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Right and the defense marriage act and the decision not to defend it in court. And he talked about restoring civil right and the vote to exfelons. This is 20 minutes. Our next guest is a special guest and we appreciate having him here as we always do. I commend general holder for his willingness to speak to us candidly and openly every year. The fact that our parting gift is going to be a baseball cap speaks to how many times you have been here because all of the gifts we give out have already been given to you. We will give you something you might be able to use. But we have all familiar with general holder. He was sworn in as the 82 attorney general on february 3rd 2009. He was named to be the Deputy Attorney general in 1997 and served as the United States attorney for the district of columbia. He was nominated to be an associate judge for the district of columbia. He was a ....
Request i want to thank you, mr. Chairman, for allowing me to ask that question in case i have to leave. Thank you. Senator heller. Thank you for your testimony and everybody thats here today. Its good to see you here. At 4 30 this afternoon i have the secretary coming into my office and im going to ask him a lot of questions. Im going to ask him obviously about the veterans backlog issue and progress if any are being made. The issue of lack of communication between my office and reno will be another question that im going to ask and hopefully get a good answer for. But there are other questions that you might think that i should ask him. Are there any questions, if you were talking to the secretary today, what question would that be, and im going to take notes and this is your chance to advocate. I wouldnt presume, sir, to tell you what to ask the secretary, although the secretary is an Airborne Ranger like me, so he is my frien ....
Position that you would like to be, secretary hale, to have the data that youve just talked about. What are the controls that will be in place for taxpayers on this huge contract . It is important. It is going to under as i understand it, it will impact the Health Records for all of our men and women in uniform. We had notable examples of failed i. T. Projects and this is an 11 billion project. What controls will be put in place as you go forward with this echo and i guess, a good question is will secretary weeklyet those reports to know whether the 11 million . S being spent properly he is deeply involved in that program. Kindle meet with him weekly and i think this issue will come up. I think he will get regular. Eports and on the regulation side, i believe our data is fundamentally accurate. We still need to verify that. Not seeing the problems the key thing is to make sure the devoted things are written into the contract. I th ....
Operating under those circumstances. Miss wertheimer has the opportunity today to inform us how she will handle these exceptional challenges. I look forward to hearing from each of ou nominees on these important issues and more. Thank you, senator. There is an 11 00 vote scheduled for them. Its the law of sufficient time to allow questions. We have agreed to limit Opening Statements to the chair and Ranking Member. All senators will welcomed to submit an Opening Statement for the record. Senator curnan will now introduce mayor castro. Thank you mr. Chairman and Ranking Member crapo. Its my pleasure to be with you here today to introduce a fellow san antonioian and texan mr. Castro. He has told me that hes glad to be here and looked forward to your question bu ....
Ms. Wertheimer, please proceed. Chairman johnson, Ranking Member crapo, members of the committee, thank you very much for the opportunity to appear before you today. I am honored to be president obamas nominee for Inspector General of the federal Housing Finance agency. And before i begin, id like to introduce my family, who has accompanied me here today. My husband, andy pincus, our daughter, kate pincus, my steadfast mother, sidelle wertheimer. My inlaws walter and ann pincus. With that, let me get to the meat of what id like to say in my statement. The fhfa plays a crucial role in our Financial System as the safety and soundness regulator of fannie mae, freddie mac and the 12 regional federal home loan banks. To ensure they operate in a safe and sound measu ....