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Meeting will come to order. Homeland security investigations. Will come to order without objections to chair oj rise of the recess at the subcommittee any time. We welcome efrp to todays hearing on combatting crimes against children and i will recognize myself for an Opening Statement then recognize the gentleman from michigan. Then the chairman of the full committee, if he is able to make it, and then we will begin our questionings. I want to thank each of you for being up here today. Todays hearing addresses one of the most difficult issues for people of good conscious to contemplate. The most innocent and vulnerable, which would be our children. Public safety is the most preimminent function of government. And the most preimminent of protecting those who cannot protect themselves is most important. Today is regarding the exploitation of children, the effectiveness of laws and working together across every proverbial aisle that exist to make sure our laws are as tough as possible. Am
The meeting will come the order, subcommittee on crime, terrorism and Homeland Security investigations will come to order. Without section chairs authorized to declare a recess, we welcome everybody to todays hearing on combating crimes against children and i will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and recognize the gentleman from michigan and chairman of the full committee, and we will begin our questioning. I will thank each of you for being here today, this addresses one of the most difficult issues for people to contemplate, exploitation of societys most innocent and vulnerable, our children. Public safety is a preeminent function of government even among the preeminent dysfunction protecting those who cannot protect themselves is most important. Examining current laws, to evaluate effectiveness of these laws and Work Together across every proverbial aisle. To make sure laws are tough and effective as possible and when needed strength and where needed. Thank our witnesses fo
There are an array of options and that is certainly one that is there. We are going to turn to membership for questions. Im told to remind you it is on the record. We ask you wait for a microphone. It will bring it to you. Speak directly into the microphone, stand stand up, tell us your name, affiliation and limit yourself to one question. Lets start over here with this gentleman. Hello. My memory on this may be hazy, but i was on the defense policy board at the time of the earliest crises. Somehow or another at the time the cold war was ending they made it possible for some of their records to be made available to us. One of the things i was surprised, for those of us who saw the records, where it took about a year to persuade the russian and chinese to get into this. They were very much afraid of the american response and they didnt want to go to war with america again. That was certainly an opening. I should back up and say, it was my opinion then that we simply had to send a person
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