Cant get through on the phone lines, someone will make a comment, try social media. Facebook. Com cspan. Finally you can send an email. Well begin taking those calls a few minutes. From the hill newspaper this morning congressional leaders deal to being unveiled on monday. Congressional leaders. Legislative text of the year end omnibus spending bill to be released monday. They say it will likely be linked to a major deal on taxes. The current projection is for the house. And the omnibus on monday voted on it by wednesday. John corbinding to the republican. Senate negotiators say that likely to meet several tax break and place a two obamacare taxes. Both seem to be linked, i cant tell you whether its one vote or two votes. Therly theyre part of overall negotiation. Orin hatch who is involved, sooner or later we come against of having to act. I think when that happens, happens, ween that can get this done. Days. K its a matter of the text of the omnibus will be unveiled monday. Wednesday
History. It is a privilege to introduce the chairman of the Homeland Security committee, michael mccaul. He is currently serving his isth term representing texas as sixth district. His committee has oversight over the department of Homeland Security ensuring that it carries out its core mission of protecting the American People from terrorist attacks. Under the chairmans leadership, the Homeland Security committee has made quite the mark. This year, the committee has passed 55 bills. Seven bills have become law. All told, it accounts for 10 of public law this year. He also established a Bipartisan Task force on combating foreign fighter travel, the findings of which have brought improvements to our National Security and those of our allies. Securityo on the cyber. Aucus he is responsible for creating the hope act, which was signed by the president became law in october 2012, creating incentives for pharmaceutical companies to create new treatments for pediatric cancer patients. Chairma
Been apprehended before they went on a murderous spree. Lynch has banned on what she calls antimuslim rhetoric, is already producing its Chilling Effect and it is preventing americans are taking basic steps to protect ourselves. Lets take off the blinders. It is time to say that these attacks are not isolated incidents. Not they are operating as an ideological pack. The thing that unites them is adherence toal islamic separatism, that the world must submit to their world of islam, or die. Is present ine our country. Reported, itrector is active in each one of our 50 states. Once we have identified the enemy, with we must do everything in our power to defeat them. America and the world has grown more dangerous as president obama has receded from the world stage. Every day goes by, the United States seems more weaker and a more marginal actor. Increasingly dismissed, increasingly viewed by the world , our president is a laughingstock. Our third goal must be to restore americas leadership
Say what hes told me and general dunford, certainly for the military campaign, which is that he wants us to continue to come to him with proposals for ways that we can strengthen the campaign consistent with our overall strategic approach. Sec. Fallon thank you. The United States has been leading the Coalition Since last year against isildaesh. And we are now fully part of that by our extending our operations to syria as well as iraq. Secretary carter has asked other countries, including the United Kingdom, what more they can contribute to the campaign as we move to this new focus on degrading the infrastructure that supports isildaesh. And we will be responding to his letter in due course. So far as russian involvement is concerned, we have said from the beginning, if russia wants to help in syria, where it has influence, it ought to stop propping up the assad regime, help us bring this civil war to an end, stop bombing the opposition groups that have been opposed to assad and start t
Representatives working on security and intelligence issues and numbers of people sitting here are my friends on a bipartisan basis. Im very excited that we are doing something truly useful this morning, which is to host a Panel Discussion on security clearance, and nextgen overhaul. If you dont understand what nextgen means you probably should leave the room. Todays problems are digital. Too many of our policies and politicians are analyzed. Anyone who has held a secret or top secret clearance knows what i mean. Parts of our system fit the 19th century like the paper timecards we are stuck with it. Not kidding. Bottom line if we want a workforce with secure and talented our approach to security clearances needs an overhaul asap. The way we do business right now and at least three serious problems. First, we are not getting the right people in the door. More than ever we need individuals with Language Skills and cultural staff working in National Security but its too hard for a native