Welcome back to the hearing. I want to thank the witnesses for their patience and i will now recognize myself for a second round of questioning. Lets see, i want to go back to the question of the domestic emoluments clause, mr. Borden. We talked about the foreign emoluments clause which was an attempt to guarantee the undivided loyalty of the president and all members of congress to the American People and not to foreign powers. And thats why there was this absolute prohibition of payments of any kind whatever coming from Foreign Governments. And so thats why were very concerned to get as much information from the gsa about whatever you know and whatever you can find out about Foreign Governments using the trump hotel for business because of the president s continuing Business Ownership interests in the trump hotel. But the domestic emoluments clause limits the president to his salary in office, and we cant increase it. We cant reduce it, but also it says that the president cannot rece
Years. The u. S. Has been without a defense secretary all year since the departure of former defense chief jim mattis in december. This is live coverage on cspan 3. Our meeting will come to order consistent with our policy to start on time. We will be doing that. Good morning. Today were considering the nomination of dr. Mark espy to be secretary of defense. We thank you all for being here today. We anticipate during your opening remarks, dr. Espy, that you will introduce any members of your family who are here and other support groups. It is standard we do have the eight required questions you will have to respond to audibly so we can get that in the record. Have you adhered to ethical regarding conflicts of interest. Yes, sir. Have you taken any actions which would prepare to presume the outcome of the confirmation process . No, sir. Exercising legislative and oversight responsibility makes it important that this committee, its subcommittees and other appropriate committees of congre
Our meeting will come to order consistent with policies to start on time. Well be doing that. Good morning today were considering the nomination of mark esper to be secretary of defense. We thank all for being here today. We anticipate doing your opening remarks, dr. Esper, introduce any members of your family here and other support groups. It is standard we have the eight required questions to respond to audibly to get that in record. Adhere to laws governing conflict of interest. Yes, sir. Assumed duties taken any actions that would appear to presume the outcome of the confirmation process . No, sir. Exercise legislative oversight responsibility makes it important that this committee, its subcommittees and other appropriate kmtsz if congress received testimony, reports, recordings and other information from the executive branch on a timely basis. Do you agree, if confirmed, to and and testify before this committee when requested. Yes, sir. Do you agree to provide records, document, E
Subcommittee will come to order. The terror is authorized to declare recess at anytime. The subcommittee is convening a hearing on the document production efforts on the opposite office of personnel management. I regret that we need to have this hearing. We are here because the fbi has not substantially complied with the committees request for documents from several months ago. Have witnessed a stunning lack of cooperation across the administration in response to multiple congressional investigations. For this committee to perform its important constitutional we must havesion, documents and information requested from agencies. That in turn requires cooperation. When the committee or a subcommittee sends a request for documents or a written response for answers, we expect meaningful and timely compliance and not stall tactics. It is because of a breakdown in that process you three are here today. Today we will be asking each of you to justify your respective productionoublesome track re
January. Mr. Esper, currently Army Secretary, was asked about u. S. Policy toward iran, cybersecurity, and Nuclear Deterrence, among other topics. This is just over 2. 5 hours. Requirede the 8 questions you will have to respond to audibly so we can get that in the record. If you would hear to the regulations of interest . Yes sir. Have you taken any actions that would appear to presume the outcome of the confirmation process . No, sir. Exercising your responsibility makes it important that this committee, subcommittees, and other appropriate committees if congress received testimony briefings, reports, recordings, records, and other information from the executive branch on a timely basis. Do you agree, it is confirmed, to testify before this committee . Yes, sir. Do you agree to provide records, documents, Electronic Communications in a timely matter when requested by this committee, subcommittees, or other appropriate committees of congress, and to results with the request or basis of