Were going to go into closed session. We need a motion to do that and ill ask for Public Comment after that. I move we go into closed session. Moved and seconded. Is there any Public Comment . When we come back into to Public Session ill review the Public Comment rules. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed first item is to report out of closed session. We need a motion. I make a motion. Second. Is there Public Comment . All those in favor say aye. Aye. Rules of Public Comment are the standard rules. Well limit testimony to three minutes on any item people may want to talk about. Please read the rules that are posted with the agenda in case you are not familiar. To start with Public Comment i will recognize mr. Winier. He called me wiener. My apologized. I wish to mention the passing of peter ash, who was the former commissioner on this board. In honor of his memory in the marine core Heritage Museum because of the service in the United States army. I simply was to mention his memory. I t
Jeep of staff, saying the Vice President know you had a conversation about investigating based the bidens upon potential investigations. This comes at a time where he is at the Political Center of the storm. Republicans still stepping by the president. Democrats continuing to press ahead with this. As of now, according to my reporting, this testimony has not done anything to move this impeachment inquiry out of the political sphere into a risk of the president being removed from office. David as a lawyer, you parse the language, ambassador sondland said i did not think the president wanted a completed investigation, he just wanted the announcement of the investigation. By the way, i did not know he withheld the aid from this, i just thought he might have. Kevin i will leave the legal speech to you, but heres what i can say. I spoke with one source this morning who said this testimony onay is putting pause President Trump, it is completely damming to rudy giuliani. How he has negotiated
Columbia law school, an expert on antitrust, copyright and Communications Law and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, including the master switch in the curse of bigness. Professor wu has twice been part of the politico list of 50 individuals transforming american politics and was named to the American Academy of arts and sciences in 2017. He received his bachelors of science from mcgill university. Fiona scott morton, a professor at the University School of management. Nationally recognized as a leading scholar and published articles in leading economic journals. From 2011 to 2012 she served as Deputy Assistant attorney general at the United States department of justice where she helped enforce the nations antitrust laws. The third witness on our panel is stacy mitchell, codirector of the institute for local self reliance. She spent years working with policymakers and grassroots organizations to help develop city, state, and federal policies to strengthen independent
The subcommittee will come to order. I again want to apologize to our witnesses. This is historic action on the house floor that has taken a number of Committee Members away from the committee. But i would like to get started. Our second panel of witnesses, the first witness on our second panel is timothy wu, the julius silver professor of law at columbia law school, an expert on antitrust, copyright and Communications Law and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, including the master switch in the curse of bigness. Professor wu has twice been part of the politico list of 50 individuals transforming american politics and was named to the American Academy of arts and sciences in 2017. He received his bachelors of science from mcgill university. Fiona scott morton, a professor at the University School of management. Nationally recognized as a leading scholar and published articles in leading economic journals. From 2011 to 2012 she served as Deputy Assistant attorney gene
Good afternoon. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to the second of our series of hearings investigating competition in the Digital Markets. This one on innovation and entrepreneurship. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. 30 years ago the First Software for the worldwide member was released into the Public Domain to create a Global Communications network. Within a few years, search and browsing services were built onto this software to give people tools to communicate, share, and explore information through decentralized platform that was designed to be open and nondiscriminatory. An internet pioneer and codesigner of the internets early architecture testified in 2006 on behalf of google that the overarches principle of the open internet was no central gatekeeper should exert control over the internet. As he noted this open and competitive environment meant ent