[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] we will reconvene and i recognize the senator from alaska. Thank you for all that you do , chairman. To give thanks for the shoreline mapping we are seeing coming out of the department. Your support for this mapping on the shoreline and near shore is appreciated. We recognize the value of the president s memorandum on mapping. To thank you for the departments recent work on the disaster funds for the two fisheries disasters we have een. Its important and there is more in that pipeline. When we first met some years back i promised you that you were going to think of fishing when you visited with me and im not going to disappoint you today. I look through my seven priorities here for the department of commerce, six of those relate to fisheries or to our oceans. So let me begin with funding for fi
Senator moran the committee will reconvene, i recognize the senator from alaska. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary, thank you for all that you d do. I want to give a special thanks for the shoreline mapping that we are seeing coming out of the department. Senator mruczkowski your support for this mapping on the senator murkowski your support for this mapping is wonderful. I want to thank you for the departments recent work on the disaster funds for the two fisheries disasters we have een. Its important and there is more in that pipeline. When we first met some years back i promised you that you were going to think of fishing when you visited with me and im not going to disappoint you today. I look through my seven priorities here for the department of commerce, six of those relate to fisheries or to our oceans. So let me begin with funding for fisheries surveys. You know the significance of the fisheries in my state. We rely on annual surveys conducted by regional Science Centers
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Good morning. Welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies. I am glad to welcome our witnesses back before the subcommittee. I know it has been seven months since we had you before us and i know we all missed the warm welcoming atmosphere of our hearing room. Despite that passage of time many issues that were of concern to us then still remain unresolved today. For example, i asked about the investigation into phone carrier selling the realtime location of nearly every american. Mr. Chairman, you told me even after more than one year had passed we still cannot tell whether this practice has stopped and could not say whether the impacted individuals have been notified and could not tell us that members of congress and lawenforcement had their locations sold or tracked and in june of this year you told senator blumenthal that you were wrapping up this investigation and with that recommendation shortly. That was six months ago. We still dont have them. Chairman sloan and
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