Host good morning. It is friday, september 22, 2017. Both chambers are set to return to capitol hill on monday for a legislative session. We begin today with the News Facebook is agreed to hand over to Congress Thousands of russian linked social media as that appeared ads that appeared 6 election. 201 facebookmpanies like face more government regulation when it comes to political advertising . We are that question to you this morning. Democrats 202 7488000. Republicans 202 7488001. Independents 202 7488002. You can also catch up with us on social media, twitter, facebook. A very good friday morning to you. You can start calling him now on this question, should facebook or other social media political advertisements be regulated . The Washington Times gets to this question, saying much of the facebook issue revolves around social Media Advertising and traditional broadcast Media Advertising. Decades tv advertisers have been subject to federal laws and regulations, but facebook is not su
Released a recommendation, we were looking at long lines and how to make voting places more efficient. They made it clear that we should be looking at all the potential sources of dysfunction at the polling place. The fundamental executive order was that we ought to have an electoral process that is sufficiently run and with the appropriate safeguards so no ineligible voters vote. Voters should be able to cast their ballots in a reasonably efficient way. We ought to have confidence that their vote would be correctly stored in tabulated. A Bipartisan Commission was established with that purpose. Host ensuring only eligible voters voted, how much of that was part of what you discussed and what you explored . Guest certainly any wellrun polling place, electoral system focuses on all aspects of what is required for legal votes to be cast and counted, and that includes systems for processing voters and ensuring eligible voters are casting ballots. That go to have the it was part of a comple
Effective how we ultimately classified . At this point if the questions on there, at this point was to be classified openly as white, correct . That depends what omb decides. Thats something we are waiting. A good question. One of the standards that the office of management and budget is contemplating right now is whether mena should be a new minimum category. So they are going to make the decision whether that is the case or not. Right now the Census Bureau classifies mena under white and thats how we are proceeding forward until were told otherwise. We are going to move on to the other speakers and then well opened it up for a discussion as to before i know the pdc has been working on this issue literally since were founded about 37, 40 some years ago and i got involved when he came on board but i can tell you these guys test everything to death. They literally test where they put commas, so you may put this is a slow, arduous process, and it is, but as i say, well get there. Next i
Participation in the u. S. Electoral process. Well call this hearing to order and thank everyone very, very much for being here today. We know its very busy with many things happening but its incredibly important that we be voting on basic we be talking about voting and the basic ten e ets of our democracy in terms of Voting Rights. Voting rights is the essential foundation of hurt democracy, and all of us who are here understand that. Every citizen who wants to vote is able to cast a vote must be at the top of congress agenda. At the local level, many of us have heard stories about how difficult voting can be. Whether its a grandmother who cant register to vote because she cant get her birth certificate, College Students prevented from registering to vote in a place where they go to school. Or even malfunctioning vote mag sheens that lead to long lines and voters who need to g back to work so they have to give up and leave the line. We have een sha over and over gn. 2016 was the first
Committee will come to order. A recess at the committee of any time and all will have five days for inclusion in the record. Entitled examining the equifax data breach. On september 7th equifax announced a Cyber Security incident. It effected 145 million u. S. Consumers, nearly half of all americans. In other words if your hearing my voice youre either the victim or you know someone who is. Thats how massive this brief was. Criminals got basically everything they need to steal your identity, open credit card accounts in your name it may with b the most harmful the world has ever seen the companys response has left much to be desired. For weeks equifax about whether people were victims of the breach or not. And beyond brief they sold their equifax before the company disclosed the breach. I trust the Justice Department will get to the bottom of this. Clearly action by the federal trade commission and potentially other regulators is required. Congress must ensure federal regulators do the