gerry connolly of virginia. mr. connolly: welcome to our panel. mr. ambassador, ambassador addressed greement their support for hezbollah, right? ambassador mull: no. mr. connolly: well, it certainly addressed the issue of money laundering. ambassador mull: no. mr. connolly: syria and assad support? ambassador mull: no. mr. connolly: terrorism? ambassador mull: no, sir. mr. connolly: banning any further express of death to israel and america. did we address that? ambassador mull: no, sir. mr. connolly: what did the agreement address? ambassador mull: the agreement addressed limiting iran's capability to develop fissile material to build a nuclear weapon. mr. connolly: that's a unique approach. surely in the cold war with the soviet union we had a different model. we addressed every negative behavior the soviets were engaged in in every agreement we approached, including, in my friend dana rohrabacher's add m., the reagan administration, is that not correct? we addressed every aspect of soviet behavior unlike this agreement. ambassador mull: no, sir, t

connolly. mr. connolly: i thank my friend, the chairman, for holding this hearing to examine the usefulness of social media and other crucial enhancements to federal background investigation process. on january 22, the administration announced the federal investigative services, a former entity of o.p.m., would transfer its functions to a new background bureau. the department of defense was responsible for the design of the new entity. i think we need to task our national security experts while protecting the sensitive personal information of millions of clearanceholders. today, we're discussing another enhancement, the inclukes of social media in the background investigation process. the army has a pilot program which use publicly available data from social media sites to enhance information available to investigators during background check processes. currently, the department of defense is conducting a pilot program that looks at all publicly available information online such as news articles an

connolly: did they do that? mr. mull: yes. rep. connolly: oh, my lord. did it require the reduction of installed centrifuges from 19,000 5100 to 4? mr. mull: yes. rep. connolly: did they achieve that? mr. mull: yes. rep. connolly: did it require that uranium enrichment be reduced to a level of 3.67%? mr. mull: yes. rep. connolly: did they achieve that? mr. mull: yes. specifynolly: did is that their stockpile be reduced and the rest of it sent out of the country? mr. mull: yes. rep. connolly: did they do that? mr. mull: yes. i confirmed in russia where it is being stored. rep. connolly: did they agree to allow the inspection and limitation on centrifuge production and uranium mills under surveillance by international auspices? mr. mull: yes. rep. connolly: have they complied? mr. mull: yes. rep. connolly: has the internet will tell atomic -- international atomic energy agency verify this? mr. mull: yes. rep. connolly: i've got to admit, i find it -- we've had over 30 hearings on this. oh my gosh, i was worried. i had trouble sleeping when i listen to my c

cummings and connolly and mr. meadows for all their work. we've done a lot of work on the side to try to coordinate our efforts out here and i'm very pleased to see the same thing is hang down there. we have the post master general, along with the national ass association of letter carriers, the clerks, supervisors and then the prc as well as the mailing community and inspector generals, everybody on the same page. it troubles me that we can't move this ball forward. i do want to focus on one key aspect of this and that is the coordination of benefits between the fehbp.

connolly. mr. connolly: i thank my friend, the chairman, for holding this hearing to examine the usefulness of social media and other crucial enhancements to federal background investigation process. on january 22, the administration announced the federal investigative services, a former entity of o.p.m., would transfer its functions to a new background bureau. the department of defense was responsible for the design of the new entity. i think we need to task our national security experts while protecting the sensitive personal information of millions of clearanceholders. today, we're discussing another enhancement, the inclukes of social media in the background investigation process. the army has a pilot program which use publicly available data from social media sites to enhance information available to investigators during background check proseesees. currently, the department of defense is conducting a pilot program that looks at all publicly available information online such as news articles a

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connolly: the problems have been happening for decades and are frankly pervasive. it is actually a workforce problem. if you don't whistle while you a mission, whatever level you are, you are putting public safety in jeopardy. that attitude becomes toxic and viral, and that is what has been .llowed to happen in metro i cannot think of a corporation that would change its workforce metro's and expect to succeed. jummy: you can catch the full interview by heading to our website right now. that is wjla.com. we want to get a check on traffic this noon. jamie: traffic is not terrible as far as the big picture goes. we are seeing mostly green right now traveling out there along the capital beltway. traffic heading northbound is about 17 miles an hour. we will take a live look outside. -- some of the volume we do have is because of construction. we had a minor accident. focus for theour past half hour. northbound dct 95 just after malcolm x -- we do have two left leg of blocked. if you are heading southbound, we also have two left lanes blocked. now, so per hour right if y

connolly: i thank the speaker. i've listened with great rapt attention this afternoon to my friends, mr. chaffetz, mr. meadows, who have gone on eloquently about protecting the constitution of the united states. at the, of course, collateral expense of the people of the district of columbia. they cite the constitution as if the constitution and the founders who wrote it were fully cognizant of the evolution that was going to take place in the district of columbia. when we know, as a historical fact, the constitution was written before there was a district of columbia. let alone almost 700,000 american citizens still denied voting representation in this body today. in fact, the very constitution, my -- constitution my friends cite, protect -- cite protected slavery. decided that certain people of color were only worth 3/5 of the normal mortal. but allowed the south to count them for the purposes of representation in this body. same constitution. we changed it. we took cognizance of changes in reality. the fact that

>> yes, congressman connolly. this year we estimate that impact to be up to a billion dollars this fiscal year and roughly 2.1 billion going forward. worsening our financial situation. >> and miss rectanus, in your testimony you state, postal service's financial condition continues to deteriorate right. and you attribute that to declining mail volume and growing expenses at the same time, is that correct? >> yes, that is. >> and yet do you believe that some of the elements of the reform we've been talking about bring up the postal service to, engage in some other lines of business may be profitable like other postal services around the world do? so lifting some of those restrictions, lifting the burden of a unique prepayment requirement as mr. rolando pointed out unique to the postal service. no other federal agency, no other private corporation in america is held to that standard in terms of that prepayment, whatever it is $5 billion, plus, the medicare reform i think we've been talking about which, i wish mr. fa

connolly was a sergeant in the us army.s to say he signed up for three 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. >> reporter: on this 90-degree day fred wears his original army issued khakis with a bit of alterations from his wife. he remembers all too well the korean winters when the thermometer hit 40 below zero. >> we had soldiers firing on the ground frozen to death witness rifles. when we picked them up the rifles came with them. when i come back i never even talked about it. i got a son 57. my daughter is 58. they didn't even know i was in service until 9/11. >> reporter: what was it about 9/11 that made you -- >> when i seen them buildings going down. 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 appreciates the parents who bring their kids out here to plant flags. he like the message it

lynch and connolly have put into this. if quewe're going to do this an pass it all the way to the president's desk, it does need to be a bipartisan bill and that's the goal and the intention. i'll hold the record open for five legislative days for any members that would like to submit a written statement. we're honored to have the post master general, ms. megan brennan. we have the honorable robert tob, acting chairman of the united states postal service regulatory commission. ms. laurie, the director of infrustructure issues that united states government accountability office. ms. jessica lawrence, executive vice president for the association of postal commerce and mr. fredric rulaundo, national association of letter carriers. all witnesses are to be sworn before they testified. if you would please rise and raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear or afirm that the testimony you're about to give will be there truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? thank you. let the record reflect that all witnesses answer

where joined now by nicholas connolly from the newsroom committee has been following the story.s camp is essentially for refugees. what more do we know about the attack? nicholas: they say at least 28 people dead, 50 wounded. this is very close to the turkish border, about 1500 and 2000 people live there. sarah: the information them a we are relying on the syrian observer for that. they had been reporting on this. what more do we know about their credibility, are they relatively accurate with the information they put out? nicholas: they are a monitoring outfit in the u.k. provides syrian exiles that they have a large network of informants across syria and they have shown to bring consistently reliable news. the white house is already commenting on this and have called the attack indefensible. sarah: the city government carried out the airstrikes, is that plausible? nicholas: the white house is being a bit more cautious, they are saying there were no american coalition planes in the area. it remains to be seen. but the syrian opposition says the only people with the capacity to d

connolly of virginia. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. connolly: thank you, mr. chairman, and i thank my good friend from massachusetts. i rise in support of the bipartisan amendment i've co-written with my colleague, judge ted poe of texas. the amendment which is part of the next en bloc amendment endorses an ongoing effort at the defense security cooperation agency to develop a comprehensive framework for the assessment, monitoring, and evaluation of security cooperation activities of the department of defense. it follows a related monitoring and evaluation amendment judge poe and i offered to the ndaa for f.y. 2016 and the committee retained in the 2017 bill. security cooperation, foreign security forces builds valuable international partnerships and enhances the ability of our partners to carry out joint military operations and enhances american security while it's at it. however, few requirements are placed on these programs to measure the impact of funding provided to our foreign security partners. looking at efficacy, does it work? judge poe and i led the

thank you. >> thank you mister connolly. next is representative john delaney, thanks for being here. >> thank you. i want to thank the chair and ranking member and all my colleagues for giving me this opportunity to discuss metro with you today. it'ssomething that's very important to my constituents , many of which use thesystem on a daily basis . it's also important as we know to everyone who lives in the national capital region and all the visitors of our nation's capital. clearly metro is an organization in crisis . it's 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. first ranking member noted norton discussed which is metro effectively reports 24 governing jurisdictions. dc, maryland, virginia and federal government. this poor headed monster makes it difficult for metro to get kind of funding and oversight that would be optimal for organization of its scale. secondly, as r

connolly for holding this hearing. it's important for a number of reasons which you both have touched on already. when an individual applies to receive an initial 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've got one right here, 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 and any history of alcohol use or illegal drug use, any mental health counseling. it does not currently request social media information. but as chairman noted last night at about 11:00, we got copies of this policy. i want to say thank you, you know, we have now always had information forthcoming in a timely manner, even 11:00 at night. it's timely around here. you know, a few hours before the h

connolly. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. connolly: i thank the chairman and i thank the chairman. for every human problem there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong. i have a lot of sympathy for mr. thornberry's amendment and or what he talks about micromanagement. micro management goes back to the founding of the national security council. you think richard nixon's secretary of state and secretary of defense didn't think henry kissinger micro managed when he was the national security advisor? he sarpetishesly altered the u.s. policy to china on his own with his staff at n.s.c. there's a long tradition of micro management and interference and i have no doubt that mr. thornberry is right. every secretary of defense and every secretary of state would have a similar complaint. of course they would. and they might be right. to elevate this job over 100 people to senate confirmation actually aggravates the problem. now you've got to codify the micro management. you are going to make this a policymaking apparatus in direct

but many drivers don't realize these snake-like curves near connolly springs, north carolina, can beifficult to navigate. even deadly. fire and rescue crews race to the scene of a tanker truck that has spun out of control and slammed into a bridge. as they get closer and closer, a thick billowing cloud of black smoke looms ominously on the horizon. >> we've had a lot of wrecks, single vehicle including tractor trailers and small passenger vex. this is one of the most dangerous areas of interstate 40 in north carolina. >> traffic comes to a standstill. some motorists even resort to driving the wrong way in the emergency lane in order to exit the freeway from an on ramp. when firefighters and first responders arrive, they're face-to-face with a 50-foot-high fireball that has engulfed the bridge. >> basically the whole underside of interstate 40, the bridge and things was covered up with flames. in my 30-year career i've had now, i've never seen anything of that magnitude of flames. >> large flame could be seen from miles away. flame length 68 feet. and a large area around the bridge. e

>> yes, congressman connolly. this year we estimate that impact to be up to a billion dollars this fiscal year and roughly $2.1 billion going forward. worsening our financial situation. >> and in your testimony you state postal service's financial condition continues to deteriorate and you say it's growing mail volume and increasing spensincrease ing expenses, is that correct? >> yes. >> do you believe some of the reforms we've been talking about bringing up the postal service to, you know, engage in other lines of business that may be profitable like other postal services around the world do, soliciting some of those restrictions, lifting the burden of a unique prepayment requirement as mr. rolan rolando pointed out unique to the postal service, no other corporation in america is held to that standard in terms of prepayment, whatever it is, $5 billion plus, plus the medicare reform i think we've been talking about, which i wish mr. ferenhol was still here, that's not a giveaway. those things could they turn aroun

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member democratic, as gerry connolly of virginia questioning her. >> so a student on the way just goalpreme courtt ruled rerespectiveve o status,s, if ye a stududent, you show up,p, youe entitled to a public e educatio, correct? >> i''m not sure. i take your wororfor it. >> that is case law. that was the supreme court ruling. amy: that was a hearing ice for the head. if you would respond to, paromita shah, to talk about this operation guardian. "the new york times" has a very strong editorial talalking about the story of deporting peoplpleo rececent migrants to el salvado, guatemala, hundreds, saying though the numbers are small, the way they are treated poses a critical moral test for the administration, a test it is failing. these countries the most violent in the hemisphere. >> they have elected to pursue this policy of deterrence where they think engaging in brutal, aggressive tactics against communities rounding people up for deportation, people they call priorities undnder this administration, is the way they think that we should be dealing with people fleeing persecution. amy: a

connolly and certainly mr. coming. as we wrap up, i think mr. lynch -- that may yield to mr. lynch. >> very briefly. i think there's a wonderful opportunity there at the postal service in the census census walking the streets already. there is a way to maximize skills and expertise the postal service has. i do want to push back a little bit again. i cited the oxygen report that said the united states postal service is the best in the world. one of my colleagues indicated his belief was that haven't seen the study, but we were the worst in the world. i think the best judge of this is actually because of her and its american citizens. the pew research center poll americans about their government. i think mr. boyle brought this up is the people of the united states in that poll said the most trusted government employees and the united states today is the united states post worker. have you do you post mustard's and also the people at every single day. they were 84, but after many government employees. congress was also have not daddy. we were around six or seven between swine fl

. >> reporter: vicki connolly's family has done their part. they collect excess water for their line and cut down on showers. she says the rate increase is not that big of a deal. >> when i get a bill that's a few dollars off i don't know if it's because i've used more water or because the rates have gone up. >> it's the latter. berates have definitely gone up. in january, people living in marin saw their water bill increased by $10 a month. this latest increase this month, they saw their bill go up another two dollars. >> i think it's really unjustified. if we're going to be charged more for water, it should be better quality water. >> reporter: water officials say they changed their price structure so instead of the majority of your water bill paying for actual water, it's now going toward the district operations. >> so the fixed charges are personnel, are equipment, most of the costs that go into running the district. >> reporter: but that may not be enough. with the district looking ahead to a huge change to its info structure, come decemb

connolly. next is representative john delaney. >> thank you. i want to thank the chair and my colleagues for giving me the opportunity to discuss metro with you. it is very important to my c constentuents and it is important to all of the visitors of the nations capitol. metro is in crisis with deficiency around safety, reliability, customer service, and financial management. if you diagnose the problems with metro you realize there are several causes. the first is that metro reports to four governing jurisdictions and this four-headed monster makes it difficult to metro to get the funding and oversight that is optimal to an organization of its scale. secondly, metro has been under funded and it is a reliable source of unfunding and created uncertainty and made the unfunded situation more pronounced. finally, it has been mismanaged for several decades. whether it is strategic or tactally they can both be made. i would like to leave the current ceo off that list. and there is another issue and this gets to chairman shusters's comments about cult

next is congressman connolly. thank you for having us here today. delighted to join with my colleagues. i serve as the ranking member of the government operations subcommittee of oversight and government reform committee, which held its own hearings on metro. the challenges facing them are significant. i spent the last 22 years working in metro. first is a member of the fairfax county board of supervisors, as chairman i made appointments to the metro board. havehe past eight years, i worked with you and your colleagues here on this committee to secure the hundred $50 million annual federal commitment for metro safety improvements, which has matched the dollar for dollar of virginia, d c, and maryland. nobody is more disheartened than i am with the unacceptable and unsustainable affairs of metro. i want to start by commanding this committee for your efforts through the fast act to create a framework of safety standards for metro, and for all of the nations transit systems as the fta, thehe fda -- oversight committee is a paper tiger without the prope

it's tough to fire people on the subway, but jerry connolly has said it, eleanor norton has said it.hey have to get rid of the dead wood. norton says it should be up to the top people to fire the people below because they do what the people tell them to do. and therefore the responsibility is theirs. it's a management problem. finally john delaney says you have to change the whole metro w board of directors. he wants to make them professional relative to finance or safety or things of that nature. or transportation. >> as you were talking, and we keep talking about starts at the top, well, the top is the board of directors. they get the reports. they have the authority on to d lot of things. and i think he's right. these are like almost political appointments and i think you have to redo the whole board of directors and if you're going to start at the top, start way at the top. absolutely right. >> you have a board full of politicians right now. >> what is new is old, right? but anthony fox has already replaced three of those on board members p. >> we'll take a quick break and be rig

i appreciate what you're saying and we see it both from representative connolly and former chief burbank kind of the mentality we have to get over in this country if we're going to save our country, because we're going to lose our country unless we begin to take these immigration laws seriously, and we have too many people thinking of any ridiculous pretex under the world not to do the obvious. and we have seen that here today. but i would like to thank chief martin and thank all the other law enforcement officers around the country who i think are doing a tremendous job. i think it's unfortunate so many people want to disparage them. that's all. >> i'll recognize the ranking member for closing statement. >> again, i want to thank all of you for being here. and i think when we look at this total problem, we have to understand that there's a lot of pain. and rightfully so. at the same time, when our nation was put together, founding fathers tried to create all kind of balances so that we keep our people safe, make sure that there's equal protection under the law, and a true sense of justi

connolly from virginia for five minutes. thank you, mr. chairman. welcome, ms. saldana. my heart also goes out to the root family. i am a dad with a daughter. i cannot imagine. it was the failure of the system. that may do the dems, the major daughters that the spirit we've got a problem with immigration and i.t. director saldana has been tried to point to that in front of her saying i need your help fixing that because there are problems in the current system that affect american citizen who count on it to protect them, but also immigrant families who want to make sure that they are treated with respect 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 of some of the problem is that you linked to immigration raids and another one for my part of the country, northern virginia from the arlington public schools direction given by the supreme tendon to schools to offer families and staff because of growing anxiety about these raids in northern virginia. >>

connolly. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from georgia, mr. heis. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think we have got a very great facility for the federal law enforcement training center. i think the tsa, frankly, is not utilizing it to the full potential. certainly not to the potential that would be helpful. but how long on an average does a new hire have to wait before they begin training at the tsa academy? >> i've got good news to report on that. as you know, that academy stood up for the first time ever on january 1st of this year. this is new for us. and we are pushing now eight concurrent classes about 200 officers a week. we -- it takes about four months to on-board somebody new. and during -- and we typically bring them on board, and they have to get their security background checks and the like. and then we get them right into a training class shortly after that. we're actually seeing the ability to move people right in and -- >> four months is the average wait? >> it is on average four to five months, but during that time, you're going through the background

connolly, mr. cummings -- i think mr. lynch -- let me yield to mr. lynch. >> very briefly. think there is a wonderful opportunity with the postal service and the census walking the streets already. there is a way to maximize the expertise the postal service has. i want to push back a little again. i cited the oxford report saying the united states postal service is the best in the world. one of my colleagues said we were the worst in the world. i think the best judge is the customer, the american citizens. the pew research center polled americans about their government. the people of the united states said the most trusted government employees in the united states today is the united states postal worker. that is a tribute to you, postmaster general, and also to the unions and the people who do the work every single day. i want to say that they rank you at 84%. you were the highest of any government employees. congress was also on that study. we were around 6%, between swine flu and the taliban. >> this committee competes with zika. >> amen to that. we are a member of a bod

connolly. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from georgia, mr. heis. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think we have got a very great facility for the federal law enforcement training center. i think the tsa frankly is not utilizing it to the full potential. certainly not to the potential that would be helpful. but how long on an average does a new hire have to wait before they begin training at the tsa academy? >> i've got good news to report on that. as you know, that academy stood up for the first time ever on january 1st of this year. this is new for us. and we are pushing now eight concurrent classes about 200 officers a week. we -- it takes about four months to on board somebody new. and during -- and we typically bring them on board, and they have to get their security background checks and the like. and then we get them right into a training class shortly after that. we're actually seeing the ability to move people right in and -- >> four months is the average wait? >> it is on average four to five months, but during that time, you're going through the background ch

connolly. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from georgia, mr. heis. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think we have got a very great facility for the federal law enforcement training center. i think the tsa frankly is not utilizing it to the full potential. certainly not to the potential that would be helpful. but how long on an average does a new hire have to wait before they begin training at the tsa academy? >> i've got good news to report on that. as you know, that academy stood up for the first time ever on january 1st of this year. this is new for us. and we are pushing now eight concurrent classes about 200 officers a week. we -- it takes about four months to on board somebody new. and during -- and we typically bring them on board, and they have to get their security background checks and the like. and then we get them right into a training class shortly after that. we're actually seeing the ability to move people right in and -- >> four months is the average wait? >> it is on average four to five months, but during that time, you're going through the background ch

. >> we go to gerry connolly of virginia. >> thank you and welcome to our panel. mr.ador, the iran agreement addressed their support for hezbollah, right? >> no. they addressed. >> will certainly it address the issue of money laundering. >> no. >> syrian asad support? no. >> terrorism? >> no sir. >> no sir. >> yemen. >> no sir what about expression of death to america or death to israel. surely we address that? >> no sir. >> what did it address? >> it address limiting the capability to develop material to build a nuclear weapon. >> will that's a unique approach. surely in the cold war, with the soviet union we had a different model. we addressed every negative behavior the soviets were behaved and in every agreement we approached including the reagan administration. is that not correct? on like this agreement. >> no so sir, that's not correct. >> will let's get to this agreement. did this agreement require iran to modify the research reactor and fill the reactor with concrete? >> yes sir did they do that? >> yes sir. >> oh my lord. did it require the reduction of inst

connolly, for five minutes. >> thank you very much. welcome, both of you. admiral neffenger, let me start by saying, really appreciate the management reforms you have undertaken and -- he which you've taken them. this is a big enterprise, a difficult enterprise. a critical mission with a lot of unsatisfying aspects to the job. very few human beings are going to make a 30-year career telling people to take off their belts and shoes and yet it is critical to the mission, security of the american people. and so, not easy, to keep motivated to have a salary structure that makes sense and, i for one, very much appreciate what you've done and i hope you don't leave with the new administration, and as a matter of fact if you do, i hope you give paul widenfeld at metro to join his team because we've need kind of management reforms you've undertaken at tsa. one little plug i always make, and i have seen in my own experience a big change which i appreciate in how we're treating the public. we still have got work to do. but, i have really been impressed at different a