The southern border. This is one hour and a half. The committee on Homeland Security subcommittee on counterterrorism Law Enforcement intelligence will come to order, without objection. The subcommittee may recess at any point and the purpose of this hearing is to conduct oversight of the department of Homeland Securities Office of intelligence and analysis that will be referred to here from under secretary for ina mr kenneth wainstein. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Were holding this important hearing to examine and discuss the role of dhss office of ina that helps play a role in safeguarding our nation. United states faces a myriad of threats from state and nonstate actors. Were seeing authoritarian regimes such as china russia and iran expand their reach across the globe and challenge the sovereignty of the United States and our allies. Our adversaries are not only working to achieve these objectives through conventional military means but are also masterfully acco
The southern border. This is one hour and a half. The committee on Homeland Security subcommittee on counterterrorism Law Enforcement intelligence will come to order, without objection. The subcommittee may recess at any point and the purpose of this hearing is to conduct oversight of the department of Homeland Securities Office of intelligence and analysis that will be referred to here from under secretary for ina mr kenneth wainstein. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Were holding this important hearing to examine and discuss the role of dhss office of ina that helps play a role in safeguarding our nation. United states faces a myriad of threats from state and nonstate actors. Were seeing authoritarian regimes such as china russia and iran expand their reach across the globe and challenge the sovereignty of the United States and our allies. Our adversaries are not only working to achieve these objectives through conventional military means but are also masterfully acco
Disorient attackers by shutting off lighting or sounding alarms and pilots can depressurize the cabin and knock out the attackers due to the heart rate. It could save the lives of others on the ground. You can assign air marshals in airports to find terrorists and bombs before they go up in the sky. Hiring thousands of flying air marshals after 9 11 was a natural reaction, but it should have been a temporary detail and not a career. Not very many young and ambition people yearn for a career in the airline seat. They said half the job would be flying and the rest would be time to recover and investigating. 14 years later, air marshals tell me there are still not ground opportunities. We should train federal and local Law Enforcement officers to quickly deploy as a reserve air marshals in order to respond to specific threats. Finally all federal employees are reluctant to report money wasted in dangerous security lapses because they do not want to gamble with their careers, and the tiny
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the newly refurbished i dont want to call it the oversight investigation room. Which is sometimes used by energy and commerce. What a beautiful room. And it will be more conducive to hearings. This is the first of the 115th congress. Welcome here. And welcome to our Witnesses Today. This is our and welcome back to my friend and colleague, Ranking Member from colorado. This is our medicaid oversight hearing on ways to strengthen the problem. The subcommittee convenes this hearing to examine a critical component of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act. Medicaid and Medicaid Expansion. As the Worlds Largest health program, medicaid provides Health Care Coverage for over 70 million americans, and accounts for more than 15 of Health Care Spending in the United States. In 2015 alone, federal taxpayers spent over 350 billion on medicaid. The costs continue to rise each other. The federal share and medicaid spending is expected to rise significantly
[gavel] good morning everyone. Welcome to our speed was Committee Meeting of thursday, june 30, 2016. Im katie tang chair of the committee. Joined by vice chair supervisor eric martinmilius to my left melia cohen to our clerk is derek evans and from speedy sfgov tv we like to thank jim smith. Any announcements . Yes. Please sounds all electronic devices. Items acted upon today will be on the july 12, 2016 board of supervisors board of agenda unless otherwise stated thank you please call adam one item 1 [reading code] thank you. I believe we have supervisor peskins office. Thank you chairman tang and supervisors mar and cohen and thank you for consideration of this item this mentor apologizings supervisor peskin is not able to join the discussion. The Charter Amendment before you is a simple Good Government measure that seeks to provide oversight and transparency to 2 acres of the city housing and Community Development function. A supervisor peskin stated in his local comments the combi