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by representative candice miller. this is an hour. i now call to order the committee on administration for today s hearing on the u.s. capitol police. and the record will remain open for five legislative days so members might submit any materials to include. quorum is present so we might proceed. we re meeting today to hear from the new u.s. capitol chief of police matt verderosa. and as a committee, we want to congratulate you on your appointment and looking forward to continuing to work with you shoulder to shoulder. so we appreciate you coming. he s going to be talking of course today about his vision, his direction for the capitol police moving forward. some of the specific items we hope to discuss today include the capitol police budget priorities and recent security events and actions taken and the capitol police initiatives current and future. the capitol police is a law enforcement with a unique mission. charged with protecting and serving the u.s. capitol, the seat
washington. he appointed the first 13 u.s. marshals. the president still appoints the u.s. marshals confirmed by the senate. if you would thin think in law t that would change as the director and the deputy direct director. we have a couple more. i m just curious from the spouse perspective what is it like? i m curious also, sir. thank you for asking the question. in her the microphone. i m the type of person i don t really think about it and i don t think about what he does. i keep myself busy but when i do think about it i kind of forget. he was always good at keeping in touch and what they are and what they were doing but there were a few times that he wasn t calling and you know that is the things that happened whether they got in a car accident or somebody, you know, was taken to the hospital so it was one of those things that when you think about it, you freak out because i am more worried about when you are in dc with the sniper case watching tv and when they w
we are going to tell a story out of school that predates 9/11. that s getting involved with the fbi and it is a neo-nazi was wanted for murder in germany was hiding out at the compound in west virginia. the marshals that decided and went into the town disguised the good boys for the trip and at the same time a group of fbi agents looking quite official came into the town. they have been in former. this fbi agent kept leaving his file around about the informant and mike being mike tried very hard to find a common ground and the agents apparently were not that interested in it and they said wait a second, we have to talk this out. they left the room and they left this file sitting on the desk and they came back and ended the fbi agent started talking about how this was an fbi operation and they had a secret inside that no one could talk about. they took it out of the water and said do you mean this guy cracks. it s just you have that on the case and you try your best to wor