Cspans book tv. Michael mccaul of texas gave a speech on National Security at George Washington university. After he spoke three republicans from his committee participated in a Panel Discussion about the issues he discussed. This is one hour and 35 minutes. Good morning. If i can ask everyone to please put their phones on silent mode and let me welcome you to the campus of George Washington university. It is a real treat, a real pleasure and privilege to want to get host chairman mccaul on campus. He has been chairman of the House Homeland Security committee since 2013. At a time where there seems to be gridlock in washington, d. C. , i can say without any exaggeration, he is arguably one of the most prolific and more importantly, effective legislators in d. C. Right now, focused on a whole host of National Security issues and also chairs his committee in a genuinely bipartisan way, which is very true to the issues that our country faces on national and Homeland Security. I will be ve
If i can ask everyone to please put their phones on silent mode and let me welcome you to the campus of George Washington university. It is a real treat, a real pleasure and privilege to want to get host chairman mccaul on campus. He has been chairman of the House Homeland Security committee since 2013. At a time where there seems to be gridlock in washington, d. C. , i can say without any exaggeration, he is arguably one of the most prolific and more importantly, effective legislators in d. C. Right now, focused on a whole host of National Security issues and also chairs his committee in a , whichly bipartisan way is very true to the issues that our country faces on national and Homeland Security. I will be very brief, which is very, which is very true to the rare for mei will turn it over to the chairman now. Afterwards, we have an amazing panel. When you think about members of congress, you dont immediately think cia or National Counterterrorism center or you dont immediately think
Homeland security secretary jeh johnson and a former Homeland Security undersecretary. They talked about russias speakinte interference in the election and how to prevent interference in the upcoming elections. If we may, well begin our hearing. It obviously was delayed with the arrival of former member scalise, which was obviously received quite warmly with the house. We are continuing to pray for his continued recovery and his family is constantly in our mind. This is our Congressional Task force on Election Security. We have formed this body to look at some issues around what happened during the last electi election. A lot of us are concerned about it. Were kind of looking forward rather than backward but kind of trying to figure out did we miss something. Can we use this as an opportunity to fix things for the future . We have the cochair miss br braddo braddock, Ranking Member on house administration. I have a comment for the record, miss cochair, in the interest of time, im just
Good morning, thank you all for being here today for the second full [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] the meeting today to consider both Homeland Security appropriations bill, and interior appropriations bill. We made some remarkable progress over the past month and we hope to have it completed today. Now i refer to chairman carter to present the fiscal year 2018 Homeland Security bill. Judge carter. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Before i sort its sort of a tradition to have some kind of snipe from your home district. The most famous thing in my home district are doughnuts, the National Magazines declare it the best doughnut in the world. However we cant, theyre so good they dont travel well. So as a substitute, we have a large Czech Community in my district. Swree clac we have clachis of all sorts across the hall. Our Czech Community is very, very proud of their clachis and theyre very good. I want to let you know about that a clachi, we had them here last year. Theyre good. The question is wha