Unfolds daily. In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Week, the Senate Intelligence committee considered reauthorization of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act, which is set to expire at the end of the year. Those testifying were Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein, director andrew mccabe, National Intelligence director dan coats, and nsa director admiral michael rodgers. Lawmakers also asked about the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 president ial election and private conversations between the witnesses and President Trump. This is just over two an half hours. Afterwards, we plan to take your calls on this hearing and others like it this week that focused on the rush investigation. Id like to call this hearing to order. I call this hearing to order. O thank our witnesses today, director of National Intelligence, dan coats, dan welcome back to your
Gladly. If i can go 3 30 we will recess5 minutes and come back if i 45 so everyone can vote and be back so everyone is able to hear everyone elses questions. We thank you for being here mr. Secretary, and, so promptly. We appreciate that you made time to appear before this Committee Twice in a weeks time passing an annual state Department Authorization bill was one of the fundamental responsibilities of the committee. And when we assert thatat responsibility and declined to exercise on our oversight, we surrender our authority to the executive branch and other congressional committeecongresse failed to do the job of the constituent. Sesenc restoring this annual practice was a top priority of mine when i became the chairman and im proud of the significant progress that we have made when the first authorization bill in 14 years became law. And i want to thank senator cardin and everybody on the committee for making that happen. Er however, because of the previous inaction there are progr
Gladly. If i can go 3 30 we will recess5 minutes and come back if i 45 so everyone can vote and be back so everyone is able to hear everyone elses questions. We thank you for being here mr. Secretary, and, so promptly. We appreciate that you made time to appear before this Committee Twice in a weeks time passing an annual state Department Authorization bill was one of the fundamental responsibilities of the committee. And when we assert thatat responsibility and declined to exercise on our oversight, we surrender our authority to the executive branch and other congressional committeecongresse failed to do the job of the constituent. Sesenc restoring this annual practice was a top priority of mine when i became the chairman and im proud of the significant progress that we have made when the first authorization bill in 14 years became law. And i want to thank senator cardin and everybody on the committee for making that happen. Er however, because of the previous inaction there are progr
3. Recess for 15 minutes and come back at 5 45 so everyone can go over and vote and be back and hear what everyone elses question. We thank you for being here mr. Secretary again. So promptly. We appreciate that youve made time to appear before this Committee Twice in h a weeks time passing an annual state department bill is one of the fundamental responsibilities of this committee. When we shirk that responsibility and decline to exercise our oversight we in essence surrender our authority and we fail to do the job our constituents sent us here to do. Restoring is this annual practice was a top priority of mine when he became thachairmand im proud of the progress we made last year when the first authorization bill in 14 years became law and i want to thank everybody on this committee for making that happen. However, because of previous inaction, there are programs at the department that have not been appropriately reviewed and analyzed in well over a decade. This lack of oversight res
Questions so in order to , at 5 30te that gladly we will recess and 15 minutes and come back at 5 45 so everyone can go over and vote and be back and hear what everyone elses question. We thank you for being here mr. Secretary again. So promptly. We appreciate that youve made time to appear before this Committee Twice in a weeks time passing an annual state department bill is one of the fundamental responsibilities of this committee. When we shirk that responsibility and decline to exercise our oversight we in essence surrender our authority and we fail to do the job our constituents sent us here to do. Restoring is this annual practice was a top priority of mine when he became the chairman and im proud of the progress we made last year when the first authorization bill in 14 years became law and i want to thank everybody on this committee for making that happen. However, because of previous inaction, there are programs at the department that have not been appropriately reviewed and an