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After brief opening remarks members will receive testimony from our witness today and the hearing will be open to questions. Good morning once again. Welcome to todays hearing receive testimony from the secretary of agriculture. I think my colleagues participating and secretary bill sec for his time we have a lengthy hearing ahead of us. I will be brief and might remarks nearly three years ive traveled across the country to different farmers, ranchers, foresters, Rural Communities and everyday c...

After brief opening remarks members will receive testimony from our witness today and the hearing will be open to questions. Good morning once again. Welcome to todays hearing receive testimony from the secretary of agriculture. I think my colleagues participating and secretary bill sec for his time we have a lengthy hearing ahead of us. I will be brief and might remarks nearly three years ive traveled across the country to different farmers, ranchers, foresters, Rural Communities and everyday c...

In the Senate Chamber at about 8 30 p. M. And walk over to the house for President Trumps first state of the Union Address. Tomorrow, republican senators join their house colleagues for a threeday policy retreat. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, the earth belongs to you and everything in it. And even when wrong seems overwhelming, you continue to rule. Create in our lawm...

Policy. It was emerrill rogers not that long ago said just as much as that, that we dont have a good cyber offensive policy. We talked about it ad infinitum in classified settings for the entire ten years i was on the Intelligence Community and we could never get consensus to move to the next place on what that cyber offensive is. And by the way just as a personal note i just saw that the Administration Says theyre going to make china pay for the consequence of the opm hack. I cant wait. I canno...

Think of me and us as a resource to help navigate that. What i brought today for the purposes of an introduction, im glad to answer any questions about our body of work but i highlights pages to two testimonies and theyre on the table over there. One was a testimony in may of 2010 before this committee, and it was based on a report that came out in july of 2009. And we were asked to look out how much progress had sba made in implementing the Small Business Disaster Response and improvement act o...

Kevin ashton, tonight on the communicators, on cspan2. Tomorrow on washington journal, gretchen working set of morgansen talking about the Affordable Housing program. Vince is a girl soon talks about alcoholrelated problems and all fetal syndrome in drinking mothers. Washington on journal, life tuesday at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Officials with the red cross talked about economic recovery, Agency Coordination and delivery efficiency. They were joined by representatives of the Small Business ...

Thinking those flames dipped behind a canyon. They moved westsouthwest. People in fairfield were worrying yesterday about how the winds were blowing, concerned that that shift could come their way. And they have every right to be scared. The damage that this is already causing is beyond imagination. As of late last night, cal fire says this last last is now just about 43,000 acres and only 3 contained. It is an overwhelming fire thats hard for some people to fully understand. A lot of families s...

Cross. Online at cspan. Org. We are going to leave for live coverage of todays House Small Business Committee meeting on sba management and its administrator Maria Contrerassweet testifies. It should get underway in just a moment. An audible conversations [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. I call this hearing to order and i want to welcome back the smallbusiness administrator area contrerassweet. I think everyone here wants the same thing and that is to serve ameri...

Everyone here wants the same thing and that is to serve americas businesses the best we can. Those of us out here on the dais at the lincoln advantage of issue and let us know how we are doing all the time and on an ongoing basis as head of an agency i sometimes worry that too often you most fear from your own folks and from other washington bureaucrats fear that is the only explanation for why the six to nine gao identified concerns and problems havent been addressed. Yesterday wasnt the first ...

Overall management of the agency, with that said, i would glad to see sba has agreed with nearly all of the gaos recommendation and has begun to take action. Today im looking forward hearing from gao about whether or not they believe gao is standing through commitment. It is a vital role and one that i want to ask all Committee Members to take part in. I look forward to hearing the gaos testimony and i just to explain very briefly our rules here in the time limits which the share is familiar wit...