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The committee on oversight and accountability will come to order. I want to welcome everyone here today. Without objection the chair may declare a recess at any time. I will recognize myself for an opening statement. I want to again welcome to the committee on oversight. We want to thank the commissioner for his participation in todays hearing of the u. S. Food and Drug Administration. There might not be a federal agency thats more integral to americans lives than the fda. Fda is charged with Regulatory Oversight of the food and drug industries. Industries that ensure americans have food on th...

Committee on Homeland Security will come to order. Committees meeting today to examine the most serious threats confronting our homeland. Before i recognize myself for an opening statement, i would like to take a moment to welcome the newest member of our committee, don bacon. Don served nearly 30 years in the air force and is experienced in cybersecurity and Airborne Reconnaissance will prove greatly beneficial to this committee. Thank you, sir, for being here. Thank you, chairman. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. I would like to thank each of the witnesses, acting secretary e...

Several other measures, including u. S. Partnerships with mexico and can dand naming several post offices. Later in the week in the house, two financerelated bills dealing with iran. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God, father of us all, we give you thanks for giving us another day. Ever faithful to your pro...

The u. S. House fisa reauthorization, treasury secretary steven mnuchin, and a discussion on the middle east Peace Process and moving the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem. Theu. S. House debated representation of section 702, the fisa act. It gives authority to survey foreigners outside the u. S. The house voted to approve the legislation. The Current Authority expires january 13. The gentleman is recognized. Mr. Stewart mr. Speaker, i rise today in support of s. 139. On january 19, the fisa amendments acts of 2008 will expire. This vital legislation includes section 702 which permits the government...

Devoted to 56164 to approve the legislation. The Current Authority expires january 19. The debate is just under an hour. Section 702 is one of the most, if not the most Critical National security tool used by our Intelligence Committee to overseas. Elligent some claim 702 packages all information. This assertion is simply false. 702 is a targeted program was roughly 106,000 foreign targets worldwide. It given that the worldwide population is about 7. 5 billion, this program can hardly be described as a question. Improvise foreign adversaries who threaten the United States and locating them is ...