Order. Good afternoon, everyone. This is the sixth in a series of public hearings the committee will be holing as part of the house of representatives impeachment inquiry. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. There is a quorum present. We will proceed today in the same fashion as our other hearings. I will make an Opening Statement and the Ranking Member nunes will have the opportunity to make a statement and we will turn to our witnesses for their Opening Statements if they should choose to make one. For audience member, we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we ask for your respect as we proceed with this hearing. As chairman, ill make any necessary or take any necessary appropriate steps to maintain order and ensure that the committee is run in accordance with house rules and House Resolution 660. With that, i now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement in the impeachment inquiry into donald j. Tr
The National Security program here at csis. Thank you so much for joining us today for the second portion of our rollout event for the oversight and accountability and security secretary assistant seeking return on investment report. Following the terrific remarks from representative smith this morning, we have gathered an Interagency Panel from several important notes of the vast Security Sector Assistance Community to enlighten us on some of the great work that they are doing behind the scenes on this on this enterprise. I did want to spend a few minutes at the outset noting the coauthors and great work and contributions of csis staff that worked on this project over the last nine months. My coauthors hijab shaw, Rebecca Hughes and Shannon Green contributed mightily to the successful outcome of this project. And none of this would have been possible without the tremendous engagement and support of Key Stakeholders throughout the ssa community, several of which are in the audience tod
Good afternoon, everyone. Im melissa dalton, a senior fellow in the Deputy Director of the National Security program here at csis. Thank you so much for joining us today for the second portion of our rollout event for the oversight and accountability and security secretary assistant seeking return on investment report. Following the terrific remarks from representative smith this morning, we have gathered an Interagency Panel from several important notes of the vast Security Sector Assistance Community to enlighten us on some of the great work that they are doing behind the scenes on this on this enterprise. I did want to spend a few minutes at the outset noting the coauthors and great work and contributions of csis staff that worked on this project over the last nine months. My coauthors hijab shaw, Rebecca Hughes and Shannon Green contributed mightily to the successful outcome of this project. And none of this would have been possible without the tremendous engagement and support of
It alone and we have to talk with each other and figure out how the create quality jobs in the clean energy e kconomy. We have had as our part perrer inship that we are work manage the midwest and on the west coast from the u. S. Conference of mayors you can see more at cspan. Org, and we will leave this for a series of conversations this afternoon about defense and National Security oversight. The House Armed Services Ranking Member adam smith leads off and also the private sector for oversight and accountability. Live coverage here on cspan3. Hassan, we feel secure in the building but as a convener, we have a duty to prepare for the emergencies, so take a look around you and behind me are exits. I will be the official Safety Officer today. So should a fire alarm or something go off, i will direct you in the correct orientation out of the building. Today culminations a ninemonthlong effort conducteded by the cis program. Over 60 groups and functional experts and leaders of the ngo and
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