the house committee will come to order without objection. to chair is authorized declare recesses at any time. welcome everyone to this hearing on securing america s election, oversight of government agency. i will recognize myself for an opening statement. last month, this committee held part one of a series of hearings on securing america s elections. in that hearing, three witnesses who had jointly been chosen testified that our nations elections are under attack. the former director of the national security council under both president clinton and george w. bush warned that we must take hold and expeditious steps to address cyber threats. we must treat election security theecretary of state from commonwealth of pennsylvania elaborated. election security is a race without a finish line line and our adversaries are not going down. this testimony has been confirmed by the leaders of our intelligence community. foreign actors will view the 2020 election as an opportunity to
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agents registration act. i want to thank the witnesses here today for working with the committee to schedule this hearing. i know that some of you even had to change your travel plans and i want you to know that the committee appreciates your cooperation. we had to postpone this hearing while trying to schedule two new witnesses and obtain the cooperation of a third who was first invited on july 5. it is unfortunate when uncooperative witnesses cause unnecessary inconvenience for those of you who are easy to work with. after he failed to negotiate with the committee in good faith, i issued a subpoena in cooperation with senator feinstein to glen simpson for his appearance today. i crew the subpoena after mr. simpson agreed to a transcribed staff interview about, number one, his involvement in creating the trump dossier and tractions with the fbi and, number two, his alleged work with the unregistered foreign agents who met with the trump family and campaign officials. regardi
committee, this is an hour and a half. today the committee will examine the justice department s enforcement of a foreign agent s registration act. i want to thank the witnesses here today for working with the committee to schedule this hearing. i know that some of you even had to change your travel plans and i want you to know that the committee appreciates your cooperation. we had to postpone this hearing while trying to schedule two new witnesses and obtain the cooperation of a third who was first invited on july the 5th. it is unfortunate when uncooperative witnesses cause unnecessary inconvenience for those of you who are easy to work with. after a failed negotiation with the committee to, in good faith, i issued a subpoena with in the cooperation with senator feinstein to glenn simpson for his appearance today. i withdrew the subpoena after mr. simpson agreed to a transcribed staff interview about, number one, his involvement in creating the trump dossier and, numbe
senator chuck grassley is the committee chair. this part of the hearing is about 90 minutes. today, the committee will examine the justice department s enforcement of the foreign agents registration act. i want to thank the witnesses here today for working with the committee to schedule this hearing. i know that some of you even had to change your travel plans, and i want you to know that the committee appreciates your cooperation. we had to postpone this hearing while trying to schedule two new witnesses and obtain the cooperation of a third who was first invited on july 5th. it is unfortunate when uncooperative witnesses cause unnecessary inconvenience for those of you who are easy to work with. after a failure to negotiate with the committee in good faith, i issued a subpoena with cooperation with senator feinstein to simpson for his appearance today. i withdrew the subpoena after mr. simpson agreed to a tr transcribed staff interview about, number one, his involvement i