Covid19 and other biological threats facing the u. S. Good morning. Welcome to the hearing [inaudible] emerging threats and capabilities. In a moment in accordance with house rules and relations the host will mute all participants other than german [inaudible] and all participants are asked to keep themselves muted when not actively engaging in the discussion which should help limit echoes and other asruptions. When the yield back i do not renumber to retweet themselves others will doo so to limitit efforts and background audio background audio. Members and witnesses are responsible for unwitting himself anytime they wish to w e heard. It may take a few seconds for your microphone to be t unmated. If you are on the computer you can view the timer by reaching your personal view in the upper right corner of your screen for the active speaker and you can also pin the timer by right clicking or hovering your cursor over the timer and pressing that contact icon. With that, we are ready to b
Former cia directors to look at the intelligence organizations operations. At 9 00 pm eastern on after words political commentator Candace Owens on why black americans should vote republican in her book, she is interviewed by matt schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union. This weekend on cspan2. The house ways and means subcommittee on oversight held a hearing on the use of loopholes to avoid paying taxes. The subcommittee look at potential changes to the law to prevent wealthy americans from getting out of income tax. Good afternoon. Welcome to you all. Weve got a great response in a sharp period of time and our second. On the Affordable Care act on the Oversight Committee. Thank you, everyone, for joining us today. In compliance with regulations, with committee proceedings, the First Official virtual oversight subcommittee hearing in the ways and Means Committee. Before we turn to todays important topic i want to remain remind you about procedures to navigate this platfor
The committee on Foreign Affairs will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any point and all members will have five days to submit statements, materials and questions for the record subject to the length, limitations in the rules. To insert something in the record please have your staff email the previously mentioned address or contact of the full committee staff. I see that we have a quorum and before i go forward i understand the speaker of the house, miss pelosi, will be stopping by this hearing and i ask unanimous consent she participate in any point she arrives during the hearing. So ordered. There she is. Madame speaker, would you like to make some remarks . Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I thank you and mr. Mccaul, mr. Eliot engel for having this hearing today. It is with Great Sadness that i come here because we had such optimism and such hope. The u. S. Congress has always spoken in a bipartisan house and senate, democrats and republicans, with one
Free and fair vote. We are holding this hearing and we engage regularly with social Media Companies because they are best positioned to sound the alarm if and when another external actor attempts to interfere. First, because their technical capacity and security background and allows them to protect malicious activity on their platforms, and make attributions to technical indicators that are available only to the companies themselves. And second, because we cannot have complete confidence that the white house will allow the Intelligence Community to look fully and properly inform congress, if there is a foreign interference, especially if the interference appears to assist the president s reelection. That is a dangerous state of affairs, but nonetheless it reflects the reality and why theres hearing is so important. Witnesses, as you described, a lot has changed. In many ways we are better prepared today than we were four years ago. Each of your companies have taken significant steps a
Removal of speakers who worked in the confederacy. Pelosi a large number of people support the dreamers. About whatsuch dread could possibly happen at the court up until last night. If it goes this way or that way. American way. E we are very proud of it. Late last night the committee overwhelmingly passed the george ,loyd justice and policing act which will now go to rules and come to the floor before the fourth of july. We are very proud of the work that was done. Tomorrow is juneteenth, a day that we observe as a day of freedom in our country. It a that people in the west found out about the emancipation proclamation. In observance of that, i have to the clerk of the house directing the clerk to remove the portrait of four previous speakers of the house who served in the confederacy. Know about this until we were taking inventory of the statues. There were four paintings of speakers. Tomorrow the clerk will oversee removal of those confederate speakers from the house. Hallows no roo