You cover that with the chairman and then of course we have the press conference of october 17 ed Mick Mulvaney let the cat fully out of the bag and revealed President Trump talk to him the corruption related to the dnc server a and admitted tt is why be held at the money, any other explanation for the hold . In my remaining 30 seconds just so people understand what i refer to, in 1970 Richard Nixon decided, i dont know a general skepticism of foreign aid but he decided to hold a congressionally mandated aid. As a result, Congress Went to work and passed the control act of 1974. Which prohibits the president from withholding congressionally appropriated funds without the approval of congress for any reason. Is that correct . I am not a lawyer, but that is my understanding of the provision. I will go with the approximate. Thank you very much i yield back my balance back mr. Conway. Thank you, mr. Chairman. My colleague failed to put certain issues on certification. The certification was
Order. Good afternoon, everyone. This is the sixth in a series of public hearings the committee will be holing as part of the house of representatives impeachment inquiry. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. There is a quorum present. We will proceed today in the same fashion as our other hearings. I will make an Opening Statement and the Ranking Member nunes will have the opportunity to make a statement and we will turn to our witnesses for their Opening Statements if they should choose to make one. For audience member, we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we ask for your respect as we proceed with this hearing. As chairman, ill make any necessary or take any necessary appropriate steps to maintain order and ensure that the committee is run in accordance with house rules and House Resolution 660. With that, i now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement in the impeachment inquiry into donald j. Tr
Item number 2, opportunity for the public to comment on any matter within the committees jurisdiction that is not on the agenda. Seeing none, were going to move on to item number 3, approval with possible modifications of the minutes of the august 26th, 2019, meeting. Minutes, any objections . I dont have objections, but i did note a lot of typos in there. I marked several of them up, and i can give them to you. I can go ahead and take them. Reporter they missed a bunch. Maybe you want to take a look in addition to what i wrote down. Okay. But its nothing too major. There are a couple that may have confused the meaning a little bit of the sentence. For the most part, you can figure what it is and theyre bad for the agreement, and some of the tenses werent right. This doesnt preclude us from approving minutes, does it . Other than that, sure. With the correction of the typos, but no material changes. Yes. Public comment . Seeing none, well move on oh, sorry. Ill move to approve the minu
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Know. There was a move to gather them and i understood generally directly and informally that they have been gathered thats the extent of my knowledge is not my area of responsibility yes but did they pass them on to you or did they pass them on to. The administration and somehow the only documents i receive sir were those within the parameters i described what i requested which was those given were the documents that either i produced or that were sent to me relevant to the matters were discussing today thank you all back to the chairman. Its mystifying thank you to both of our witnesses for your Service Today ms cooper i want to start with you you spoke eloquently of the threat of russia when it illegally and next crimea how thats a threat not only to ukraine but its also a threat to europe in the United States a National Security challenge and i said on the House Armed Services committee we know that the most important support for ukraine in terms of lethal defensive aid is in the f