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
To those kurdish units . And other units fighting isis . We need a strategy not to contain isis, but to destroy isis so those young men and women now watching on the internet, suddenly get the message that its not their destiny to go join isis and expand the cal fate. That that is a losing cause. But that change, that takes a change of calculus. On the part of the administration. Are you more optimistic about the iraqi now that the military has taken back ra maddy . I am somewhat because in the past when theyve used the shia militia, the human rights abuses to put it mildly, that theyve inflicted upon village populations have created a huge blowback. So, some of that is moving in the right direction, but we could accelerate this if we listened to those in the field who want the authorization. Id say 75, 80 from what weve heard from the commanders, the flights that go out come back without getting authorization out of wags in terms of dropping their ordnance. Theyve got to get approval
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, but you know what . You cant get by on 12 or 13,000 a year. The time has come for this great country to join in the rest of the industrialized world and pass a medicare single payer system. [cheers and applause] i am a member of the Senate Environmental committee and the Senate Energy committee and in that capacity i can tell you, then i have talked to scientists wrote not only our country but throughout the world. The truth is climate changes real and caused by human activity ended is devastating car mission over country and roam the world. Around the world. Now the Koch Brothers of the fossil fuel industry may not like that but for the sake of our children and grandchildren and for sustainable all energy. And we have manny economy that is read that where rebuttals gets pour. But in addition to having a rigged economy we have a corrupt Campaign Finance system. And what that means is the results of this disastrous five four Supreme Court decision super cat super pac popping up all ov
And effective government that serves the people. We have to ensure that every taxpayer dollar is spent responsibly. We do that by conducting oversight of the executive branch and examine Government Programs and policies that affect every american. Mr. Cummings and i, and our predecessors here at the committee, didnt invent the concept of this oversight of the executive branch. It comes from the constitution, and comes from the need to be responsive as we represent the people of the United States of america. Today, we will hear from a group of senior legislative liasons from five different agencies, all with the troublesome track records when cooperating with request for information. I and sympathetic to the idea that they get bombarded from so many different committees. Not only in the house, but in the senate as well. It is a large task, agencies so massive and so big, spending billions upon billions of dollars. Department of Homeland Security has been invited to discuss a request rel