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I thank mr. Morell for volunteering to testify once again. A terrorist attack against u. S. Facilities is a serious event and this committee has been conducting a thorough and detailed investigation for the last 19 months to understand exactly what happened. We have held over 17 member events reviewed thousands of documents mostly classified interviewed the men on the ground that night. I want to focus on how this Committee Received inaccurate talking points and how the administration used those...

The gentleman for his response, mr. Speaker. The question was yes we want to get people back to work. Everybody wants to get people back to work. There is no doubt about that. Hopefully, we would be at full employment. One defines that whether three percent or four percent unemployment which would be transition employment or unemployment. We want everybody back to work. The issue is if we dont get everybody back to work, 192,000 new jobs this past month that is good but not good enough. Is why w...

All can say is, the more i look into this the more i worry about the problems that are involved. Are a other hand, there lot of good people in this industry who are trying to do and who do do what is right. I want to look at this very carefully. I dont want another big bureaucratic institution to make it even more expensive to file tax returns. For tax certain feeling person as well. Your helping us to understand this better. Hopefully you will continue to weigh in and give us your ideas on how ...

Also believe it is a goodfaith proposal that i think will serve the people of our state well for many years to come. We will seek the maximum allowable time under the law for that waiver. Let me say as i close, and then i will finish the formal program but i can catch up with some of you afterwards if you want. I served 12 years in the congress and i served the better part of a year and a half i have become more convinced every day that the cure for what ails our country is going to come more fr...

Individual of 123,000 all the way up to about 3. 5 million if you look at the amounts an individual can contribute to and party,didates committees, combined. A major influx of big money into the political process. Our organization has estimated about 1 billion to political spending in the next election. And is that a good thing, a bad thing, a neutral thing . Think its i think its disaster for our democracy. Why . We already had a system in which the wealthiest few are able to exert so much more...

Interested in protecting the state department than protecting the state department is. More interested in protecting the fbi than the fbi is. Director petraeus wanted more information about warnings in there. That does not make sense to me, can you explain the motivation . If you look at what i took out, the vast majority is information related to warnings. Said earlier, i thought it inappropriate for the cia to say publicly that we warned of an attack coming. We also had him there that we had s...

Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the presentation of the colors and the singing of the national anthem. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome steve hengineg executive director metropolitan transportation commission. Good afternoon, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee and my committee colleagues, and the director of cal transand the executive director of the california transportation commission, it is my great pleasure to...

Movement. Bail has existed on the surface. In the 60s and 70s at the time of due process for the prisoners. And professor foot turned to bail in the 50s. And argued that there was bail in california in the 60s. I cant say there was a Grass Root Movement but when you look at that movement to warehouse people in mental hospitals, and shall initiatives. The state was looking to break down these very discriminatory patterns that focused on certain communities. There is a moment of that. But it was c...

Perspective of our operations officers and from the perspective of our analysts and i was most interested in knowing that they were okay from the perspective of the director of ota who you know and you and i both have Great Respect for. Lets go down the names. Robert trujillo was and is the number three in the office of the director of national intelligence. He represents the dni and deputies views. Alan p. Know was the Intelligence Officer for the middle east. He was at that deputies meeting. M...

Made the right decision to take a riskbased approach and put readers where they need to be. And that we think thats going to be a measure in our program for our program considering its a biometric credential. I think the last thing is share information. Which we do on a daily basis. So we need good, quality information to make good decisions with. We need the information to keep on coming so we can continue to make good decisions after we issue the credential. We need to install readers. And we ...