We welcome you and respect your right to be here. We also asked in turn for your respect as we proceed with the basis of the committee today. It is the intention of this committee to proceed with this hearing without any disruptions. Any disruption of this committee will result in the u. S. Capitol police restoring order. Now listen up. This is very important. If a disruption occurs, a Capitol Police officer will go up to the individual and instruct that they seize the demonstration. If the person does not cease or begin the demonstration after the initial warning i the officer, the individual or individuals will be removed from the hearing room. We are very grateful for your presence today, and we very much appreciate that you want to listen to the witness, but we also ask you to respect the witnesses ability to express himself. I would also remind all members to avoid engaging in adverse personal references. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. Big to
Officer of juul labs. Please raise your right hand. I will begin by certain human. Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give truthtruth, the and nothing but the truth so help you god . Thank you. Let the record show that the witnesses both answered in the affirmative. Please be seated. I am informed that votes are about to be called on the main house floor. We try to complete our Opening Statements and then we will go as long as we can until the votes are called, then we will return and resume. Without objection, both mr. Myers and ms. Goulds statements will be made part of the record. With that, mr. Myers, you are recognized. Before i begin, i would like to tell you about the lighting system. I mentioned this i4, there is a lighting system in front of you. The green light means go, they alike means speed up, the red light means stop. With that, mr. Myers, you are now recognized for five minutes. You have to press the redbone to talk. Chairman, mr. Mr. Cloud, memb
Chairman krishnamoorthi thank you everybody. We are going to commence the second panel with our two panelists, matthew myers, president of campaign for tobacco free kids, and ashley ould. Chief executive officer of juul labs. Please raise your right hand. I will begin by certain human. Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give truthtruth, the and nothing but the truth so help you god . Thank you. Let the record show that the witnesses both answered in the affirmative. Please be seated. I am informed that votes are about to be called on the main house floor. We try to complete our Opening Statements and then we will go as long as we can until the votes are called, then we will return and resume. Without objection, both mr. Myers and ms. Goulds statements will be made part of the record. With that, mr. Myers, you are recognized. Before i begin, i would like to tell you about the lighting system. I mentioned this i4, there is a lighting system in front of you. The gr
Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give truthtruth, the and nothing but the truth so help you god . Thank you. Let the record show that the witnesses both answered in the affirmative. Please be seated. I am informed that votes are about to be called on the main house floor. We try to complete our Opening Statements and then we will go as long as we can until the votes are called, then we will return and resume. Without objection, both mr. Myers and ms. Goulds statements will be made part of the record. With that, mr. Myers, you are recognized. Before i begin, i would like to tell you about the lighting system. I mentioned this i4, there is a lighting system in front of you. The green light means go, they alike means speed up, the red light means stop. With that, mr. Myers, you are now recognized for five minutes. You have to press the redbone to talk. Chairman, mr. Mr. Cloud, members of the committee. My name is mr. Myers. I am the chairman and president of toba
Someone like Elizabeth Warren has been critical about how democrats in the 1990s negotiated nafta. It is all about having that breakout moment to get into the top tier of the democratic field. That is what some of these lesserknown candidates, someone like a Pete Buttigieg or a castro, they are trying to make the case they deserve to be taken seriously as someone like biden or warren or sanders. Look for that to play out, and just quickly, folks here are fired up from the base of the Democratic Party. I interviewed linda and lawrence bell, they traveled 19 and a half hours by car from texas just to come to this debate. They say they like beto, they like, let harris and even Elizabeth Warren. David that is impressive. I hope you do not have to drive from washington. I want to go to the Robert Mueller announcement. Lets turn to anna edgerson in washington. You normally cover capitol hill. Give us a sense on capitol hill what are people expecting hoping for coming out of the g20 in osaka