Welcome to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. We welcome everyone to the subcommittees hearing. Ill begin by recognizing myself for an opening statement. Wed like to welcome our witness today, the honorable christopher wray, director of the federal bureau of investigation. Director wray has served in this role of august since 2017, overseeing an agency of over 35,000 people. Including special agents, intelligence analysts, language specialists, scientists, and Information Technology specialists. The 24 budget request for fbi salaries and expenses is 11. 3 billion. With 6. 7 billion of that amount to about 60 . Thats designated as defense spending. Thats a 6 increase above the fiscal 23 elected level for salaries and expenses. The fbi budget request includes 196 million in program increases and 409 million adjustments too base representing the substantial increase cost of continuing the fbis current activities. The Largest Program increases
Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. We welcome everyone to the subcommittees hearing. Ill begin by recognizing myself for an opening statement. Wed like to welcome our witness today, the honorable christopher wray, director of the federal bureau of investigation. Director wray has served in this role of august since 2017, overseeing an agency of over 35,000 people. Including special agents, intelligence analysts, language specialists, scientists, and Information Technology specialists. The 24 budget request for fbi salaries and expenses is 11. 3 billion. With 6. 7 billion of that amount to about 60 . Thats designated as defense spending. Thats a 6 increase above the fiscal 23 elected level for salaries and expenses. The fbi budget request includes 196 million in program increases and 409 million adjustments too base representing the substantial increase cost of continuing the fbis current activities. The Largest Program increases requested art for
Is titled concern continued oversight on Regional Bank failures. Without objection, all members will have five legislative days to submit extraneous materials to the chair for inclusion in the record. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. With that, i now recognize myself for four minutes. Todays hearing will help the Financial Services committee learn more about recent Bank Failures, including management missteps, supervisory failures, and rapid fire bank runs in the age of social media. I think our witnesses for testifying today. The recent banking crisis was fueled by failed Bank Management, lack of hedges against Interest Rate risks, failed military policy, failed supervision, and overspending by the administration and democrats that led to historic inflation, prompting increased Monetary Policy action. Today, we will hear about what went wrong from the Bank Management themselves in state regulators. This is important, as the c
The Environmental Protection agency. I want to welcome also the epa chief Financial Officer who is joining the administrator. Administrator is here. We are seeing the impacts everywhere. Longer fire seasons and more intensity of those fires decreased snow packs and the impact of that on our rivers and irrigation waters. The more Severe Weather events of the Atmospheric River as weve heard so much about on the west coast this year to warmer algae infested leaks across the country to droughts and record a shattering heat waives. Every part of the world was is experiencing these impacts and the damage is staggering and is going to increase exponentially unless we act decisively. I believe that to me ats this moment we have to accelerate our transition from fossil fuel energy to renewable energy. And we have to tackle that crisis both from supplyside of fossil fuels as wells as the demand side. This is why i adamantly opposed the biden administrations approval of the fossil fuel projects o
, the first report of watan continued, the end of the budget deduction for the year 1401 of the entire country in the court of accounts, an action that every year, in order to achieve transparency and financial discipline and to reform the countrys structure, this institution conducts monitoring of the countrys income and expenditure and audits the state institutions and companies that use the entire countrys budget. The flow of how to review the spending of the 1401 budget was placed in different departments, but we can easily master this issue and move the country from one to the other in the monetary and financial spheres of our country today. In risky opportunities ghalibaf said that the key role of the audit court in monitoring the accounts of government institutions is happening. He said that the timely and intelligent actions of the supervisory body will lead to the growth and reform of the countrys budget writing and finally the implementation of the budget law. In the whole ye