Puts 1. 6 billion towards a physical barrier construction along the u. S. Southern border. Members debated many amendments to the legislation for about four hours. Morning. Meeting will come to order. Thank you all for being here today. We meet today to consider both Homeland Security appropriations bill. I now turn it over to chairman carter. Judge carter. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Before i start, its sort of a tradition to have some kind of snack from your home district. The most famous thing are the doughnuts. The National Magazine have declared it the best doughnuts in the world. However, theyre so good they dont travel well. So as a substitute we have a large Czech Community. Everyones welcome to eat a. Our Czech Community is very proud of them, and theyre very good. We had them here last year. Theyre good. The question is what are they, and then were going to move on. Theyre a roll with fruit on top of them, and theyre good. Judge carter is recognized. Thank you. Now that ive gott
If were to be successful in this third wave. Watch the communicators, tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan 2. Last week members of the House Appropriations committee met to mark up legislation for Homeland Security. It included provisions to address drug and people smuggling while allocating 1. 6 billion for construction of a wall along the u. S. Southern border. The bill also addressed Immigration Enforcement, Aviation Security and Natural Disaster response. This is close to three hours. Morning. Meeting will come to order. Thank you all for being here today. We meet today to consider both Homeland Security appropriations bill and interior appropriations bill. We made some remarkable progress over the past month. I hope well continue today. I turn it to chairman carter to present the fiscal year 2018 Homeland Security bill. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Before i start, its sort of a tradition to have some kind of snack from your home district. The most famous thing from my district are the dou
General for National Security john carlin and google Vice President vince serf. This is an hour and 15 minutes. All right, well, good afternoon, everybody. I want to welcome you to our cybersecurity summit that were having. My initiative is meet the threat to deal with the cybersecurity issues we have. Im always excited. But im really excited, really excited today to host this conversation and highlight all the great work that the nga has been doing. But before we do that, i do want to mention a resolution that we have that we talked about it at lunch today with all the governors. We have a resolution honoring the memory of justin stevens. Justin stevens, as you know served the National Governors association as the legislative director for the ngas Public Safety and Homeland Security committee. He worked very closely with me as well as governor hutchison here. Justin was also the point person for us on the council of governors. Those interest five democrats, five republicans appointed
General for National Security john carlin and google Vice President vince serf. This is an hour and 15 minutes. All right, well, good afternoon, everybody. I want to welcome you to our cybersecurity summit that were having. My initiative is meet the threat to deal with the cybersecurity issues we have. Im always excited. But im really excited, really excited today to host this conversation and highlight all the great work that the nga has been doing. But before we do that, i do want to mention a resolution that we have that we talked about it at lunch today with all the governors. We have a resolution honoring the memory of justin stevens. Justin stevens, as you know served the National Governors association as the legislative director for the ngas Public Safety and Homeland Security committee. He worked very closely with me as well as governor hutchison here. Justin was also the point person for us on the council of governors. Those interest five democrats, five republicans appointed
Eastern on cspan2s book tv. Next, the army, navy, air force, and marine corps chiefs testify before the House Armed Services committee about their budgets. They also discuss the impact of repeated continuing resolutions instead of longterm appropriations for the military branches. Committee will come to order. After having explored the next steps of defense reform in yesterdays hearing, we now turn to what is needed to repair and rebuild our military, and im grateful to each of the distinguished Service Chiefs for being with us today. Theres widespread agreement that funding cuts under the budget control act, plus a series of continuing resolutions, coupled with a pace of required deployment have damaged the u. S. Military. I believe that damage has gone far deeper than most of us realize, requiring more time and more money to repair than is generally expected. Theres plenty of responsibility to go around for the current state of affairs, with both congress and the obama administration