Gives testimony before a house judiciary subcommittee. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, we are authorized to declare a recess at any time. We welcome everyone to the hearing on the department of justice civil Rights Division. With that, we will have the pledge of allegiance with the gentleman from arizona leading us to the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. I will now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. I think our witness for being here today. Civil Rights Division is responsible for the enforcement of his local civil rights statutes here in congress and related constitutional guarantees. This is an issue near and dear to my hard. I too in a previous life served in the United States and the e Eastern District of texas. My job there as a witness, my colleagues know, was to equally enforce the law. My
To have other microphones. As you know, im going to talk about this, but i wanted to share with you our agenda. Its alarming, as you know, the theme of our conference has been sponsoring freedom and defending democracy. I want to talk a little bit about what we are facing. Then i want to cover about how our homes are media platforms and what it has done and bias in the news media. I try to go very quickly. As you know, for a long time, we knew that we were meeting in washington and our team spon sorg freedom and defending democracy. I actually worked with colleagues to decide on the theme in october. But never did i realize that we will be at a time when we would be going through so many things. If you would allow me, i wanted to start by saying that recent attacks on diversity have chilled fre speech. My legal colleagues would say it has a chilling effect. These attacks have also affected journalism and the role of journalism necessary our democracy. Let me explain. You north korea am
Identify speeding taxi drivers, speeding. And were developing a program to coach and retrain drivers to improve safety outcomes. Were also updating on vehicle camera requirements, and we do Service Audits out in the field. So we have Enforcement Team go out in the field and, test the dispatch services, request a ramp taxi test Response Rates, look for customer service. So thats an ongoing program. The point i want to emphasize on this slide is that we, imbue our work with a culture of care. And i know thats important to that, to the board. Its very important to us as well. So, how we support each other internally and then how we serve the public is critical to how we function. And, its part of everything we do. We the certificate on the right in the slide shows, its a certificate that we actually handed out to every staff member honoring each person for their years of service. And, at the end of handing out all of the certificates and announcing each persons years of service, we had th
Share of g. D. P. 2 . Our deficits in the long run are about 4. 5 of g. D. P. Most well leave this to keep our commitment to gavel to gavel of congress. The u. S. House is coming in to begin debate on two bills. One would office space with the goal of requiring federal workers to return to the office. The other bill condemns Biden Administration immigration policy. Youre watching live coverage on cspan. The speaker o tempore the houswill bin order. The chair will be offered by chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben would you pray th me. Gloro belongs to you o god who is above all through all and in all. Whose power is at work within us us. May we carry with us this day a most real sse of your power andommit ourselves to your purpose d, within us, give us the eyes to see and the hearto feel the movement of your spirit in our souls. Do not let the noisesf this world, n the narrative of thi culture confound our ability to hear you spe. God around us, allow us to look at your handiwork andee the
I do want to thank cspan for taking the time to cover this and points out it would be good to have other microphones. As you know, im going to talk about this, but i wanted to share with you our agenda. Its alarming, as you know, the theme of our conference has been sponsoring freedom and defending democracy. I want to talk a little bit about what we are facing. Then i want to cover about how our homes are media platforms and what it has done and bias in the news media. I try to go very quickly. As you know, for a long time, we knew that we were meeting in washington and our team spon sorg freedom and defending democracy. I actually worked with colleagues to decide on the theme in october. But never did i realize that we will be at a time when we would be going through so many things. If you would allow me, i wanted to start by saying that recent attacks on diversity have chilled fre speech. My legal colleagues would say it has a chilling effect. These attacks have also affected journa