Impacts much of Silicon Valley print our guest reporter is Emily Birnbaum of the protocol. Thank you both for being on the communicators this week. Thank you for having us. Host congressman, as the representative of Silicon Valley how would you describe the reputation of some of the Member Companies in your district right now in washington . Guest well, i think on one hand there is a lot of positiv positives. If you look at the polling the Tech Companies pull about 60, 70 of their approval and there is a sense that these are companies and some are working on vaccines and companies are working on antivirals and they are allowing for remote work, for remote calls that they are engaged in allowing us to have good medication in the time of a pandemic and allowing them to get groceries or information but that said there are a lot of other ethical issues in a sense of essential workers being paid appropriately and are these doing enough combat hate speech and Voter Suppression and are they d
Be followed by questions from me and hopefully from you the audience as well. With that i would like to invite ambassador Junipero Serra began his presentation. Its a great pleasure for me to be with you but its a great pleasure to discuss relations. Of course its very difficult to talk about relations. Too many contradictions have accumulated. There has been ongoing debate on who is more at for their deplorable who should take the First Step Towards the other side . I have to admit that for now we are walking in a circle without any clear perspective. On occasion i tend to persuade the American Public that russia and the United States are not enemies and that we cannot afford the luxury of not talking to each other despite all the existing disagreements. The wellbeing of the whole planet depends on the quality of russian and United States relations. We must remember that the common victory in the struggle was the very foundation of the human civilization. 75 years ago it was the respo
I want to thank everyone for their adherence to the guidelines as we continue to do our work while protecting the health and safety of our staff, families and communities. Thank you for joining us today. In pursuant to notice, todays hearing is taking place in our ways and Means Committee hearing room, with members permitted to attend remotely in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings, pursuant to House Resolution 965. We currently have 33 members logged in and participating via the webex platform. For those members who arent here in washington and plan to participate in person, we have a limited number of available seats to ensure that we adhere to social distancing guidelines. I encourage members to watch from their office and only come to the hearing room when it is your turn for questioning. Before we turn to todays topic, i want to remind members of a few procedures as we navigate this hybrid hearing setting. First, consistent with regulations, the commit
Presentation which will be followed by questions from me and hopefully you the audience as well. With that, i would like to invite the ambassador to begin his presentation. Good afternoon. It is a great pleasure for me to be with you. It is a great pleasure to discuss russianamerican relations. Course it is not too many contradictions have accumulated. An ongoing debate on who is more at fault. Conflicting views on who should take the First Step Towards the other side. That for now,t this resembles a circle without any clear perspective of trying on many occasions [indiscernible] due to objective reasons that wont be of the whole plans from the quality of russian United States relations. That after ther achieving the coming victory on the struggle to preserve the foundations of human civilization, 75 years ago, moscow and russia assumed primary responsibility. For maintaining common peace and security according to the u. N. Charter. Many principles of International Communication enshri
We will begin with a 10 to 12 minute presentation which will be followed by questions from me and hopefully from you the audience as well. With that i would like to invite ambassador Junipero Serra began his presentation. Its a great pleasure for me to be with you but its a great pleasure to discuss relations. Of course its very difficult to talk about relations. Too many contradictions have accumulated. There has been ongoing debate on who is more at for their deplorable who should take the First Step Towards the other side . I have to admit that for now we are walking in a circle without any clear perspective. On occasion i tend to persuade the American Public that russia and the United States are not enemies and that we cannot afford the luxury of not talking to each other despite all the existing disagreements. The wellbeing of the whole planet depends on the quality of russian and United States relations. We must remember that the common victory in the struggle was the very founda