The committee will now come to order. The chair now recognizes himself for five minutes for an opening statement. Online content moderation has largely enabled the internet experience that we know today, whether its looking up restaurant reviews on yelp, catching up on snl on youtube, or checking in on a friend or a loved one on social media. These are all experiences that weve come to know and rely on. And the platforms we go to to do these things have been enabled by User Generated Content as well as the ability of these companies to moderate that content and create communities. Section 230 of the Communications Decency act has enabled that ecosystem to evolve. By giving Online Companies the ability to moderate content without equating them to the publisher or speaker of that content, weve enabled the creation of massive online communities of millions and billions of people to come together and interact. Today this committee will be examining that world that section 230 has enabled,
Next, the organizing director at quentin. Why are these people here . Why arent they deported or why arent they still imprisoned . I am the organizing director. We have been around the past eight years and we came out of a direct response to the contract that sheriff arpaio signed and put into a limitation into implementation. We were born out of the crisis and a few years back, a big piece of the needs of our key minute he beyond community beyond doing the protest and the legal stuff it was essentially on a casebycase basis. Our people were saying they need support. My family, my husband my daughter is in detention and we need you to help us get them out. Jose found out about our work inside the jail and called his wife and said to look for us. We have been becoming experts at understanding the legal system, helping families navigate it and fight to get their loved ones out and in the past two years, we have gotten over 150 people out of detention through this level of advocacy and po
Researchers, not just serves working. I hesitate to do this because he represented the state that is the most affected but i would love to see if someone has the courage to question the scale of money we give the universities for administering this. You look at the percent are part gets percent harvard gets. Come on guys, cant work that go straight into research . Sen. Warren let me ask you the question on the funding part of this. Should we be doing Capital Budgeting as a way to increase the funding substantially for nih . In order to fund nih, do we have to cut shortterm spending . Speaker gingrich we dont have to. I would take it off budget and issue an alzheimers bond. The longterm tidal wave is so enormous the most fiscally prudent thing you can do is to find a way to undercut that wave through research. I and happy to defend that notion anywhere in the country in terms of talking with conservatives. There is no all are other alternative that works. If you look at how the navy bui
The subcommittee on oversight investigations will come to order. Subcommittee is meeting to hear testimony examining decades of data manipulation at the United States geological survey. Under Committee Rule 4 f, any oral Opening Statements at hearings are limited to the chairman of the ranking minority member. Therefore, i would ask unanimous consent that all other members Opening Statements will be made part of the hearing record if theyre submitted to the clerk by 5 00 p. M. Today. Hearing no objection, so ordered. I will now recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Today, well be examining decades of data manipulation that occurred within the the u. S. Geological surveys as well as failure to take corrective measures. Usgs is considered to be the Gold Standard as scientific integrity and reliability. That image has now been indeliliably stained. Incredibly, this committee has learned usgs had shut down the lab from the i. G. Months after it happened. In 2015, the
The subcommittee on oversight investigations will come to order. Subcommittee is meeting to hear testimony examining decades of data manipulation at the United States geological survey. Under Committee Rule 4 f, any oral Opening Statements at hearings are limited to the chairman of the ranking minority member. Therefore, i would ask unanimous consent that all other members Opening Statements will be made part of the hearing record if theyre submitted to the clerk by 5 00 p. M. Today. Hearing no objection, so ordered. I will now recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Today, well be examining decades of data manipulation that occurred within the the u. S. Geological surveys as well as failure to take corrective measures. Usgs is considered to be the Gold Standard as scientific integrity and reliability. That image has now been indeliliably stained. Incredibly, this committee has learned usgs had shut down the lab from the i. G. Months after it happened. In 2015, the