1:30 PM EDT

House Minority Leader Weekly Briefing

house Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY) briefs reporters and responds to questions on his party’s legislative agenda.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?534859-1/house-minority-leader-weekly-briefing

1:30 PM EDT

Budget Hearing – Fiscal Year 2025 Request for the United States Agency for International Development

House Appropriations Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/117094

https://appropriations.house.gov/legislation/hearings/budget-hearing-fiscal-year-2025-request-united-states-agency-international

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpzD2-0a0BI

1:30 PM EDT

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room

https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dM1_Eg-i80

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White House Daily Briefing

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre briefs reporters and responds to questions on the Biden administration’s policy agenda.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?534863-1/white-house-daily-briefing

1:50 PM EDT

Army Community Partnership Awards

Department of Defense

https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/34017

2:00 PM EDT

Department Press Briefing with Spokesperson Matthew Miller - Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield and Special Envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello will join the Spokesperson at the top of the briefing

Department of State

https://www.state.gov/todays-briefing-schedule/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avxadL81pCk

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2:00 PM EDT

Energizing the Territories: Promoting Affordable and Reliable Energy Sources for the U.S. Insular Areas | Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee

House Natural Resources Committee

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WITNESSES:

Mr. John Brewer, Director, Office of Insular and International Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.

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Mr. Kyle Fleming, Chairman, U.S. Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

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Mr. Kenny Stein, Vice President of Policy, Institute for Energy Research, Washington, D.C.

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Mr. Travis Fisher, Director of Energy and Environmental Policy Studies, CATO Institute, Washington, D.C.

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Dr. Gregory Guannel, Director, Caribbean Green Technology Center, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands [Minority Witness]

https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/117031

https://naturalresources.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hearing_memo_–_sub_on_iia_ov_hrg_on_energizing_the_territories_04.11.24.pdf

https://naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=415818

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9HN4iw0JZE

2:00 PM EDT

Budget Hearing – Fiscal Year 2025 Request for the Federal Bureau of Investigation

House Appropriations Committee

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WITNESSES:

The Honorable Christopher Wray

Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

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https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/117095

https://appropriations.house.gov/legislation/hearings/budget-hearing-fiscal-year-2025-request-federal-bureau-investigation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC3sEdbxsQs

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FBI Director Testifies on FY 2025 Budget Request

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies on the fiscal year 2025 budget request for his agency before a House Appropriations subcommittee.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?534718-1/fbi-director-testifies-fy-2025-budget-request

2:00 PM EDT

Budget Hearing – Fiscal Year 2025 Request for Navy and Marine Corps Military Construction and Family Housing

House Appropriations Committee

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WITNESSES:

The Honorable Meredith Berger

Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations, Energy and Environment)/ Chief Sustainability Officer, Department of the Navy

Witness Biography

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Vice Admiral Jeffrey Jablon

Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Installations and Logistics, Department of the Navy

Witness Biography

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Lieutenant General Edward Banta

Deputy Commandant, Installations and Logistics, United States Marine Corps

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https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/117087

https://appropriations.house.gov/legislation/hearings/budget-hearing-fiscal-year-2025-request-navy-and-marine-corps-military

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkK9LguYHDc

Top Cyber Official Credits Foreign Surveillance Tool With Keeping Americans Safe

The Defense Department's top cyber official credited a key provision of the amended Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act with keeping Americans and the DOD safe from foreign adversaries during testimony at a Senate Armed Services Committee posture hearing today.

April 10, 2024

Air Force Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, who serves as commander of U.S. Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency and chief of the Central Security Service, referenced Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 during his opening remarks.

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3737684/top-cyber-official-credits-foreign-surveillance-tool-with-keeping-americans-safe/

DOD Employs Proactive Measures to Counter Cyber Threats

April 11, 2024

By pursuing integrated deterrence, including cyber, the Defense Department continues to be ready to fight and win the nation's wars, said Ashley Manning, who testified yesterday before the House Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies and Innovation regarding the fiscal year 2025 budget request for cyber.

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3738186/dod-employs-proactive-measures-to-counter-cyber-threats/

2:30 PM EDT

Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder briefs the media in the Pentagon Briefing Room (2D972) at 2:30 p.m. EDT. The briefing will also be livestreamed on Defense.gov and broadcast on Channel 2 in the Pentagon.

Department of Defense

https://www.defense.gov/News/Live-Events/#/?currentVideo=34186

https://www.defense.gov/News/Today-in-DOD/Date/2024-04-11/

https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/34134

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3:00 PM EDT

Joint SPF-RDY Hearing: Posture and Readiness of the Mobility Enterprise – TRANSCOM and MARAD

House Armed Services Committee

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WITNESSES:

General Jacqueline D. Van Ovost

Commander

U.S. Transportation Command

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Rear Admiral Ann C. Phillips (Ret.)

Administrator

Maritime Administration

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https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/117073

https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings/joint-spf-rdy-hearing-posture-and-readiness-mobility-enterprise-transcom-and-marad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b2tb0lszHo

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Air Force Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost, commander, U.S. Transportation Command, provides testimony at 3 p.m. EDT at a joint House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces and Subcommittee on Readiness hearing on the posture and readiness of the mobility enterprise for USTRANSCOM and the Maritime Administration, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. The hearing will be livestreamed on Defense.gov.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Today-in-DOD/Date/2024-04-11/

https://www.defense.gov/News/Live-Events/

https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/34186

3:30 PM EDT

A Review of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise’s Posture and Capabilities in Strategic Competition and in Synchronizing Intelligence Efforts to Counter the People’s Republic of China

House Armed Services Committee

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WITNESSES:

The Honorable Milancy D. Harris

Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security

U.S. Department of Defense

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General Timothy D. Haugh, USAF

Commander, U.S. Cyber Command

Director, National Security Agency

Chief, Central Security Service

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Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse, USAF

Director

Defense Intelligence Agency

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https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/117088

https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings/iso-hearing-review-defense-intelligence-enterprise-s-posture-and-capabilities-strategic-0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZHCFr94B1Y

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Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security Milancy D. Harris; Air Force Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, commander, U.S. Cyber Command/director, National Security Agency/chief, Central Security Service; and Air Force Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director, Defense Intelligence Agency, provide testimony at 3:30 p.m. EDT at a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations hearing to review the U.S. defense intelligence enterprise's posture and examine current capabilities and efforts to counter the People's Republic of China, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. The hearing will be livestreamed on Defense.gov.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Today-in-DOD/Date/2024-04-11/

https://www.defense.gov/News/Live-Events/

https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/34187

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House Republican and Grover Norquist News Conference on IRS Oversight and Taxes

Several House Republicans join Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist at a news conference on IRS oversight and taxes ahead of this year’s filing deadline next week.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?534879-1/house-republican-grover-norquist-news-conference-irs-oversight-taxes&live

>>20712680

>Billy Dee Williams says to Bill Maher "I like your SHOES by the way." He later calls him "sick."

National Action Network Convention

Day 2 National Action Network Convention 2024 - Nanconvention2024.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd4JXBBUdXQ

Al Sharpton