Independents, 202 7488002. You can also reach us on social media on twitter at cspanwj and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. More from the hill about how operations are underway for the midterm elections and keeping them secure. Top Cyber Security officials at the department of Homeland Security said wednesday that they expect the department to complete a rigorous sElection Security test requested by a number of tests in april. Acknowledged previous reports of backlog of brisk and phone ability assessments, which the department has offered to states as part of its designation of election infrastructure as critical. Politico reported reported that there is up to a ninemonth wait, leaving little time before the 2018 election for states to mitigate potential flaws in their Voting System. Lets take a look at what he said about the efforts to secure security and how the department is taking it seriously. [video clip] i would say we have seen evidence the russian government has changed the
I have just ordered the meaning of human existence which is the capstone book and dont we all want to know the meaning of human existence so im looking or were too reading the continuation of the social conquests book. We will see where the rest of the summer leagues. Im sure there will be other topics that will pop up that will keep me reading. This week on q a Thomas Schatz president s of citizens against waste talk about his organization including several members of congress to bring attention to government waste over the years. Cspan Thomas Schatz citizens against government waste you you are the person in europe and around that organization promised 30 years. What is it to . Guest is an organization created following the release of the Grace Commission report under president reagan and teeter grazed head of the Grace Commission and peter and Jack Anderson the syndicated columnist took president reagans advice which was to not that they purport gather dust on the shelf and they put
2017. Ashton carter and joint chiefs appearedjoseph dunford before the House Appropriation Committee and how other factors are part of the proposal. This is to in a half hours. This is two and a half hours. Good morning. Our committee will come to order. Especiallymembers, the chairman mr. Rogers. Im pleased to welcome the 25th secretary of defense, ashton carter. This is dr. Carters second appearance before the subcommittee, although we know him well from his many years of service to our nation. We also welcome general joe done for, the great marine, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and dr. Michael mccord. Secretary, Prime Minister Winston Churchill observed 70 years ago, and i quote, what ive seen of our russian friends and allies during the war, i am convinced that there is nothing they admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than weakness, especially military weakness. Churchill was referring to the postwar leadership in moscow, and t
Brian Thomas Schatz citizens against government waste. You are president of it and you have been around the organization for 30 years. What does it do . Thomas it was created following the release of the Grace Commission report. Peter grace and jack anderson, syndicated columnist, took president reagans advice which was to not let the report gather dust on the shelf and they put together citizens against government waste and the lobbying arm of that called the council for citizens against government waste. The job of the organization is to uncover, expose, publicize, and a limited government waste and fraud and mismanagement. Brian what is the pig book . Thomas it started in the early 1990s. Following the release of a list of unauthorized programs which was done under president reagan in 1988, we got the idea of taking that list and figuring out how those expenditures were getting into the bills if they were not supposed to be there. We worked with a Bipartisan Coalition of members of
Syndicated columnist, took president reagans advice which was to not let the report gather dust on the shelf and they put together citizens against government waste and the lobbying arm of that called the council for citizens against government waste. The job of the organization is to uncover, expose, publicize, and a limited government waste and fraud and mismanagement. Brian what is the pig book . Early it started in the 1990s. Following the release of a list of unauthorized programs which was done under president reagan in 1988, we got the idea of taking that list and figuring out how those expenditures were getting into the bills if they were not supposed to be there. We worked with a Bipartisan Coalition of members of congress which was then called the congressional pork busters coalition and they came up with us, a definition. It was called work but porkbarrel spending. And then called earmarks. Then we started the pig book. The first was 3 billion and it went up to 29 billion in