Companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. The House Oversight and Reform Committee held a hearing on the 2020 u. S. Census and whats being done to ensure an accurate and complete count. The former Census Bureau director joined other witnesses in discussing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Agency Operations and whether to extend the statutory deadline. Welcome, everybody to todays hearing. Rules, somehouse members will appear in person. Others will appear remotely via webex. Since some members are appearing in person, let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician, all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face unless they are talking. Members who are not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for those in person. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you. When they are speaking i
To try to serve as a balance and a counter to the increasing demands of leftist groups to challenge our election process and really to eliminate their goal appears to be to eliminate all of the safeguards in Election Administration that have been put in place in the early part of the 20th century to shift the responsibility for conducting elections to the states from the Political Parties and to protect the right of individuals to vote, to not be intimidated or harassed in voting. Our foundation is dedicated to trying to get Election Officials to clean their voter roles so that only eligible voters are on the rolls and to ensure that the laws are carried out and that every citizen who is eligible to vote is able to vote with confidence that his or her ballot will be counted. And those who are not eligible to vote, will not spoil the integrity of the elections. You talked about those other groups being very well funded. How is your foundation funded . We get along. We have been doing go
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] good morning, everyone. Welcome to the first Budget Hearing of the Senate Appropriations committee of justice, science and related agencies for fiscal year 2021. Today we have the honor of hearing from wilbur ross about the president s Funding Priorities for the department of commergs. Welcome, secretary ross, thank you for your appearance, we look forward to hearing from you this morning. As we know the department of commerce executes a broad range of critical activities for our nation, things that are important for every american. Things that are important to us as members of the senate and issues we care a lot about. Research and development, cutting edge technology, predicting the weather, increasing trade and investment, recruiting businesses to our communities. The census has been a signi
To the subcommittee as well as the oversight committee. We are delighted to have you. Lets see. Without objection i want to wave onto the subcommittee, stephen horseford from nevada who wanted to ask questions. By unanimous consent we grant that privilege. I want to thank witnesses for their ongoing cooperation, you and your staff have been truly excellent partners in this oversight process. Thank you for your work, i learned from my district staff, you toward Silver Spring in montgomery county, maryland, these are diverse high density areas with high concentration of immigrants where a variety of languages are spoken and i appreciate your coming out to take out our community, my district director kevin connor met with your staff and was encouraged by the bureaus preparation so i thank you and your staff for your hard work. We have a lot to accomplish before 2020. We were embroiled in a battle over the Citizenship Question. Now that the administration is forced to stand down, the effor
Perhaps if my colleagues had taken a more active approach to resolving their concerns, we would have avoided this situation in which additional capabilities were needed to respond to the elevated threat this emergency situation that has been posted by iran. Mr. Speaker, there has long been a consensus in this body that irans malign activities in the middle east are a threat to the United States national security. And to our partners. In the past three years alone, we have passed legislation responding to irans support for terrorism, growing Ballistic Missile arsenal, and human rights abuses. The Iranian Regime has not backed down from these malign activities and it is my sincere hope that this body will not back down from its resolve to counter irans destabilizing agenda. Unfortunately this resolution and the other joint resolutions of disapproval for the 22 sales are very much a step in the wrong direction. And with that, mr. Speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro