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Receipts. Call to order, this hearing of the House Permanent Select Committee on intelligence. This is an unusual hearing for us, and it is exciting, from the back room it sounded like it was a reception, everyone was so excited to see their friends and to reconnect. That was happening on a social level. We will reconnect on the professional level. One thing that we know, for each of you, is you have had an incredible career in congress, incredible careers in National Security, incredible careers on this committee. We do not want to lose your resident expertise. And we believe that you work on a bipartisan basis, and certainly, you are about getting this committee working on a bipartisan basis. So we want to turn to you today to get your advice, on issues that you see that you think we need to be focused on. On issues that you think this committee, as you have seen the work we have been doing, should either continue or modify, in the way we are undertaking them. So i want first to intr
Receipts. Call to order, this hearing of the House Permanent Select Committee on intelligence. This is an unusual hearing for us, and it is exciting, from the back room it sounded like it was a reception, everyone was so excited to see their friends and to reconnect. That was happening on a social level. We will reconnect on the professional level. One thing that we know, for each of you, is you have had an incredible career in congress, incredible careers in National Security, incredible careers on this committee. We do not want to lose your resident expertise. And we believe that you work on a bipartisan basis, and certainly, you are about getting this committee working on a bipartisan basis. So we want to turn to you today to get your advice, on issues that you see that you think we need to be focused on. On issues that you think this committee, as you have seen the work we have been doing, should either continue or modify, in the way we are undertaking them. So i want first to intr
The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time and you have five days to submit materials for inclusion into the record. This hearing is entitled examining the operations of the committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. The free flow of capital is a bedrock tenant of the United States economy. It ensures that the free flow worldwide has always been a bipartisan goal into that and im proud to serve as cochair of the Global Investment in america caucus along with our colleagues mr. Holding, mr. Heinz and mr. Meeks. Promotes Global Investment in the Global Economy and helps educate members about the importance of Foreign Investment. The United States is the largest foreign investor in the recipients of the greatest amount of Foreign Direct Investment. That capital has provided a good deal of the energy that has kept our economy vibrate, compensating for our notoriously low National Savings rate to p
Hold two hearings that focus on the two major pillars of our agenda. Tomorrow well hear from the Service Chiefs on repairing and rebuilding our military. Today, however, well concentrate on the other pillar, which is defense reform. Weve done a lot of reform over the past two years. That includes acquisition reform, a new military retirement system, major changes in military health care, commissary reform, a rewrite of the uniform code of military justice as well as significant organizational reform. While a lot has been done, however, a lot more needs to be done. The world around us is simply moving too fast for us to sit still and assume that the organizations and processes of the past will suffice for today and especially for tomorrow. Yes, we all have an obligation to see taxpayer dollars are spent as efficiently and effectively as possible, especially in fulfilling the first job of the federal government which is to defend the country. But we all know from the news and from our In