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Treason, rivalry or other high crimes and misdemeanors. It is basically where the president commits, orus any officer commits a serious crime, that would be and Impeachable Offense. A serious abuse of his discretion could also constitute and Impeachable Offense, even if it is not a crime. What do we call the process going on right now in the house . Is this an impeachment . Impeachment inquiry . This is called an impeachment inquiry. This is where the house has decided that there is enough evidence out there, potential evidence out there that may warrant articles of impeachment. This is the point at which they are investigating. Sort of like a grand jury. Deciding whether or not to indict, or, in this case, impeach the president. If they draw articles of impeachment, then it still goes in the full house to decide whether or not to adopt one or more of the articles o ....
From russia, china, north korea and iran. The fbi that i see is tens of t thousands of brave men and women who are working as hard as they can to keep people they will never know safe from harm. The fbi that i see is reflected in folks like n the committee will reconvene. We were in the questioning period with the director of the fbi and the chair recognizes the gentle woman from georgia. Thank you, mr. Chairman and director wray. Thank you so much for being here. It is wonderful to see you. I would just like to say that given your distinguished and exs exem peculiary record of service, i am on the optimistic side that under your leadership we really will see a heightened degree of integrity Going Forward in the agency. I look forward to that. I wanted to ask a couple of questions around terrorism and isis. You mentioned in your opening testimony that the agency has some 1,000 active terrorism related investigations. How is that vo ....
The committee will reconvene. When we recessed we were in the questioning period with the director of the fbi and the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from georgia for five minutes. Thank you so much for being here. It is wonderful to seal. I would like to say that given your distinguished and exemplary record of service, i am frankly on the extraordinarily up the mystic side that under your leadership we will see a heightened degree of integrity Going Forward in the agency. I look forward to that. I wanted to ask a couple of questions around terrorism and isis. You mentioned in your opening the agency had some 1000 active terrorist investigations. To is that volume continuing strain the agency in terms of your resources . Dir. Wray it is a good question. Thousandsn to those of isis related investigations, we have a similar number two we would classify as homegrown violent extremists. And we would call those isis inspired. Lone wol ....
The committee will reconvene. Mr. President , it is wonderful to be here and to see you. Given your distinguished and exemplarry service, i frankly am on the optimistic side that under your leadership we will see a heightened degree of integrity Going Forward in the agency. So i look forward to that. I wanted to ask a couple of questions around terrorism and isis. You mentioned in your opening testimony that the agency has ome 1,000 active terrorism related investigation. How is that volume of terrorism investigated cases continuing or not continuing to strain the agency in terms of your resources and your ability to cover other investigations . It is a good question. In addition to those thousand isis related investigations, we closely similar number of what we would classify as homegrown violent xtremists conwe would define cr as not so much isis directed but eye isis inspired. Isis i had spired. Lone wolves who see sermons and v ....
The meeting will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. All members will have five legislative days to submit materials for the record. This hearing is for the purpose of receiving the secretary of treasurys annual report on the Financial StabilityOversight Council. Now recognize myself for three and a half minutes to give an Opening Statement. Mr. Secretary, there is your first appearance before the house after the tax cuts and jobs act has been signed into law. I want to let you know on behalf of the majority how grateful we are to you and to the president for your leadership and for helping make this act signed into law. It is truly, truly historic. After eight years of failed economic policies that led to the slowest, weakest recovery in ....