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The subcommittee on Government Operations and the subcommittee on National Security will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Were here today to discuss incorporating social media into the federal security clearance and Background Investigations. Having a security clearance means by definition you have access to information that would hurt our National Security if it got out. And that is why we perform Background Investigations on individuals who want a security clearance. The goal of our Background Investigations must be to find out if ...

Federal governments role in funding state transportation projects. The federal government will start checking social media soon as part of background checks for employees seeking security clearance. White house and Counter Intelligence officials testified on the new policy at a recent House Oversight hearing. This is an hour and a 15 minutes. The subcommittee on Government Operations and the subcommittee on National Security will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Were here today to discuss incorporating social media into the federal s...

You can see that live here on cspan at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. Then, sunday on cspan, utah congressman rob bishop, the chairman of the Natural Resources committee, hell talk about puerto ricos debt crisis, the u. S. Territory is 70 billion in debt and has already missed millions of dollars in debt payments. Congressman bishop will answer questions about efforts in congress to help puerto rico restructure its debt. Newsmakers on 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan unday. Book tv has 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend and here are some programs to watch for this weekend. ...

Mr. Lynch the cost estimate. You know, we had some pilot programs that tell us its somewhere between, you know, 100 and 500 per person for a private vendor to do this screening, this gathering of social media information. Is that pretty close to what the in practice what were finding . Mr. Scott yeah, i would say some of the pilots that have run the estimates are within that range. Clearly one of the things that will have to happen, and i think the pilots will inform this, some greater level of automation. As you can probably appreciate when you do a search, you get a ton of data that has to b...

U. S. And a volkswagen engineer please guilty over the scandal. He promises to help them build their case against the german car giant. Good to have you with us. At this hour the United Nations Security Council is meeting to discuss what to do next about north koreas latest nuclear test. Pyongyang detonated its largest one yet. North korea says the response came in response what it calls u. S. Aggression. It plans to deploy a Missile Defense system in the south. Confirmation from north korean state television. Our Nuclear Weapons institute has carried out a Nuclear Explosion test to check the ...