As assistant secretary of state for Diplomatic Security, he testified about changes made to improve security at foreign posts. He was joined by members of the state Department Best Practices panel, which made security recommendations of its own. This is a little less than three hours. [no audio] we are experiencing an audio problem with this event. We are working to fix the technical difficulty and will continue running it. Hopefully, the audio will come back shortly, here on cspan. [no audio] again, we are experiencing audio difficulties. We apologize for that problem. We are working to fix it. We will have it corrected, hopefully, shortly, here on cspan. [no audio] again, experiencing some audio difficulties with this recording of this hearing on cspan. We have found another version of the recording. We are going to play that now for you from the top, on cspan. [no audio] come tomeeting will order. The chairquorum for persons taking testimony, percent to house rules. Without objectio
Ms. Waters. After 2007, i think that overleveraged issue sort of prove the point. And looking at the headlines the headlines read government keeps pushing mortgage guarantees as risk index rises. Heres another headline. Fhfa orders of gses to start supporting Affordable Housing trust fund. Surprisingly the year is not 2005. Its 2015. And so we find the fha today engaged in this race with fannie and freddie to see who can more swiftly cracked up the private sector, who cant assume more risk on behalf of the american taxpayer. I would just point out this is kind of a frightening race because in my view we have seen it before. The fhfa has joined sort of a moral hazard problem here. And in december you announced the gses should begin to put more money into the coffers of Housing Advocacy groups through the Housing Trust fund established under the housing and economic recovery act. And you made this move despite the fact that fannie and freddie have yet to repay a lot of the money due to t
Quorum call quorum call can quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call the presiding officer the Senate Majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask further proceedings under the quorum call be disdispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent when the Senate Resumes consideration of s. 178 on wednesday, april 22, senator cornyn or his designee be recognized to withdraw the pending cornyn amendment and offer amendments number 1124 and 301. I further ask that there then be one hour of debate equally divided in the usual form and that following the use or yielding back of time the senate vote on the leahy amendment number 301 followed by a vote on amendment number 1124, both with a 60vote affirmative threshold for adoption. I further ask that if the cornynmurrayklobuchar amendment is agreed to, the time until 2 00 p. M. Be equally divided in the usual form and the senate then vote on the following amendments in the order listed and two minutes
Undocumented workers serves to suppress wages overall. Fp there are people who can be hired and are potentially exploitable because theres the employers can hold it over their head the fact they could deport them or report them. That suppressed wages for everyone. Theres sort of two sides to the issue. When we dwet to the level of unemployment thats closer to full employment andy gave the examples of looking for workers. Theres a demand for workers then more people will be em ploiped. The challenge we face now while we see this sort of displacement at the local level is theres still a lot of slack in the labor market. Tell us who you are. Give us your name. In your comments you said you work better in the physical element. We have three major disruptions in our economy. The deep recession which i call Great Recession and the second vegs of 2008. Theres a singularity between all three of those. That is we had major tax reductions both in Capital Gains and the highest rate employment wen
With the cuban people. One thing they need is our technology. They have fallen behind us. They need access to more of our products such as Farm Equipment. We have some limitations as what we can ship to cuba. One thing we found, for example we took gifts of fencing tools and a set of wrenches down to them. If some of the professionals that were on our trade delegation werent sure if that was a very good gift to take when we took it to the farmers, they had had tears in their eyes that they went and the subsequent trade mission, they showed us all the fences that were built with our tools that we took down because we understood what their needs are. So as we get some efficiencies in our shipping, and bring our farmer to farmer interaction, we will improve their productivity which will increase the demand for our u. S. Goods. Do you have anything to add . Ill echo on to that. I think sometimes our biggest restriction on trade with cuba may be us and not them. And you have the power to wo