It helps describe his message, it helps drive the news of the day which he can do every day and does every day. Hes constantly driving the message and therefore having us around really allows him to do that. Q a, sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Homeland Security Officials talked about what theyre doing to combat threats to the u. S. , focussing on interagency communication and efforts to improve efficiencies. They spoke before the Senate Homeland security and Governmental Affairs committee. Good morning. This roundtable of the Homeland Security Governmental Affairs will come to order. I want to welcome our participants, well call them, i guess theyre witnesses. We have the honorable elaine duke, the honorable claire grady, the honorable george scott and the honorable john kelly from dhs, the gao as well as the office of the Inspector General. This roundtable discussed the attempt to reauthorize dhs. The house passed their bill. They have a memorandum of understanding to consolid
The meeting will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. All members will have five legislative days to submit materials for the record. This hearing is for the purpose of receiving the secretary of treasurys annual report on the Financial Stability Oversight Council. Now recognize myself for three and a half minutes to give an Opening Statement. Mr. Secretary, there is your first appearance before the house after the tax cuts and jobs act has been signed into law. I want to let you know on behalf of the majority how grateful we are to you and to the president for your leadership and for helping make this act signed into law. It is truly, truly historic. After eight years of failed economic policies that led to the slowest, weakest recovery in the modern era, the economy is starting to take off. And wages are finally growing again. Consumer optimism abounds. So, how ironic but totally predictable that equity markets wo
Day which he can do every day and does every day. Hes constantly driving the message and therefore having us around really allows him to do that. Q a, sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Homeland Security Officials talked about what theyre doing to combat threats to the u. S. , focussing on interagency communication and efforts to improve efficiencies. They spoke before the Senate Homeland security and Governmental Affairs committee. Good morning. This roundtable of the Homeland Security Governmental Affairs will come to order. I want to welcome our participants, well call them, i guess theyre witnesses. We have the honorable elaine duke, the honorable claire grady, the honorable george scott and the honorable john kelly from dhs, the gao as well as the office of the Inspector General. This roundtable discussed the attempt to reauthorize dhs. The house passed their bill. They have a memorandum of understanding to consolidate that entire process under the committee of Homeland Securi
Baker talked about opioid abuse, renewable energy, transportation infrastructure and Affordable Housing. From the massachusetts statehouse in boston, this is 40 minutes. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] it is my pleasure to be able to introduce to you his excellency the governor of the commonwealth charles baker. [applause] thank you. [applause] thank you very much, thank you. Thank you for all being with us tonight. Thank you. Tom, its nice to have you with us. Thanks for being here. Mr. Speaker, madam president members of the house and senate, congressman neal thank you for joining us, fellow constitutional officers, members of the governors counsel mr. Chief justice, welcome. Members of the judiciary, members of the cabinet, my administration, sheriff, district attorney, mayors, local officials reverend and clergy, distinguished guests, members of my family that are here this evening.
Is a five day difference. This is amazing coincidence to me. I think it is more than a coincidence. I want to put up on a screen a directive sent out by the chief Technology Officer of the irs. If we could get that on the screen. And this is the directive that went out to managers, is that correct, telling them not to reace the erase the data. Correct. This went out on may 22nd, 2013. When were the taped erased at the irs. On or about march 4th, 2014. So about eight months later. And is this if we look at the highlighted part on here it said do not destroy, wipe, reuse any of the existing backup tapes for email or archiving or other information for irs personal computers. Did that go to managers that were at the facility where the tapes were erased . It did. And there was a lot of discussion that we captured in our investigation by capturing the managers emails over what mullholland meant by this directive. So what did they say they thought it meant when you talked to them . They belie