Experienced its own technical difficulties and inaccessible for almost an hour. Earlier this morning, another Computer System socalled glitch stranded, thousands of United Airlines passengers worldwide, causing an act of of heavy delays at most major airports. 3500 continental flights were affected over what the airline called a faulty router. Combination of the alleged glitches prompted Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson to step out in public and to address the matter. It appears from what we know at this stage that the malfunctions at unit and the Stock Exchange were not the result of any nefarious actor. We know less about the wall street journal at this point, except that their system is back up again as is the United Airline system. Lou all of this coming on the same day that fbi director james comey testified on capitol hill. Testifying about how illprepared the United States is for cyberattacks. Im here to tell the American People the tools youve given us are not working th
Experienced its own technical difficulties and inaccessible for almost an hour. Earlier this morning, another Computer System socalled glitch stranded, thousands of United Airlines passengers worldwide, causing an act of of heavy delays at most major airports. 3500 continental flights were affected over what the airline called a faulty router. Combination of the alleged glitches prompted Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson to step out in public and to address the matter. It appears from what we know at this stage that the malfunctions at unit and the Stock Exchange were not the result of any nefarious actor. We know less about the wall street journal at this point, except that their system is back up again as is the United Airline system. Lou all of this coming on the same day that fbi director james comey testified on capitol hill. Testifying about how illprepared the United States is for cyberattacks. Im here to tell the American People the tools youve given us are not working th
The committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committees meeting today for consideration the Border Security for america act of 2017. Chair announces that any request for recorded votes may be rolls and reset the committee at any point. Without objections, so ordered. They plan to acquire adequate notice and will have the court apply notees to members. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement. This morning our committee has gathered to markup the Border Security for america act. Before we begin id like to extend my thoughts and prayers to all the victims and the family members who have lost a loved one in the horrifying tragedy in las vegas sunday night. This kind of hatred deserves no place in our society. Now is the time to come together and heal as one nation. Going forward we must stand united and reject this kind of senseless violence. Id also like to take a brief moment to recognize the curages First Responderse, coast guard, National Guard, fema, countless volunt
The committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committees meeting today for consideration the Border Security for america act of 2017. Chair announces that any request for recorded votes may be rolls and reset the committee at any point. Without objections, so ordered. They plan to acquire adequate notice and will have the court apply notees to members. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement. This morning our committee has gathered to markup the Border Security for america act. Before we begin id like to extend my thoughts and prayers to all the victims and the family members who have lost a loved one in the horrifying tragedy in las vegas sunday night. This kind of hatred deserves no place in our society. Now is the time to come together and heal as one nation. Going forward we must stand united and reject this kind of senseless violence. Id also like to take a brief moment to recognize the curages First Responderse, coast guard, National Guard, fema, countless volunt
And other types of profiling the attorney generals efforts dont apply to anyone or garner incidents and he writes today mcadoos policy will address the use of other characteristics including national origin, gender origin, gender, identity, re ligion, and sexual orientation. The attorney generals policies do not apply to state and local police and also does not apply to Border Patrol activities near the border of fort activities our passengers or the secret service. White House Press Secretary confuse the matter further with this contradiction of the announcement. The government does not condone racial policies profiling that is the policy that is not allowed by Law Enforcement. But we also have to be in a position to allow Law Enforcement officials to make risk based assessments to balance the protection of the American People with the protections of liberty. President bush has already made profiling illegal for federal lawenforcement. And white house is confused exactly but no confus