James is absent excused commissioner serlina commissioner itani commissioner loo commissioiner ow commissioner roy commissioner nelson and executive director is present. May i have a motion to approve the agenda that was modified a few weeks ago we have a copy. Move forward second. Thank you narrating approval of the minutes of the consent calendar agenda. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments thank you. The motion carries next item approval the april 6, 2016, minutes has everyone had a chance to review them any changes or comments from did Public Comment public so moved. Seconded by. All in favor, say i. I. That motion carries. Employee of the month aaron perez. Yeah. clapping. so its a great occasion to honor karen perez as the employee of the month of may we usually like to honor kearney want to talk about the dodges i think the commissioners are familiar with people from the office on aging he hear them present but not honoring them here in the people prosecute the office of
Commissioner president james is absent excused commissioner serlina commissioner itani commissioner loo commissioiner ow commissioner roy commissioner nelson and executive director is present. May i have a motion to approve the agenda that was modified a few weeks ago we have a copy. Move forward second. Thank you narrating approval of the minutes of the consent calendar agenda. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments thank you. The motion carries next item approval the april 6, 2016, minutes has everyone had a chance to review them any changes or comments from did Public Comment public so moved. Seconded by. All in favor, say i. I. That motion carries. Employee of the month aaron perez. Yeah. clapping. so its a great occasion to honor karen perez as the employee of the month of may we usually like to honor kearney want to talk about the dodges i think the commissioners are familiar with people from the office on aging he hear them present but not honoring them here in the people p
He saw the authors we have had on this year. Go to booktv. Org you can see any author but tonight we want to show you two of them. Ow was coat pink founded . Guest we were a group of women environmentalists that were sitting together in a retreat right every 9 11 right after 9 11, talking about how to deal with the climate crisis, and during our lunch break we started talking about the 9 11 attack, the pending war with iraq, the u. S. Had just invaded afghanistan, and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11, and we started laughing about the color code alerts. Remember the george w. Bush alerts, yellow, orange, red, and said it was to keep people in a state of fear, and that we needed another color coded alert to say, theres a different way of dealing with this. We go after whoever attacked us, not wholesale invasion of countries, thats when we came up with the idea of codepink. We originally wanted to by c
I want to welcome everyone. I want to apologize to our two witnesses and to everyone else whos been waiting. Just blame me for the delay. That would be the quickest and easiest thing to do. Ill do my best to start on time henceforth. This is hearing number two, reviewing efforts to secure u. S. Department diplomatic facilities and personnel. The committee will come to order. Chairman notes a quorum for taking testimony pursuant to the appropriate House Resolution number and house rule number, i want to recognize myself for the opening statement. In september of 2012, four of our fellow americans were killed and others were injured in an attack on our facility in benghazi, libya. Shawn smith, tyrone woods, Glenn Doherty and ambassador Chris Stevens died under circumstances most of us can not fathom. Fire, violence, the weaponry of war. I want to read something and i want to ask my colleagues to listen to what i read. Not just to the words but i want you to imagine having to live through
I want to thank the panelists. I think it was an interesting discussion, and look forward to having many more today. Thank you very much. And were live on capitol hill this thursday morning as this wednesday morning as the House Select Committee on benghazi will hear testimony on the 2012 attack on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi, libya. Greg starr will appear before the committee again today. And in testimony last september for the same committee he encouraged law enforcements to give the state department extra funding to increase embassy security. Now, also testifying today we expect to hear from steve linick, the Inspector General at the state department. As this hearing gets under way and for the rest of the day were asking should more resources be put togethers Diplomatic Security. Go to facebook. Com or tweet us using the hash tag, cspan chat. This is live coverage on cspan 3. Again, we are awaiting the start of this House Select Committee on benghazi attack hearings to get under