I want to thank everyone for their adherence to the guidelines as we continue to do our work while protecting the health and safety of our staff, families and communities. Thank you for joining us today. In pursuant to notice, todays hearing is taking place in our ways and Means Committee hearing room, with members permitted to attend remotely in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings, pursuant to House Resolution 965. We currently have 33 members logged in and participating via the webex platform. For those members who arent here in washington and plan to participate in person, we have a limited number of available seats to ensure that we adhere to social distancing guidelines. I encourage members to watch from their office and only come to the hearing room when it is your turn for questioning. Before we turn to todays topic, i want to remind members of a few procedures as we navigate this hybrid hearing setting. First, consistent with regulations, the commit
Several hearings we had discussing Climate Change focusing on current, future and Economic Impacts. I will defer to the Opening Statement for myself. When we spoke earlier in the holding area, i mentioned the fact that we would hopefully do a hearing. We do have time for your Opening Statements. What i would like to do is afford each of you the opportunity to do so so let me introduce the four of you and move to you, mister gomez. We have j. Alfredo gomez, Government Accountability office come a dave jones, senior director for in my mental risk and Nature Conservancy, institute for Economic Freedom and the heritage foundation, doctor Michael Michael greenstone, Milton Friedman, from the university of chicago and Stephen Benjamin mayor of the city of columbia, South Carolina. With that, director gomez, you are recognized to give an oral presentation of your testimony for five minutes. I am pleased to be here to discuss how to limit the federal governments exposure by better managing Cli
The committee will come to order. Good morning, everyone. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. With that i would like to recognize myself to give an Opening Statement. Today, the committee is holdingg our third hearing this congress on a critical issue, facial Recognition Technology. It is clear that, despite the private sectors expanded use of technology, its just not ready for prime time. During this hearing we will examine the private sectors development, use, and sale of technology as well as its partnerships with Government Entities, using this technology. We learn from our first hearing on may 22 of 2019 that the use of facial Recognition Technology can severely impact American Civil Rights and liberties, including the right to privacy, free speech, and equal protection under the law. We learned during our second hearing on june 4 how federal, state and local Government Entities use this technology on a wide scale, yet abide
We are looking into trenton, continuing to lie about the Oversight Committee. They uncovered bank wires. They were feeling how President Joe Biden, received millions from chinese company, with significant ties to chinese intelligence, and the Chinese Communist party. This originated in beijing from chinese nationals. This happened when President Joe Biden, was running for president of United States. His home is listed as the beneficiary address. Today, the Oversight Committee created 20 Shell Companies. They were created when President Joe Biden was Vice President. This was between 2014 and 2019. We have identified nine family members who have participated in, or benefited from these shady business schemes. What was President Joe Biden selling to make all this money . President joe biden, is the brand. He showed up with business targets and associates, sending signals of access, influence, and power, to those willing to pay for it. The American People demand accountability for this cul