The Defense Department have stricter requirements for the program. This is just under one hour. [indiscernible conversation] [gavel pound] mr. Wilson good morning. The hearing will come to order. Ladies and gentlemen, i welcome you here today and call the hearing of the House Armed Services subcommittee of readiness of the House Armed Services subcommittee on the continued oversight of the transfer of excess poetry equipment to civilian Law Enforcement agencies to order. I would like to begin by recognizing the dedicated service of our clerk. This will be her last official event for our subcommittee and i want to personally thank her for her contributions to our efforts in the past year. We wish her the best of luck as she moves forward with future endeavors. Thank you, jody. [applause] mr. Wilson one of the objectives of the subcommittee is to bring attention to matters that impact the overall readiness of the department of defense, that includes management challenges and budget impli
Thank you. [applause] one of the objectives of this subcommittee is to bring attention to matters that impact the overall readiness of the department of defense. This includes programs or activities which face management challenges, present budget implications, or could be administrated more efficiently. It is our goal to provide necessary oversight in order to ensure our armed forces achieve the highest level of readiness possible. Given the current threat facing our nation and budgetary pressure on the department of defense, accountability is always paramount and every dollar counts. Vigorous oversight can help ensure that mistakes do not happen and when they inevitably do, we learn lessons from missteps for this reason. I am very grateful that we have convened this hearing today on the recent Accountability Office report highlighting deficiencies found with the management and operation of the Law Enforcement support office, l e s o within the logistics agency. They are responsible f
Those cases have to be evaluated on its own merits based on the facts of the case and the applicable regulations. Mister sullivan, time is running out but miss colin had asked you all about where we go from here. Tell me clearly, what would you like to see done so that we can be effective and efficient and so we can basically put you out of a job . Mister cummings, im not trying to get rid of you but you understand what im saying. I appreciate that. Im concerned that when we have an investigation and because i dont have enough special agents to expeditiously investigate allegations, we eventually get to them but the old saying justice delayed is justice denied, im concerned i dont have enough agents to adequately and immediately address some of these allegations. Thats why theres so many cases in thepipeline and if you do the math , my professional responsibility which is in special unit headquarters doing essentially gs 15 and political appointees, the average 9. 5 cases each and agen
Employees that looked pornography on their work computer and a third accessed child pornography at work. The Inspector General found another employee made unwelcomed advances between female. Utah congressman is chair of the House Oversight committee. Weve come to order, without objection the chair has authorized a recess at any time. Todays hearing is entitled kmming employee misconduct at the epa. Its a topic weve addressed a few times but it doesnt seem to be getting better. We will continue to highlight this as long as it takes because in my opinion the epa is one of the most toxic places in the federal government to work and if you dont get rid of the toxicity of the employees there at the epa, were doing a great disservice to this country. Most of them are good hardworking, they care, work hard, but you have some bad apples at the epa and theyre not being dealt with and not being addressed. Well look forward to talking about this. The Inspector General has done some good quality w
Research and quality has found the reduction in nursing staffing has a direct relationship to negative Patient Outcomes with regard to the treatment of their conditions. So the more resources that have to be dedicated to the nonuse of up to date technology, calls from that pool of talent that is not being directed to patient care. And i dont think thats something we want to do as a nation. My time has expired. Ia ill hand it over to mr. Nelson. Im going to defer my questions until later. I want to introduce a thought. The law says its illegal robo calls callsen cell phones. Yet consumers receive millions of those robo calls on cell phones. Can you imagine if we made it legal what would happen . Im going to defer and let our members ask their questions first. Senator blount. Im sorry, thats right. Well keep it even. Blumenthal not here. Senator mccaskill. So this is not that complicated. All you have to have is the permission of the person youre calling and call them. I mean you guys ma