House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and minority leader kevin mccarthy. Texas each will control 0 minutes. Mrs. Lowey im pleased to yield one minute to the gentlewoman from california, the speaker of the house, ms. Pelosi. Ms. Pelosi i thank the gentlewoman for yielding. T me first salute chairwoman lowey, congresswoman delauro and Ranking Member for their good faith work on a strong bill that protects vulnerable children, keeps america safe and honors our values. Madam speaker, when people ask me what are the three most important issues facing the congress, i always say the same thing, children, children, children. Today, we have the opportunity to help the children. We are ensuring that children have food, cloothing, shelter and medical care. We are providing access to Legal Assistance and protecting families because families belong together. Right now, children need their families. Right now little children are enduring trauma and care. Many are living in squal or and sleeping on the cold gr
Who truly needs to introduction. As you know hes vice chairman of the Senate Select committee on intelligence. Im going to be presiding over this discussion. The meeting is the annual kenneth a. Moscow lecture on Homeland Security and counterterrorism. This is an annual lectureship that honors the memory of kenneth a. Moscow who was a long time member of the council with a distinguished career in the Intelligence Community. Further details on his life and his many professional accomplishments can be found in the booklet that you have at your seat. I do want to extend a special welcome to the members and guests of the moscow family who are here with us today seated at the center table. Welcome to you. So without further ado, ill just say i will invite senator warner, he will speak for about ten minutes and then ill have the opportunity to ask him questions for about 20 minutes and then at 1 00 we will open it up for questions from members. So without further ado, senator mark warner. Th
[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order and without objection the chair authorized to declare a recess at any time. Pursuant to the committee rule, the chair announces that she may postpone further proceedings today when a recorded vote is ordered on the question of proving a measure or matter on adopting an amendment. This morning we will consider h. R. 2722, the securing americas federal election act targeted bill to modernize the nations election infrastructure and responded t respond to the g attacks on our democracy. As we all should know and now appreciate ouit nowappreciate od as special counsel mueller said to interfere in our election in the 2016 president ial election. When outsiders meddle in our election if an attack on the country and we cannot release to the Cyber Attacks of the state actors on their own. While we have made progress to bolster our defenses it is clear from the analysis of our Intelligence Community and a host of independent experts from
Relations in washington, d. C. Good afternoon, everyone. What a cheerful looking group. I am Judy Woodruff with the pbs newshour and im delighted to be here with all of you at this council and Foreign Relations meeting with senator mark warner who truly needs to introduction. As you know hes vice chairman of the Senate Select committee on intelligence. Im going to be presiding over this discussion. The meeting is the annual kenneth a. Moscow lecture on Homeland Security and counterterrorism. This is an annual lectureship that honors the memory of kenneth a. Moscow who was a long time member of the council with a distinguished career in the Intelligence Community. Further details on his life and his many professional accomplishments can be found in the booklet that you have at your seat. I do want to extend a special welcome to the members and guests of the moscow family who are here with us today seated at the center table. Welcome to you. So without further ado, ill just say i will in
Minutes. Mrs. Lowey im pleased to yield one minute to the gentlewoman from california, the speaker of the house, ms. Pelosi. Ms. Pelosi i thank the gentlewoman for yielding. T me first salute chairwoman lowey, congresswoman delauro and Ranking Member for their good faith work on a strong bill that protects vulnerable children, keeps america safe and honors our values. Madam speaker, when people ask me what are the three most important issues facing the congress, i always say the same thing, children, children, children. Today, we have the opportunity to help the children. We are ensuring that children have food, cloothing, shelter and medical care. We are providing access to Legal Assistance and protecting families because families belong together. Right now, children need their families. Right now little children are enduring trauma and care. Many are living in squal or and sleeping on the cold grounds. Kids are watching over infants because there is no one else there to care for them