Tonight at eight eastern on the communicators on cspan2. Standard john cotton one members of the bridge about buying g5 equipment from the Chinese Company while way. The arkansas republican join former House Intelligence Committee chair mike rogers and retired Brigadier General Robert Spaulding who predecease her on the National Security council under the trump administration. They answered questions from the British Defense subcommittee on china for about two hours. Order, order. Welcome to this Defense Select Committee hearing to consider the International Response to the uk government decision to allow while we to continue to operate its 5g network and implications of the gibbous decision for information sharing across the alliance. Also to discuss International Ambitions and the role of 5g technology and within this specifically look at Cyber Attacks and the distal silk road. Our session date is divided into two parts and id like to welcome senator tom cotton joining us for part on
Jury will come to order. Senator brown has been delayed a bit but im going to go ahead because as i think most people realize we had to readjust the time of the hearing to accommodate the fact that both have been called on the floor at 1030. That means senators will really need to stick to their five minutes and even then we may not get through for everyone and i apologize. I will stick around for 15 or 20 minutes into the first boat so we can go as long as we possibly can. I will wave my questions. I wont waive my introductory misstatement and i will start with that right now. Welcome, chairman powell today the Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell update the command Monetary Policy development in the state of the us economy. Us economy continues to expand in 2019 exceeding 2 growth for the Third Straight year as the American People enjoyed to the longest continued economic expansion in american history. The labor market is strong with the labor force at an alltime high of 164 millio
Secretary Steven Mnuchin on the u. S. Economy and Financial Stability. He talks about Digital Currency, World Bank Lending at the potential impact of Climate Change. Ready to go . The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled promoting stability, reviewing the administrations regular approach to Financial Stability. I want to inform all concerned that this meeting will end at 1 p. M. Per the request of the secretary. I now recognize myself for four minister give an opening statement. So let me welcome back secretary mnuchin. Today we are here to discuss the Trump Administrations actions that have undermined and not promoted our nations Financial Stability. As ive said many times before, i am very concerned about this administrations actions to eliminate important protections for consumers, investors and our economy. It appears that our banking regulators are following that te dereg
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. The gentleman from colorado is recognized for five minutes. The other coloradan. Thank you for repeating today. Thanks for your testimony today. I just want to lock one thing down where i i heard to make answers from your earlier. Ms. Maloney was kind of going through a list of regulators, and wanted to know if you would wait for their approval, and she went to a whole laundry list of them and your answer was, for the parts that apply yes, yes,e going to go and seek their approval. Her used the word seek their approval. Other times you said we will get their approval. So just from facebooks standpoint, are you willing to seek the approval or are you going to wait for the approval before anything is launched . Congressman, it is the latter. Thank you for the opportunity to clarify that. We are not going to launch anything until we get the approval. I also, if its okay, want to
Since the creation of bitcoin in 2008. Facebooks project has generated renewed interest in Digital Currencies, including how they react with u. S. And International Regulatory frameworks, the potential benefits and challenges they pose, and concerns around issues like antiMoney Laundering and counterterrorism efforts, including data privacy, Consumer Protections, commerce, and Monetary Policy. A few weeks ago, the head of the program joined the committee to provide an update on facebooks proposed Digital Currency. Somearcus emphasized important points and commitments. There are a number of regulators globally engaged on the facebook project. They will have the highest standards when it comes to data privacy and no Financial Data or account data that is collected will be shared with facebook. It will be headquartered in geneva switzerland, but will and haveistered oversight from u. S. Regulators. Though it may have begun this conversation, the block chain and cryptocurrency system is di