Without objection the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. Before we begin i want to say our thoughts with those americans dealing with devastating natural disasters including the wildfires in the west and Hurricane Sally in the south. As chairman i remain committed to ensuring they receive the federal help needed to respond, recover and build back stronger. They, the committee on Homeland Securitys meeting for its annual hearing on worldwide threats to the homeland. Our nation recently observed the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001. Nearly two decades later we continue to mourn the nearly 3,000 lives lost that terrible day and keep their loved ones in our prayers. This committee and the department of Homeland Security were established in the wake of 9 11 to help prevent future attacks on our soil. Regardless of who was chairman weve held regular hearings examining worldwide threats with leaders from the depart
Withdrawing the amendment. If there is no further debate, the amendment we are back live at the House Appropriations committee. Theyre working on 2021 spending levels for the defense, commerce, justice and transportation department, as well as the department of housing and urban development. The markup is excited to go into the evening. You are watching live coverage on cspan. Chair lowey for what purpose does the member from california rise . The member of california . Thank you. I havent amendment at the desk have an amendment at the desk. Chair lowey the clerk will read the amendment. I ask unanimous consent to dispense of the reading. Chair lowey without objection, the reading of the amendment is dispensed with. Thank you. This amendment is straightforward. It would block a president from starting a war with iran absent expressed authorization from congress. This amendment consists of language that the house is already adopted as part of h. R. 550 in january of this year. Let me be
Flynn and more. Plus, explosive new details about officials demanding the unmasking of american names in intelligence documents, including Lieutenant General flynn and more. The acting director of National Intelligence has a list and hes naming names. Also tonight, did president obamaa greenlight who exactly leakeden the names of these american citizens to the media . Now even more questions. Did this unmasking of regular american citizens names start earlier than 2017 . Did the Obama Administration access the nsas massive database going back to 2015 to maybe get information on opposition candidates . We at the evening edit our covering what no one else in the media does. We are digging into the footnotes, the government documents, finding out what they show. Colossal abuse of power. We have that story. Plus, how the Clinton Campaign and british exwife was talking to the media, the Washington Post, the New York Times, cnn peabout his dossier that did hep pay for the 2016 campaign. Did
Introduce people more formally prior to their also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all i want to thank the cochairs and that commissioners for the important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction over the working hard to evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law of these recommendations can be done through executive action. What id like to spend my time just enter my formal written state into the record, i just want to talk about two of the commissions recommendations. When i i got here in the congrs in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. Its not going away. I remember the buzzword back ban is we have to do something about this. Weve made a number of attempts and quite honestly we made a fair amount of progress. My own sense is the bad guys, the people and often always have
Obama officials demanding the unmasking of american names in intelligence documents including lieutenantgeneral flynn and much more. The acting director of National Intelligence, he has got the list. He is naming names. Also tonight, did president obama green light who exactly leaked the names of these american citizens to the media . And now even more questions, did this unmasking of regular americans citizens names start earlier than 2017 . Did the Obama Administration access the nsas massive surveillance database going back to 2015 to, maybe get information on opposition candidates . We at the evening edit were covering what no one else in the media does. Were digging into the footnotes, into the government documents. Were finding what the documents show. Looks like a colossal abuse of power. We have that story. Plus how the Clinton Campaign used british exspy Christopher Steele was talking to the washington post, new york times, cnn about his dossier, that it helped pay for during