The committee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. The full committee is convening, regarding violations of the hatch act under the Trump Administration. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give my Opening Statement. Today, we are holding a hearing on a very troubling report issued by the office of special counsel on june 13th of this year. This report finds that Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, violated the hatch act dozens of times, and it reasonable degree of medical certainty recommends the president fire her immediately for repeated violations. Rarely issues come before the committee that are so clear cut, but this is one of them. This is about right and wrong. This is about the core principle of our precious democracy, that nobody, not one person, in this country is above the law. Contrary to claims from miss conway and President Trump, this is not a conspiracy to silence her or restrict her First Amendm