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Just over an hour. [applause] im not used to the applause. Walter sackson or bringing isaacson for bringing some dignity to the Wilson Center. C. E. O. Of the nd center. I want to recognize my colleagues from the advisory council, especially my cochair, in the middle there, number two. D [laughter] and heres a list of other dignitaries. Let me first recognize my colleagues from that committee. We have on to michael, the director of the program. Formerly of some very Senior Intelligence posts. Cr...

Members of transnational alleged gangs and 2,400 child predators. Coast scal year, the guard saved over 3,500 lives and 319,000 pounds of cocaine, 78,000 pounds of marijuana, worth a total of 4. 3 billion wholesale. In just one mission off the and south ntral america, the cutter stratton alone seized over one billion in along with two drug submerseables. Last year the secret service successfully orchestrated what may have been the largest security operation in the history of this country by secu...

Tried to do in new york was to leverage shared Regional Service providers to try to ensure that districts were able to get the students the services they needed in a sustainable way. But certainly, i want to make sure our teams connect on that and talk through that because we certainly want to be in the position of supporting districts and serving students with disabilities as well as possible. Thank you. And my final comment is that i hope you will have a listening session in a rural area. We t...

And the medias role in covering the president ial race. Washington journal, live every day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. March is womens history month. Were honoring it with a discussion with president ial historian Richard Norton smith. He sits down with cspans ceo susan swayne to discuss first ladies. Focusing on the unique partnerships and ambitions of the first ladies. Thats saturday at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. The future of Space Exploration was the focus of a discussion at the Nation...

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee on oversight and government reform come to order and without objection the chairs authors to declare recess at any time. Preparing for this hearing and, im telling you is hard to keep your cool and preparing for this meeting. Let me tell you the at the heart of why we are here today. Immigration, immigration and Customs Enforcement, ive met with the men and women who work there, the wonderful hardworking dedicated people who do a ...

This is of course one of the items that we have been working on together. Youre correct that we had a disclaimer in 2014 and in 2015. Im pleased to tell you that ginnie mae has been working. It has filled key leadership positions. It has revamped several of its processes. Improved the way that it does business. I also want to assure you that i have made it very clear to all of my staff that we take the recommendations of the Inspector General seriously. In fact, i know that yall are going to hav...

Add the department of homeland security, i. C. E. Has no smaller mission, no smaller mission than the National Security Border Security and Public Safety of our citizens. Like any Law Enforcement agency, we deal with serious and difficult matters every day. In the area of immigration, recent estimates are that there are about 11. 2 million Illegal Immigrants in the country. There are approximately 2 million, 2 million undocumented immigrants who are involved in some form or fashion in i. C. E. s...

To the advocacy groups more broadly to the changes . Are you still absorbing it . A wait and see approach . Thanks for the question, lynden. The American Immigration Lawyers Association ultimately opposed the secure Communities Program that mary described. There was so much controversy about the program. We opposed it largely based on the impact within the communities as well as the legality and the constitutionality of the detainer hold requests being used on a widespread basis where immigratio...

Well, it didnt affect a National Security entity but it did cause damage to a company. In that case and this is an important illustration of when we could attribute. Very clearly there was agreement across the Intelligence Community to attribute that attack to the north koreans, and we did sanction them. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, mr. Chair. Gentlemen, thank you for your service and for joining us here today. And director clapper, before i start on ill begin to focus on...

Next applicant is ms. Darcy brown sounds like . Please come forward. Welcome. Good afternoon supervisors my name is darcy brown, the interim executive director of San Francisco beautiful. I will be brief. San francisco beautiful as you may or may not know is dedicated to the preservation of our neighborhoods and was instrumental in the creation of the graffiti Advisory Board in 2005 as well as in 2012, the First International conference to address graffiti, and best practices and cleanup. I pers...