[ no audio ] [ no audio ] [ no audio ] Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. This morning were holding a confirmation hearing on Alexander Acosta to serve as secretary of labor. We will have an Opening Statement. Then we will introduce our witness. We are delighted to have senator rubio. Senator cruz is coming. After our witness testimony, senators will each have two fiveminute rounds of questions. Just ten years ago in 2007, steve jobs announced that apple reinvented the mobile phone. Just ten years ago. A micro blogging Company Named twitter gained its own separate platform and started to scale globally. Amazon released something called kindle. All that in 2007, just ten years ago. The same year ibm began to build a computer called watson that within a few years defeated human contestants in the jeopardy tv show and in 2007 the cost of sequencing a genome started falling from 100 million in 2001 to 1,000 in 2015 and a new book New York Times co
[ no audio ] [ no audio ] [ no audio ] Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. This morning were holding a confirmation hearing on Alexander Acosta to serve as secretary of labor. We will have an Opening Statement. Then we will introduce our witness. We are delighted to have senator rubio. Senator cruz is coming. After our witness testimony, senators will each have two fiveminute rounds of questions. Just ten years ago in 2007, steve jobs announced that apple reinvented the mobile phone. Just ten years ago. A micro blogging Company Named twitter gained its own separate platform and started to scale globally. Amazon released something called kindle. All that in 2007, just ten years ago. The same year ibm began to build a computer called watson that within a few years defeated human contestants in the jeopardy tv show and in 2007 the cost of sequencing a genome started falling from 100 million in 2001 to 1,000 in 2015 and a new book New York Times co
Transfer as an opportunity to deep end security and Counter Terrorism and cooperations of the United States. We welcome that and we look to facilitate that interest word exists. Had the administration provided military training in exchange of taking in detainees and so to what extent and to which government. Not to my knowledge, paul. Maam, thats somethin something thats something we have to talk about in a closed session. Like night vision goggles or Something Like that. Again, the negotiation of security of assurances is detailed and complex and to discuss any specifics, i have to talk to you about that in closed sessions. We are happy to do so. Have the administration provided intelligent equipment or training or intelligent sharing to any government in exchange for accepting a detainee and if so to what extent and to what government . We have to talk about intelligent matter and closed session. The absence of any of these agreements would need to be discussed in a classified settin
Are not up to the job, and a diplomatic agreement to do the job is not worth the paper it is notten on if a country does have the resources, does not have the training, to keep committed terrorists from returning to the about to the battlefield. The administration has sent guantanamo terrorists to these countries anyway. Andeceive this committee the American People is deeply disturbing. When given the opportunity to correct the record for the committee, they ignored us. I appreciate that the administration finally responded on tuesday, but it should not take the calling of a hearing to elicit a return letter, especially on something as consequential as this. This committee has an obligation to conduct oversight. While we have differences of opinion over guantanamo policy, i do not read anyone here finds of the administrations business acceptable. Should anyone think the committees concerns are theoretical, and specifically, i was pressing on these terrorists who had been transferred to