Good morning. This hear willing come to order. This hearing will come to order. I want to thank acting secretary wolf for his service and for taking the time to come before our committee here today. I know you have a lot of things on your plate here. The committee does appreciate you taking the time for coming in and explaining whats all been happening and answering our questions. Your full testimony, full written testimony will be entered in the record. For my part, im going to read my Opening Statement, and then there will be a twominute video at the tail end of my statement. The federal protective Service Officer David Patrick underwood was 53, on may 29th, when he was shot dead guarding a Federal Building in Oakland California during a protest. His partner was also shot, but thankfully survived. News reports said the protests involving approximately 8,000 people turned chaotic and violent as demonstrators smashed windows, looted stores and broke into a bank a few blocks from where
Thank you for joining us today. I have been a scholar here for almost 20 years. To summarize the overall argument and the theme of the book. And to secure the benefits of that energetics successor and describe the overall argument in the book. That is great writing. Thats a fair summary on the book when trump ran for president 2016 i was wary of him. He wasnt my first pack and one reason is because he is a populist land the constitution fears populist if you think of them like fdr or Andrew Jackson people who think they have the popular will behind them in the constitution is seen as an obstacle clearly to people like fdr so you thought trump would come into the office and find the constitution an obstacle to what he wanted to do but the last in half and four years of what i have seen is the opponents went to change constitutional changes like the Electoral College so between nine and 16 members that would be terrible for Judicial Independence for the rule of law. They dont want to sup
Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
Beware increased risk during the covid19 pandemic. Due to the covid19 Public Health emergency, todays hearing is being held remotely. All the members hey, jan. We cant hear you. I dont know, are you are you muted . Im not muted. I can hear her. I can hear you, jan. I cant hear you at least, not yet. I can. I can. Can you hear me now . Not yet. Oh, i think it must be on your end then. Youre coming in loud and clear here. Okay. Can republicans hear jan . Is it just me . Im not hearing anybody. Yes, jan, we can hear you fine. Okay. Im going to continue while somebody helps fix the silent person. Okay. Due to the covid19 Public Health emergency, todays hearing is being held remotely. All the members and witnesses will be participating Via Video Conference as part of our hearing, microphones will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members and witnesses, you will need to unmute yourself, unmute your microphone, each time that you wish to speak. Additi
Pennsylvania and is chair of the energy and commerce subcommittee on communications and technology. Congressman doyle, that subcommittee is really key to telecom policy, isnt it . Guest it sure is but it is the Key Committee in congress that deals with telling mitigation policies and a lot of interesting type of issues with more to come. Host we will explore some of those in this next half hour but i want to start with some news that came out this week which is the sec declaring while way and is et corporations to security threats which what is your view of that . I think there is some validity to that and that is one of the reasons why you saw the bill we passed in the energy and Commerce Committee with greg and myself which is, now were just waiting for the appropriators to put some money in it because we estimated it will take one, 2 million to assist the Smaller Companies that fought that equipment to make that whole so we can remove the equipment and put the other equipment in. We