Audio real quick . Hell of a time getting in here today. You sound great and you look great. Thanks, i needed that. Gavel again. Okay. Good morning, welcome. I call to order subcommittee on oversight. I want to thank everybody for joining us today. Were holding this hybrid hearing in compliance with House Resolution 965. Accordingly i am joined by members here in the hearing room as well as approximately ten members on the remote platform. Thats outstanding, and i want to thank them for joining us. Before we turn to todays important topic i want to remind the members of a few procedures to help us navigate the terrain here. First, consistent with regulations the committee will keep microphones muted. For those participating virtually to limit background noise. Pause for one moment. So we will pause for one moment. Members are responsible for unmuting themselves, unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for their five minutes. Members here in the hearing room al
Here at 4 30, lets start with a check at the main travel times. There are no travel times in the red at this hour. Only in the yellow and that is the usual suspect, the ultimate pass, that is only a half hour ride through the ultimate pass to the dublin interchange and everything looks pretty darn good. Eastshfrand y on about a half hour and your drive time out of the south bay is a 39 minute ride to the airport. Looking at the bay bridge, the cash lanes are stacking up, but elsewhere in the fasttrack lanes, everything was good to go and metering lights are not yet on. San mateo bridge looks good in the westbound commute direction and eastbound is similar. Last but not least, lane closures due to emergency construction on the Richmond San Rafael bridge. Already slowing things down. We have breaking news out of sacramento. A Police Officer was killed in the line of duty overnight. And that sent police into a very long standoff. Here is a look at the scene from a few hours ago. It actual
We have followed that policy. And we never said that it was a target, which we would i understand that. I appreciate the kauvcaveats. Youre very good at caveats, i appreciate that. That brings me to my second point. A full six and a half years after the recovery, as you acknowledged there is slack in the labor market and there are significant weaknesses in the labor market, in the overall economy. In fact, a recent investors business daily article said the over all group has been 13. 3 . Thats less than half the average growth rate in the previous ten recoveries since waurld world war 2. If it had been average, gdp would by had 1. 9 trillion larger today. You recognized this in your report saying the measure of labor under utilization remains relative. That would explain why youve invoked that caveat and havent raised the rates even though you came below that 6. 5 . I understand the analysis. Lets talk about the cause of that underlying weakness. Its clearly not Monetary Policy from th
To prosperity. Who is this that i spent time actual time working on the National Security issues. Of all those people running there is not one that has fixed areas in all of those critical three areas. A midsummer person running for president . We do. Part of a video giving the reasons john kasich says he should be president. The live announcement is live on cspan 3 at 11 00 a. M. Eastern. Its almost as if they were a matter enacting it. Freedom breeds inequality. Ill inequality. Ill say it a third time. Almost always in the rate. Very unlikely today. Today i believe there is someone singing dwindling talk about hot topic hot salacious topic number two whereas then i dont think i was the norm in tv at the time and i dont think these guys needed that. As you mention the moderator a distinguished newsstand who is really embarrassed by this year he was moderating but he disappears for sometimes five or more minutes out of time. Today you would have a moderator not jumping in every 30 seco
Be militarily defeated without being treated in the homebase and so this fight eventually has to go over the iraqi border not odd. [inaudible] you dont really expect to defeat them . But there are ground forces. [inaudible] we have are the spoken about playing the role and im not suggesting that we have an optimally configured ground force in the region but im equally clear that injecting western boots on the ground would not be the solution. That would not deliver the solution. Try as they may leave lead us on to this. Thank you, mr. Chairman on this point. This analysis is being done with whatever you hope to achieve with airstrikes. And of course we are talking about this in recent years and so what are your plans for this situation . It also remains to be seen as far as a political transition in the regime to a government which has legitimately. [inaudible] at the outcome that we see is not going to be it easy to deliver and we recognize that. In the meantime it is easy to challeng