Even knowing this, women are many times left out during negotiations. The truth is that conflict knows no gender. Such as peace should no gender. Women are impacted by conflict in different ways than their male counterparts. Sex slavery impacts women as an incomegenerating business. Women need to be able to play a major role in addressing this and finding solutions to combat it. Women control large segments of the economy. Women are the sole income earners in onethird of all households worldwide while their husbands are soldiers, they are running the markets and schools and public institutions. And running the local economy and have a voice in community discussions. Their understanding can prove invaluable when mitigating conflict and building peace where increased instability, we must make sure that the work we are doing produces lasting results. Im confident the woman peace and security act and the accountability it provides will help produce sustainable outcomes for americans and al
Thank you all. We will bring the hearing to order. Senator white house is on his way and ive been told hes okay with starting with senator klobuchar. The purpose of the hearing is to explore the distinct role of congress and the executive branch respect to conducting investigations and discuss best practices for the integrity of each process. A very incredible panel. Whove been down this road many times. Criminal investigations are designed to find out if a crime was committed and hold somebody responsible. Congress has a broad mandate. Our goal was to shed light on the information that may be highly sick of the conflict not necessarily criminal, adjust policy as needed, change the walls when appropriate, but in a particular circumstance find out what happened. Not as a prosecutor but as a policymaker. The power of congress mr. Rosenberg, one of the leading experts on congressional oversight said in the absence of a countervailing constitutional privilege or selfimposed statutory restr
Mrs. Pelosi good morning everyone. I am honored to be here with distinguished representation of House Democratic caucus. Leadership from committees of jurisdiction that have questions about the actions of the Trump Administration as related to the rule of the law. Congresswoman Ranking Member top democrat Maxine Waters, congressman s grant, congresswoman cicilline, congresswoman watson coleman, and representative hank johnson, they are here to speak from the standpoint of their committee. I am not going to characterize their remarks except to say i am proud of the work they have done. Earlier this week, we saw evidence that the Trump Administration and the trump family eagerly intended to collude with russia, a hostile foreignpolicy to influence an american election. Today we learned a foreign russian agent was also present at the trump meeting. Members of Congress Take a sacred of, i do solemnly swear, and that is to uphold the constitution of the United States with what our responsib
Mrs. Pelosi good morning everyone. I am honored to be here with distinguished representation of House Democratic caucus. Leadership from committees of jurisdiction that have questions about the actions of the Trump Administration as related to the rule of the law. Congresswoman Ranking Member top democrat Maxine Waters, congressman s grant, congresswoman cicilline, congresswoman watson coleman, and representative hank johnson, they are here to speak from the standpoint of their committee. I am not going to characterize their remarks except to say i am proud of the work they have done. Earlier this week, we saw evidence that the Trump Administration and the trump family eagerly intended to collude with russia, a hostile foreignpolicy to influence an american election. Today we learned a foreign russian agent was also present at the trump meeting. Members of Congress Take a sacred of, i do solemnly swear, and that is to uphold the constitution of the United States with what our responsib
Factor. This is the second crash at that location in the last six months. The mangled mess of metal was unfortunately all too familiar for commuters at the 69th street transportationen center overnight. We have a team of reporters dedicated to this major story this afternoon. Cydney long is working to learn more about the passengers injured. Lets begin with Steven Fisher live in upper darby where the ntsb is now investigating. Reporter the crash behind me habit changed much behind me. You can see whats going op. But the ntsb is out here investigating trying to figure out how this happened. Until the train with the caution tape can be removed, the line will continue to experience some delays. This was the scene just after midnight at the Transportation Center in upper darby. Emergency crews raced to the station after an occupied train from the high speed line crashed into a parked train. There was a a train coming out of norristown, which is coming east into the terminal and it struck a