Xx senator burr i appreciate your willingness to appear before the committee today and thank you for your years as a member of this body and your recent leadership at the department of justice. As i mentioned when director comey appeared before last week, this committees role is to be the eyes and ears for the other 85 members of the United States senate and for the American People ensuring that the Intelligence Committee is operating lawfulfully and has the necessary tools to keep america safe. The community is a large and diverse place. We recognize the graft of our investigation into russias interference in the 2016 u. S. Elections. While we investigate russia, we are scrutinizing c. I. A. s budget while we are investigating russia, we are still scrutinizing c. I. A. s budget, our nations Satellite Program and the i. C. Effort to recruit and retain the best talent we can find. More oven than not. The committee conducts its work behind closed doors and our methods are protected. The
Testifying today before the Senate Intelligence Committee Attorney general Jeff Sessions denied any collusion between him and russian officials during the president ial campaign. He also answered questions about a private meeting in february with the president and then fbi director james comey. Senator richard burr of North Carolina chair is this two and a half hour hearing. And [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i called the hearing to orderore please attorney general sessions, appreciate your willingness to appear before the committee today and thank you for your years of dedicated service as a member of this body and recent leadership at the department of justice. As i mentioned when the director appeared before us last week that his committees role is to be the eyes and ears for the other 85 members of the United States senate and the American People, ensuring that the Intelligence Community ishe operating lawfully and has the necessary tools to keep america safe.
Million tax returns. Among them are individuals, Small Businesses like my own, who must retain their tax records in case the irs ever wants to review them. The irs must also identify retained records to define lengths of time in accordance with the federal requirements. These records may later be needed to respond to requests from congress, private citizens, or those bringing suits against the irs. All of these parties have a right to ask the irs to produce complete records and the irs has a responsibility to provide those records. However, tgif found that the irs policies do not comply totally with all the federal requirements, which ensure that all records are readily retrievable and usable. Especially the production of the irs emails currently rely on the irss ability to search thousands of employees hard drives, or alternatively each employees willingness to print and file important emails. Neither system is sustainable or reliable enough to satisfy the voluminous records requests
Testified on capitol hill recently regarding budgets for 2017 and 2018. Modernization and cybersecurity efforts from the Top Priorities for all these agencies. This House Administration Committee Hearing is about an hour and a half. I now call to order the committee on House Administration for the purpose of starting todays hearing on the operations and priorities of the house officers and legislative branch entities. Aquorum is present so we may proceed. I would like to start off by thanking my colleagues and our witnesses for your attendance today. I know how busy everyone is and we appreciate your flexibility and willingness to appear this afternoon. I would also like to thank our witnesses for hard work and assistance during new member and a smooth transition for staff into the 115th congress and especially for the incredible amount of work that went into securing and hosting the president ial inauguration. We know many months of preparation went into insuring our government carrie
We want to begin with steve gervy. 115mile winds and weaker as the last advisory at 5 00 according to the National Hurricane center. Decent weather conditions. This storm is expected to restrengthen. A look at max defender. You can see a few showers over on floridas east coast and right now things are quiet across the area and we do expect it to pick up tomorrow and on through friday. 115 Miles Per Hour winds moving northwest at ten Miles Per Hour. Battering the bahama. Every time you see the icon that is where the storm is located. This is the forecast track. Thursday at 8 00 p. M. With 130 Miles Per Hour winds and coming close to land fall around the space coast that is highly unusual for this area to off of the coast. The worst part of the storm to the east of the center. Friday at 8 00 a. M. With 130 Miles Per Hour winds and moving up the coast to just off of jacksonville and then curbing to the northeast. Some of these models did a loopy loop and it would weaken the storm as if it