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Thank you very much. You got a lot going on. People are all over the place. Ranking member has an adhering and chairwoman has a science hearing and people will come and go. Forgive us for that. Welcome. What do we have today . For our second panel we have Catherine Lehman is the chair of the u. S. Commission on civil rights and president obama appointed her to a sixyear term on december 15, 2016. The 16. The commission unanimously confirmed the president designation to chair the commission on december 28, 2016. She also serves as a cabinet of California Governor Gavin Newsom where she has been Legal Affairs secretary since january, 2019. She served as assistant secretary for civil rights at the barman of education until 2017. Welcome. Michael waldman is president of the nyu school of law and nonpartisan law and policy institute that focuses on improving systems of democracy and justice and that rentacenter is a leading National Voice and voting righ rights, money and politics, criminal
Hannah fried is the director of all voting is local. A collaborative Leadership Conference Education Fund in conjunction with the American Civil Liberties union foundation. And two president ial campaigns, spent several years in federal Government Services at the department of justice and the Environmental Protection agency, welcome. I know i am not doing this Barbara Arnwine is national cochair of the National Commission for voter justice. Barbara arnwine is also president and founder of the transwoman of Justice Coalition and served on the warrant committee for civil rights under law from february 1989 to june 2015. Barbara arnwine is renowned for contributions on critical justice issues including passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1991 in the 2006 reauthorization of the Voting Rights act. Welcome. Denise lieberman is director of advance projects power and democracy and a senior attorney. She works to identify and remove systemic barriers to voting. A seasoned constitutional
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investigating the attack on the u.s. capitol. her remarks from the reagan library coming up live here on c-span at 9:00 p.m. eastern. until then, some of the january 6 hearings from earlier this month that focused on efforts to commit convince vice president pence to reject the vote count. the select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. pursuant to house deposition authority regulation 10, the chair announces the committee s approval to release the deposition material represented during today s hearing. good afternoon. this is almost no idea more un-american than the notion that any one person can choose the american president, no idea more un-american i agree with that, which is unusual because former vice president and former vice president mike pence and i do not agree on much. these are his words spoken a few months