Good evening, verne. Welcome. We will now come to order. Like to start off by welcoming mr. Dan bush some of North Carolina to the committee. Thank you, sir. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Delighted to be with you. Look forward to meeting with you, sir. Subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony on one year later the implementation of the tsa modernization act. And without objection, the chairs authorized to declare the subcommittee in recess at any point. I want to thank you, Ranking Member lesco, and our distinguished witnesses for joining us today. One year ago this month, congress enacted the First Comprehensive reauthorization of the tsa known as the tsa modernization act. The act incorporated substantial number of bills and provisions that originated in this committee. It stands as a testament to the committees longstanding bipartisan efforts to conduct oversight of tsa. And i thank my colleagues, ms. Watsoncoleman and mr. Catko for their leadership in advancing legislation las
[laughter] mark thank you for coming. Im mark loiselle, at George Mason University and we author the intelligence policy and National Security that has put on a number of these wonderful programs in the last few years. We will continue to do so. I am very flattered by this turnout. For those of you who dont know jarden George Mason University has a schar School Policy government that provides academic programs in fairfax and arlington, virginia and we have a number of degree programs primarily taught in arlington and Public Policy Public Administration interNational Security studies which has been ranked number two by u. S. News and world report nationally that we are very proud of and i think the Michael Hayden sent her center for Security Policy studies a number of other entities at the school are a very important component of the recognition we have received for being leaders in the field of security studies. Again thank you for being here. I look forward to a great event i want to
applause thank you. Its really an honor and a privilege to be here. I was asked to say a few words to introduce the next panel. I would start by saying something that we probably know. The court is a fairly powerful institution. It was not always so, one of the signs of how powerful it is is that you do see, in any president ial election, people say it matters who you vote for because they will pick the next Supreme Court justices. If you think about why that really is, the Court Decides about 80 cases a year. About 75 of them need to be decided but thats not the reason the court is powerful and not the reason people say that about who you should vote for for the president ial election. There is typically five or six cases in any term which is why we care about the court. Those are the cases that have truly Significant Impact on our politics, society, and government. Part of the reason that makes them so important is that the law runs out before you get to the decision. So how do we ju
Club. Thank you very much. This is a great turnout, i am flattered if there Something Else important in washington, d. C. Tonight, i think you know what im talking about. [laughter] thank you for coming. I am dean of the policy of government at George Mason University. And respond to the Michael Hayden center for intelligence policy and International Security that has put on a number of wonderful programs over the past few years and we will continue to do so. I look very much forward to this special event and for those of you who do not know, George Mason University has a policy government that provides academic programs both in fairfax and in Arlington Virginia and we have a number of professional degree programs primarily taught in arlington and public policy, public ministration, International Security studies which is ranked number two by u. S. News and world report, we are very proud of that. I think the Michael Hayden center, our center for Security Policy studies, another number
Government that provides academic programs both in fairfax and in Arlington Virginia and we have a number of professional degree programs primarily taught in arlington and public policy, public ministration, International Security studies which is ranked number two by u. S. News and world report, we are very proud of that. I think the Michael Hayden center, our center for Security Policy studies, another number of entities at the school are very important component of the recognition we have received for being leaders in the field of security studies. Again, thank you for being here, i look forward to a great event. I want to acknowledge the presence of the university, david lewis. [applause] several members of our board of trustees are also here tonight. Thanks to them for attending this event as well. But most importantly i want to acknowledge the presence of the founder of the Michael Hayden center and his wife jeanine, general Michael Hayden and jeanine hayden. [applause] we are ve