Good morning. The subcommittee will come to order. This is our third fiscal year 2010 Budget Committee hearings for the lets the Branch Appropriations subcommittee. We have with us today the honorable frank larkin, Senate Sergeant at arms, and chief matthew verderosa, chief of the u. S. Capitol police. Thank you both for being here today, and welcome chief verderosa to your first hearing before this subcommittee. We will try to make it as painful as we possibly can. Thank you. Busy was originally pay for the morning of june 14, that same morning and and decide whos going open fire on members of congress while they held a practice for the congressional baseball game in alexandria, virginia. Because of the quick action of Capitol Police officers, special agents crystal griner and david bailey were unprotected detail for House Majority whip steve scalise, that that was not more tragic. Because of their heroism, there were no fatalities when there could have been many lives lost. We are so
Testified on capitol hill recently regarding budgets for 2017 and 2018. Modernization and cybersecurity efforts from the Top Priorities for all these agencies. This House Administration Committee Hearing is about an hour and a half. I now call to order the committee on House Administration for the purpose of starting todays hearing on the operations and priorities of the house officers and legislative branch entities. Aquorum is present so we may proceed. I would like to start off by thanking my colleagues and our witnesses for your attendance today. I know how busy everyone is and we appreciate your flexibility and willingness to appear this afternoon. I would also like to thank our witnesses for hard work and assistance during new member and a smooth transition for staff into the 115th congress and especially for the incredible amount of work that went into securing and hosting the president ial inauguration. We know many months of preparation went into insuring our government carrie
By representative candice miller. This is an hour. I now call to order the committee on administration for todays 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. Were 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. Hes 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 of the nati
Issued new currency replacing all make notes with new banknotes. This is incredibly inconvenient for criminals and corrupt politicians just as it would invalidate the banknotes stolen at the Regional Bank by isis. Does anyone have a good estimate as to the value of the notes . I have had various reports. It is hard to say. Alleged to have sold 500 million. You would hope the Iraqi Government would at least no the gold currency in his bank before the american troops ran and left the money for crisis but it goes beyond that. The is paying salaries to bureaucrats and the money is taken. It is my understanding and i dont know the Iraqi Government is sending electricity free end three and a isis gets to collect from the utility users. I get conflicting arguments spent from our government half the time the iraqi of our boasting make it possible to get governments. They care about the people and want to make sure their lives are comfortable. Finally, there is the real for spoke about. Oil wel
Tool. So they cannot accomplish systemic reform. And so if, for example, we do not have a policy addressing a ban on racial profiling, for example, and that continues to be a factor in Law Enforcement in a particular community, it will defeat the purpose of the bodyworn camera if that purpose is to help reiterate Law Enforcement and the Community Together and their approach to Law Enforcement. I really appreciate all your answers. Again, im grateful to the chairman for calling this. As the cochair of the senate Law Enforcement caucus and someone that worked closely with Law Enforcement in my previous role, it is my hope that some of the different organizations you represent will Work Together to help develop some model guidelines and some model policies. It should be locally driven but not every community is going to have the resources, time and effort. I think bodyworn cameras are misperceived as an easy solution to very complex and deepseeded problems. They can be a constructive tool