, and the Carter Center for bringing us all together for this very important event. This is a critical time for us to be considering not only the refugee act of 1980, but also the very future of refugee protection in the United States and around the world. At a time when the number of people displaced by conflict, human rights violations, persecution is at the highest number in
Hosted this event. The committee will come to order. Before we get our termite all members we are in an open session and as such will discuss unclassified matters only. Without objection, the chair may declare in recess at any time. I welcome our members and witnesses to todays hearing. Im grateful you have joined us today to discuss admission imperative in the Intelligence Community, significant improvement of diversity and inclusion at all levels, from entrylevel to Senior Leadership and within all disciplines. While there has been some improvement in recent years, the demographic profile of the ic workforce still does not mirror that of the Wider Population and is lagging in attracting the best and the brightest from all walks of life. Fully taking advantage of the diverse intellect, innovation, and experiences here at home better prepares the ic, and our nation, to address tomorrows most pressing challenges and analyze an increasingly complicated and integrated world. In holding th