Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. Let me say before i begin my Opening Statement that we welcome the secretary, good to see you. And we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. Theres so many of them and i wont the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so we wont come off any of your allotted time for your statement and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings arent necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself to be nominated for education secretary and was grilled pretty heavily, i thought, with my family sitting right behind me. I was accustomed to it, but they werent. But they got over it before very long. We welcome you here and were glad youre here. Yesterday i received a letter from senator murray asking me to delays todays hearings. I think the Committee Members know, i do my best to do what sen
Life, being in the drivers seat. This civil act of disobedience. Wash sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. House oversight subcommittee on operations held a hearing on federal agencies compliance with congressional information request. Some members of the subcommittee said the Trump Administration has withheld documents that have been requested. Subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess to the committee at any time. The subcommittee is convening a hearing on the document production efforts on the office of personnel management, the federal bureau of investigation and the General Services administration in response to various committees and subcommittee document request. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. I want to thank the witnesses for being here. Although i know there could be more comfortable hearings to attend. I regret we need to have this hearing. Were here because they have not substantially complied with
Subcommittee leaders say that is just one example. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair has authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. The subcommittee is convening a hearing on the document production efforts on the office of personnel management, the federal bureau of investigation and the General Services administration in response to various committees and subcommittee document request. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. I want to thank the witnesses for being here although i know there could be more comfortable hearings to attend. I regret we need to have this hearing. We are here because opm, the fbi has not substantially complied with the committees request for documents from several months ago. We will witness the stunning lack of cooperation across the administration in response to multiple congressional investigations. For this committee to inform its important constitutional oversight mission, we must have documents
The Trump Administration is refusing to provide documents and other in formation to some health committees. The House Oversight subcommittee has requested information about plans to move the s headquarters out of washington dc. Subcommittee leaders say that is just one example. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair has authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. The subcommittee is convening a hearing on the document production efforts on the office of personnel management, the federal bureau of investigation and the General Services administration in response to various committees and subcommittee document request. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. I want to thank the witnesses for being here although i know there could be more comfortable hearings to attend. I regret we need to have this hearing. We are here because opm, the fbi has not substantially complied with the committees request for documents from several months ago.
Term. He talked about a weakening economy, headwinds developing enough to trigger optimism in the Financial Community that he is going to cut rates at the end of this month. Maybe not by a halfpoint a lot of people saw happening, maybe a quarter point, just in the course of his testimony, one of the fascinating things i discovered there was about 60 probability we would see we could see a cut in rates by end of this month. When it came to halfpoint cut down to 16 . But again the expectation is that a cut is coming. He is he is making the case for such a move. He is not telegraphing additional moves. We want to say on this, give you a flavor what is happening here. Democrats on this committee have been pouncing whether he feels pressure from the president of the United States, that he should essentially do his bidding to cut rates. He has said no, he doesnt think the president can fire him. By the way the president cant fire him or demote him. Leaving that aside he stood very strong on