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Ms. Castor thank you, mr. Chairman. I will place in the record a brief Opening Statement that i had for this markup. Im pleased to support both of these nominees. Mr. Johnson we are meeting to consider the undersecretary for intelligence and analysis for the u. S. Department of Homeland Security. And admiral to be assistant secretary of transportation administration, t. S. A. , u. S. Department of Homeland Security. These are two incredibly important positions, particularly at this point in time...

I call to order this hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on consumer protection, product safety, insurance and data security. As the title suggests, this subcommittee exercises wide jurisdiction over a diverse range of topics. This will be our first hearing this congress to examine matters pertaining to insurance, specifically, that of Insurance Fraud. Thank you to our expert witnesses who came here to join us today. Insurance fraud is a major concern not only for insurers,we who bear the costs o...

I call to order this hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on consumer protection, product safety, insurance and data security. As the title suggests, this subcommittee exercises wide jurisdiction over a diverse range of topics. This will be our first hearing this congress to examine matters pertaining to insurance, specifically, that of Insurance Fraud. Thank you to our expert witnesses who came here to join us today. Insurance fraud is a major concern not only for insurers,we who bear the costs o...

Security, subcommittee on transportation and protective security, will come to order. Before i commence with my statement, i do want to note for the record how happy i am to have miss Watson Coleman as my new ranking chair on this. We have a very good working relationship as well and i think its something more people in congress could try and do. Were going to endeavor to do that Going Forward. Miss Watson Coleman, thank you for being here. Thank you, delighted to be with you. Thank you as well,...

Quorum call mr. Thune mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune mr. President , i know of no further debate on the motion to proceed. The presiding officer is there further debate . If not, the question is on the motion to proceed. All in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. The cl...

Done . No sir, that, that is not my testimony. We are checking to tsa itself has increased the number of the inspection of the place by fivefold just in the last five months. We do that ourselves. You dont have enough resources. You have to get the airports to do it. And they are doing that, airport by airport. Will give us the report. Thats coming your way. I wanted to give you good specifics from the vulnerabilities system that we conducted so i could give you specific answers airport by airpo...

Updated its concept of operations to focus on riskbased deployments. The question is, have the events of the last two months since the budget was released convinced the administration that doubling of the vipr program is needed to address current threats . I appreciate the Attention Congress is giving to tsa resources and i will tell you this, mr. Chairman, if i were to receive more vipr teams, i would be aible to put them to use you an put them to use across the transportation system. I would b...

T. S. A. And for the men and women on t. S. A. s front lines and i look forward to your questions. Thank you, administrator neffenger. As you mentioned, and of course you were there, the brussels attack was directed at aviation infrastructure but it wasnt just an attack on that. It was also the metro car as we mentioned between stations which killed 13 people and injured a lot more. Rail and transit are very open systems, much like the nonsterile areas of airports and could easily be perceived a...

2017. Youre watching live coverage, on cspan 3. [inaudible] the committee will come to order. Today, we are considering the nomination of David Pekoske to be the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration at the department of Homeland Security. Administrator pekoske, welcome back to the committee. And congratulations on another nomination for this position. And thank you for your willingness to continue to serve in a challenging and Important Role in the federal government. Over...

Think to his last point about safety is at the core of the connected vehicle is safety. There is the technology that has been around for 18 years that will notify in the case of an accident and if you think about how many accidents are reported from the vehicle from those technologies its out there and connected. How do they keep up . I think its things like this and i think their initiatives where we as an industry need to start coming together. Im not a believer that we need to throw policy at...