We extend a special welcome to our witnesses and thank them for appearing. Remotely all appear this morning. Commissioner noah phillips, commissioner Christine Wilson and rebecca slaughter. This agency was established in 1914 by the federal trade commission act. The fcc is chiefly responsible for protecting consumers from unfair, fraudulent Business Practices in the marketplace, including protecting Consumer Privacy and the security of their data, preventing harmful uses of technology and combating deceptive advertising and illegal robo calls, among other issues. The fcc is also responsible for educating consumers about fraudulent activity and theatory business practice fcc is intended to help prevent americans from falling victim to frauds fraudsters and other actors. Recently discussed, the subcommittee hearing on covid19 scams last month, coronavirus becauseted a new avenue of stayathome orders, a prime target for exploitation. I appreciate the ongoing efforts to protect consumers f
Mr. Terra, there seems to be a good amount of dispute as to what life is like in the chaz. The gentle lady from washington says it is like a peaceful Poetry Community garden and yet we see these reports of rapes and delayed Response Time and videos of people assaulting each other and demanding raised based payments racebased payments. I would ask would you be willing to host a congressional allegation in the chaz so we might also be able to go there and show the country what is happening, observe it in real time, and if the chaz is something majority would like to have spread across the country, perhaps you can make that case in vivid color but i will yield to tell whether he would be willing to yield lead a delegation to the chaz. The time is expired. Moved to strike the last word. Chair the gentleman is recognized. I rise in opposition to the amendment for a couple of reasons. I thank the gentle lady from washington for sharing with committee what is happening in her own district. Th
The whole thing i was saying went right over the head and you prove my case again. All that was missing was another cheap shot or a bucket of chicken. Back. D the gentleman yields. The question occurs on the amendment. Im sorry. Thewhat purpose does gentleman from california seek recognition . The gentleman is recognized. Chairman, 13 years ago i partnered with the California State Senate democrats in advocating for an open records act for complaints against Police Officers. Five years ago i cosponsored Hank Johnsons stop military rising the police act militarizing the police act. If you are seeking bipartisan support for police reform, you would have it. If you had sought consultation and compromise and cooperation, if you reached across the aisle, you would have found many sincere allies. Not only did you not offer republicans a seat at the table, you have not offered her publicans seats in the committee room, disenfranchising many of us who thought this issue was too important to ph
Leaders of Law Enforcement organizations, including the Police Chiefs from around the nation. Good afternoon. So, this is the order today, if its ok with everybody. I will give an Opening Statement and i have got a short video. With a few minutes to add to it. Senators feinstein, booker harris, if you would like to make Opening Statements. Is that ok . And we have some people that will do introducing to the panels. We will get to that later. So thank you for coming. We are here for a reason. Without the death of mr. Floyd we would not be here. A lot has happened in the last couple of weeks. My goal is trying to define the problem, offer solutions, and talk to each other, not past each other. And i have a short video that is tough to watch. I talked to senator booker about it, the first couple of minutes, but it ends up on a very positive note. We will see if it will go from really hard to watch to something thats a little more acceptable for the country. If you could roll the video. Is
We are grateful to all of you for being here and for valuing the past, present and future of thoughtful reading and writing. The story that history can teach us a lot about how to live in the present and plan for the future. And perhaps no error in our history is more instructive to us right now than 1981 contagion ravage the world shuttering schools, closing businesses, and killing hundreds of thousands. Here to talk with us about what became as known as 102 years ago is the spanish flu is Kathryn Arnold who poured over years of eyewitness accounts from eyewitnesses in the early beginning at places like a military base in kansas to its number of prominent american writers like John Steinbeck and kathryn and portauprince she read english at the university of cambridge and holds a further degree in psychology shes the author of several books about the history of london and she was published by Simon Schuster in 2015 shes joining us today from the uk, welcome. Welcome thank you for being