Morning for the longest 13 hours of my life, i worked with my staff to track down testimony that had been submitted in the Committee Hearings that had not been read. During the next hours, i read every single one of their stories out loud. With aere real people very, very personal stories to tell. Many of whom had never, ever given voice to their story before. To another human being. Worried, my staff was that i was reading them a little too fast because 13 hours, as you can imagine, is a long time to fill. But amazingly, throughout the day as word spread through the what wasbout happening, our email started withng up filling up stories that were coming in from women and men all over the state of texas. In fact, by the time that it was over, we had received over 16,000 personal stories. Hungeringple who were to be heard. I have to tell you at some point during the day, i stopped worrying about earning afford about running out of time or running out of stories, i started worrying about
What our citizens ought to expect, and they get it. I have been given a two minute warning so i think this will have to be the last. My name is chris taylor. Thank you so much for your service to our nation. Is it time for the National Security act of 2014 . Is it time for us to truly sit down and talk about a National Security budget, true National Security budget . And with that have helped or hindered you in your previous jobs as dni . Bei think you might just running the risk of opening a ofe can of forms can worms if you try to come up with new National Security act legislation, at least from an intelligence perspective i would have thought you might advocate new legislation if you felt the intelligence reform simply wasnt working. And my assessment is that it is working. It is not perfect. Ideal. Ot i would not have even advocated it myself eight or 10 years ago. We took over the Community Management staff functions of and the law presented us with that outcome. I think to reopen