On the threats facing the United States. This is two hours and ten minutes. Good morning. This hearing of the Senate Committee Homeland Security Affairs Committee is called to order. This is our annual threats to the homeland hearing. I want to welcome my witnesses. Id like to start by acknowledging the victims of the hurricanes and houston, texas. In florida. Throughout the caribbean and puerto rico. Maybe it wasnt contemplated when we set up the hearing on the other enormous threats. Theres real threat to human life occurring now throughout the nation. And well acknowledge that. All the individuals are in our thoughts and prayers. Im sure everybody joins me in that. We are pleased to welcome the acting secretary of the department of Homeland Security e lain duke. Director of federal bureau of investigation christopher wray. The director of the National Counter Terrorism Center nicholas rasmussen. We want to thank you for your service. The threats are growing. Evolving. I do not envy
Today we will receive testimony from securities and Exchange Commission chairman jay clayton regarding the work and the agenda of the sec. Thank you, mr. Chairman, for attending here today. Oversight of the sec is a critical function of this committee and it has an important threepart mission, to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly and efficient markets and facilitate capital formation. No one part of this mission is anymore important than the other. They increase transparency and trust in the u. S. Stock market, providing investors with what they need to make informed Investment Decisions. It also helps investors participate on a fair footing so that they can prepare for important milestones in their lives such as retirement, college or other life changing evep events. Its critical that the sec continue with this mission. At the same time it must be cognizant it could carry risks to the very investors it seeks to help. The commission collects and store as huge amount of public a
States. This is two hours and ten minutes. Good morning. This hearing of the Senate Committee Homeland Security Affairs Committee is called to order. This is our annual threats to the homeland hearing. I want to welcome my witnesses. Id like to start by acknowledging the victims of the hurricanes and houston, texas. In florida. Throughout the caribbean and puerto rico. Maybe it wasnt contemplated when we set up the hearing on the other enormous threats. Theres real threat to human life occurring now throughout the nation. And well acknowledge that. All the individuals are in our thoughts and prayers. Im sure everybody joins me in that. We are pleased to welcome the acting secretary of the department of Homeland Security e lain duke. Director of federal bureau of investigation christopher wray. The director of the National Counter Terrorism Center nicholas rasmussen. We want to thank you for your service. The threats are growing. Evolving. I do not envy any of you your task of the serio
Welcome to this panel. I will introduce our panel. We will look forward to the responses with you in the audience for a broader conversation. First we will have beth hates. F is a professor in the department of africanamerican studies at Wayne State University. Excuse me. Departmentis a professor at Wayne State University. She is the author of two books. Porters s pullman the politics of black america. 19141917. Her second book is, the making of black detroit in the age of henry ford, 1920 1945. She is currently completing another book on detroit titled, black detroit and the promise of america, 1940 11970, which she is coauthoring with timothy hs. Awill have michael fellow in the michigan test in the of egalitarianism metropolis at the university of michigan. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled, wildcat of the stritch streets, which examines Police Reform and postwar detroit alongside social organizations. We will have Heather Thompson. Heather is a strain on the faculty
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