To order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess ny time. We welcome everyone to todays hearing on the department of justice Civil Rights Division. With that, we will have the pledge of allegiance. ■m arizona lead us in the pledge of allegiance . Our colleague, mr. Biggs marzano will be able to participate in the hearing today for the purpose of questioning the witness. If a member yields him time for that purpose, i will now recognize myself for an opening statement. Thank our witness for being here today. The Civil Rights Division is responsible for the enforcement of civil rights statutes enacted by congress and related constitutional guarantees. Rt. I too, in a previous life served in the department of justice, having served as special assistant United States attorney in the Eastern District of texas. My job there as the witness and my colleaguekn was the chief of police in sweetwater texas. His job was to equally enforce the law. My grandmother was the fi
Ceasefire resolution passed by the united nations. Chair order, order. Welcome to this session of the liaison committee. We are taking evidence from the Prime Minister. Welcome, Prime Minister, and thank you for being with us. We have two particular overriding, or rather underlying, themes to the discussion today. One is the pressures on public spending and the challenge of squaring the circle between all the demands on public spending, particularly the rise in threat and Security Issues and the pressure on the defence budget and the need to control public spending something that no doubt preoccupies you every hour, Prime Minister. The other is in the context of our ongoing inquiry into how parliament and select committees in particular can promote better Strategic Thinking in government. And so in this session, we will start with a postbudget section on the economy and Public Services. We will move on to global issues, and conclude with a few questions about scrutiny of Strategic Thin
Charter communications supports cspan is a Public Service along with these other Television Providers giving you a frontrow seat to democracy. Up next to look into of the Justice Department can be activated to counter robocalls, ways they can address the countries of origin for fraudulent calls and how Artificial Intelligence can be used to protect consumers. Tech Companies Offer testimony before senate commerce, science and transportation subcommittee. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] i want to thank everyone for being here for the serving of protecting americans from robocalls and first of all i want to thank Ranking Member thune for working with me and my staff what you think his team and i especially want to thank senator fischer for being here with us, as she always is. But especially to serve in an Important Role today as well. Some want to thank you, senator fischer for joining us to preside today. Thank you so very much. And today we will hear from expert witnesses are pro
6 every month americans receive 1. 5 billion to 3 billion scam calls and illegal tell ell marketing calls. This is an issue that im confident everyone in the room has dealt with. And those of you who have phones on, im sure you will receive robo calls and texts during this hearing and i wouldnt be surprised if we didnt. They interrupt sleep if you dont put your phone in sleep mode or telling them off. And time with friends and family and even during hearings. If they do, hold your phone up and share with the rest of america what is happening while in this room. They have eroded trust in our Communications Networks. Many have become subject to those fibbing attacks which are causing the American People billions of dollars. And is traced. Goes back to 2019. These protect americans from predatory and unsole is ted robocalls. And as they were implemented, the number of unsole is ted has decreased. Do not call complaints has reduced as well. Not entirely but by some numbers and the federal
A look in how the Justice Department can counter robo calls and how Artificial Intelligence. Representatives from Tech Companies offer testimony. 6 every month americans receive 1. 5 billion to 3 billion scam calls and illegal tell ell marketing calls. This is an issue that im confident everyone in the room has dealt with. And those of you who have phones on, im sure you will receive robo calls and texts during this hearing and i wouldnt be surprised if we didnt. They interrupt sleep if you dont put your phone in sleep mode or telling them off. And time with friends and family and even during hearings. If they do, hold your phone up and share with the rest of america what is happening while in this room. They have eroded trust in our Communications Networks. Many have become subject to those fibbing attacks which are causing the American People billions of dollars. And is traced. Goes back to 2019. These protect americans from predatory and unsole is ted robocalls. And as they were imp