Well, good morning. We meet in organization to protect our nation in cyber space. To begin i would like to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues in our Cyber Security Sub Committee. This hearing builds upon the good work they and their Sub Committee have done to tackle the critical challenge of cyber. This is a that is growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries state and nonstate actors view the entire information domain as a battle space and across it they are waging a new kind of war against us, the war involving what extending beyond our military to include our businesses and our people. The department of defense has a Critical Role to play in this new kind of war but it cant succeed alone. To be clear we are not succeeding. We have lacked pollties in the cyber domain and we still dochlt it is because we were trying to
One of our witnesses, ms. Thosht needs to leave by 10 30 in order to join secretary tillerson on a trip to china and we have a vote at 10 30. In order to allow more senators time to ask their questions, senator brown and i have agreed to submit our Opening Statements for the record. And we have also asked each of our witnesses to shorten their open statements to just a couple minutes each so we can get right to the questions. Obviously, im also going to ask the senators to be very careful to follow the fiveminute allocation for their questioning. First we will receive testimony from the honorable siegel, the undersecretary of for terrorism and crimes. And following her Susan Thornton, acting assistant secretary of state for east asian and pacific affairs. Without anything further, lets proceed. Undersecretary, please proceed. Thank you. Chairman crapo, distinguished members of the committee, im honored to appear before you to discuss the Treasury Departments strategy to combat the prov
Book tv. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson spoke about relations with india at an event hosted by the center for strategic and International Studies in washington. He called for strengthening the Strategic Partnership to bolster indias military capabilities. This is just under an hour. [applause] good morning everybody. With aing to start little safety announcement. I learned this from secretary tillerson. Every Public Meetings begins with an announcement of how we will take care of you. I am responsible for that. Follow my instructions. The exits are right behind us. Stairs lead to it. Go down to the first level and we will take to lefthand turns and meet at national geographic. There will be ice cream for you when we get there. No worries. Welcome tot say richard spencer. We are glad you could join us today. It was about a year ago i was having breakfast with Rex Tillerson. He is now secretary tillerson. He announced he was going to be retiring. You were talking about how we would con
Senator chuck chuck ensley chairs this fivehour hearing. [indiscernible] [gavel pounding] [indiscernible] attorney general sessions, welcome. For all the people in the audience, we welcome you as well. I thank general sessions were being here that attorney general sessions were being here for the oversight hearing. His is an opportunity for congress to investigate and question the policies and actions of any executive branch. It is an opportunity for the executive branch to take responsibility for any of those policies and actions, and an opportunity for congress to defend its constitutional powers and check any abuses by an overreaching executive branch, and it has been that way for 230 years. Some have complained that we have not had an oversight hearing with this attorney general earlier. My reason for deferring was that the attorney general should have his team in place before appearing before us. Certainly, attorney general holder and attorney general lynch did have their respecti
For Peace Program is the focus on the Senate Foreign relations hearing. We will hear from the director, Catholic Relief Services an official from the Government Accountability office. This runs about an hour and a half. Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We are currently facing a humanitarian crisis with over 800 Million People worldwide in need of food aid. The us continues to be the world leader providing more than a third of all food aid. Over 2 billion annually. Sadly despite our generosity there are shortfalls for whats needed due to other donor nations not meeting the challenge and in next years farm bill deliberations women opportunity to do more without having to spend more money. A little over half of our food aid is provided through the farm bill with our food for Peace Program. The farm bill requires aid to be sourced almost entirely from us farmers after which must be shipped on us vessels according to cargo preference rules. Of these restrictions resulting spe