Enforcement. It is unfortunate we dont have a quorum. It is inexcusable, in my view. We had two commissioners who resigned, one two years ago, another almost two years ago. Those seats were never filled. Host why . Chair weintraub i dont know. That is something i have no control over. The nominations have to be made by the president and confirmed by the senate. I think it is inexcusable that those nominations were not made. It is easy to get over the long vacancies. We should have never been in this situation we found ourselves in. We are down to a quorum of four. Another commissioner decided to resign. That left us with only three. It takes four commissioners to initiate investigations, to authorize penalties and approve conciliation agreements. Which is usually the way we conclude them. However, people should know before we lost the quorum, we authorized a number of investigations. We are at a high point in a decade in the number of investigations we have ongoing. As soon as we get c
Illusions that if they do something now because of a lack of quorum, there will not be any enforcement. It is unfortunate we dont have a quorum. It is inexcusable, in my view. We had two commissioners who resigned, one two years ago, another almost two years ago. Those seats were never felt. Never filled. Host why . Chair weintraub i dont know. That is something i have no control over. The nominations have to be made by the president and senate. It is easy to get over the long vacancies. We should have never been in this situation we found ourselves in. We are down to a quorum of four. Another commissioner decided to resign. That left us with only three. Totakes four commissioners initiate investigations, to authorize penalties and approve conciliation agreements. However, people should know before we lost the quorum, we authorized a number of investigations. We are at a high point in a decade in the number of investigations we have ongoing. As soon as we get commissioners back in, we
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Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm in washington dc, where the impeachment inquiry continued to unfold on thursday and President Trump went on the attack. Hes furious about reports that he asked attorney general william barr to hold a press conference clearing him of any wrongdoing in that phone call with ukraines leader, in which mr trump asked for an investigation into his political rivaljoe biden. At the time, military aid to ukraine was on hold. Mr barr refused to hold a news conference. This, as highly anticipated public impeachment hearings are due to begin next week. Vice president mike pence accused the democrats of using the inquiry as a way of overturning the 2016 election result. What is going on in washington, dc today is a disgrace. Behind closed doors, there is a so called impeachment enquiry that i think the American People know is nothing more than a partisan impeachment, the latest effort by democrats to try and overturn the results of the 2016
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