as assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, he testified about changes made to improve security at foreign posts. he was joined by members of the state department best practices panel, which made security recommendations of its own. this is a little less than three hours. [no audio] we are experiencing an audio problem with this event. we are working to fix the technical difficulty and will continue running it. hopefully, the audio will come back shortly, here on c-span. [no audio] again, we are experiencing audio difficulties. we apologize for that problem. we are working to fix it. we will have it corrected, hopefully, shortly, here on c-span. [no audio] again, experiencing some audio difficulties with this recording of this hearing on c-span. we have found another version of the recording. we are going to play that now for you from the top, on c-span. [no audio] come tomeeting will order. the chairquorum for persons taking testimony, percent to house rules.
authorities. they want to add protections for workers. the white house called it a snafu and said that it would happen against soon. democrats (202) 748-8000 republicans (202) 748-8001 independents (202) 748-8002. can also send us a tweet at http://twitter.com/cspanwj. phone lines are open. we want to tell you about the developing story out of philadelphia. at many of you are waking up to the news that an amtrak commuter train derailed last night in philadelphia on its way and washington, d.c. to new york around 9:30 p.m. eastern take a look at the front page of the philadelphia inquirer. five died and more than 50 are hurt. the new york times putting this tweet out at least five killed and dozens injured after amtrak train killing 243 people derailed. investigators on the scene where an amtrak train when 80 three of, killing five people and injuring 140+. ntsb was on the team this morning to investigate with the fbi along with the federal railroad commission. senator to
rights. and i remember when president bush signed that law, he uttered these words. he said, let the shameful walls of discrimination come tumbling down. a wonderful day. and looking back over those 24 years, can anyone deny that our country has made great progress in expanding our concepts of the rights of people with disabilities, the right to be educated and well-educated, the right of people with disabilities to have independent living, to live on their own, not to be institutionalized, the right of people with disabilities to associate freely with others, the right of people with disabilities, children with disabilities, to go to school with other kids who are not disabled, the right of people with disabilities to travel freely with barriers broken do down, ramps, not stairs, buses that are fully accessible now, trains, everything accessible, every building designed in america think about that every building designinged and built in america today is fully accessibl
this house committee on the benghazi attack hearing about to get under way. while we have a second we re going to take a chance and give you some background on today s hearing from a capitol hill reporter. welcome for purposes of taking testimony pursuant to house rules. chair will recognize himself and ranking member for purposes of making opening statement. without objection the opening statement of any other member of the committee who wishes to provide one will be included in the record. a little over two years ago, four americans serving our country in benghazi, libya, were killed. two of them were killed when a facility emblematic of our country was set on fire. and two of them were killed when they dared to fight back and defend themselves. and others. sean smith, chris stevens, ty woods and glen doherty represented us. they represented our country, and our values. we ask them to go. we sent them, and they were killed because some people hold a deep-seated animus to
edward snowden. i ll be talking with people on both sides of that debate from the intelligence community to privacy advocates. philip mudd, rotenberg, jesselyn radack and timothy murphy. and what has been revealed by mr. snowden violates at least two federal laws governing surveillance. section 215 of the patriot act. but also the constitution. which nobody has brought up. what authorizes the press to do what it does? the first amendment. and i ve represented n.s.a. whistle blower thomas drake. he went through every proper internal channel. some of your other guests talked about that s what a real whistle blower should do. he did. not only did that not achieve anything, but the government turned around and prosecuted him for espionage. and we conclude with former new york governor elliott spitzer. just tell me personally what was what were the events that led up to that that caused you to hire prostitutes and to risk your. and to risk the job that you had worked so hard