The tsa precheck. This is an hour and 25 minutes. Good morning, everyone. Welcome. The subcommittee on transportation and Maritime Security will come to order. I would like to start by welcoming mr. Dan bishop of North Carolina to the committee. Welcome, sir. Delighted to be here. I look forward to working with you, sir. The subcommittee is working today to receive testimony on one year later, the implementation of the tsa modernization act and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the subcommittee at recess at any point. I want to thank you Ranking Member lesko and other members for joining us today. One year ago today, congress enacted the First Comprehensive reauthorization of the tsa known as the tsa modernization act. The act incorporated substantial number of bills and provisions that originated in this committee. It stands as a testament to the committees longstanding bipartisan efforts to conduct oversight of tsa. I thank my colleagues ms. Watson coleman and mr.
Emmer, the chair of the National Republican congressional committee. Thanks for joining us this morning. Along with the questioning is the National Journals highlight editor and a campaign manager. Go ahead and start. Lets start with the current news. How has the last week of impeachment hearings altered the trajectory of the 2020 race in terms of messaging or outcome . The messaging issue is interesting on the republican side. Both sides, it is a little different. The republican side, i have not changed my opinion the democrats, the socialist democrat majority in the house literally gave away its majority the day it started this impeachment proceeding. The polling over the last week shows it. Since they have socalled made it socalled public, independent voters, they are losing quickly. We knew from polling that voters, this was done shortly after this began, two thirds of the voters in battleground states Want Congress to work on the things they sent them to work on. Two thirds of tho
Were going talk about the 2020 election with david beckert whos the cofounder ander executive director of the center for election and innovation research. Tell us about the work they do. We were founded in 2016 after i worked for several years in te pew team. Conven before that i was enforcing federal voting laws. Oninno we work to ensure the security of the overall election in the United States and work to improve access for all voters. Youre a dottering, so your. A nonprofit. How were you founded . By foundations and other est donors. We are completely nonpart sarn w andha nonprofit. Looking back to the 2016 b election, whats the biggest lesson that youou personally an your group learned from that . I think what weve learned, o that have re facts been presented by both parties,e the Senate Intelligence sp committee,osal. Burr and warner foreign adversaries are going to try and undermine us. Theyre going to try to attack our election infrastructure. They attacked the illinois data bas
What, what have we got here, 8. Revenue up, ad sales up, profits up, and there are now 2. 45 billion active monthly users. It was a spectacular report. Stocks up. These two stocks are helping the market but a statement from china has put a damper on things. Beijing says its doubtful that a longterm trade deal can be reached. China concerned about the impulsive nature of President Trump. Where did they get that from . The dow industrials down about 50 at the opening bell. S p down six, a fractional loss for the nasdaq. Then theres politics. Namely, the vote in the house this morning, starting the impeachment process. This has consumed the congress. It has not consumed the market. It seems to be ignoring d. C. Entirely. We will follow it and pay special attention to votes of moderate democrats from trum trumpleaning districts. Will they approve removing the president from office because of a phone call to ukraine . Cant wait to see. Stay right there. Varney company is about to begin. The
Trump, president of the United States of america. Section 2. Open and transparent investigative proceedings by the Permanent Select Committee on intelligence for the purpose of continuing the investigation described in the first section of this resolution, the Permanent Select Committee on intelligence referred to in this resolution as the Permanent Select Committee is authorized to conduct proceedings pursuant to this resolution as follows. One, the chair of the Permanent Select Committee shall designate and open hearing or hearings pursuant to this section. Two, notwithstanding clause 2j2 of rule 11 of the rules of the house of representatives, upon recognition by the chair for such purpose during any hearing pursuant to paragraph 1, the chair and ranking minority member of the Permanent Select Committee shall be permitted to question witnesses for equal specified periods of longer than five minutes as determined by the chair. The Time Available for each period of questioning under t