Use our senators to accomplish your purposes in our nation and world. May they tackle the complex challenges of our times with the confidence that your providence will prevail. Train them in the school of humility so they will walk safely without stumbling. May they remember that humility precedes honor. Lord, bless and protect america, making it a land that provides freedoms lamp to our world. Incline each citizen to hear your words of truth and to apply his or her heart to knowledge. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore pleae join me in reciting the pledge f allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Reid snrp. The presiding officer the democrat leader. Mr. Reid mr. President , this Republican Congress and especially as we head for yet another unearned recess, i feel compelled to comment on how republican
Hackers will get it and china will get it and we will be less safe. That leads me to a question about the use of encryption by the fbi. Are you encrypting all of your your agents,l of and personnel, and payroll, and systems . Data. We use encryption on a significant amount of data. Id like to follow up with that because i was stunned that the office of personnel did not have that important data encrypted. The federal government should protect itself by encrypting this data. We know that were being hacked constantly by state actors and the enemies of our country and im sure they would love to get data about the f. B. I. I look forward to hearing a greater details on them. I yield back, mr. Chairman. Recognize the gentleman from california mr. Issa for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I have so many questions and so little time. Ill try to touch on each and bear with me. On sting rays, im going to ask you to tell us now or for the record how you control the access to these products
My desk, not to dump on hoover i never knew the man but to make sure people understand the danger in becoming in falling in love with your own view of things and danger in the absense of contrant and oversight. Im somebody who believes people should be skeptical of government power. Im a nice person. I suppose you should trust me but you should oversee me, and i should be checked and balanced. Thats the way you straighten power. Its there to remind me. Do you agree his name is not reflective of what the fbi stands for and what the fbi agents of today believe in and do . I think thats fair. If youre focusing hoover did a lot of good things for Law Enforcement in the United States, did a lot of things that through the lens of history we reject as improper. So im no historian, but i would imagine a historian would say take the total measure of the person, figure out whats bad, whats good. Im not equipped to do that. I would like to see his name taken off the building and have a bill, repr
Dreams which lead to action, to participation, to commitment. Reams which awaken what is deepest and truest in the life of a people. In recent centuries, millions of eople came to this land to pursue their dream of building a future in freedom. We, the people of this continent, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us because most of us were once oreigners. Say this to you as the son of immigrants, knowing that so many of you are also descended from mmigrants. Tragically, the rights of those who were here long before us were not always respected. For those peoples and their nations, from the heart of merican democracy, i wish to reaffirm my highest esteem and appreciation. Hose first contacts were often turbulent and violent, but it is difficult to judge the past by the criteria of the present. Nonetheless, when the stranger in our midst appeals to us, we must not repeat the sins and the rrors of the past. We must resolve now to live as nobly and as justly as possible, as we e
In keeping bad actors from using unbreakable encryption. Which is open source, free, and widely available from Companies Based overseas. As the chairman argued when we had this debate in 1999, only y allowing the use of strong encryption not only domestically but internationally as well can we hope to make the internet a safe and secure environment. I agree with that sentiment and you have made some of the public statements that i hope you can help us to reconcile that view with your call for special access. And, finally, because rigorous oversight is necessary for public trust, i hope that you will commit today to full compliance with the Inspector General act. For the past five years the f. B. I. Has resisted the clear mandate of that law. The Inspector General of the department of justice is to have timely access to every carry t he requires to out his duties. Noncompliance has real consequences. This committee waited until february of this year to receive a report about the f. B. I