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Thats not their mission and thats not what we are paying for and we should stop paying for it. And i yield back to mr. Buck. The chair the chair would remind members that remarks during the debate may not engage in personalities towards the president including the repeating of remarks that were said elsewhere. That would be improper if spoken here by the members here in their own words. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. Mr. Lewis i yield one minute to thegentleman from kentucky, chairman...

Now todays House Oversight committee. Secret Service Hearing with the head of the secret service joseph clancy. Congressman Joseph Chaffetz of utah chairs the committee. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee on oversight and government reforma come to order. Without objection. Without objection the chair chairs authorized to declare recess at any time. Appreciate everybody being here. Reforming the United States secret service is not a partis...

What result is and, clearly, what were looking at is something that is the an tistithesis of what you can see would truly exist within a competitive environment. I think its time, thank you. And this is a complicated issue. I think its time to open it up to the audience. Yes, sir . Right here. Theres a microphone . Yes, there is a microphone. The thing i learned about running an Organization Even though it was a notforprofit i was the ceo oval,f, we needed revenue. The revenue seems to be the he...

Has gone on, diplomatic for example, and as part of a lot of international forums. Our government is trying to adopt some norms to get the chinese to go along with them. But it is my function the fbis to understand what theyre doing, develop the factings and then show our government heres what we see. I understand, you know, that the cyber threat is real and i think congress and the American People are recognizing that its real and its clear and present danger. I hope were doing everything that ...

The fact that i did not learn of this allegation until five days after it is said to have occurred infuriates me. This is unacceptable. I called my senior staff together the week before last. I made clear my expectation for prompt notification of allegations of misconduct that could impact our mission or violate the agencys standards of conduct. If it is determined that any of our employees failed to report information about this alleged incident, they will be held accountable. Our mission is to...

Secretary of defense Ashton Carter and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey, both testified before the committee. And i have Great Respect for both of them. I asked them if after a decade in afghanistan keeping troops in afghanistan for nine more years would even make a difference. Last year in his politico article and i quote the title was down the opium rathole, roger says, and i quote, if you spent 13 years pounding money down the rathole with little to show for it yo...

Straw poll and got out pretty early on in the race. It is a big fundraising opportunity and the chairman talked about the importance of having it. It was interesting to hear him say that is not necessarily the direction its not necessarily going to give us direction as to who will come out on top. Steven finally, to both of you if you look at february, iowa, new hampshire, nevada, it is conceivable that you have four different winners in each of those states. Caitlin i think there are a few diff...

And still be eligible for these programs. I think that is a mistake. Thank you. Mr. Mcclintok. Did some states not follow the welfare reform requirements . I know back in california, the state excused people, the fiveyear time limit slightly reduced their benefits. The states Unemployment Rate which had been running well below the National Average had been running well above it. The reduction was miniscule to those experienced by other states. Did you study such comparisons . I have not done a f...

I think the v. A. Tries very hard to bring in counselors and psychologists who have that service. I will tell you that in vermont we initiated a program, an Outreach Program that is the people who do the outreach are all veterans. They are knocking on doors and talking to fellow veterans. That works well because they have a shared experience. They both know what they are talking about. I agree, everything being equal you want to get folks to do counseling who know what veterans have gone through...

Its not readily available. Finally, does the hesitancy on the part of the dod stand anyway from, is there concern about, about what we see Going Forward . Since 60 of the 103 billion of dod funding, and we are not in a position to identify the total amount of waste, is there concern Going Forward theres going to be some of which are described, mr. Johnson, i would suspect that our friends at dod would do differently than the way you described it in terms of changing standards and why the standar...