The chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin for the pledge of allegiance to call up the report and move the Committee Report into the house the clerk will report without objection the report will be considered as read and the special counsel stated on page one of his report will fully retained materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen. He strong motivations to do so and to ignore the rules of properly handling the information in his notebooks. He shared some of the classified materials he kept with his ghostwriters writing a book for which joe biden received with 8 million advance and but we had motives and the classified information. All of this declines to prosecute joe biden because he is, quote, a sympathetic man with a poor memory and that brings us to today. Following the report we subpoenaed the transcript and audio recordings for the special counsels interviews and his ghost writer. They failed to produce the audiotapes to determine whether he appr
Williams jr. Talks about his work to help paralyzed vets. From a is what i see policy perspective, from an advocates perspective. You have to empathize. Thats what it will make it the ideal provider for veterans who have gone to combat and sacrifice. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern. Cspan cities tour is in portland, maine this weekend. Join us as we explore the literary scene and history of this city with the help of spectrum cable partners. Saturday at noon eastern on book tv, colin what are talks about the 700 million lobster industry in his book tehe lobster coast. Industry is aster sustainable fishery, but this came out of a terrible tragedy. This is a hard, learned experience. Of the conservation measures were in place at the end of the 19th century. We will visit the childhood home of Henry Wadsworth longfellow. Was alive ande he writing probably the most famous English Writer in the world if not the most famous person in the world. Today he is probably best remembered for paul reve
Senator chuck chuck ensley chairs this fivehour hearing. [indiscernible] [gavel pounding] [indiscernible] attorney general sessions, welcome. For all the people in the audience, we welcome you as well. I thank general sessions were being here that attorney general sessions were being here for the oversight hearing. His is an opportunity for congress to investigate and question the policies and actions of any executive branch. It is an opportunity for the executive branch to take responsibility for any of those policies and actions, and an opportunity for congress to defend its constitutional powers and check any abuses by an overreaching executive branch, and it has been that way for 230 years. Some have complained that we have not had an oversight hearing with this attorney general earlier. My reason for deferring was that the attorney general should have his team in place before appearing before us. Certainly, attorney general holder and attorney general lynch did have their respecti
Attorney general sessions, welcome. For all the people in the audience, we welcome you as well. I thank general sessions were being here that attorney general sessions were being here for the oversight hearing. His is an opportunity for congress to investigate and question the policies and actions of any executive branch. It is an opportunity for the executive branch to take responsibility for any of those policies and actions, and an opportunity for congress to defend its constitutional powers and check any abuses by an overreaching executive branch, and it has been that way for 230 years. Some have complained that we have not had an oversight hearing with this attorney general earlier. My reason for deferring was that the attorney general should have his team in place before appearing before us. Certainly, attorney general holder and attorney general lynch did have their respective teams well in place by the time they appeared here as you are now here. The other side has been blockin
Judge kennedy in an of itself is a superb candidate for united stes Supreme Court. In comparison to do not this gentleman justice. He has a deep compassion for the law, as many of you know your keys highly intelligent of his academic record. We can discern that come and his experience, 12 years on the Appellate Court in california and in the western area demonstrates a level that very few nominees to the Supreme Court demonstrate. Obviously, judge kennedy is a conservative, and here represented are here as democrats. We support him because of our personal knowledge of judge kennedy. I look back in Sacramento County where he grew up and where i grew up, and i can talk to the 1 Million People in Sacramento County, and that one of them would have anything negative to say about this candidate. One individual when asked by a reporter what they thought of him said, they noticed a lack of an observable ego. Judge kennedy is a man of humility, a man of compassion. Hes an individual that really