I think as the hearing indicated a couple of weeks ago two highly qualified can dts, truthfully knt be more impressed with the people selected to fill those incredibly important positions. Again, im just very pleased that were voting on two qualified candidates and i certainly support or intend to support their nominations. With that ill yield to my Ranking Member senator mccaskill. Thank you, chairman. Im pleased to support both of these nominees. If theres no further debate, i ask the consent that we consider reporting the nominations en blank. The business meeting is adjourned. For the information of the members, we will begin our hearing once nominations are conseeded. That was quick. This nomination hearing is called to order. We are meeting today for a nomination hearing to consider david j. Glowy to be under the secretary of analysis for the u. S. Department of security and admiral david kousky. These are two incredibly important positions, particularly at this point in time wit
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, with all the threats we face to our transportation sector. As well as across the globe and the threats to our homeland. So the secretary the undersecretary for intelligence analysis, the department of Homeland Security, is responsible for leading the department of Homeland Securitys office of intelligence and analysis. And also serves as the departments chief intelligence officer. In these roles the undersecretary is responsible for the streemings of intelligence and analysis, to develop a com
[inaudible conversations] next up from the san antonio book festival, Tim Hernandez reports on the 1948 california plane crash that killed four crewmembers and 28 mexican citizens were being deported. The fifth annual then in 200 book festival and i want to thank the Southwest School of arts and the library for their generous donation of their space, beautiful space, for the book festival. We also, given given the age we live in, want to encourage all of you to use your social media talk about the festival and mr. Hernandezs work while were at it. Thank you all for being here. Please turn off off your phones or put them on youtube. Its really my pleasure to introduce Tim Hernandez, he is a an author done a lot of Different Things from Performance Art to scholarly work to nonfiction historical fiction, writing and hes especially known for his poetry. As was said earlier, he didnt cross genres, they crossed him. I dont own that line. [laughter] hes really written a Remarkable Book about
Good afternoon. Were going to go ahead and get started. We like to welcome you to the skeletons in the closet session. My name is jennifer im a professor at an apology here in san antonio and this is my colleague, lydia pine. We like to thank you for coming to the session and we want to thank the San Antonio Public Library and the Southwest School of arts and crafts for opening up their abilities for this great event today. We are also supposed to encourage people to post any of your photos, tweets, put those up on social media and use the as a book festival. Idea have those to hand out so definitely stop by and pick up your where copy of the child from today. Absolutely. So let me introduce lith lidia pine shes in the culture she got undergraduate degree in anthropology from arizona state. Sorry. [laughter] and also received a ph. D. In history at asu as well. She has done archive work and southwest, africa, eat yoap why and uzbekistan and iran, and countrily living in austin where sh
I would like to welcome you to the san antonio book festival. The signature event of the library foundation. I we want to thank the library and the Southwest School of arts and craft for opening up their spaces for us today. Of and for helping us present this amazing day of literary events, which i hope you all have lots of time to enjoy for the rest of the day. We will be having a signing directly after the session if you would like to get a copy at the Barnes Noble Book tent and visit with lelia and get her signature. Ge we will do that immediately following this. We will have a little discussion and show you some pictures about the book and open it up for questions. I hope you are have some things to say and i want to introduce you to lidia who is the author of this great book. I will let her read the rest to make sure i get it. Its called the inspiringnspi story of the teen that barnes stormed its way to basketball glory, but we call it dustbowl girls. She grew up in oklahoma where