Americans. It has sickened over 1 million americans and it is impacted every one of us. My deepest sympathies are with those we lost, and i salute the efforts of those on the front lines including the dedicated Intelligence Community professionals reporting for duty and carrying out their mission. These are truly trying times and your courage, honor and sacrifice will not be forgotten. Id like to begin by thanking President Trump for his Incredible Opportunity for me to serve our nation and for his confidence in me. I would also like to thank former u. S. Attorney general John Ashcroft for his gracious and humbling statement. I am forever grateful for your faith in me. I also want to recognize and thank senator cornyn for his kind words, and my fellow texans for their support. It is been the privilege of my life to represent the constituents of texas was Congressional District. Finally and most Important League theres no way i could be with you today without the encouragement and suppo
Lab now because of trafficking, something we didnt talk about in 2006 when this bill was passed, we have more issues making sure we protect our most valuable resource so thank you for what you do to make life better. Thank you, i yield back. Chair will recognize mister lieu. Thank you, mister chair. I think the witnesses for the work that you do. Active duty in the air force, i worked on cases as a prosecutor, coauthored a number of bills, sex offenders, very important issue to me. I do have a sense that it may take a long time a victim of a sex offense to come forward including children with victims of sex offenses so i asked the panel is that true and if it is, why does that happen . Thank you so much, mister lieu. It is true and if you look at the clergy or Catholic Church abuse cases we have good statistics on that. There have been as many as 10,000 victims who have come forward in those cases but many of those victims came forward after we 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, even 40 yea
Prior to that firing they made statements to the press complaining about their pay, poor working conditions and retaliation of Union Organizing activity. They also said they had no training to deal with emergencies other than to radio supervisors in case of an event. What do you have in place to make sure contractors are giving the type of training that they need in these airports . When it comes to the contractors youre referring to chicago is a federalized airport so the transportation Security Offices there are federal employees. I am not familiar with the report you cited but if i had to take a stab at it, i would say the contractors you are probably referring to are the ones that worked for the airport in other duties. We certainly have an Insiders Program at tsa where we work with our airport and Airline Partners to make it so that we are putting into effect as many recommendations as possible reducing the number of Access Points to the sterile area and increasing the expectation
Funding shows up for a few weeks but plenty of drama, stick around for katherine herridge, violent riots in france, part of the riots for the rest of the world taxing the middle class to underwrite green energy. We explain with the power panel. We begin honoring a hero, president George Hw Bush will lie in state at the Capitol Rotunda which will be open to the public until wednesday morning where a lot of folks and ed henry are tonight on capitol hill. It is freezing but you will not hear me complain. There are hundreds of people i can see in the distance waiting to get to the east front of the capital and go into the rotunda to pay their respects. This is a wonderful showing of love and support. Donald trump put aside his political differences with the bush family. He and first lady milania trump came in to pay their respects a couple hours ago. The first couple about their heads in prayer, saluted the coffin after the president sent an official letter to leaders in congress marketing
deal behind closed doors, the transcript comes out in 24 hours, quick comment from you both. this interesting that the way he worked it out he is going what he basically wanted will see the light of day and at the end he gets to say what he wants. we will hear his version and the house will have an ability for no holds barred questioning and classified information from coming out. the result overall. different format, this allows trey gowdy and mister radcliffe of texas to have an hour unimpeded, an hour for republicans and an hour of democrats, that goes back and forth and when you have radcliffe and gaudi not limited by their 5 minutes, very different results, much more illuminating and much more in depth and i think mister comey is trying to run out the clock but showing up on friday is an imperative and glad he is going to do it. we will see when the transcript comes out and made public. thank you very much.