So were talking about a pretty narrow universe to begin with. Second, as a matter of principle, we welcome investment. This is good for our companies, its good for all sorts of industries, and its something that as a general proposition we want to encourage. But its vitally important that when it comes to national security, we remain vigilant. And thats what cfius is designed to do. Now, i think youre right to raise the question about whether in the event of a bilateral investment treaty the investment flow goes up significantly, is that going to put strain, further strain on the process, and do we need to look at that . Thats something id like to come back to you on on if i can because its a great question that i need to think through a little more. Great. I would welcome that and happy to discuss with you too. Thank you, madam chairman. Thank you, mr. Deutsche. Mr. Poe of texas. Thank you, madam chair. Thank you, sir, for being here. I have one a couple observations, and i want to sp
I think that that signs up his view of it. He writes about technology and culture. The guardian, the new republic, mit tech review and his work has been included in the science and nature writing. I cannot note that in his biohe also says in the early 1980s he was a founding number of the universally unnoticed group and i want to give you sense up behind the stage banter that we were having. These guys all know each other they say that he and neck have been disagreeing for more than a decade. And he also describes it as a walking bummer. [laughter] there is no pessimism in davids view. Antiis a bit more moderated and then we will hear the doom and gloom area and david, start us off, he is the author of enchanted objects. I want to show you an image of my living room. Its a couple of minutes and that will illustrate many of the products that i talked about in the book. Enchanted objects have the same functionality as before except for now they can talk. These are ordinary things and hav
Is done in a more transparent and consistent way, we have initiated training for supervisors, and work in file workforce. So you have done some training in new positions, because im concerned. When that question came up, i watch people all the time, and no less than four people here with you today agree that you have a cultural problem, and you could tell from the responses that there is an issue within the agency. I also wanted to go back and give you a chance to correct your testimony. I thought i heard earlier that you said you were short 500 Uniformed Secret Service people e to secret station due to sequestration. Across the organization, the secret service is down 550 personnel. With the gentleman yield per second. Please stop the clock rate the amount of people in the u. S. See secret service, the day you were sworn in, and the daytoday, because these numbers are fulltime equivalents is. All of us have a right to understand what the impact is on the day you were sworn in. I do no
Hard questions about how to fix the fundamental drivers of immigration as long as they funded more enforcement agents and build higher senses. This broke down in the 1990s because they immigrants began to increase and dispersed throughout the country instead of concentrated in border states, people began to view the numbers that were emerging as more of a problem, especially after the 9 11 attacks, the equilibrium broke down when immigration control was seen as a National Security issue. So since the late 90s and since 9 11 we have seen an additional security measures put at the border and in the u. S. These enforcement measures, i argue, seem to have reached a Tipping Point where the number of unauthorized immigrants in the u. S. Today has been going down. The number peeked in 2007 at 12. 4 million. Theres been a 10 reduction, almost a million less. Its a little hard to assess exactly how important the enforcement measures are in driving that decrease because many of the most importan
Reduction. The whistleblower seem to indicate that there was a stuttering study that there hundred people per countersurveillance, and you made the decision to cut that by 1 3. Is that a correct . The witness can answer, and the time has expired. Will you answer, please . Yes. I would like to review that study. I know that we have asked for a study in the past that related to countersurveillance and countersurveillance methodologies to be a ploy by the secret service in the con capitalthe national region, and we established a Countersurveillance Division and staffed it with what are appropriate resources for this time and will go back and look at the process and see how we need to continue to resource it as appropriate. Thank the witness. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I have respect for the numbers of the secret service and cannot believe i am about to begin the fun of questioning is a member of congress, because it should have never gotten this point where i have to ask you these questions