First of all i should say welcome to everybody particularly our colleagues and nominees and family and friends and citizens here for a very important nominee hearing. Youre welcome. The committee is considering, as you know, the nomination ofChristopher Wray. Mr. Wray, congratulations to you and your family on you nomination. This is an important day for the country considering the importance of fbi and Law Enforcement in america. Importance of fbi and i welcome you, mr. Wray and your family, to the committee. The Ranking Member and i will give omitting and then senator nunn will introduce anybody he wants to and then we will turn to questions. His Opening Statement and introduce anybody that he wants to thats here to support him and people that arent here supporting him, as well and after his Opening Statement, we will turn to questions. As an accommodation to the minoritys request, we will have tenminute rounds for questions during the first round rather than the normal seven. The di
Drivers seat of our own destiny by doing this act of civil disobedience. Tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Tonight on afterwards syndicated columnist naomi klein on her book know is not enough. By cofounderewed of code pink. Us how the stage was set for trump. I see this is a bipartisan process. Its about media, news coverage. The table was set for him in so many ways that all he needed to do was show up. We were already treating elections like reality tv shows. We already had a media landscape that was much more interested in interpersonal drama between candidates for an coverage of the issues. Democrats using the tools of corporate branding. Obama was a fantastic brand. It used incredibly cutting edge marketing techniques. That behind the claims that he was leading this deep change and transformation there wasnt enough change. That also helps that the typical for trump. Watch tonight on cspan twos book tv. The confirmation hearing for christopher wray. The nominee for fbi direct
I will say in years past jonathan in his work and much of the work that is being presented here when we were at meetings on innovation and the big bugaboo that ui is heard, the bogeyman, the fda. Fda is responsible for all the problems. Not true obviously and not what you hear now. I emailed some colleagues at the fda recently. I said interesting fda is not coming up at all. What is coming up is the specter of not being able to have products be reimbursed and so i think that is one that everybody can sort of lean in collectively and Start Talking about this value equation. To further comment on the economic realities, one of my responsibilities is to balance the budget of a medical school. Well we put in 60 million in for each dollar that comes in we spend about 25 cents and we are. Efficient in extra dollars to support the Research Enterprise. That is the importance of cms. Where those dollars come from for most medical centers where there is a mission not an option to invest in other
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Dont have all the examples of apps that we have banned here. If you would like, i can have my team follow up with you after this. Have you ever required an audit to ensure the deletion of improperly transferred data and if so how many times . Mr. Chairman, yes, we have. I dont have the exact figure on how many times we have. But, overall, the way we have enforced our platform policies in the past is we have looked at patterns of how apps have used our apis and accessed information and looked into reports about reports people have made into apps doing sketchy things. Going forward, we are going to take a more proactive position on this and do much more regular spotchecks and other reviews of apps. As well as increasing the amount of audits that we do. And, again, i can make sure that our team follows up with you on anything about the specific past stats that would be interesting. I was going to assume that sitting here today you have no idea. And if im wrong on that, you are able you ar