Lets get started. I would to thank everyone for coming today. We will have a question and answer session as we move into the street i want to start off first by giving everybody a chance to introduce themselves, tell you and tiny bit about themselves and then we will get into some moderated questions and we will open it up for all of you. First, with the bank for much for being here. Especially at 9 00 a. M. If youre like me were out extremely late last night and this is super early. Thank you very much for taking the time to come here and participate. With that, i would like to give each panelist a chance to briefly introduce themselves. Startingith alexandra rojas. Hello, everyone. My name is alexandra. I used to work on the Burning Campaign as a Digital Field manager on the distributed organizer team. Shortly after, granted congress is not an old concept in women talking about it for quite some time. The founders, it is not shortly after, granted congress necessarily a new idea. A g
If youre like me were out extremely late last night and this is super early. Thank you very much for taking the time to come here and participate. That, i would like to give each panelist a chance to briefly introduce themselves. Rojas. G with alexandra hello, everyone. My name is alexandra. I used to work on the Burning Campaign as a Digital Field manager on the distributed organizer team. Shortly after, granted congress is not an old concept in women talking about it for quite some time. , it is nots necessarily a new idea. A good place for me to go next after bernie. And just a bit background, im 21. Im still in progress with going to school. But bernie, as many volunteers have, has just consumed. Im into political organizing as well as activism. Mariahave state senator the doll running for congress. By Marissa Palma doll and i was a state representative for three terms and in the second term of my time in the senate with the missouri senate, it was a pleasure to endorse bernie, i t
Motion to impeach the irs commissioner. What should congress be focusing on . Emocrats, 202 7488000 republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488003. You can also reach us on social media, on twitter and on facebook. There is a lot on the plate of lawmakers who are in session only until the end of the month. They will be out for all of october. One issue pointed out in the Washington Post deals with a bill to allow 9 11 victims families to sue saudi arabia. The house will vote on the bill to allow the families of victims of the september 11 attacks to sue saudi arabia over its alleged support of terrorism. The measure, which is likely to pass just in time for the 15th anniversary of the attacks, will be sent to the president s desk. The white house has resisted it over fears it could harm the relationship with saudi arabia jeopardizingcedent american officials overseas. Congress only has a couple of weeks to deal with this and other measures. We are asking you what we think you thin
Neither tweets, no, im not on instagram, im not on that does not now, im sure many of you but youve got other people who understand social media, that are part of that in the department of justice . Yes, no, absolutely. Though its not you. But also, they dont particularly recommend that im highly on social media when youre in this role because we do the terrorists and also spies under our mandate. And i think youve heard so, just to kind of do you i mean, ive read a little bit about your division. Do we need a domestic terror statute in the u. S. . I think its something that so or tell us what that is, kind of shortform. I think theres been a discussion. When you have a group, if theres an International Terrorist group, theres a clean statute that says that if its a designated International Terrorist group, then you can prosecute someone for providing support to that International Terrorist group. But by design, we do not have a statute that says you can designate some group inside the
Secretary vilsack and i agree we thought that was an important thing to do. Thats the part of the process in terms of public input. I think the question here is that, one, did they follow the guidelines and what steps were taken to make sure the committee followed the law and from an ethical standpoint is once youve served as your capacity of that Advisory Committee and major recommendations, what is your responsibility in moving forward . And one of the things we dont want is that these advisory turn this into some kind of a profitable situation on their behalf because of their participation on that Advisory Committee. Be regard to these these are voluntary nonpaid. They have to file Financial Disclosures on an annual basis as they go through this process so those are things we want to protect against. With regard to the specific question of a press briefing or some kind of briefing, i apologize, not familiar with that. As i said, we have focused on the Public Comments and the steps a