We welcome you and respect your right to be here. We also asked in turn for your respect as we proceed with the basis of the committee today. It is the intention of this committee to proceed with this hearing without any disruptions. Any disruption of this committee will result in the u. S. Capitol police restoring order. Now listen up. This is very important. If a disruption occurs, a Capitol Police officer will go up to the individual and instruct that they seize the demonstration. If the person does not cease or begin the demonstration after the initial warning i the officer, the individual or individuals will be removed from the hearing room. We are very grateful for your presence today, and we very much appreciate that you want to listen to the witness, but we also ask you to respect the witnesses ability to express himself. I would also remind all members to avoid engaging in adverse personal references. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. Big to
Threehour hearing. This hearing is called to order. Good afternoon. Let me say to folks are attending i apologize the hearing was delayed in our start time. We had a series of votes on a singapore that just concluded and so welcome. Welcome to our witnesses. This past april the subcommittee held a hearing on social media buys with witnesses from facebook and twitter. As i noted then, in inquiry into big tech censorship practices must take an especially hard look at google. Thats what were doing here today. Googles control over what people here, watch, read, and say is unprecedented. Almost 90 of internet searches in the United States use google. Google domination of the Search Engine market is so complete that, to google, is now a commonplace. With that market power, google can and often does control our discourse. And sometimes Tech Companies talk about their products and the effects of those products as though their forces outside of big text control. As weve heard time and time agai
Much for springlike weather with temperatures in the 60s and 70s. The polar express. Now, hours away forecast coming up next. When fun time from the bay areas local news station. Youre watching kron. 4 news. Thank you for joining us tonight on kron. 4 news at 10. Im grant lotus and im vicki liviakis. So lets go ahead and take a live look right now at downtown San Francisco. Things are quiet for the moment. It has been lovely outside the past several days. But all good things must come to an end. Lawrence is with us now. Well, its the storm looks pretty yeah. Its going to be a large storm. Its going to be a long period storm to a boy in the sierra nevada. Were talking about tremendous amounts of snow, maybe even some snow in our peaks to out the door. Now youve seen some changes begin. Clouds are starting to move into the bay area and now the rain has not started yet, but it is not that far away. Doppler radar showing you a couple raindrops, far Northern California beginning to sneak in
to order. the subcommittee is meeting today to share testimony on a single bill on a very important piece of legislation. it is hr 5444. the truth in healing commission on indianborder school policies at . by representative charisse of kansas. under committee rules are opening statements on hearings to the chair and ranking minority member or their designees will allow us to help members keep to their schedules. therefore i ask unanimous consent of all other members opening statements he made part of the hearing record by 5 pm today or those of the hearing projected first. hearing no objection so ordered. without objection the chair may also declare a recess object to the chair. i want to note we will be having both later on so i might recall that witness and i thank everybody for their patients. i ve described in the notice the documents and motions submitted to the electronic age and rc mail.house.gov. members should provide a hard copy. please note members are responsible
to order. the subcommittee is meeting today to share testimony on a single bill on a very important piece of legislation. it is hr 5444. the truth in healing commission on indianborder school policies at . by representative charisse of kansas. under committee rules are opening statements on hearings to the chair and ranking minority member or their designees will allow us to help members keep to their schedules. therefore i ask unanimous consent of all other members opening statements he made part of the hearing record by 5 pm today or those of the hearing projected first. hearing no objection so ordered. without objection the chair may also declare a recess object to the chair. i want to note we will be having both later on so i might recall that witness and i thank everybody for their patients. i ve described in the notice the documents and motions submitted to the electronic age and rc mail.house.gov. members should provide a hard copy. please note members are responsible