Also have tragedies in and terror california, texas, others, puerto rico where families are struggling. We have guidance and comfort on those families and wisdom to the First Responders and others trying to cope with these issu issues. In jesus name amen. Mr. Collins is a general counsel on facebook and the acting general of google. We had an open session the hearing would be addressed unclassified matters to the guests in the audience. Proceedings will not be tolerated and we ask the witnesses to stand and raise their hands. Do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony to the committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god . Thank you for being here today to discuss a very important topic and that is russias use of the social media platforms during the 2016 election. The committee has been investigating since the beginning of this year and as a part of that we are examining the role played in the disseminating the line content paid for by russia
New york where families are in deep pain and deep sorrow and tragedies in california and florida and others, puerto rico where families are struggling. Ask your devine guidance and comfort to First Responders and others. We ask, lord, that were worthy of your praise and blessing and that we conduct ourselves this afternoon in ways that well honor you. Ask in jesus name, amen. Appearing before the committee will be mr. Collin stretch, general counsel of facebook, acting general counsel of twitter and kent walker, Senior Vice President and senior counsel of google. We are in open session. This will only unclassified matters. We appreciate the public and media interest in this committees work. We expect proper decorum at all times. We ask the witnesses to stand and raise their right hand. Do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you give to this committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god. Thank you. You may be seated. Ill recognize myself
Ill like to offer up a brief prayer for what happened in new york. We come to you today humble, seeking your wisdom, guidance, knowledge as we try to lead this great people. Lord, we have circumstances in new york where families are in deep pain and deep sorrow and tragedies in california and florida and others, puerto rico where families are struggling. Ask your devine guidance and comfort to First Responders and others. We ask, lord, that were worthy of your praise and blessing and that we conduct ourselves this afternoon in ways that well honor you. Ask in jesus name, amen. Appearing before the committee will be mr. Collin stretch, general counsel of facebook, acting general counsel of twitter and kent walker, Senior Vice President and senior counsel of google. We are in open session. This will only unclassified matters. We appreciate the public and media interest in this committees work. We expect proper decorum at all times. We ask the witnesses to stand and raise their right hand
Effective, no fly, no buy legislation, and bring up h. R. 1217, bipartisan background check legislation. Mass shootings followed by moments of silence and no action cannot become americas new normal. We need a vote and we need to vote now. Thank you and i yield back my time. The speaker pro tempore the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from illinois, ms. Kelly, for five minutes. Ms. Kelly mr. Speaker, with over 30 americans killed by a gun every single day, for far too long i have been saying inaction is not an option. Yet, in my threeplus years in congress, House Republicans have refused to do anything on gun violence. This weeks lackluster beltway big gun lobby written bill isnt only gun vote this congress has had. Why is it that when our country was facing a horrific oip united epidemic opioid epidemic, we empowered our states with the resources necessary to combat this issue . And why is it that when a terrorist boreded a plane with boarded a plane with a bomb in his shoe, we asked
Long term . I can remember arriving in rio to see the saudi text with the entire text of the Framework Convention in brackets. And i know that theres still a concern that russia has been difficult to deal with on this issue for many years. But i dont want to answer the question. What is the where are the big challenges, do you think . Yeah, well so, theres two different ways to anxious that question. If you mean in the context of the Ongoing International negotiations thats kind of the i guess i mean both, the negotiations and the real world on the ground. Okay. So, with respect to negotiations, the short answer is i dont think we know yet. I think that there i mean, going into these negotiations there were various groupings of countries who were at least from our point of view and from the point of view of any number of countries who were seeking a certain kind of agreement were challenging. But we have an agreement that was met with kind of extraordinarily broad claim. I mean, even i