[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. The Permanent Committee on intelligence is pleased to be out in the public for a rather appearance. To our guests in the audience, welcome. We appreciate you being here. Proper decorum must be maintained at all times and were here and in open session. This markup will address only unclassified matters pursuant to Committee Rule 6c and clause 2 subsection h4. The chairman mri conclude any on adopted member for recorded votes or yeas and nays, authorized to declare a recess at anytime. Item hr4478 fisa amendments reauthorization act of 2017 and the clerk will designate the bill. Hr4478, to improve foreign ip intelligence collection, and foreign intelligence to extend title 7 of such act and for other purposes. Consent the bill be considered as read and open for amendment at any point. Without objection, so ordered. Today our committee will consider the fisa amendments reauthori
Along the way. They documented all this. One by one, the revenue around mitchell disappeared. They fired him. There was a huge headlines and newspapers and big shock along the way. This really showed that there was some substance to charges about irregularities on wall street. Stock exchange was like a private club whether than public entity. The democrats had just won the election 1932 and were coming into power in march. The incoming chairman of the committee Duncan Fletcher said we want you to stay and continue this investigation. He wrote a memoir and gave a long oral history about his experiences. He talked about the time of Franklin Roosevelts inauguration. Looking at the window and seeing Charles Mitchell walking by himself with his suitcase to union station. There were hotels all around the plaza here. Heres this man that showed up with all this revenue of Bank Officials and Everything Else all by himself leaving in the process. That led to him carrying on an extremely ex tensi
And subsequent financial reforms. Im donald ritchie, the senate historian, and we are in the Senate Caucus room in the Russell Senate Office Building. Before cspan started covering the senate, this was the most famous room in the capitol complex th, becausee this is where major hearings had been televised coming back newsreels covered it in the 1920s and 1930s, but television came along in 1940. This is where viewers would have seen the crime investigation, the kefauver crime investigation, the mccarthy hearings and the watergate hearings. So this was the most televised room until the Senate Chamber was open to television. I bring people in here from time to time. You can hear the echoes. Point of order, mr. Chairman. You can hear the gavel. Of the chairman. My point of order. [gavel bangs] counsel advised the chair that the senator is engaging in a statement im getting sick of getting interrupted in the middle of a sentence. Mr. Chairman, do i have the floor or do i not . Oh, be quiet
Representatives came. In the 1850s, they had to put on the wings. By the 1870s, they were crowded. They couldnt find space for the sn senators to work. Offices were their discs in the chamber. Of course, they were constantly besieged there. So eventually they kept adding space to the capital. They built terraces in the 1870s and added extra rooms and that p wasnt enough. In the 1890s, they bought an old apartment house, which is down constitution avenue about where the taft stands today. For a while, senators moved in there, to the envy of many house members, because that gave senators private offices, at least some of the senators. But the building had been built as an apartment house, not an Office Building. The weight of an Office Building was too much. It began to sink. The elevator shaft was seven inches lower by the time they moved out. That was pulling the floors apart. It was unsafe. It was a fire trap. It was very uncomfortable. People complained about it. It would have been e
Before cspan started covering the sessions, this was where the major hearings were televised going back to news reels covering it in the 1920s and 30s. Television came after long in the 1940s. This is where viewers would have seen the crime investigation, army mcarthur hearings, water gate hear agos. This was the most famous televised room until the chamber was open to television. I bring people in here from time to time. You can hear the echoes. You can hear the gavel of the chairma chairman. The story of congress is the story of the nation. Thats a story of growth. The capital started as a very small sand stone square box. It sort of grew as states entered the union and more senators and representatives came. In the 1850s so many entered they had to put on two wings for Current Senate and house chambers. By the 70s they were crowded and couldnt find space for senators to work. Initially senators offices were their desk in the chamber. They were constantly besieged there. So eventuall