Efforts to prevent climate change. At a Senate Hearing loog into Sexual Assaults on College Campuses, Committee Members heard from officials in charge of on Campus Security and advocates for Sexual Assault victims. The hearing will please come to order, let me welcome senator schumer and senator grassley and senator mccaskell. We will be joininged shortly by senator jill brand as well to make some brief remarks and senator graham is expected to join us, hes the Ranking Member on this committee. Senators mccaskell and gill brand have worked tirelessly to and in our military. Senator mccaskell and senator helder are the lead cosponsors and worked very, very hard to develop with the senators that makes comprehensive changes in the area of campus Sexual Assault. I would like to note as well of commander leahy, through this committee and into law. As you know, it requires colleges to be more transparent about Sexual Assaults and other offices committed on campus. In my home state, attorney
Destroyed because thats much wider than isil. That is a segment of islamism which is very broad. Isil, the territorial entity can be destroyed. And i hope will. Right now its being destroyed on a severalyear plan at best. I believe the gentleman is right, it could be destroyed by having a policy. That requires making choices. Either we choose assad or we choose turkey. We dont sit on the fence. If we choose turkey, we get a major ground military force on our side. If we choose assad, we get a real military force on the side, not as big as turkey. Either way, isil can be destroyed in a matter of years. Sitting on the fence, and refusing to engage our own forces on the ground, which probably is going to continue, that is true, we cannot destroy isil even as a territorial entity at least for several years, and possibly never. What if they use the several years to gain weapons of mass destruction, which is quite possible. You raise a lot of good points here. Again, i think as long as peopl
We are honored to have her. And peg land diagnosis day one, for more than 25 years, a foufbding member of the attorney generals task force on the sexual and violent physical abuse of children, she was instrumental in the establishment of the rhode Island Childrens advocacy center. Ms. Langhammer acted as chairperson of the rhode Island Children youth and Family Advisory committee. She is also a former member of the rhode island board of review for sexually violent predatory behavior and a member of rhode island jugs oversight committee. We are thrilled to welcome her to this committee. Senator white house and distinguished committee members. Ash land Police Departments you have Options Programs and Southern Oregons campus choice. This is a vastly under reported crime. The barriers that keep survivors from coming forward are many but are often surmountable. When we increase at least initial reporting, the resulting benefits to individual victims and to our community are profound. By uti
We are working very hard to make sure that my criminal investigators, my counterintelligence investigators, my counterterrorism operators and all of our International Operations are growing our ability to be good in cyberspace. To protect kids to fight fraud to fight everything we are responsible we have to operate there. Thats the people, training, technology and spark deployment. I will mention one thing that most smokes most folks dont understand. We also spend time building the worlds greatest library of improvised explosive devices. Another thing the American People dont realize the hard earned tax dollars has bought and shortly. We have the bill dudley device is detonated or found anywhere in the world to compare the forensics of that, the tool marks the hairs, the fingerprints the thousands of other samples with collected in an operation centered in alabama alabama. Work that is hidden from the taxpayers not intentionally just doesnt get a lot of headlines but makes a big differ
Commend you for is your work to try to help save money. Everybody knows that the government needs money to provide services. But of late, we are trying to make sure that every task of government is completed more efficiently and more effectively than it has been before. Money is limited. And you are to be commended for the work that you have done to try to save the taxpayers dollars. I notice that your request this year, 88. 2 is almost a million less than you requested last year, and i can tell you, fellow members up here dont see that happen very often when an agency comes in and asks for less money than they received the year before. We thank you for that. I know you done some Cost Containment initiatives dealing with technology and personnel and it has paid off. I know there is small increases that are inflationary themselves. So we look forward to hearing from you about the resources that you need, and any other comments you might have about the judiciary . General and we will ple