Chair connolly the subcommittee chair connolly the subcommittee will reconvene. Are you with us . They are telling me to give them a second. Chair connolly can you unmute and acknowledge that you are with us . I am here, mr. Chairman. Chair connolly if you would stay unmuted so i can swear you in. Ms. Counsel, are you with us . Yes, chairman. Chair connolly and mr. Spires . Yes, chairman. Chair connolly thank you. If all three of you would raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth or affirm the same, so help you god . Let the record show all three of our witnesses in the second panel have affirmed in the positive. Thank you. If you are ready, i will call on you for your fiveminute Opening Statement. And welcome back to our subcommittee. It is good to be back, mr. Chairman. Chair connolly im sorry, i didnt see you. Go ahead. I do not have an Opening Statement. I was told to do something in the Previous Panel, with unanimous consent
I look at gold as the gold capital of the world. Still in we are lockdown pays, although the economy is gradually reopening. I dont think we are effervescent at the moment about anything. But certainly, it did move the markets quite a lot when you saw it above that line. We had a good conversation with jay hambro about that. I know we will look at metals a little more in depth later on. Tom going to be interesting, to say the least. Serious dues on the pandemic worldwide. I emphasized this is not just about america and united kingdom, but real worldwide pandemic. That news here and there some of optimism but it is a challenging story. Diseasesectious Anthony Fauci once the u. S. Is going in the wrong direction. He told the Senate Committee the country could see 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day, from the current level of about 40,000. Several dozen in western states are seeing increases in infections. That is prompting some to put reopening plans on hold. A new poll shows joe biden w
The fisa reauthorization bill which extends to the law and with authority through december first 2023. Republicans and democrats disagreed on a rule to vote by proxy. Pose does the gentleman from massachusetts rise . Mr. Mcgovern by direction of the committee on rules i call up House Resolution 981 and ask for its immediate consideration. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the resolution. The clerk house calendar number 80. House resolution 981. Resolved, that upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to take from the speakers table the bill h. R. 6172, to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 19878 to prohibit the production of certain business records, and for other purposes. With the Senate Amendments thereto and to consider in the house without intervention of any point of order a single motion offered by the chair of the committee on the judiciary or his designee that the house concur in the Senate Amendments. The Senate Amendments and the motio
You. Before i go further, i am instructed to tell you to please turn off any cell phones, apple watches, what other gadgets you may have, so they do not interfere with our system. Thank you. As you know our host tonight is Justice Sonia sotomayor. We are pleased to have her with us tonight and want to thank or on behalf of the society for giving her time when we call upon her to participate in events like this. It is quite important to us and quite important to you. We very much appreciate it. I will tell you briefly a bit about the justice. She is a native new yorker, born in the bronx, very unhappy about last night baseball game, i gather. Undergraduate work at princeton and went to yale law school, then joined the District Attorney office in New York County as an assistant District Attorney. She was a litigator in the international and commercial law area. That attracted attention and before long, she had become a Federal District judge on the Southern District of new york. Six year
In just under half an hour from now. Greetings and sal you take action. On a previous episode of watching the hawks we cover how the United States was running a wild west style smash and grab when it came to securing valuable medical supplies during this pandemic germany brazil and other countries around the world were claiming that the United States government was either swooping in and out bidding them after sales were already finalized or the us was just playing down right stealing or as we like to call it here confiscating everything from face masks to ventilators as the item sat on the tarmac in china waiting to be shipped off to the country that rightfully purchased them well appears that theres no holds barred loop grab perpetrated by the new. States bedroom government has of correspondents way back home yes multiple state officials and local Health Groups from massachusetts to illinois to texas have been sounding the alarm the various federal agencies have been scooping up ship