Now todays House Oversight committee. Secret Service Hearing with the head of the secret service joseph clancy. Congressman Joseph Chaffetz of utah chairs the committee. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee on oversight and government reforma come to order. Without objection. Without objection the chair chairs authorized to declare recess at any time. Appreciate everybody being here. Reforming the United States secret service is not a partisan issue. Ranking member cummings and i have presented a united front on this issue and i look forward to continuing this important work with him on both sides of the aisle. The most Important Mission for the secret service is protecting the president and his family however a litany of recent mishaps to raise major concerns. In 2011 nobody recognized shots were fired at the white house until bullets were discovered by maintenance staff. It has been well publicized the secret Service Agents engag
You had europeans, mainly germans coming into the port of galveston and as a group settling a different parts of the state of texas. If you had been here in the 1850s german was the most common language spoken in galveston. On the streets, that is what people were talking in. We have a number of groups you can see in galveston today if you go to the garden, you can see what became the center for german entertainment and social life. You can go to st. Joseph church the first German Catholic Church in texas. You can see where they worshiped and where they were educated and how they spent their lives in galveston. But the height of immigration with the late 19th century and early 20th. And it continued up to 1954 when it was no longer a point of interest for immigrants. But the story of that is the backandforth between the state of texas managing immigration and eventually the federal government doing immigration. But it became a place where there want they wanted to push immigrants away
Party to the 1938 agreement, americans would access over munich from that day to the present. For over seven decades, munich and appeasement would be among the dirtiest words in the american political lexicon. They are really political four letter words. To americans, the terms are synonymous with weakness implying a craven willingness to barter away a nation possible vital interests for empty promises. But certainly, in the minds of most historians, munich was a major mistake. Even one that, in the context of its time, had a certain logic. There has been a swing in historical interpretations in this regard, at least to some degree, looking at the context and the poor set of choices that chamberlain in particular had. Still, the take away for most later observers and historians was that appeasement of a highly wound up and heavily armed totalitarian state, in the context of a relatively firm and articulated continual equilibrium of power, was likely to upset the balance and make furthe
Leadership . Is the problem with the men and women youre not getting good people . Why dont you speak up for these men and women . If in fact theyre letting off steam because youre overworking them, are they being overworked . Will this budget that toughs just gotten begin to relieve some of those serial days in which people dont get any days off . So would you describe that and would you tell us more about training and what training sessions are expected so that some of this misbehavior will be understood to be absolutely foreboden. Congresswoman, thank you. I have the same concerns you have. In fact, i want to hear more and more from these agents and these officers, what their issues are. Just in a nutshell, ill tell you that i walked by and around the perimeter of the white house frequently. This past sunday i went to the roll call midnight shift. The following morning went to the roll call and wanted to hear what are their concerns. And in terms of the you can see what their concer
Under a minute you would only last about 45 minutes. They sank 1,178 japanese merchant ships. 214 japanese combat vessels. Twothirds of their merchant fleet. Onethird of their navy. Were in the forward torpedo room. Youll see a couple of torpedo tubes in front of me. Theres two down below in the deck. During the war there was two on top. So originally she had six torpedo tubes but after the reconfiguration to make this vessel a hunter killer, they had to remove the top two tubes so they could install on the exterior of that bulkhead hydrophones to include more sonar equipment to make it one that is capable of listening further distances one of the interesting factors about submarine life is the forward crew and after crew would compete who could reload a torpedo faster. It was back in those days they had a theyre mechanical advantage was block and tackle which now days we have hydraulic system s systems so the guy had to be strong to move these torpedoes. This is not live now, this is