connelly for holding this hearing. it is important for a number of reasons, which you both have touched on already. when an individual applies to receive an in ishl or renewed security clearance the federal government conducts a background investigation to determine whether he or she may be eligible to access classified national security information. every security clearance candidate is required to complete a standard form 86. i have one right here. and i have -- it likely goes into a number of very personal aspects of each person's life. this 127-page form already requests a variety of personal applicant information such as criminal history, any history of alcohol use or illegal drug use, any mental health counseling. it does not currently request social media information. but as chairman desantis noted last night at about 11:00, we got copies of this policy. and i want to say thank you. we have now -- not always have information forthcoming in a timely manner and even 11:00 at night is timely around here. a few hour

connelly last week in d.c. when he came to congress to support a.l.s. patients. it's a testament to his unparalleled leadership and courage that even in the face of extreme adversity, principal connelly is spending his time advocating for legislation that will benefit a.l.s. patients in the future. he has changed the lives of generations of concord students, and while we are all sad that principal connelly's tenure will come to a close this summer, there is no doubt that his leadership, his courage and his spirit will continue to inspire future generations of students at concord high and beyond. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. for what purpose does the gentlelady from florida seek recognition? ms. ros-lehtinen: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you, mr. speaker. it should come to no surprise that pr

connel connelly. >> i thank you for holding this hearing. on january 22nd, the administration announced the federal investigative services would transfer function do is a new national background bureau. the department of defense assumed responsibility for designing and operating all information technology for the new nbid. i think it makes abundant sense to task our national security experts with censoring millions of clearance holders. we are discussing another enhancement; the inclusion of social media in the background process. the army has a pilot program that used publically available data from social media sites to enhance information available during a background check. the department of defense conducting a program looking at all public information online. i am interested in learning the major findings and lessons learned from the pilot programs. while social media is a promising and valuable source, i remain concerned that the government shouldn't retain social media data of third parties that engage with the applicant. we must not

chairman meadows, chairman desantis, ranking member connelly, ranking member lynch, members of the subcommittee, thank you for having me here as part of this team that is participating in today's hearing. as a national counterintelligence director and -- i'm responsible for leading the counterintelligence and security activities of the united states government which includes the entire u.s. government and public sector throughout the intelligence community. i'm responsible for providing outreach to u.s. private sector entities who are at risk of becoming a target for intelligence collection, penetration or attack by foreign or other adversaries. i also support the director of national intelligence responsibilities as the security executive agent. the role under which the social media directive was developed. and i work close in partnership with the office of management and budget and the office of personnel management and my colleagues to my left. the department of defense also partners in this effort. agencies across the executive branch are also part of today's process and the discusses we ha

connelly and mr. link for their hard work on this effort. we med many trying tries to be through this. we simply cannot kick the can down the road. time to act is now, and i do believe we are well on the road to accomplishing that. with that, he yield back. >> i thank the gentleman. i do -- i think it's important to note the good works that mr. meadow of north carolina, mr. lynch and mr. connelly have put into this, and i concur with my colleague mr. cummings if we're going to do this and pass it all the way to the president's desk, it does need to be a bipartisan bill. that's the goal and that's the intention. i will hold at the record open for five days, but we would like to welcome or witnesses. we have the hoon rachelle robert taub. we have ms. lori retan is, the director of physical structure issues it is united states government accountability office. ms. jessica lawrence, executive vice president of the association for postal commerce. mr. frederick rolando. pursuant to committee rules, all witnesses been tore sworn before they testif

connelly. next is representative john delaney. thanks for being here. >> thank you.t to thank the chair and the ranking member and all of my colleagues for giving me this opportunity to discuss metro with you today. it's very important to my constituents, many of which use the system on a daily basis. it's also important as we know to everyone who lives in the national capital region and to all of the visitors of the nation's capital. clearly metro is an organization in crisis with significant deficiencies around safety, around reliability, around customer service and around financial management. and if you diagnose the problems with metro, you realize there are several causes. the first ranking member norton discussed, which is metro effectively reports to four governing jurisdictions, d.c., maryland, virginia and the federal government. this four-headed monster makes it very difficult for metro to get the funding and oversight that would be optimal for an organization of its scale. secondly, as ranking member defazio talk and, by any measure metro has been underfun

someone that has been want kicked of a violent crime in the last 32 years this comes after kate connelly was shot by an illegal immigrant. we have a crew there at the board of supervisorrers meeting and we will let you know more. >>> there is new developments in the beating of stan petov. they are air tracker facing assault and battery. petov led the deputys on a high- speed chase that ended up in san francisco. deputies lewis and paul marino used a baton causing injuries to petov. the officers wrote that petov was was using the batons were condemned today. >> this is a case about police officers acting beyond the authority of the law and the case of the police officers violating the constitution and about excessive force. >>> another deputy is being investigated by stealing gold necklace and handing it over to a couple as hush money. petov and his girlfriend have been in decided on gun charges. >>> steph curry has done something no one else has done. are we surprised? he is the nba's most valuable player and this time anonymous vote. >> reporter: there is no question about the fact it w

. >> anne hathaway is back in "alice through the looking glass" and she sat down with chris connellyou describe what happens to alice at the outset of this film? >>. >> i haven't seen the beginning of the film. i'm sorry but i am a new mother and i didn't time the feeding schedule like i have any control of it. my kid was hungry, had to feed him and missed the first 20 minutes so i can't tell you about the beginning of the movie. >> there's a big ship. >> i thought the rest of the movie was good so i assume they didn't whiff it the first 20 minutes and all of a sudden it got good and could lie and say it's great and alice did this but i'm not going to do that to you, chris. i'm not going to lie. >> i appreciate that, anne. >> no problem. >> reporter: at the start of 2016 she used social media to share a secret in her own life that she was pregnant with her first child by husband adam shoulderman. >> i had seal a photographer while on vacation taking a photo and i just thought it's such a joyful and sacred experience carrying life and i just thought i don't want the first version of t

. >> meghan connelly, al sullivan, mars link, kelly, ned and carolina panther thomas davis and his wifell watched their kids on our hidden camer cameras. none of them thinking their child would point and pull the trigger. >> to be honest with you i feel sick to my stomach. >> in the end four of these eight children pull the trigger. >> okay. he pointed at the ground. >> it wasn't a real begun. >> so you pull the trigger and because it wasn't loaded that's how you knew it was a toy? >> um-hmm. >> these parents are vowing to take action after seeing child after child play bank bang shoot them up. >> it's very disturbing. we've been handful times she's been around guns and we've talked about it just a little bit when we've been using them, but we'll have some serious conversation about gun safety now. >> one thing to see a kid actually, you know, pick the weapon up but it's a totally different story when you have audio and you can hear the sound of the trigger being pulled. there's been so many kids who lost their lives, you know, think they were playing with toy. not really knowing, um, w

. >> connelly was a sergeant in the us army.e likes to say he signed up for thee years and president truman added a fourth. >> i was in japan, 1949, just getting ready to come home when the korean war broke out. and we got shipped to korea december 1950. >> reporter: oh on this 90-degree day he wears his army issued khakis. he remembers all too well those korean winters when the thermometer hit 40 below zero. >> we had soldiers laying there firing rifles on the ground just frozen to the rifles. couldn't get the rifle out of their hands. when we pick them up, the rifles came with them. when i come back i never even talk about it. i got a son 57. my daughter is 58. they didn't even know he was in service until 9/11. >> reporter: what was it about 9/11 -- >> when i seen them buildings going down. yeah. that made me think i got to get out there. got to do something. >> reporter: unpack the memories a little bit. >> that's right. >> there you go. >> reporter: fred says he appreciates the parents who bring their kids out here to plant

chairman meadows, chairman desantis, ranking member connelly, ranking member lynch, members of the subcommittee, thank you for having me here as part of this team that is participating in today's hearing. as a national counterintelligence director and -- i'm responsible for leading the counterintelligence and security activities of the united states government which includes the entire u.s. government and public sector throughout the intelligence community. i'm responsible for providing outreach to u.s. private sector entities who are at risk of becoming a target for intelligence collection, penetration or attack by foreign or other adversaries. i also support the director of national intelligence responsibilities as the security executive agent. the role under which the social media directive was developed. and i work close in partnership with the office of management and budget and the office of personnel management and my colleagues to my left. the department of defense also partners in this effort. agencies across the executive branch are also part of today's process and the discusses we ha

jerry connelly of virginia. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and welcome to our panel.ambassador mull, the iran agreeme agreement addressed their support for hezbollah; right? >> no. >> they addressed the issue of money laundry? >> no. >> syria and assad support some? >> yemen? >> no, sir. >> death banning any further expression of death to america or death to israel. assu surely we addressed that in the agreement. >> no, sir. >> what did the agreement address? >> limiting iran's capability to develop fissile material to develop a nuclear weapon. >> surely in the cold war, with the soviet union, we had a different model and addressed every negative behavior in every agreement including in in the reagan administration. is that not correct? we addressed every aspect of soviet behavior unlike this agreement. >> no, sir, that is not correct. >> let's get to this agreement. did it require iran to modify the iraq heavy water research reactor and fill the reactor with concrete? >> yes, sir. >> did they do that? >> yes, sir, they did. >> did it require the reduction of installe

chris connelly is in los angeles. he's got that. lucky "grey's" fans. >> a whole on. a wedding, a home birthdy cesarean section. the unexpected departure of a main character. this time, not the result of catastrophe. but of human kindness. >> hold on. okay. >> wait. >> reporter: last night's action-packed season finale. ending with another good-bye. >> sofia deserves to have two happy moms. >> reporter: dr. cali torres is heading east. and heading out the grey's anatomy door after ten sons the show. this ort peekd surgeon extraordinary no stranger to couplings. >> i guess i thought there should be a difference. between you and erica. >> reporter: yet, it was her bisexuality and her relationship with dr. arizona robbins that made her a prime-time game changer. from their to their courtship. their wedding the and not on so happily ever after amid child custody conflicts. >> being a mother is the reason i'm still alive today. >> reporter: thursday night's episode bringing understanding from her ex. >> plane tickets. bring her back next

chris connelly is in los angeles. he's got that.fans. >> reporter: a whole lot of stuff going on. that's right. in an episode that featured a wedding, a home birth by cesarean section. the unexpected departure of a main character. this time, not the result of catastrophe. but of human kindness. >> hold on. okay. >> wait. >> reporter: last night's action-packed season finale. ending with another good-bye. >> sofia deserves to have two happy moms. >> reporter: for a long beloved character. dr. callie torres, played by sara ramirez, is heading east. and heading out of the "grey's anatomy" door, after ten seasons on the show. this orthopedic surgeon extraordinary no stranger to couplings. >> i guess i thought there should be a difference. between you and erica. >> reporter: yet, it was her bisexuality and her relationship with dr. arizona robbins that made callie a primetime game-changer. from their kiss. to their courtship. and their wedding. and they're not so happily ever after, amid child custody conflicts. >> being a mother is the

connelly, for five minutes. >> well, thank you, mr. chairman. and lordy, lordy, the outrage of my friend from south carolina, does a heart good. does a heart good. from my point of view, this hearing is nothing but a smoke screen, yet another in a long chain of attempts by my friends on the other side of the aisle to deny what is manifestly true, that the iran nuclear agreement is working. it's not a panacea for all iranian behavior, though they would like you to believe that, just as disarmament agreements with the soviet union are implacable foe during the cold war were will the not designed to address every aspect of the soviet behavior. would that they could, but they're not designed to be the be all and end all to circumscribe an entire relationship, but they were designed, and this was designed, for a specific set of goals. and lord almighty, we had a hearing in the house foreign affairs committee where again my friends on the other side of the aisle desperately wanted not to talk about compliance but, being the skunk at the picnic, i did.

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. >> thank you witnesses for being here today, with the panel that we have this to connelly and delaney and three members of the committee, we've got the entire house delegation that represent the area which as you can tell at an important issue to them but it's an important issue to all of us. millions of people come to washington dc every year from our fellow citizens to people from around the world and this transit system really ought to be the crown jewel of the transit systems around the country. in fact, they get more money per capita than any other system in the country but they also spend more money than any other system in the country and we got to bring those things into alignment but this needs to be a system that is , safety has to be paramount and for over 50 years as i've mentioned the metro system has benefited by federal support though this is really important to the entire nation that we get this right. in addition to the monies that the federal government gives to the metro system, also 40 percent of the metro rush-hour writers are provided federal employees are provid

connelly from virginia. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> welcome and my heart also good out to the families. i'm a dad with a daughter. i cannot imagine. it was a failure of the system. that made you victims. ta made your daughters victims. we got a problem with immigration and i think the director has been trying to point to that tone saying i need your help in fixing that. there problems in the current system that affect american citizens who count on it to protect them. but also immigrant families who want to make sure that they are treated with respect and dignity because overwhelmingly most of them are not criminals. i want to enter into the record, mr. chairman, two pieces of correspondence, one is from the southern law center, some of the problems with the atlanta raids and another one from my part of the country in northern virginia from the arlington public schools. that's to all families and staff because of growing anxiety about these raids in northern virginia. >> i entered into the records in the ice trampled legal

connelly and certainly mr. cummin cummings. and as we wrap up, i think mr. lynch, did you have -- let me yield to mr. lynch. >> very briefly. and i think there's a wonderful opportunity there with the postal service and the census. we're walking those streets already. so there's a way to, i think, maximize the skills and the expertise that the postal service has. i do want to push back a little bit again. you know, i cited the oxford report that said the united states postal service was the best in the world. and one of my colleagues indicated his belief that i haven't seen the study, but that we were the worst in the world. i think that the best -- the best judge of this is actually the customer is the american citizens. you know, the pew research center polled americans about their government. and i think mr. boyle brought this up. but the people of the united states in that poll said that the most trusted government employees in the united states today is the united states postal worker. and that's a tribute to you, postmaster general, and also to the uni