Victory. I love you, all. We are having fun. When i heard the polls today they said what are you going to do . I said i am not leaving iowa. I am going to work harder. If i lose iowa i will never speak to you people again. Okay. Lets do a couple questions. Where is that mike . Nice questions. Vicious. You can ask me anything you want. You any tana . You got a good one for him . Go ahead. How are you . Good. Thank you. I want you to know i am married, eight children, stay at home wife and average income. I want to know with the war on poverty we spent 20 trillion, yet the poverty lines are the same. I made good choices, a lot of people do, we pay for people to make bad choices, what are you going to do cut some of that out . We have now and the numbers came out we have 50 Million People in poverty in this country. You look like you are doing well in fairness. We have 50 million. 46 Million People getting food stamps. We talk about how well we are doing. Almost 50 million between poverty
Enforcement, technology, and intelligence to detect, deter, and interdict potential threats. Treaties and agreements with foreign governments to conduct corporate enforcement efforts at force overseas. The last five years to successfully enter for attempts by criminal gangs with suspected russian ties. We can talk about that either in this panel on the next. The successful disruption of the sale was a positive result, however the desire to obtain materials for a dirty bomb or the extreme materials for Nuclear Weapons are growing. Due to the the iranian deal, no matter what you think about it one way or the other and the reaction that the other middle Eastern Countries will have to iran having at their facilities, there will be more Nuclear Material out of the market which is just the way that it will be going forward. You will have more countries with more Nuclear Capability then we have probably ever seen in the world. Thats one of the reasons we will start this series of hearings up
Guest it would be information on threats and risks, basically on threat signatures, potential attackers that would help a company if it chose to do so defend itself better. Its not going to be privacy data. Well, thats the hope. Probably not. But its a good first step, and i think if you talk to some of the sponsors, they would tell you, you know, we know its just a first step, we know we have to do more, but we can get agreement on this, and it builds consensus on the hill to bring forward on cybersecurity. Host well, lets bring in tim starks of politico who covers cybersecurity for that organization to. Hi, jim. You mentioned there was the real deal waiting in congress. What would that look like . What are Things Congress hasnt done it should be doing once they finish this bill, even if they dont finish this bill . Guest they have to think about dhs, its authorities, what are its roles. Dhs has this grand mission to defend the nations cyberspace, but they have neither authorities or
That seems to be something we could fix. These are fulltime positions. They were off moving to a fulltime position. These are fulltime, very demanding tough positions, but they are not at a level that they were asked before. Okay. Thank you. And is it typical for all to be directly even when they volunteer for position, and im sorry you may have covered this country is about im curious about the direct assignment compared to volunteering. Though, scs can be volunteer or directed. I dont believe that weve ever directed somebody inside out eba. I think thats something we need to change. I think that our ro directors, part of the problem is they remain in position for too long. I think they should be like general officers in the army where they dont spend ten, 20, 30 years at one location had become too comfortable. I dont think that is a good thing coming and that we should use our ability to move people around a little bit more often. Think you. Ms. Holliday, im curious to me and you ma
Testimony, something we have never done before. The five individuals that we issued subpoenas to where danny pomo personal deputy undersecretary for benefits, diana rubin is director of the philadelphia Regional Office, ms. Kimberly grace director of the st. Paul Regional Office, mr. Robert mckendrick director of the Los Angeles Regional Office, mr. Antoine waller director of the baltimore Regional Office. We learned at our last hearing the ig report lays out the alleged abuse of vas relocation permanent change of station programs costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money and now ms. Rubin sent ms. Gray said apparently in a properly use their positions of authority to put their own personal and financial benefits ahead of veterans, taxpayers and their subordinates. As the saying goes a pictures worth a thousand words a lets start with a map and describe in the simplest terms what tonights hearing is all about. You can look at the screen appear. Initially ms. Graves and