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Subcommittee on energy will now come to order. And the chair will recognize himself for an opening statement. So this years atlantic Hurricane Season was unprecedented. Four named storms in close succession slammed into the gulf, puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands. The hurricanes caused catastrophic damage and Energy Supply disruptions across the country. While texas and florida are further down the road to recovery, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding in puerto rico. A number of colleagues...

Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. We are here this morning to review on going Recovery Efforts in puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands in the wake of hurricanes irma and maria, as well as efforts to rebuild it electric grids on those islands in a smarter and hopefully a more resilient manner. Were over two months removed from when Hurricane Irma devastated st. Thomas and john on september 6th and its been nearly 60 days since Hurricane Maria hit st. Croix and puerto ri...

Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order. We are here this morning to review on going Recovery Efforts in puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands in the wake of hurricanes irma and maria, as well as efforts to rebuild it electric grids on those islands in a smarter and hopefully a more resilient manner. Were over two months removed from when Hurricane Irma devastated st. Thomas and john on september 6th and its been nearly 60 days since Hurricane Maria hit st. Croix and puerto ri...

No. Okay. For Mister Kennedy again. You state the only way the state would have known, turning over emails responsible for statements on the topic, is that true that you are at the mercy of statements whether everything was turned over . Currently there are three kinds of records in the state department, what we call paper records, memorandums, telegraphic records and email records. Telegraphic records and paper records are maintained centrally and that is what we are doing now outlined with the...

Chaos overseas. As isis launches a series of deadly attacks in europe. Good evening im tricia macke. And im rob williams. Cincinnati. Standing with belgium tonight. As you can see behind us the cincinnati sign on the Duke Energy Convention center. Lit up in the colors of the belgium flag black yellow and red. Dozens of people were killed when bombs went off at also a subway station. Heres the very latest. That airport will remain closed through at least several americans were hurt in the attacks...

Bomber. You see the smoke. Loud and more panic set in. People started running. Another explosion in maelbeek. The passengers were evacuated through the subway tunnel as the transport system was shut down. I cant explain. It looked like war. Its unbelievable. Its really hard. I saw injuries and people dead. I saw everything broken. In cuba president obama offering condolences to the victim of the latest terror attack. President obama this is another reminder that the world must unite. We must be ...

Actually have very, very stringent and effective rules in that regard. For example, under one particular provision of fisa, were not allowed to target either United States persons or persons within the United States. Sometimes it happens that we think somebody is not a u. S. Person and then we discover, oh, my gosh, this person has a green card. We didnt know that before. And the rules are at that point, you have to go and purge the collection you have to report it to the fisa court. You have to...

And active relationships between our Computer Emergency Readiness Team and certs that are being stood up all around the world by countries. The uk has just stood up a new cert. They had a couple certs before that and stood up a new one to act as a fuller counter part. But there are certs in lots of counties with which they interact on a daily basis. And that is obviously essential. These threats i mean, its most obvious in cyber but it is true across the board, you know, Mother Nature doesnt rea...

Have grown through mergers and acquisitions and that have acquired companies and later find out after they have connected all their networks and systems, that that company that they acquired did not have good cyber hygiene and was riddled with problems that have now infected the entire network. Lawyers need to help with that. Auditors need to help with that. Venture capitalists. Were out talking to venture capitalists to say if youre investing in a company, youre investing in large part in that ...

The Intelligence Community to try to increase the amount of transparency about what that community does but thats running against the culture of that community and its a challenge because there are legitimate security reasons you dont blab about what you do but i do think that the lessons the last two years are that to the extent to a much greater extent than in the past the Intelligence Community would benefit from Greater Transparency about what its doing and why. Which is easy to say and hard...