[inaudible] a process for our economy. The Federal Reserve is one of the most important institutions in the country and, indeed, the world. Chair yellen served as president of San Francisco fed, then as vice chair, then as chair of the Federal Reserve board. Our distinguished service at the fed encompassed the most tumultuous time in the United States financial and economic systems since the great depression. Many books of artie been written about the events of this time and many more will certainly be written from different points of view. And with varying assessments. One thing is certain. The Financial System and the economy have stabilized. We are no longer debating how to reconstitute them, but rather how they might work even better. This hearing will review the development the crisis and special sense doctor yellin became the chair of the fed in terms of the dual mandate of maximum employment and price stability. By the Standard Measure of unemployment which is 4. 1 last week, an
House resolution. The resolution is one part of the committee on House Administrations comprehensive review of the laws, procedures and resources concerning workplace harassment in the house. A harassmentfree policy and workplace is vital in creating the culture the speaker pro tempore the house is not in order. The gentleman will continue. Mr. Harper a harassmentfree workplace is vital in creating the culture that will require everyone on capitol hill to Work Together effectively. First and foremost, mr. Speaker, there is no place for Sexual Harassment in our society and especially in congress, period. I believe as members of congress we must hold ourselves to a higher standard, a standard that demonstrates we are worthy of the trust placed to us by our constituents and the american public. There have been a number of accounts by current and former colleagues and staff that suggests not every office is achieving this goal. Thats simply unacceptable. This resolution will mandate that e
Now, the House Intelligence Committee considers legislation to reauthorize section 702 of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. That allows the Intelligence Community to Access Communications of nonu. S. Persons, outside the u. S. His is one hour and 15 minutes. And this is one hour and 15 minutes. Mr. Nunes the committee will come to order. The Permanent Select Committee on intelligence is pleased to be out in public for a rare appearance. To our guests in the audience, welcome, we appreciate you being here. Please be advised that proper decorum must be observed at all times and disruptions in todays proceedings will not be tolerated. As a reminder to our members, we are here and will remain in open session. This markup will address only unclassified matters. Pursuant to Committee Rule 6c the chair announce he is may postpone further proceedings today on any question of approving any measure on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered. Without objection the chair is
Group, Alliance Defending freedom. And, dna Testing Services, and how genetic data could be used against consumers. Sure to watch cspans washington journal beginning life at 7 00 eastern saturday morning three joined the discussion. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] join us on cspan3 this weekend for American History tv for highlights saturday at three clock p. M. Eastern, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the 1957 public broadcasting act. The library of congress hosted a discussion about the history of news and Public Affairs programming. It 00 p. M. Eastern on lectures in history, university of kansas professor on the role of africanamerican ministers and politics, and how churches helped members gain experiences with organizing and running for political office. Sunday 8 00 a. M. Eastern, midway from world war ii, from vete
With the help of our spectrum Cable Partners well explore the citys history and literary community, beginning with author pat oneill on the history of irish immigrants and how they helped build kansas city in what it is today. One of my Favorite Places in the whole cold is browns market run by john and john mcclain and cary brown. And they start the business in the late 1880s. Irish style. The oldest continual Retail Operation in west of the mississippi, maybe in the whole world. But browns is kind of our community center. One of those great Little Corner Neighborhood Grocery stores where people are extended credit in the neighborhood, people came here for generations, and its now kind of the same thing. People come here just to gossip and compare notes notes and head kids. So, its a much like a small town Crossroads Store in ireland. The title of the book, from the bottom up, its in the sense that in kansas city, were along the rivers, and the Missouri River in the kansas river and it