This is titled congress and the frank bringing congressional mail standard into the 21st century. I recognize myself to give an opening statement. Happy halloween, everybody. I am dressed as americas most maligned superhero congressman, able to fly across the country in six hours on alaska airlines. We were thinking about titling this hearing Franken Stein how the houses ghoulish mailing standard have haunted members for decades, but i suppose we should go with the official unspooky title for the record. Like most of the issues that fall into this committees mandate, in the work of the House Commission on congressional mailing standard, its very inside baseball. To most people frank is a name or a hot dog or, but the reality is for members of congress, the congressional frank is actually fundamental to how we communicate with our constituents and every time we respond to constituent requests or send news heat e letters or upcoming town halls, we use the frank. Its no surprise with Medi
Mr. Mccarthy hows everybody today . Good morning. I want to begin by taking a moment to commemorate the life of one of the most important members who walked these halls. Elijah cummings was beloved by both sides of the aisle. He was a fighter, he was a leader, and most importantly, he was our friend. His legacy will undoubtedly live every person in this room today. Outlive every person in this room today. Legacies of change live for a very long time. They grow from generation to generation, like compounding interest or a snowball rolling down a hill. Its my sin here hope that his wife, maya, and sincere hope that his wife, maya and his family find peace knowing that eline of scrimmage elijah has left a mark on this chamber and this country. Now id like to talk about the business of the week. The house democrats. They continue their work to overturn the results of a 2016 election. And they are doing so through be a unfair and unprecedented impeachment inquiry. Theyre fixated on tearing
Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange getting close to new highs well start with facebook. Mark zuckerberg goes to the hill today. Were getting news out of the company on new ad formats as well Julia Boorstin has both those stories. Good morning to you Mark Zuckerberg is making the rounds in washington, d. C. , meeting with legislators, looking to regulate two areas, one, facebook privacy policies, two, responsibility for inappropriate, manipulative content on its platform. Zuckerberg met with democratic senator cantwell and also attended a dinner with mark warner and senator blumenthal also joined take a listen. I was impressed by a number of the ideas and interests of facebook in advancing privacy on the internet but i hope that we also can continue the conversation zuckerbergs meetings span the aisle, he is meeting with republican senator moran, and supposed to see hawley an
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