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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...

Leadership . Is the problem with the men and women youre not getting good people . Why dont you speak up for these men and women . If in fact theyre letting off steam because youre overworking them, are they being overworked . Will this budget that toughs just gotten begin to relieve some of those serial days in which people dont get any days off . So would you describe that and would you tell us more about training and what training sessions are expected so that some of this misbehavior will be...

Will you make all available video . And i say available, because were going to get to it in a second all of it was not preserved. Will you make all available video available to this committee . We will make all video available to this committee for your review at any time, day or night. Will you make a copy of it available so we can retain custody as opposed to simply showing it to us . I will not release a copy of this video at this point. Why not . The oig has an Ongoing Investigation. You thi...

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...

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