The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, pastor ethan magness, First Christian church, johnson city, tennessee. The chaplain let us pray. Gracious god. We come to you in need of your sovereign love for your power exceeds our human power. Your authority exceeds all human authority. Your government will stand when all human government have passed into history. We come to you in confession of our weakness and sin. For we have sought too often our own power. We have fought too selfishly for our own glory. We have clung too tightly to our desire and to our faction and our plan. We come to you seeking the strength to repent. Turn us to your wisdom instead of our own. Turn us to honesty instead of falsehood. Turn us to humility and service instead of pride and selfseeking. We come to you for a blessing. Like jacob, we cling to you and will not let go until you have blessed us for you are good and gracious and loving and in you we put our trust.
The u. S. Congress passed our first whistleblower law and they did it when whistleblowers sailors and marines had criticized the commander of the u. S. Navy and cooing criticizing him for mistreating british prisoners. So this was embarrassing to the u. S. Governor government. But think about it. The Founding Fathers put everything on the line. This wasnt an election. If they lost the revolution they are going to get home for treason. In the middle of that revolution they paused. They said every inhabitant of the United States should report waste, fraud and corruption even if it embarrassed the new government. And not only did they pass that law they then voted money for the lawyers for the bristle whistleblowers who had been thrown in jail and they released all the papers that were controversial, that were embarrassing to the government. And the whistleblowers won their case. Andand that was july 30, 1778. So this is not some token day. This is a day for every american to sit back and
Life, being in the drivers seat. This civil act of disobedience. Wash sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. House oversight subcommittee on operations held a hearing on federal agencies compliance with congressional information request. Some members of the subcommittee said the Trump Administration has withheld documents that have been requested. Subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess to the committee at any time. The subcommittee is convening a hearing on the document production efforts on the office of personnel management, the federal bureau of investigation and the General Services administration in response to various committees and subcommittee document request. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. I want to thank the witnesses for being here. Although i know there could be more comfortable hearings to attend. I regret we need to have this hearing. Were here because they have not substantially complied with
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