Im going morning. The subcommittee on National Parks forest and public lands will now come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to hear testimony on hr 2420, the National Museum of the american latino act. On Committee Rule for is, any Opening Statements and hearings are limited to the chair and ranking minority members. Therefore i ask unanimous consent that all of her members Opening Statements be made part of the hearing record if they are submitted to the course by 5 00 p. M. Today. The hearing no objections, so ordered. In addition to the broad interest in todays hearing i would like to ask unanimous consent and all interested members to join us and participate. And before we get started, i would like to take a point of personal privilege and have a moment of. [silence] for our friend, our colleague, defender of justice and equality, and humidity mr. Elijah cummings. [background sounds] thank you all so much. Thank you for attending the subcommittee on National Forest and p
President donald trump the key Spokes Person already monday has seen a flurry of tweets from the u. S. President making his case not only calling this the greatest witch hunt in the history of the United States but also calling into question the credibility of the chair of the House Intelligence Committee adam schiff saying that he should be even suggesting that he should be arrested for treason given the fact that he opened a hearing last week talking about that july 25th phone call now the focus of the impeachment inquiry between donald trump and the ukrainian president but the fact that he portrayed it in fictional terms has left many people not only questioning his motives with regard to that but the president saying that there could potentially be something illegal about it certainly the president is trying to under. The care of the u. N. Special envoy for syria care pederson is addressing the u. N. Security council hes expected to announce the details of a meeting share childes a
Bill also works to lower the compliance burden on Financial Institutions, most of which are Community Banks, by establishing several tools to allow for more targeted sharing of b. S. A. , is bsaamlrelated information. Studies kes modest and waste ways to reduce the cost associated with researching and writing suspicious activity reports. The bill also creates a new privacy and Civil Liberties officer, as well as an innovation officer in each of the federal financial regulators. And importantly, the bill imposes new penalties on Financial Institutions and personnel that violate the law and creates a Whistleblower Program to encourage and protect those who identify such bad acts. R. 2513, as amended, has the strong support of Financial Institutions. It is also supported by n. G. O. s like the aflcio, global witness, oxfam america, friends of the earth, jubilee u. S. A. Network, and the Small Business majority, all of which are members of the transparency focus fact coalition. Its widely
Baseball, basketball, football, track, and the many sports that come under the olympics mandate. This bill in particular i wish to remind our colleagues again provides relief, but we really hope it is a deterrent and works to move other nations, the european union, to be able to establish these kinds of responses to doping. This act establishes criminal penalties for participating in a scheme in commerce to influence a Major International sport competition through prohibited substances or methods. It also provides restitution to victims of such conspiracy, athletes in particular, many of them who have suffered great losses because of this fraud. It protects whistleblowers from retaliation by criminalizing participation in International Doping fraud conspiracies, whistleblowers will be included in existing witness Protection Laws and establishes coordination and sharing of information with the u. S. Antidoping agency. To establish a matrix if you will, a format. So i want to say that we
A Building Collapse that killed 8 children. And the yuki u. K. Supremes cool prepares to rule on whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson i have to do legally when he shut down parliament. The 1st the deaths of 40 people at an afghan wedding adding to Major Concerns about security days out from the president ial election no one has yet certain exactly what happened in the most a collar region of Helmand Province on sunday night the government says the army was targeting a taliban Training Base when they killed fighters and arrested others the question is why so many civilians died time and c. Is a former afghan Deputy Defense minister he says high sufficient villian casualty numbers are mainly caused by the taliban using people as human shields as well as poor government intelligence methods. This civilly and casualties who has been going on you know sense to us as been documented since 2006. Often what happens is because both sides would like to intensify the war and pressure each other.