See these folks behind us these folks behind us on both sides are amazing. The staff democratic and republican members have to put up with us, which is amazing to start with but in a Committee Role like this, susan, youve been a friend, youre probably the one i hear the name most often when i say johnny says well susan called, i said in my in trouble and he says no. Susan, youre going to be missed. It will be hard to turn around and not see you here but i am so happy for you, the beneficiary heres what youve done for the committee but also at the administration of officer courts are to do. They are gaining, we are losing, and we acknowledge that with that i yield back the chair. [applause] i will now recognize myself her opening statement. Todays hearing furthers our committees longstanding commitment to conducting meaningful oversight of state and federal Law Enforcement. As initiated by former chairman goodlad and his establishment of the bipartisan policing strategies working group.
Advocacy groups who spoke before the house Judiciary Committee. Theyll talk about ways to improve Police Relations within the community and increase accountability among Law Enforcement. This is three hours and 40 minutes. House committee on the judiciary will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recesses at any time. Welcome to the oversight hearing on Police Practices. Before we begin, i want to briefly recognize susan jensen whose last day on the committee after more than 20 years of service is tomorrow. Susan is highly respected on both sides of the aisle, as one of the preeminent experts on bankruptly, Administrative Law and the federal court system. It is a testament to her knowledge and fairness she worked as a senior counsel for republican and democratic chairs of this committee. First hired by former chair henry hyde for her expertise in bankruptcy law, susan moved to the democratic staff under john conyers, where she expanded her port follow to include Administra
Its a testament to her knowledge and status that she worked as counsel and later senior counsel both republican and democratic chairs of this committee. Susan later moved to the democratic stamp on the former chair Ranking Member john conyers where she expanded her portfolio to include Administrative Law the federal courts and ethics issues. When i was elected to serve as chair he also asked susan to serve as committee parliamentarian. In addition to her all their duties. To develop procedures for hearings, markups and other committee activities. Regular viewers of this committee will recognize as the person sitting behind me providing the wise counsel. Susan has been essential to the operations of this committee and shes been involved in nearly every pace of Committee Business over the last year. Though she will be leaving the committee she will continue the book service as she transitions to a position with the Administrative Office of the u. S. Court. I wish her well as i think her
Sen. Collins the hearing will come to order. Good morning, everybody. It is wonderful to welcome all of you here to washington, d. C. This is our 11th childrens congress, and it is always a privilege to work with jdrf families whose commitment to promoting lifechanging research to prevent, treat, and ultimately cure type i diabetes inspires me. I want to welcome not only our Ranking Members, senator casey and senator scott from florida, but also we have a special guest , and that is the cochair with me of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, senator Jeanne Shaheen of new hampshire. So thank you for joining us here today as well. Let me shorten my opening comments this morning, because we do have votes beginning at 11 00, and i want to make sure that we have time to hear from all of our witnesses. As i said, i want to begin by welcoming the more than 160 children who have traveled to washington from all across the country to share your personal stories. You will tell us what it is like to live w
Five minutes to make an opening statement. Today the committee is holding our second hearing on the use of racial facial Recognition Technology. We will be examining the use of this technology by Law Enforcement agencies across the federal government. We had a broad survey of full range of issues, raised by technology. We heard from a number of experts about the benefits and the dangers of this technology across government and the entire private sector. Stark conclusion after our last hearing was that this technology is evolving extremely rapidly, without any really safeguards, whether were talking about commercial use or government use, the real concerns about the risks that this Technology Poses to our civil rights and liberties and our rights to privacy. The other conclusion from our last hearing was that these concerns are indeed bipartisan. As we saw at our last hearing, among conservatives and liberals, republic republicans and democrats thats a widerange agreement we should be c