Protection, Transportation Security Administration, and a secret service answer questions from the House Homeland Security committee. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on a department of Homeland Security use of a facial recognition and other Biometric Technologies. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning. The committee on Homeland Security is meeting to examine department of Homeland Security use of facial recognition and other Biometric Technologies. The government use of biometrics is not entirely new. For example, finger prints have been used as an identification tool for many decades. Other biometrics includes dna, voice pattern and palm prints. In recent years facial recognition has become the new chosen forum of Biometric Technology as facial Recognition Technology has advanced it is used by the
Interagency working group. Im alexandra dunn, administrator for chemicals and pesticides that epa. We are pleased to have this group continue the good work that began early in the administration and thank you for joining us today. We know how busy your schedules are and how difficult it is to get a group of this caliber together at the same time. Your attendance today demonstrates a clear commitment across the administration to implement a strategy to improve the endangered species act consultation process for pesticides. The farm bill passed this esteemed group, with various stakeholders, nongovernment organizations and others in a transparent manner and we are committed to maintaining that type of process. I now am privileged to introduce the honorable epa administrator andrew wheeler. Administrator wheeler has provided strong leadership to all of us here at the agency and is deeply committed to the issues the working group will assess. Administrator wheeler. Good morning and thank y
C the select committee will come to order. Welcome everyone to the select Committee Hearing or the leveling the Playing Field how to counter the Chinese Communist party or economic aggression. Who when i looked at the staggering economic relationship thats a word that comes to mind. One small example the American Pacific northwest salmon are frozen sent to china to feed tboned by hand and refrozen and shipped back to u. S. Grocery store sometimes miles from where the fish were copied the economical links between the u. S. And china are dizzyingly complicated that theres another word that comes to mind. Naivete. There were prescient dissenters for the last 25 years or both parties largely made the same naive bet on china that Economic Engagement would lead the Chinese Communist party to political liberalization. Beijing saw our quintessentially american optimism is an opportunity to exploit and their treaties and International Commitment are but not for me. I will enter video into the r
C the select committee will come to order. Welcome everyone to the select Committee Hearing or the leveling the Playing Field how to counter the Chinese Communist party or economic aggression. Who when i looked at the staggering economic relationship thats a word that comes to mind. One small example the American Pacific northwest salmon are frozen sent to china to feed tboned by hand and refrozen and shipped back to u. S. Grocery store sometimes miles from where the fish were copied the economical links between the u. S. And china are dizzyingly complicated that theres another word that comes to mind. Naivete. There were prescient dissenters for the last 25 years or both parties largely made the same naive bet on china that Economic Engagement would lead the Chinese Communist party to political liberalization. Beijing saw our quintessentially american optimism is an opportunity to exploit and their treaties and International Commitment are but not for me. I will enter video into the r
C the select committee will come to order. Welcome everyone to the select Committee Hearing or the leveling the Playing Field how to counter the Chinese Communist party or economic aggression. Who when i looked at the staggering economic relationship thats a word that comes to mind. One small example the American Pacific northwest salmon are frozen sent to china to feed tboned by hand and refrozen and shipped back to u. S. Grocery store sometimes miles from where the fish were copied the economical links between the u. S. And china are dizzyingly complicated that theres another word that comes to mind. Naivete. There were prescient dissenters for the last 25 years or both parties largely made the same naive bet on china that Economic Engagement would lead the Chinese Communist party to political liberalization. Beijing saw our quintessentially american optimism is an opportunity to exploit and their treaties and International Commitment are but not for me. I will enter video into the r