Welcome and a lot of experts and spark people and also to give a shout out to the ambassador martin. And whos a dear friend of ours and interested in history among other things and i note that we are having swift day onnovember 9. Something, a tradition we have longserved. This event is for our friend bruce hoffman. Bruce hoffmanmay have been the first expert on modern terrorism , period. He may have been the very first expert on modern terrorism. He surely was a valuable resource to me when he had rans office in washington and i was a member of the United States congress. Actually, with his bushy beard at the time, i thought he might be a terrorist. And i bought his job at grand might just be cover. Bruce tried to help me create a commission to make recommendations to congress on how to intervene before an individual who is radicalized, having radical views is protected by our First Amendment but how to intervene before a personwith radical views turns to violence. As we all know, vio
And your attendance here today and we look forward to hearing from you. The subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness response medications will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony on the state of First Responders medications. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. I want to welcome all witnesses here this morning on an issue that is vital to our Homeland Security. The ability of our First Responders to communicate. As noted in the 2006 National Baseline survey, there is a direct correlation between effective medications, interoperability and First Responders ability to save lives. In my hometown of new york city, we know ther this all too well. Both the first, both the office of emergency medications and First Responder network of authority were established in the wake of the medications failures of 911 and later in hurricane katrina. We have made a great deal of progress since those fateful disasters. States and localities have invested billion
Then a Bar Administration conversation on health care. Then gun violence activists. All right. Good afternoon, everybody. Happy tuesday. As advertised, im going to be joined today by bret mcguirk. Bret has been here a couple times before. Bret just left the National Security Council Meeting with the president. The president , as you know, convenes his National Security council every few weeks to review the progress that were making against isil. Bret presented the meeting and now is here to provide an update to all of you on that. Brets title is special president ial envoy to the Global Coalition against isil. Hes got a presentation that hell offer up and then hell take some questions, hell leave and then i can take your questions on nonisil related topics from there, okay . With that, bret, you want to take it away . Sure. Thanks, josh. So, thanks for having me. I thought i would give an update on the counterisil campaign. Last time i was here, it was about six months ago. I have a lo
Then a Bar Administration conversation on health care. Then gun violence activists. All right. Good afternoon, everybody. Happy tuesday. As advertised, im going to be joined today by bret mcguirk. Bret has been here a couple times before. Bret just left the National Security Council Meeting with the president. The president , as you know, convenes his National Security council every few weeks to review the progress that were making against isil. Bret presented the meeting and now is here to provide an update to all of you on that. Brets title is special president ial envoy to the Global Coalition against isil. Hes got a presentation that hell offer up and then hell take some questions, hell leave and then i can take your questions on nonisil related topics from there, okay . With that, bret, you want to take it away . Sure. Thanks, josh. So, thanks for having me. I thought i would give an update on the counterisil campaign. Last time i was here, it was about six months ago. I have a lo
If you could talk a little bit about whats happening in our local communities as i mentioned outside of my time arabamerican communities in the United States and in particular in michigan, i know your department is engaged with the community and secretary johnson has been engaged as well. Can you tell us how important those are and what we should expect in the future. Secretary johnson has visited and engaged with quite a number of communities across the country. I visited detroit in my prior capacity at u. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services from a different perspective at the time and i also, visited in minneapolis, boston and new york, our efforts are absolutely vital. One of the things that we are focused as a department and quite frankly across the government is being in the community and identifying and empowering and equipping local trusted voices to be the critical marriages in the battle to counter violent extremism whether they be faith leaders, educators, kentuckyic lead