Sharing. Thetor ron johnson chairs committee. This is one hour 45 minutes. Sen. Johnson morning to this roundtable. We will come to order. I want to welcome our participants. We have the honorable elaine , the honorabledy george scott, and the honorable john kelly from the dhs. Discussndtable is to the attempt to reauthorize dhs. The house has passed their bill. They had a memorandum of understanding to consolidate that process under the department, the community of the Homeland Security in the house. It is more messy here in the senate which is not unusual. The committee has taken up in past authorization of the psa and coast guard. There are a number of components , my staff keeps telling me 50 of dhs under the authorization. That is what we are here to talk about today. Think it is accurate to say the house authorization and this is what we do in these authorizations. We take with the they do and codify it. Testimony it is pleasing to see how many recommendations the department has
Frequent visitor to the National Archives, coming with his staffd the sound off and to experience the National Archives. And having observed him with his kids, who knows his history, tom daschle, a graduate of south dakota state university, served in the air force as an Intelligence Officer for the Strategic Air command, and represent south dakota in congress for 26 years, four terms in the house of representatives and three terms in the senate. Elected to house in 1978, he was part of the Democratic Leadership before moving to the senate for three terms beginning in 1987. He was elected Senate Democratic leader in 1994 as one of the longestserving Democratic Leaders in the senate, and the only one to serve twice as majority leader and twice as minority leader. Since he left the senate in 2005, senator daschle has continued to have a strong voice among washington policy makers. Each contribute to the debate over health care, change, renewable energy, Financial Services reform, telecomm