The hearing will come to order. Thank you for coming to the committee today to testify. We know you are on a tight schedule and in order to keep you on schedule and ensure all members have an opportunity to ask questions i ask unanimous can send members will be recognized during the question and answer session for three minutes. Without objections ordered in the Ranking Member and i will be recognized for five minutes during the question and answer sessions. Without objections ordered we will both be recognized for three minutes and i they will now yield myself threeminute but once again thank you for being here its been seven years since the chair of the Federal Reserve has appeared before this committee and we are very grateful for your being willing to do that i want to make sure that we support the independence and the repeated attacks are unacceptable and dangerous. I look forward to hearing the testimony and discussing Opportunities Congress and the fed have to support the worker
Active and retired military, call at 2027488000. If you are a navy seal and want to talk about this situation from your perspective, 2027488001. All others can call us at 2027488002. You can text us at 2027488003. And on twitter at cspanwj our Facebook Page available to you, too, at facebook. Com cspan. The wall street journal reports it was yesterday that the defense secretary, mark esper, fired the Navy Secretary Richard Spencer sunday after mr. Spencer attempted to cut a deal with the white house over the case of a disgraced navy seal. Mr. Spencer told the wall street journal he tried to make a deal in which President Trump would conduct anavy to review of chief Edward Gallagher who would then be allowed to retire with his trident pin. Mr. Esper only learned of these efforts after the fact and thus. Ost confidence in mr. Spencer that is the wall street journals accounting. If you go to the pages of usa today, some back and forth over the specific case of the Navy Secretary and backg
The hearing will come to order. Thank you for coming to the committee today to testify. We know you are on a tight schedule and in order to keep you on schedule and ensure all members have an opportunity to ask questions i ask unanimous can send members will be recognized during the question and answer session for three minutes. Without objections ordered in the Ranking Member and i will be recognized for five minutes during the question and answer sessions. Without objections ordered we will both be recognized for three minutes and i they will now yield myself threeminute but once again thank you for being here its been seven years since the chair of the Federal Reserve has appeared before this committee and we are very grateful for your being willing to do that i want to make sure that we support the independence and the repeated attacks are unacceptable and dangerous. I look forward to hearing the testimony and discussing Opportunities Congress and the fed have to support the worker
The hearing will come to order. Thank you for coming to the committee today to testify. We know you are on a tight schedule and in order to keep you on schedule and ensure all members have an opportunity to ask questions i ask unanimous can send members will be recognized during the question and answer session for three minutes. Without objections ordered in the Ranking Member and i will be recognized for five minutes during the question and answer sessions. Without objections ordered we will both be recognized for three minutes and they will now yield myself threeminute but once again thank you for being here its been seven years since the chair of the Federal Reserve has appeared before this committee and we are very grateful for your being willing to do that i want to make sure that we support the independence and the repeated attacks are unacceptable and dangerous. I look forward to hearing the testimony and discussing Opportunities Congress and the fed have to support the workers
The Ranking Member and i will be recognized for five minutes during the question and answer sessions. Without objections ordered we will both be recognized for three minutes and they will now yield myself threeminute but once again thank you for being here its been seven years since the chair of the Federal Reserve has appeared before this committee and we are very grateful for your being willing to do that i want to make sure that we support the independence and the repeated attacks are unacceptable and dangerous. I look forward to hearing the testimony and discussing Opportunities Congress and the fed have to support the workers and to foster a healthy sustainable economy that works for all americans and with that i will yield to the Ranking Member. It is an honor to have you before this committee as the chairman of the committee has said its been many years since the researcher man has been here and now we are delighted to have you. I will submit my opening comment for the record so