Security Committee Examining the policing of Virtual Currencies. Then a House Homeland Security Committee Examining the management at the department of Homeland Security. On monday, the senate Homeland Security committee examined the governments ability to police the use of Digital Currency with the laws currently on the books. Online decentralized systems allow people to Exchange Goods and Services Without using real money, including bit coins. This hearing is two and a half hours. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us, we especially want to thank our witnesses, panel number one, and somewhere in the audience, panel number two. The i. D. Card is there, so pick it up please and put it where it belongs. That way well know who you are and you will, too. My succeeder in the senate used to say many years ago, he would say, his advice was wear a big button. Wear a big button when youre campaigning so youll remember your name and so will other people, too. We want to make sure p
The committee will come to order. Id like to thank our witnesses for joining us here today. For your continued service to the American People. Todays hearing will examine our nations readiness to respond to weapons of mass destruction and Health Security threats. The goal of this hearing is to assess in countering weapons of Mass Destruction Office, housed within dhs, and its ability to combat these threats. We will also discuss the newly established office of Health Security, which will be tasked with stream lining health and Safety Operations Department Personnel and overseeing medical and Public Health matters all across the department of Homeland Security. Chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological material, sometimes shortened to cbrn it is a number to describe hazardous agents becoming weaponized, and can cause anything from casually and incapacitation to mass destruction. In april of 2019, a technician was arrested after stealing three radioactive devices from his work place in
The committee will come to order. I want to thank our witnesses for joining us here today. For our continued service to the American People. Todays hearing will examine our nations readiness to respond to weapons of mass destruction, and Health Security threats. The goal of this hearing is to assess in countering weapons of Mass Destruction Office, housed within dhs, and its ability to combat these threats. We will also discuss the newly established office of Health Security, which will be tasked with stream lining health and Safety Operations Department Personnel and overseeing medical and Public Health matters all across the department of Homeland Security. Chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological material, sometimes shortened to cbrn it is a number to describe hazardous agents becoming weaponized, and can cause anything from casually and incapacitation to mass destruction. In april of 2019, a technician was arrested after stealing three radioactive devices from his work place in
Next, a look at weapons of mass destruction and their potential impact on health with representatives from Homeland Security. The committee will come to order. I want to thank our witnesses for joining us here today. For our continued service to the American People. Todays hearing will examine our nations readiness to respond to weapons of mass destruction, and Health Security threats. The goal of this hearing is to assess in countering weapons of Mass Destruction Office, housed within dhs, and its ability to combat these threats. We will also discuss the newly established office of Health Security, which will be tasked with stream lining health and Safety Operations Department Personnel and overseeing medical and Public Health matters all across the department of Homeland Security. Chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological material, sometimes shortened to cbrn it is a number to describe hazardous agents becoming weaponized, and can cause everything from mass casualties and in camp a
The door behind me. We do expect him to face new questions about the russia investigation that he announced at a different hearing back in march in which he said there is this ongoing fbi inquiry into these alleged coordinations between the Trump Associates and russian officials during the time of the election. The question is will he be able to advance the narrative beyond what we already know that the investigation is ongoing. He declined on a number of fronts and last hearing to give any specificity about the investigation. What will he do differently today . Democrats do intend to press him on mr. Comeys decision last fall, days before the election, to announce an Additional Investigation into further emails, Clinton Emails and something that she blames that cost her the election. I talked to one of the democrats on the committee yesterday. Dick blumenthal that said this is an issue that democrats plan to raise repeatedly today. He has discussed it in classified settings, but the A