This room, for guidance from the office of attending physician, masks must be worn at all times during todays proceedings except when a member or witness is speaking. Please also sanitize your seating area. They view these as a safety measure and an important matter of order and decorum for this proceeding. For members participating remotely, please keep your video function on at all times. Even if you are not recognized by the chair. Members are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves and please remember to mute yourself after you finish speaking. Consistent with House Resolution 965 and the accompanying regulations, staff and members will view it as appropriate when they arent under recognition to eliminate background noise. I see that we have a quorum and i now recognize myself for opening remarks. Let me welcome our witnesses as ive let the Ranking Member know. Ill be going considerably longer than the customary five minutes. My statement this morning and, of course, ill yie
In mexico do not want the wall and i guarantee you mexico is not going to pay one penny for their wall because the wall this is stop people the wall kills people. So if trump builds what he wants to build itll be a little longer a little higher itll just take a little longer to cross but its not going to stop anybody. If youre lucky of course. So you can see that somebody was walking through here theres footprints right here. We put out maybe 2 or 3000 gallons every summer and i would say maybe 300 of them or use another 300 or sabotaged broken and and then some are just left out there maybe an animal or nobody ever uses them but as long as one of them is using to save one persons life. So we dont try to hide the bottles so we try to leave a bottle right here because what the person will do is oftentimes were going to wait right here because of cars going to come later on so them a way to do it in the shade or in a teaser brush because they realize theres a Border Patrol coming through
A little longer to cross but its not going to stop anybody. Large of course. So you can see that somebody is walking through here theres footprints right here. We put out maybe 2 or 3000 gallons every summer and i would say maybe 300 of them or use another 300 or sabotaged broken and and then some are just left out there maybe an animal or nobody ever uses them but as long as one of them is using to save one persons life. So we dont try to hide the bottles so we try to. Leave a bottle right here because what the person will do is oftentimes were going to wait right here because of cars going to come later on so im a way to do it in the shade or in a teaser brush because they realize theres a Border Patrol coming through here to leave it in a spot that its clearly visible that way here. Just like that. The situation now is going really bad because of trump where you have all these hate crimes and attacks on people and and its really sad. So now we have more volunteers than ever more don
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will come to order. Welcome, everybody to these hybrid hearing. Pursuant to hells rules, most members will appear remotely. I may be the only member appearing in person. Although all three of the witnesses are here in person. We appreciate that. Since many members are appearing by webinar and let me remind everyone pursuant to the guidance all individuals attending in person must wear a face mask. Im wearing mine except to make the statement. Members not wearing a mask will not n be recognized and thank yu for reminding us for those appearing in person, actually they a are not. A timer is visible in the room directly in front of you and for those appearing remotely i know you are familiar by now but let me remind everyone of a few points. First you will be able to see each person speaking w
Small Business Committee meet for a hearing on preventing fraud and abuse in the Paycheck Protection Program. Before we begin id like to take this opportunity to note some important requirements. Let me begin by saying that standing house and Committee Rules and practice will continue to apply during hybrid proceedings. All members are reminded that theyre expected to adhere to these standing rules including decorum. During the covered period designated by the speaker the committee will operate in accordance with House Resolution 965 and the subsequent guidance from the rules committee in a manner that respects the rights of all members to participate. Please keep your cameras on. Also please remember to remain muted until you are recognized to minimize background noise. If you must participate in another proceeding, please exit this one and log back in later. In the event a member encounters technical issues that prevent from being recognized for their question i will move to the next