Robert of kennedy junior and others testified about censorship and free speech. During the hearing, mr. Kennedy address the antisemitic and antivax allegations against him are related to the comments on the covid 19 pandemic. Speech. Mr. Jordan the subcommittee will come to order. We welcome everyone to todays hearing. I recognize the gentlelady from florida to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Jordan i thank the lady for leading us. Without objection, mr. Roy will be permitted to participate in this hearing. The chair recognizes himself for an Opening Statement. On the first day of this administration, january 23, 2021, the white house sent an email to twitter, wanted to flag the beloved tweet and wonder if we can get moving on the process having it removed asap, in all caps. That third day, what did that tw
Robert of kennedy junior and others testified about censorship and free speech. During the hearing, mr. Kennedy address the antisemitic and antivax allegations against him are related to the comments on the covid 19 pandemic. Speech. Mr. Jordan the subcommittee will come to order. We welcome everyone to todays hearing. I recognize the gentlelady from florida to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Jordan i thank the lady for leading us. Without objection, mr. Roy will be permitted to participate in this hearing. The chair recognizes himself for an Opening Statement. On the first day of this administration, january 23, 2021, the white house sent an email to twitter, wanted to flag the beloved tweet and wonder if we can get moving on the process having it removed asap, in all caps. That third day, what did that tw
Investigate. Its the 1950s and the era of mccarthy ism. Well explore the hearings. Republicans senator Joseph Mccarthy of wisconsin and instigated as he search for alleged communists in government. And well also look at the subsequent investigation of senator mccarthy himself over his attacks on the us army, which led to the senators downfall. Joining us is jim townsend, director of the levin center for oversight and democracy. Mr. Townsend. What was the mccarthy era . Well, the mccarthy era was a period in the early 1950s where the public had become really quite concerned about the possibility of communist infiltration into major american institutions, including the United States government and senator mccarthy, who was a first term senator from wisconsin, took advantage of that public concern. And his position on certain key committees in the senate to start raising allegations, making allegations against various institutions in the government, particularly in the military and in asp
You left . No answer. And this week on congress, investigate. Its the 1950s and the era of mccarthy ism. Well explore the hearings. Republicans senator Joseph Mccarthy of wisconsin and instigated as he search for alleged communists in government. And well also look at the subsequent investigation of senator mccarthy himself over his attacks on the us army, which led to the senators downfall. Joining us is jim townsend, director of the levin center for oversight and democracy. Mr. Townsend. What was the mccarthy era . Well, the mccarthy era was a period in the early 1950s where the public had become really quite concerned about the possibility of communist infiltration into major american institutions, including the United States government and senator mccarthy, who was a rst term senator from wisconsin, took advantage of that public concern. And his position on certain key committees in the senate to start raising allegations, making allegations against various institutions in the gove
My name is christine black and i am the exhibits curator here at the Capitol Visitor Center inside the us capitol. We are here in the congressional investigations exhibit in exhibition hall and this is an exhibit that speaks to how and why congress does one of its most important jobs. The constitution, and gives congress the power to legislate. But in order to do that, Congress Needs information on what topics it can legislate on what needs to be legislated about. And Congress Gets that information through investigations. So at any given time, congress can be investigating. For example, if a law is being implemented as it was intended to or the cause of a disaster. And and it gathers information and uses that information to create new laws. One of our goals for this exhibit was for americans to be able to get a better understanding of the things that happen here in the capitol, the things done by their representatives in congress. So because investigations are one of those things that