Investigated the incident. This is two hours. The House Committee on Homeland Security subcommittee on oversight and Management Efficiency in the Governmental Affairs on subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and federal management will come to order. The purpose of this hearing is to examine failures at the u. S. Secret service and their implications governmentwide. The chair recognizes himself for an opening statement. In september, the the dhs office of Inspector General of the oig released a report on its four month long investigation into improper access and distribution of information within the secret service. The findings were alarming. Widespread violation of the privacy act and Agency Policy occurred by secret Service Employees who access and distributed information on a number of congress past Employment Application and Senior Management did nothing immediately to stop it. Inspector general john roth stated the episode was deeply disturbing. In addition, director clancy announce
That has always has always been a significant part of the rental landscape. Family construction which we talked about before theres quite a bit going on, the highest highest in 30 years, maybe we so it is a million six of approximate and actually 5 million of singleFamily Rental. That is where the renters have gone. Now what is really interesting to me and this is the chart that i follow her and is about to be updated. This is obvious in some ways, we know that incomes have been stagnant, we know rents are rising but the spread between those two, which really you have to stabilize the dollars and one thing i can tell you for sure based on either of the projections that you just heard and what the fact that over 85 of the family construction is at the very high end. This is not getting any better anytime soon. Then we have just to make you feel even prouder of how good this housing economy is, we have a huge problem coming up over the next ten years in terms of the loss of already subsi
Drug assessment summary. And in that particular summary or study, most agents said mayor marijuana was at like 5 total risk to society and meth and heroin were the most serious drugs challenging them and the American People. Do you agree that we should spend more time, our Law Enforcement, working against meth, heroin and opiates and not marijuana . With respect to our narcotics laws, what we try to do at the department of justice and dea is focus on a specific region and problem and devote resources to that. We currently have a crisis regarding heroin and opioid abuse in the country. Some communities have been consumed by that particular problem. There are unfortunately some communities that still have problems with methamphetamine. So there might be a different focus depending upon the issue. Marijuana is not where cities have people needing marijuana and knocking off 7elevens. To get some money to buy their marijuana. They are doing that for meth and heroin, right . Certainly we hav
Service us. Well drive into the white house and disrupt a major investigation. We dont access a congressman secrets record. We dont do that. Who is the person and how are we training people at every level to stand up and stop this behavior because i dont think we can do it just having hearings like this. I think we have got to restore this priceless commodity you were talking about which is the integrity element of the men and women at every level knowing it ibilityr respons to maintain the integrity of the secret service. I agree. We can have all the training exercises and all the Online Training for example, i have been to 10 of the field offices. I speak personally to our agents. I walk around the white house talking to officers. I meet all the recruits prior to their graduation. I tell them what they represent, what is expected of them, but i have to do more of that as well as our staff. We have to keep communicating to our people. Again, what the congress is doing today is a help
Mission. After days of fighting in yemen, houthi fighters sign a peace deal. In sierra leone, a 3day nationwide lock down to help the spread of the ebola virus is over. Thanks for being with us. We start tonight with a Climate Change rally led by thousands around the world. More than 400,000 protesters, according to organizers, took part in what has been billed the peoples march, touting it the biggest event of its kind. Reporter this is more than a march for Climate Action. Organizers say its a movement, led by those on the front lines of Climate Change. Coastal communities who are losing their neighbourhoods to rising sea levels and weather, to indigenous groups who travelled from the southwest of the United States. The delegation is impacted by fossil fuelled development. Theres a big boom going on, history of uranium mining, and the area i work. We felt the negative impact of all these, and we are here to join with brothers and sisters to push forward. Plenty of dignitaries on hand