Weve organized todays hearing. The 2016 election, the American People made a resounding call to drain the swamp. That is modern washington. And sadly this is a bipartisan problem. The American People have lost confidence in washington and especially in congress. And it isnt hard to see why. Enmeshed in back room deals and broken promises, our capitol has too often become a political playground for the powerful and well connected. For members of the permanent Political Class looking to accumulate more and more power at the expense of american taxpayers. As part of his promise to drain the swamp, President Trump strongly endorsed and campaigned on passing congressional term limits. Though our founders didnt include term limits in the constitution, they feared the creation of a permanent Political Class that existed parallel to rather than within american society. As Benjamin Franklin observed, quote, in free governments, the rulers are the servants. And the people their superiors. For th
The chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to our first hearing on Online Platforms and market power, focusing on the free and Diverse Press. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. In recent years, there has been a cascade of competition problems on the internet. Concentration in the Digital Marketing has pushed for journalism to the verge of extension. The acquisitions, growing innovation kills him, and high Network Effects and switching costs, appear to undermine entrepreneurship and startup rates. The sheer dominance of some platforms has resulted in the worst products, significantly less choice, leaving people without a competitive alternative to services that harvest the data, manipulative behavior to monetize her attention. Response to these trends, the committee will commit conduct a bipartisan the purpose of this investigation is to document anticompetitive combat conduct online. Examine and and assess whether the com
The chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to our first hearing on Online Platforms and market power, focusing on the free and Diverse Press. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. In recent years, there has been a cascade of competition problems on the internet. Concentration in the Digital Marketing has pushed for journalism to the verge of extension. The acquisitions, growing innovation kills him, and high Network Effects and switching costs, appear to undermine entrepreneurship and startup rates. The sheer dominance of some platforms has resulted in the worst products, significantly less choice, leaving people without a competitive alternative to services that harvest the data, manipulative behavior to monetize her attention. Response to these trends, the committee will commit conduct a bipartisan the purpose of this investigation is to document anticompetitive combat conduct online. Examine and and assess whether the com
I welcome every day for the need to reauthorize the Compensation Fund i recognize myself for a opening statement. September 11 is one of the deadliest days with almost 3000 lives lost because the terrorist attacks in the United States on the day with casualty numbers much higher and offsite and the fact that we dont know the full casualty count almost 18 years later, thats because years after 9 11 tens of thousands of First Responders who ran towards the toxic clouds unleashed on that day as well as members of the community surrounding the crash site continue to develop cancers and other diseases that prematurely end their lives. We undermined their employment like prospects with related illnesses and many people may not even be aware of that fact we continue suffering congress and in september 11 and legislation passed in 2010. We found in law and authorized the fund for five years and congress established the original fund 11 days after 9 11 to provide compensation for those physical
Good evening everyone and welcome to i am interviewing Eva Moskowitz tonights program is a part of our Bernard Irene swarts Speakers Series and i would like to sake i like to thank mr. Swarts for his leadership which is enabled us bring 70 prominent speakers to the stage. I would also like to mention that our chairman emeritus had hoped to be with us this evening , but unfortunately his travel schedule conflicted with the programming. Im delighted to say that susan who has advised us at our history films is here and i would like to thank her and welcome her for all she has done on behalf of New York Historical. [applause]. Tonights program will last about an hour and will include a question and answer question session. Questions should be written on no cards. If you did not receive a no card my colleagues are still going up and down the aisle so good in no card from them. The questions will be collected later on in the program there will be a book signing this evening that will take ou